Quoteelwood127 Use your old hard heater to back the silicone. Screw it from the underside. Well, my old Mk2(something) heater is firstly 200x200mm big. My new build plate will be 300x300mm big, so I cannot simply screw something on the back as it will be kind of in the middle of the new build plate. Also, I think that the Mk2 will have some issues with the small air gaps between the heat bed andby Hypertext - General
QuoteElmoC Yeap. I used it on a flexible heater I had and that stuff holds tight. I had to remove it after a month of use and I destroyed the heater getting it off. Great. Though I think that particular silicone will be hard for me to come by here in Sweden. I have found some high temperature silicone from a Swedish "cheap" auto-parts store. They say that stuff is mostly used for engine gaskby Hypertext - General
QuoteElmoC Silicone Aquarium Sealant Is that even temperature resistant? Quotethe_digital_dentist I used high temperature silicone available at any auto parts store for about $3-5. Before you glue it down, get a piece of 1/4" cast aluminum tooling plate instead of a thin sheet that most people use. The 1/4" plate is truly flat and thermally conductive and makes a nearly perfect bed. It won'tby Hypertext - General
Hi! So I am currently building a printer with 30x30cm print bed, and I have on my hands the following silicone heat pad: Now, I assumed this would come with some heat resistant adhesion on one side, but sadly it did not. Now, I need to figure out some way to attach this pad to the bottom of my Aluminium print sheet(that I do not currently have on my hands). Preferably, the solution needs to bby Hypertext - General
Hi Etfrench! Thanks for your answer! Seems like sorbothane is not the easiest thing to get hold of in Sweden, or in Europe for that matter, though small sorbothane feet shouldn't be a problem. Do you think one sorbothane in each corner of the 3D printer plate, and one in each corner of the enclosure would be enough to get rid of vibrations? Also, if I build this enclosure, do you think I wouldby Hypertext - General
Hi! I have a Reprap Prusa i3 sending lots of vibrations down into my desk table, creating a lot of resonance noise. Lifting the printer almost makes the thing almost entirely quiet, with the most annoying low-mid frequencies gone. I've been thinking of building a proper enclosure for my printer, mostly for a heated chamber for ABS, but I thought, why not just try to eliminate most of the vibratby Hypertext - General