Wednesday 29 August 2012

Acrylic printing update

After some time trialing printing on acrylic I've decided there is no real advantage over glass with kapton tape. Although it works, it doesn't offer a strong enough adhesion for larger parts. It also suffers from warping as the heated plate warms up. So its back to kapton on glass for me. Incidentally I have had a batch of kapton tape specially cut to 140mm, to suit the UP printer. This has made the job of replacing damaged tape much easier. Previously I had to carefully line up multiple strips.