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Prepare the heated bed.
In this step the goal is to put a layer of tape on the surface of the heated
bed. This layer makes sure the extruded plastic will correctly stick on the
bed.
Degrease/clean the bed with some detergent. We use spirit, but alcohol,
thinner, nail polish remover will work also.
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Put strokes of the supplied tape on the heated bed. Try to do this with as
little bubbles and overlap of the strokes as possible. The better you do this
the nicer the bottom surface of the printed parts will be.
Fold the overhanging strokes of plastic around the edges. Then
afterwards clean the surface with detergent.
Supplied with the kit is kapton tape. After several tests with different
kinds of tape we at FelixPrinters recommend the following:
Kapton tape. Very good for printing, but costly
PVC tape, has the same sticking quality as kapton tape, but
significantly lower costs. Downside is the durability of the
tape. Needs to be replaced more often.
Painterstape. This is only recommended for very small parts,
with small contact surface to the bed. With PLA filament this
tapes sticks so well that the printed parts are extremely hard
to remove from the bed. To not damage the build platform for
certain parts we had to remove the parts including tape. This
tape is also a suitable tape for printing with ABS.
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