<![CDATA[SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — Installing Heat Tape?? (Also curling??)]]> https://www.soliforum.com/topic/1407/installing-heat-tape-also-curling/ Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:59:31 +0000 PunBB <![CDATA[Re: Installing Heat Tape?? (Also curling??)]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/13654/#p13654 Here is some on ebay Even cheaper   100 feet for $24

http://www.ebay.com/itm/160898403569?ss … 1439.l2649

]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:59:31 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/13654/#p13654 <![CDATA[Re: Installing Heat Tape?? (Also curling??)]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/13652/#p13652 http://www.grainger.com

Sorry spelled it wrong

]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:53:02 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/13652/#p13652 <![CDATA[Re: Installing Heat Tape?? (Also curling??)]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/13651/#p13651 pcpoirier wrote:

That works the same way.  Push down with fingers.
I got my roll in 3 days at the local Granger store.


Not to be stupid or anything, but what is a granger store?

]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:47:21 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/13651/#p13651 <![CDATA[Re: Installing Heat Tape?? (Also curling??)]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/13649/#p13649 That works the same way.  Push down with fingers.
I got my roll in 3 days at the local Granger store.

]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:44:26 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/13649/#p13649 <![CDATA[Re: Installing Heat Tape?? (Also curling??)]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/13641/#p13641 pcpoirier wrote:

http://youtu.be/i1b54Cq3onY

I made a Video on installing the Kapton tape I got from Granger  http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/Polyim … Pid=search
Works great and parts stick untill cooled.


All fine and good, but I am talking about the precut pieces that Solidoodle sells.

]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 20:00:57 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/13641/#p13641 <![CDATA[Re: Installing Heat Tape?? (Also curling??)]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/13599/#p13599 pcpoirier wrote:

http://youtu.be/i1b54Cq3onY

I made a Video on installing the Kapton tape I got from Granger  http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/Polyim … Pid=search
Works great and parts stick untill cooled.

Very nice. We sometimes use the glass in the shop, but it isn't a necessity by any means.

]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 16:48:24 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/13599/#p13599 <![CDATA[Re: Installing Heat Tape?? (Also curling??)]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/13508/#p13508 http://youtu.be/i1b54Cq3onY

I made a Video on installing the Kapton tape I got from Granger  http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/Polyim … Pid=search
Works great and parts stick untill cooled.

]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:40:02 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/13508/#p13508 <![CDATA[Re: Installing Heat Tape?? (Also curling??)]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/13492/#p13492 Reset Z stop is all and use binder clips in 3 places.  When I was using binder clips I was using front right, front left, and rear left because the homing position and movement made the rear right get in the way from time to time.  For the z stop I just turned my screw upside down and threaded it from the bottom, I adjust it by hand.  But there's a modified one by lawsy at thingiverse here.  http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:40701

I modified mine to use a larger glass plate with magnets which I don't know why more people don't do it.  i just pop the glass off and slap another one on and go. Writeup here. http://www.soliforum.com/topic/814/magn … -mounting/

You can drop the bed temp a little if you want.  I still shoot for 95C for prints I want to be careful with, but I've printed at 65C (with enclosed build environment) and been fine.  I even printed on a room temperature bed after repairing a clog just testing the hot end and it stuck fine with hairspray.

]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:11:21 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/13492/#p13492 <![CDATA[Re: Installing Heat Tape?? (Also curling??)]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/13486/#p13486 ok do you have to modify the SD or anything? Or just buy a piece of glass and hairspray and print some clips to hold it down?

I assume I will have to reset the zstop or just change the z home position

What do you run the bed temp at to heat the glass up?

]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:31:43 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/13486/#p13486 <![CDATA[Re: Installing Heat Tape?? (Also curling??)]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/13482/#p13482 Glass & Hairspray is the unnofficial official way to go.  However I don't get mine popping off, but maybe I'm using better hairspray.  I still have to use a painters knife spatula thing to get them off.

]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:09:24 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/13482/#p13482 <![CDATA[Re: Installing Heat Tape?? (Also curling??)]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/13477/#p13477 Plus you can have more than one glass and swap them out. This allows you to keep the bed hot without having to cool down to get your part off without tearing the kapton on the bed.  I just switched to glass and hairspray (needed to give something tacky for the plastic to stick to) and don't see my self going back.

]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:59:34 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/13477/#p13477 <![CDATA[Re: Installing Heat Tape?? (Also curling??)]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/13472/#p13472 Glass is better because 1) it is flat, 2) you can dig at it a bit without having to put down a new surface, and 3) my prints just pop off once the glass cools.

]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:32:44 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/13472/#p13472 <![CDATA[Re: Installing Heat Tape?? (Also curling??)]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/13460/#p13460 is glass that much better?

does it allow for even heating
stick better (with hairspray)
can be run with lower bed temps(heat up time less?)

]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:38:34 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/13460/#p13460 <![CDATA[Re: Installing Heat Tape?? (Also curling??)]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/13450/#p13450 I bought a 100 foot of Kapton tape width of 20 centimeters on the Ebay for $25, and now I have no headaches. Yes, it is thinner than the one that is sold in Solidoodle, but at that price it can be changed at least every print.

]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:54:02 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/13450/#p13450 <![CDATA[Re: Installing Heat Tape?? (Also curling??)]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/13443/#p13443 glass+hairspray 2nd!

]]> Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:10:33 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/13443/#p13443