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Topic: My Glass bed brackets

Like many of us, I have been using those large black paper clips to hold my glass bed onto my heat bed.  And they work great, but I get tired of messing with them to clean my glass.  I wanted something that I didn't have to mess with.  So, this is what I did:

http://i.imgur.com/EDKDjLa.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/C7fz7NP.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/9sTQJWi.jpg
(in this last picture I slid the glass away from the hangers just to get the picture)

I took the Hangers and cut them in half and then I glued them to the heat bed using E6000.  It is an industrial type glue that you can get at walmart, in a little tube.  I don't know if it will hold up to the heat, as it doesn't mention anything on the tube.  But I already had it.  If they fall off, I will just use something else if the idea works out well.

As you can see, the tips just barely rise above the 1/4 glass that I am using.

Right now I only have two sides fitted with these hangers.  It turns out that my glass was not cut straight, and it was cut slightly less than 8x8.  So, for now I will have to use one paper clip until I can get another piece of glass cut.

Thanks

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Re: My Glass bed brackets

Can you drill a hole in the bracket and put it through the heated be screws (1 in back, 2 in front)? It would solve your problem of the glue loosing strength when heated.

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Re: My Glass bed brackets

charles.elliott wrote:

Can you drill a hole in the bracket and put it through the heated be screws (1 in back, 2 in front)? It would solve your problem of the glue loosing strength when heated.


Yea, there is enough room in the brackets where that could be done.  I was hoping for two brackets on each side, however, to give the glass plate a snug fit.

So far, I've had the bed heated up since my original post.  They have held so far.

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Re: My Glass bed brackets

Try this, been working great for several months

http://www.soliforum.com/topic/814/magn … -mounting/

Even if you have aluminum you should still be able to use the same concept with a little modification

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Re: My Glass bed brackets

cmetzel wrote:

Try this, been working great for several months

http://www.soliforum.com/topic/814/magn … -mounting/

Even if you have aluminum you should still be able to use the same concept with a little modification


Thanks for the suggestion.  It was actually your process that inspired me to come up with this idea.  So far my brackets have held on for the past week with 4 to 5 hours of printing every day.