Curious as to what people are using for build surfaces. I've been printing mostly ABS, and started on inch wide kapton, but kept damaging it and having trouble laying down smooth runs of it, so I peeled it off and started printing on dried thin ABS slurry that I've brushed on, and that seems to work pretty good. I seem to have less warping of lower layers and peeling up from the bed issues with the slurry than I did on kapton, but I haven't been running the same parts either. When I was printing with the nylon filament I was using glue stick spread across the bed and that worked pretty good. What have you used and how well did it work?
now that i have figured it it i use hairspray on glass at 110C for abs and it has to be applied 5-10 minutes before the print starts. use a plastic based hairspray aka the cheap stuff. needs to be fairly thick as well. but cleaning is a pain and takes a while soaking in shampoo and water.
Aqua net hair spray on a glass surface is great. When it builds up too much I scrape it off with a razor.
I've been using <ahem> 'BIG SEXY HAIR' and it works And I have a can of hair spray labelled 'BIG SEXY HAIR' on the desk. Always a winnah. Edit: I don't always use it, most times, the kapton and heated bed hold my prints nice and flat. Still wrestling with a few issues, but I don't think that they're related to 1" wide kapton.
I've been using a heated aluminum bed with kapton tape. It has worked great for me, but I'm in the process of changing to a borosicate glass plate without the kapton so I can get a smoother surface. And also because I end up putting holes in the kapton when I'm removing the part with a screwdriver. Parts don't stick as well to the glass, even heated, as it does to the kapton so I'm going to add some hairspray. BTW, you can get much wider kapton tape. I started with 2" tape and then I found some 4" tape. I forget where I got the 4" stuff, but Matterhackers has both the 2" and some 8" wide.
I just picked up a 6inch roll of kapton on Amazon. I tended to damage my kapton prying parts up with a knife though, half the reason I switched to thin slurry.
Amazon.com: Crenova® Kapton Tape for 3D Printer (100 feet x 6 inch tape): Office Products 20$ for a 6" x 100ft roll Hoping I can apply it without making a mess of it...
