Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Sanding glass

  I have been having a hard time getting things to stick on the glass, I was getting tired of using glue sticks, when it did work it made it almost impossible to get the part back off.
  I read that sandblasted glass beds work really well but I had no sandblaster to use on the glass so I had an idea of sandpaper and it worked well it took a bit of elbow grease, I should have broken out my palm sander and may do that for the other panes.
  The parts stick now, and how, if the glass is hot I cannot remove the PLA plastic at all, I tried... but as soon as it cools off the plastic pops itself off just like ABS does (ABS massively shrinks when cool PLA doesn't) I have not tried printing ABS on it yet but I bet it sticks just as well, whats more is that the printed part is still as smooth as glass even though the surface has been sanded, the scratches are so fine that the plastic does not pick it up.


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