glass plate holder

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When I got my printer, I didn't want to damage the nice kapton foil on the heated building platform. I bought two 24 x 18 cm photo frames (1.99 euros each). Printing a glass plate holder is a classic problem that needs a solution. If you use a glass plate, you'll need a spacer for the end stop in the Z direction! I took an old flat rubber seal with almost the same thickness as the glass plate (2.0mm) and just placed it on the bed mounting of the Z-axis spindle. Test if the end stop is triggered without the glass plate!) Level the bed, time to print. Put some drops of kitchen oil on the bed, take two mini clamps (4 pieces in a package for 0.99 euros at OBI) and fix the glass to two opposite corners. Glue stick on the printing side helps even your first print on glass is successful. Every part is printable without support. There is a mounting arm; use a hex nut and fix it to the thread at the right front corner bottom side of your FF Creator Pro. Take an old rubber seal, put it on both sides of the glass corner, and fix the holder with a screw. This part will stay on the glass plate forever. My print setup: glass plates with a holder on the right front edge, 5 drops of oil to the bed if necessary, place it on the fixed pin at the bed, and use a mini clamp on the back left corner that pushes the glass down. The clamp can be removed when the adhesion and heat have built up an oil film under the glass plate. When the print is finished, move it a little while pulling it softly up. The adhesion breaks; you can easily take it out. When the glass gets colder, the model pops down in most cases by itself. Bonus: the oil gives much better heat transfer to the glass. Since there's no endpoint, thermal expansion doesn't produce stress or deformation.