Finally got some 3D printing accomplished tonight on my Solidoodle. Made many unsuccessful attempts last night - ABS would not stick to the kapton tape base even at 105 C. Glue stick seems to have helped tremendously this evening. Lots of tinkering left to do. The X motor is extremely hot which means the trim pot needs adjustment apparently, and the prints are a little skewed, which means the belts, pulleys, etc need alignment and tweaking. Hopefully I’ll get it done over the weekend.
Your skew prints might be an effect of the motor drivers beeing set too high.
Turn that down first before you start adjusting belts and what not…
OK, thanks for the heads-up @Mano_Biletsky_Open_M !
For me, nothing works better than Aqua Net hair spray on the Kapton. Of course, you also need your Z axis at just the right height to slightly squash that first layer. Too low and it messes the base up. Too high and it won’t stick.
I get the base to 90 and use a light coat of hair spray…it does the trick every time. Give it a try.
Ditto on 90C, aquanet, and squashing the first layer. I level the bed and then tweak 1st layer height in the settings to get what I want. Otherwise, my S3 came ready to print.
My bed winds up working well at 80C read which an IR thermometer picks up on the surface as 100C or so. Don’t trust your thermistor under the bed to give you the real surface temp.
Likewise on the temp. I run my bed at 120. The prints pop off at about 75.
Have you tried using ‘abs juice’? I use it on my boro glass and it works great! You can get a can of Acetone at Napa for 10 bucks.
So, my first prints on borosilicate, wiping with straight acetone, worked great & stuck like a charm. Then I made a slight Z adjustment, not squashing the first layer, and I had to go back to hairspray. Then I realized really squashing the first layer was enough, but haven’t gone back to no hairspray yet. Anyone who’s gone back and forth to test hairspray vs abs juice vs none?