Flashforge Plate Thickness Adapter

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I don't have a Flashforge Creator or an equivalent model. I don't want to put a glass plate in my printer that is great for printing PLA and nice if I want to swap out build plates easily for example if I have plates of different materials surfaces surface textures or surface coatings. I use this adapter on the rear board that hits the Z endstop, it "tricks" my printer into "thinking" the built plate is actually a quarter inch higher than it is allowing me to then put a quarter inch thick piece of glass on top of the existing build plate. I attached my new build plate with large binder clips and I have several plates one with kapton for printing ABS one blank clean glass for PLA and several others that I can use for experimental surfaces like the ABS slurry on glass or sanded glass. Swapping out the plates is as easy as removing the binder clips and releveling the build plate if necessary The glass plates are an added bonus in that if you are experiencing warping with the stock aluminum plate, the glass will be guaranteed to be planar. I need quarter inch glass plate(s) of similar dimensions as my build plate two (or more) large binder clips and this adapter. When I first set this up, I tighten the screws on the bottom of the build plate as far as I can install the adapter on the rear board of my printer run the plate up as far as the printer allows to check that it stops a quarter inch or more above the existing plate You do not have to do this but you do run the risk of ramming the plate into the nozzle if there was something wrong like the spacer adapter not being in the correct spot or not being printed at the right size If there is more than a quarter inch of clearance between the nozzle and the stock build plate then you're okay to install the quarter inch glass plate with the binder clips I only used two binder clips located in the rear left and front right of the board these locations are rarely seen by the nozzle compared to the front left where the default blob is places when starting for example Once everything is installed, level the build plate. When you change the plate in the future it is advised to re-level it each time although it shouldn't be as far off as the first time When printing with the glass plate you may also want to increase the bed temperature a bit as the glass does not conduct heat as well as metal