Upgrades are in place, and the printer is (fingers crossed) working reliably and well – the past several days I have been finishing up a larger project printing paint bottle racks for storage of my painting set. It requires several trays, and each tray ends up printing for about 36 hours, which is certainly a good test of the stability of the system. So far, everything is working well.
I did have an issue with warping printing on glass – despite reducing the extruder to 200 degrees and the glass up to 70 degrees. As a result, I ended up swapping back to the PEI sheet from Gizmo Dorks (the slight amber color). This seems to adhere to PLA very well, and I have it mounted on top of the glass in order to provide a very stable and flat surface. Unfortunately, the PEI is a bit flexible, so I hacked the corners a bit to hold them into place with some scotch tape. This worked rather well on the printing – the warping was almost entirely eliminated, and certainly enough to be acceptable.
Interestingly, the bottles that this is sized for are identical to the wife’s crafting supplies as well, so with some testing, I may end up needing to print several additional sets as well.
