cckens wrote:

driggers wrote:

3. Removal of parts is easier because you take the glass out to pry (yes, literally pry sometimes) them off.

Don't know what kind of hairspray you're using, mate, but all my parts pop off themselves after 5 minutes outside the printer.  I hear a little crackle, and then I can just lift the piece off cleanly.  My failures... depends on how far along they are, but that's what razor blades are for...

Just my experiences so far...

I do have to pry some things off, even when it's all cold.  I use a razor blade scraper to get under a corner and pop it up.  My hairspray is: Vidal Sassoon pro series, extra firm hold, 4/5 on the scale, in spray can, 397g, $6 from wal-mart.  Ingredients (with spelling errors): water, dimethyl ether, alchohol denat., VA/crotonates/vinyl neodecanoate co-polymer, acrylates copolymer, aminomethyl propanol, glycereth-7 triacetate, ammonium benzoeate, cyclopenta siloxane, acetamide mea, cyclohexylamine, peg-8 dimethicone, fragrance.

Jeez, people put this in their hair?

Not only that but they breathe it while putting it on their hair...

driggers wrote:

3. Removal of parts is easier because you take the glass out to pry (yes, literally pry sometimes) them off.

Don't know what kind of hairspray you're using, mate, but all my parts pop off themselves after 5 minutes outside the printer.  I hear a little crackle, and then I can just lift the piece off cleanly.  My failures... depends on how far along they are, but that's what razor blades are for...

Just my experiences so far...

I do have to pry some things off, even when it's all cold.  I use a razor blade scraper to get under a corner and pop it up.  My hairspray is: Vidal Sassoon pro series, extra firm hold, 4/5 on the scale, in spray can, 397g, $6 from wal-mart.  Ingredients (with spelling errors): water, dimethyl ether, alchohol denat., VA/crotonates/vinyl neodecanoate co-polymer, acrylates copolymer, aminomethyl propanol, glycereth-7 triacetate, ammonium benzoeate, cyclopenta siloxane, acetamide mea, cyclohexylamine, peg-8 dimethicone, fragrance.

Jeez, people put this in their hair?

3. Removal of parts is easier because you take the glass out to pry (yes, literally pry sometimes) them off.

Don't know what kind of hairspray you're using, mate, but all my parts pop off themselves after 5 minutes outside the printer.  I hear a little crackle, and then I can just lift the piece off cleanly.  My failures... depends on how far along they are, but that's what razor blades are for...

Just my experiences so far...

Most people just put the glass on top of the aluminum bed and adjust the z-stop for the added bed thickness with the glass.

+1

1. The glass is perfectly flat, so imperfections in your aluminum bed (unevenness) will no longer be a problem.
2. Parts stick very well to glass / hair spray (You might need to try a couple of brands).
3. Removal of parts is easier because you take the glass out to pry (yes, literally pry sometimes) them off.

These updates took me less than a day, and they changed the game for me.

I've updated the firmware, leveled the print bed, increased the first layer thickness by 150%, decreased the speed by 80%, increased the bed temperature to 100 C with no luck. 

Right now I'm trying to decrease the extruder temperature to 175 C, my thought being that maybe the temperature gauge is underestimating the temperature.  I manually set the extruder temperature to 175 C, change the sl3cr g code to read 175 C in both places, but when I hit the print button on repetier, everything switches back to 195 C.  The printer waits for the head to heat up, develops a glob of ABS and right before I can remove it, it starts printing a giant glob.

Any advise?