REVIEW: Sunhokey Improved Prusa i3 3D printer

This is what I use on my delta. I have had it stick so well the bottom layer came apart removing it. you can play with adhesion by how much you clean it with alcohol, bed temp, first layer filament temp and first layer squish. Works well.

Brian

 

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Here we see a picture of the "normal" hairspray using Japanese captain - Captain Big Sexy Hair

 

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Seems to be doing fine. I have probably printed 30-40 prints on it so far. Had black abs stick so hard it actually stained the white surface. Put you can scrape or sand it smooth and keep going. I got the 200 mm x 200 mm white and black version from printinz.com

Shipped fast and it seems to work. The website has some good information on it on how to control adhesion. about 6-8 prints into it, I had some severe problems with lifting and prints popping off. Thought about what to try but went to the website first. They addressed these problems and what I thought about doing (acetone cleaning) was not recommended. Wiping it off with the alcohol I use to clean the dry erase board really helped.

My only problem was it is not the flattest piece. I had to two way tape it to my glass plate to help hold it flat, then it printed fine. Not sure, but my heat bed might have been part of the problem also. maybe the plastic warped a bit as the bottom side of it heated up before the top side. Never really took the time to investigate, just two way taped it to the glass, clips hold the glass down and off I went. I have been printing lego castle pieces for my kids and nephew. (OK, and me!)

There is another option out there, the metal plate with a magnetic hold down option that I also wondered about called the Gecko-tek. Probably should have spent the money for the system for the ease of removing the printed part. It does remove pretty hard sometimes from the PEI.

Note: the gecko tec for my Kossel clear printer from Blue Eagle Labs with magnetic base is $92 delivered. Thought I would try the PEI for the lower price of $35 delivered first.

Hope this helps.
Brian

 

ordered that exact item in .03 with the 3m transfer test running now after 3 hours of calibrating (bloody flowchart for calibration is wrong for a rostock btw) sofar stickign really well but will find out shortly.

so very very nice. ease of printing in pla but with the strength of abs

 

any of you guys tried window tint in place of kapton or blue painters ?

 

Having problems with lifting. Read the posts and the web article. I ordered a glass plate and a piece of the PEI and two sided tape. Did the hair spray not much help. Heated the bed to 110 but the bed is not reaching that temp, about 10 degrees lower. Have a new temp prob and heating element coming. We'll see if anything works. Buy the way I have been using Fusion 360 and getting the hang of things.

 

Thanks Nick. A;; four corners are lifted at least 1/8

 

Nick, I 'll have to look into the things you mention and get back to you. I am using Slic3r and I belive the first layer is 3mm. Infill is 30%.

 

Need some help! I get a error of mintemp not held. The hotend and bed heatup and starts to print. Then suts down with error message. What should be the output voltage of the PSU, 12 or 24 volts? Been searching for answers on the web but little confusing. Everything had been working.

 

Output voltage is 12 volts. The problem seems to be with the thermistor. Will try a new one. Thanks Nick.

 

sorry about the delay. lost my desktop for a few days. .03 is to thin for just clipping but the .06 should be thick enough. pei is fairly stiff stuff think acrylic sheet same thickness