Need advice on new heated bed aluminium plate
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@Phaedrux Yes, but I think the difficulty is getting no air trapped in the glue-liner. It expands when heated and causes the issues like unevenness and will work areas loose eventually. I have a glass plate and a 6mm alu plate both with thick PEI glued on top. I am very happy with how it sticks, but absolutely NOT with how even it is. I am a trained signmaker so I know how to prevent airbubbles and I have none visually, but nevertheless it's uneven enough to spoil first layers.
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@Phaedrux, confirmed 1 mm thickness ....
I did actually take great care with the installation of the glue sheet (seperate sheet so two chances of getting air trapped) and thought I did well but chances are it got mucked up first time I went too hot. Just for laughs, I can get the edges to curl up about an INCH !!!
This is going back a while so I might be off by a bit but it wasn't just a mm here or there
I still suspect that I got some kind of a clone product but have no way of finding out if it is the real thing and I was not about to spend another $20 on a new sheet of PEI. I went back to printing on straight glass (no glues, hairspray or other magic potion)
