Should I risk it? That's the first layer from a 36h print...

@Ulrich_Baer do you mean the blue painters tape?

@Jonas_G so you clamped the print onto the bed – hahaahaaa great !

@Jonas_G ​ man thats a great idea! I left my mom and little brother to try and print something out but they say it kept ripping off the bed. So im gonna go home add a big brim to it and use clothes pins to hold that thing down lol. Youre a genius!

P.S. i clean my PEI with 95% isopropyl alcohol and i havent had any adhesion issues since ive been using it. My first layer has a pretty good squish to it so it holds down good. A bit too good sometimes since my prints wont come off willingly. Idk whats wrong with this particular print but if clothespins will help ima try it lol

I moved over to PEI a few months back and was really pleased with it, solved all my issues. Then I started having problems with adhesion again so I watched @Thomas_Sanladerer video on refreshing PEI and now its perfect again :slight_smile:

Can you link the video?

Sweet thanx man :slight_smile:

Tom is awesome, its well worth following his YouTube channel.

That’s the finished print. I’m not 100% satisfied, but hey, its my first full-printbed -print!

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And cura somehow screwed this building up, its not even connected to the rest. But whatever, its easy to fix it. I will just print the building itself again.
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Is it possible to heat only the bed up ? I want to fix some wraping with it.

@Jonas_G if you printer doesn’t have that option to heat the bed - you can write a simple G-code … »M140 S60«

@Ulrich_Baer i’ve never written an g-code… How can I do it?

if you open a text file (hotbed.txt) write “M140 S60” save as hotbed.gcode … M140 is the instruction for heating the bed …S60 means 60°C (or using M190 S60 will let him wait till 60°C is reached)

@Ulrich_Baer thank you!