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Topic: Glass bed removal?

I just got my Press, and like many of yours, mine came with a coating of some crap on the glass bed.  I'm a fan of using hairspray on my bed, and I like to clean it with acetone frequently, so on my SD2, I just had several 6" x 6" glass plates made, and when a print finished, I pulled the plate off, and put another one on.  This allowed me to sit the finished print aside for cooling and easy removal, and to easily clean the glass plate.  More importantly, I don't like to spray hairspray inside my printer, so I always just sprayed the plate before putting it back in.

I'd love to do something similar with the Press, but I'm unsure how to remove the glass bed.  Anybody have any ideas?

-Solidoodle 2 Pro with glass bed and custom enclosure.

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Re: Glass bed removal?

The bed on the Press just slides in an out.  With mine, the crap on the bed had gotten under the metal clamps on either side and glued it in place.  Using the provided knife you can just slide it along the edge of the clamp and break the seal made by the gunk.

My bed was actually kind of loose and so I actually put a dab of Elmer's glue on either clamp to hold the bed in place during prints.

3 Reply by workwesty (edited by workwesty 2015-02-11 16:34:55)

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Re: Glass bed removal?

I got the specs for the glass if anyone ever breaks it and needs to have a new one cut.
"The specs for our glass bed is 217mm x 256.98mm x 1.80mm thick."

4 Reply by TruFord93 (edited by TruFord93 2015-02-11 18:37:22)

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Re: Glass bed removal?

I was actually considering making extra glass build plates cause I am also currently using hair spray to do prints. Thanks for the glass specs! Does anyone know where would be a good place to pick up extra glass beds for a reasonable price?

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Re: Glass bed removal?

In a pinch I used a peice of glass from a 8.5 x 11 picture frame it over lapped a bit but didn't interfere with anything.

Adam

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Re: Glass bed removal?

workwesty wrote:

I got the specs for the glass if anyone ever breaks it and needs to have a new one cut.
"The specs for our glass bed is 217mm x 256.98mm x 1.80mm thick."

So that's the response from Solidoodle?  No mention of needing to use borosilicate or another temperature resistant glass?  I'm kind of disappointed but that the same time not entirely surprised.


workwesty wrote:

In a pinch I used a peice of glass from a 8.5 x 11 picture frame it over lapped a bit but didn't interfere with anything.

Adam

I can confirm this.  I broke my glass and contacted support for a replacement.  They were useless so I ended up using picture frame glass as well.  It works just fine without needing to trim it down.

7 Reply by jagowilson (edited by jagowilson 2015-02-12 01:10:54)

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Re: Glass bed removal?

You can get glass cut at the hardware store, an 8x8 piece will be like $2. You don't need borosilicate or anything temperature resistant. I've had the same sheets of glass for a few months and only broke 1 when I got aggressive scraping sometning off. ( I also lacerated my hand so don't do that)

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Re: Glass bed removal?

cptskippy wrote:

So that's the response from Solidoodle?  No mention of needing to use borosilicate or another temperature resistant glass?  I'm kind of disappointed but that the same time not entirely surprised.

Since the glass will probably only get to 90C, I doubt that it really needs temperature resistant glass.  I also doubt that they use anything special either.  This printer is built cheap and a cheap build.