Use this one trick to prevent most 3D printing issues!

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This is a message for all the people who love to tinker around and “upgrade” their printers with the latest trends found on the interwebs.

This is not always a guarantee that your 3D printer will perform better than before. In a lot of cases it will actually create new issues.

The more you mess around with the printer (and the settings) the harder it will be to diagnose something when inevetably it will missbehave…

After years of experience in 3D printing this is my filosophy:

Never change anything on your printer unless you have a very good reason to do so!

Don’t fix issues by changing things on your printer unless you know for sure they actually work and don’t create new issues. A better aproach is to get it back to stock when you experience issues printing. Or to get it back to a last known good working state.

To remind you of this, print out this sign and hang it over your 3D printer. I got it from my grandfathers shed. He aparently 3D printed it 80 years ago and it has prevented him making many mistakes.
This will make you think twice before modifying your printer! (and then do it anyway ;-))

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the one trick that works for me is:

  1. clean the hotbed after every print,
  2. freshly glue it,
  3. print,
  4. repeat step one.
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Very very interesting…

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one thing I’ve been doing lately is using a glue stick and printing on that plate a number of times before cleaning or reglue-sticking. Even the same model in the same location printed numerous times without cleaning the glue seems to be fine.
I used to clean with every print, but it is much nicer to remove your print and drop the plate back in and print again.

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Should I use any specific glue in particular which one you using…. Also how often do you clean your hot bed? Any recommendations or advice? I’m a new user lol

Thank you

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I use the BBL Stick glue, but I guess any kids stick glue will do just fine. I clean the bed more often when I want the print to have a clean finish on the bottom surface.

To get the cleanest result on surface finis on the bed I use this method to prepare the bed with glue.