In my never ending quest to find the ultimate way to secure abs to

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In my never ending quest to find the ultimate way to secure abs to the print bed… I’m thinking I may have found an answer.
A polyethersulfone sheet. It has very similar properties to PEI sheets but seems to hold ABS a lot better. It has a shinny side and a matte finish side… You print on the matte side. I just applied like PEI sheet with 3M-468MP. I’ve only done a few test runs but so far so good! I will try some larger longer prints in the next few days and report back
http://www.stratasys.com/~/media/Main/Files/SDS/ULTEM_Build_Sheet/SDS_FDM-Foundation-Sheet_High-Temperature-US.pdf?la=en

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Ultem is pei.

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this is what is used when printing ultem in a fortus

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I was on the same quest until I built a chamber for my printer. Heated chamber solved all ABS warp issues.

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Check out http://www.fleks3d.com/

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Ah, @Loren_Brandenburg I stand corrected. This is PES (Polyethersulfone) not PEI (Polyetherimide) That’s interesting, I didn’t know that PEI (in resin form) was a popular SLA material.

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Ran a 12 hour… 8 inch diameter abs part last night with no lift :wink: part still failed as it had some layer separation half way up but at least it stuck to the bed