After 16 3D Printers, I Found My Favorite 3D Printer Bed

My FAVORITE 3D printer bed ever! Learn about this amazing material that and why I love it so much. #3dprinting #carborundumbed #3dprinter #makerplate

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00:00 My favorite printer bed
00:31 What is carborundum?
04:16 Cleaning and upkeep
06:09 A little more space
09:02 MakerPlate sponsor

[notbabyrodney]

“Ultrabase” many printers been using it for a long time.! You’re calling it that to make it sound different and fancy.!

[eelcohoogendoorn]

Was hoping to see some comments on how it does across different filaments which seems to me like the hard problem of bed selection; but it seems implied youve only tried it with PLA. How is that even an interesting question; any bed will essentially do fine with PLA.

[kimpossible]

That kind of base have been out since the revision of the anycubic i3 mega (V2, not the S model), is their ultrabase basically, other manufacturers ended copying with time. It sticks materials pretty well but can be tricky to take things like tpu out of it.

[ChrisLee-UK]

Got a Creality CR-6SE for Christmas (today) and it came with one of these beds, no matter how many times I cleaned it with ISO alcohol, it just would stick the first layer!…..No matter how many times I cleaned it with ALCOHOL, it just woul…then I found this video! Was about the throw the bed away, thinking I had a duff…going to clean with windex and a flannel cloth. Thank you Sir, you have just saved the bed (and my sanity) 👊🏼😎

[ApacheFPV]

Yep love my glass creality bed even though its a bit heavy, does the job really well and once completely cooled it pops right off! But when im in a hurry to start the next print i slide a razer under it and it usually pops off

[PandaTaco]

I love carborundum bed but the problem with this coating is that if you live in a place where temperature doesn't go below ~30C then the prints wont release.

I have this problem. I hace left prints on the bed and with the printer turned off all night, in the morning they are just as stuck as they where. One thing to help with this is to pop the bed in the freezer for it to get cold enough to release. But this just adds time in between prints.

That's why in my case I prefer textured PEI coating bed. I don't even have to wait until it cools down, I can pop prints out as soon as they finish and it leaves a very cool looking bottom layer that also hides lines. And it works with PETG without the need for anything else.
The problem is if you don't like or can't have that textured bottom layer

[henrimcgowan]

In my opinion powder coated pei on spring steel sheet is leaps and bounds better than glass with carborundom coating. Especially since I print with lots of PETG

[Zae-R]

I have been using the original ender 3 plate for two years. Recently i have used a glass plate that is very thin and it has the dimensions of an A4 sheet. I think it's used for art stuff. Anyways, it works very well and the prints completely release by themselves when the bed is cooled. I do not have a lot of experience using glass but so far all the things you mentioned in this video happen with the regular $2 glass that i have.

[cyphre]

So, another material good for PLA and not much else. Guess it's cheaper than the PEI sheet options?

[dennisisabastardman]

I flipped my original ender 3 bed over. I get zero warps and I don’t use any adhesive. This works phenomenally well with PLA.

[takirosh]

How does a carborundum glass bed compare to the borosilicate bed that comes stock with the Ender 3 V2?

[SpinStar]

I'm really surprised that you can use glass-cleaner because it usually contains everything (including ammonia) but the kitchen sink to be effective. So, it might be best to use just the Dawn as you mentioned. I have found that just the tiniest amount of Dawn will actually clean things very well, especially video monitor screens (but alway use distilled water with it). I nearly, exclusively print PETG and TPU using a CR10S-Pro and the Creality PEI surface with great results (also cleaning with alcohol) Looking forward to the review of the spray. Thanks!

[hazqier]

Ohh, It's already the default bed I have from my Ender 3 MAX. That's nice to know, It's my first 3D printer so I'm still learning about it.

[sed]

My Voxelab Aquila comes with the Carborundum bed. It works perfectly, just like you say!

[Thc_N-fused]

I just purchased my first 3dprinter "ender 3 v2" waiting for it to be shipped!

[evertchin]

i was one of the very first batch of people who tried silicon carbide bed. it was during the late 2018, the original inventor sent me a piece of the silicon carbide coated bed, it was great but the problems were the coating easily fall off/grip too well and not releasing after the bed is cooled. mine chipped off when i tried to pull the print from the bed after it was cooled after a few use. the inventor (from china) later said he sold his recipe to a large (undisclosed) company. Maybe i should give this type of bed another go, perhaps the coating adherence improved?

[notsam]

I use these beds on my ender 5s. I am mainly printing petg. It's more of less like normal glass and petg, which is petg changes size a little when it cools and so does glass. So if you do it right you can actually hear the petg pop off the surface as it cools. Petg generally does need a primer on these beds, using hairspray.

[CNCGuy]

My new Tenlog has Borosilicate Glass Bed. Heat to 70c. PLA Prints never comeoff until it cools to about 45c.

[badencombs]

Great video. My prints always stick great, but even after cooling the glass all the way, my prints do not want to come off. Any advice?

[grosserboss]

I just bought a carborundum glass bed. I have not been able to make it work. I used it directly without cleaning, cleaning with water, soap, alcohol, temperatures between 55 and 70 °C, layer heights from 0.12 to 0.2 mm and my PLA still does not adhere. I use a Bltouch and have no problems with the magnetic beds, but this glass bed gives me a headache. Any ideas?