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Topic: Glass cleaning

Hello, all.  I just have a quick question about using glass on the build platform.  If a person does not have acetone or isopropyl, the recommendation is to just use dish soap.   In the beer making hobby, it's recommended to use liquid hand soap to clean equipment, as it leaves less build-up/film than dish soap.  Would this be applicable here, as well, or would it not make much of a difference?
I'm just thinking that the build-up could potentially lead to parts pulling up, if the plastic has a better grip on the film than the film does on the glass.

2 Reply by cmetzel

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Re: Glass cleaning

I use hand sanitizer and makeup triangles.  Every once in a while I scrape it all off with a razor blade and start over.  Works very well for me, and my hands stay nice and clean in the process.  haha

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Re: Glass cleaning

As long as you can find hand soap without moisturizing additives in it, just about everything I see anymore labeled as hand soap has 'extras' in it.

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Re: Glass cleaning

markm wrote:

... In the beer making hobby, ....

+1 for another homebrewer in the forum big_smile cool

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Re: Glass cleaning

I got a bunch of homebrew stuff in, but haven't had a chance to set it up yet.

Last time I used shampoo (I mean, it is hairspray right?) with warm water and dropped a couple sheets of glass in to soak for 10minutes.  Afterwards I was able to clean up the glass pretty easy with a scraper and a cheap bristle brush.

I really hate cleaning the glass though.  So the first thing I do is make sure not to spray the glass between every print.  It only needs to be sprayed down about once ever 4-5 prints.  This helps it not build up so many gunky layers as quickly.  The next thing is to make sure you have 4-8 peices of glass cut.  They are cheap enough to have extras laying around so that you can save up your real dirty glass and clean them all in 1 go.

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Re: Glass cleaning

DigitalWhitewater wrote:
markm wrote:

... In the beer making hobby, ....

+1 for another homebrewer in the forum big_smile cool

Heh, thanks.  I haven't brewed in way too long because of a lack of time, but I'm hoping to get my setup running again.

As far as the glass, I didn't think about sanitizer like Purell, but that could work.  I went ahead and tried some hand soap last night that was just straight hand soap with no moisturizer, then did a test print, and it was probably the best print I've done so far, and my first on glass.  The glass really does seem to make a big difference.

As far as the glass, I bought some cheap 5"x7" picture frames at the dollar store and used that glass.  It's about a 1/4 inch too  narrow, but I'm not doing any edge-to-edge printing yet, so it worked very well.

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Re: Glass cleaning

what do I use to clean the glass....... glass cleaner!

Melts the hairspray right off then I rinse with warm water and dry.....