Bed adhesive

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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.
 
I used 'Got to by Glued' for a bit trying to get PETG to adhere better. Made one heck of a mess that's hard to cleanup.

Now, I just up the bed temperature by 10 degrees and that seems to work much better.
 
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).
 
I like 3DLac but for me on the Bambu Lab Cool Plate it's more of a release agent than an adhesive as the plate is so stupidly sticky and shouldn't be used without glue.
 
For ABS on a smooth PEI a craft shop purple glue stick is excellent and just washes off.

PLA I print on textured PEI with nothing else.
 
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.
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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",
 
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I use hairspray and it works well for me. TO be honest, I have never understood why people have an issue with prints sticking to beds during runs. I just don't have a big issue with it.
 
I picked up some Polymaker PolyTerra and I just can't get it to stick well at all,
it's just PLA but for some reason it resists sticking consistently which I just don't get.
 
Probably teaching you to suck eggs, but you tried a higher bed temperature regardless of what it's listed at?

I've had a few cheap rolls that allegedly called for 60 degree beds and wouldn't adhere at all unless I added something to make them adhere or I pushed the bed temp up to make the first could have layers stick.
 
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