Bed adhesive

Cheesesoup · 20 Feb 2023 at 10:33

What are the general thoughts on bed adhesive?
Dedicated bed adhesive, hairspray, Pritt stick, WHY ?

Used dimafix before, excellent .
Some decentish results using cheapo hairspray but not convinced .
Used nothing at all sometimes worked sometimes didn't

I can get 3DLAC for £10.89 or dimafix for £ 24.47 (£4.50 of that is delivery) same size.
Is the dimafix worth the extra, can I go buy an adhesive at a local (ish) shop, Edinburgh,Scotland?

Really can't see the point in not using an adhesive, cost of use is trivial compared with the cost of the filament/electricity involved in a multihour (even day) print
if it fails nine tenths of the way in due to bad bed adhesion.

Cheesesoup · 20 Feb 2023 at 11:50

Shall try that Bug, at the mo' pretty much everything gets a bed temp of 60 maybe up that to 65, 66 etc till 70 don't want to go much higher than that with PLA,shall try printing a Benchy or calibration cube or ... (something quick).

Cheesesoup · 20 Feb 2023 at 20:11

ElliorR said:
as the plate is so stupidly sticky and shouldn't be used without glue.

Eh ? Surely a typo or some such in there .

Cheesesoup · 21 Feb 2023 at 07:44

ElliorR said:
Nope, that’s exactly how it is. The surface will get damaged if you don’t use an interface material as removing the print is a bugger.

So why would you glue it if the bed is allready super sticky. :confused:

Edit :-Oh right because your not using it as glue your using it as "release agent",