whether you just started printing
yesterday but you've been printing for
years I'm gonna show you eight 3D
printing tips and tricks welcome to my name is Eric Strebel,
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wondered why your prints do this
sometimes gosh they all come out and
then at the very end you realize that
one side is all lifted up or your prints
don't stick together they come apart in
layers you can't figure it out well my
friend you may just need to clean your
print bed if you have a glass print bed
which many 3d printers do it may need a
good cleaning I use PVA as a glue on my
glass print bed but after a while that
PVA builds up and needs to be removed
and then reapplied and you can see here
after many many layers that's built up
but the good news is PVA is a
water-soluble so we're gonna remove that
polyvinyl alcohol from the glass print
bed while you're at it you might as well
clean the heating element with a little
bit of denatured alcohol so that you can
maximize your thermal heat transfer
between the heating element and the
glass print bed now it's time to put
some new adhesive back on to the clean
glass print bed so we can get some
fantastic vents I like using this purple
kids glue and
beautiful thing about it is that it's
purple when it goes on and it dries
clear so that way you know where your
glue is applied and you can see when
it's dry and you're ready to go knock
out some fantastic prints sometimes the
prints stick to your print bed a little
too good and they're just a little bit
too delicate to be removed by just
peeling them off manually so what I use
is a decorating knife
I even sharpen it at the point a little
bit so I can get right underneath that
skirt pop that part right off the print
bed works great every single time often
to get your print it's a print exactly
the way you want you need to print with
supports removing those supports can be
difficult sometimes I like having a
micro chisel for those fine little
details this is basically a miniaturized
chisel
it's a dental tool you can buy these at
a dental supply place or maybe even get
your dentist to give you a broken one
next time you visit the tool is
fantastic since you basically cut in a
downward direction which is totally
different than cutting with like a craft
or a hobby blade this allows you to
remove little details like this little
built-in support much much easier I
don't really like sanding my 3d prints
I much prefer to use a scraper like this
square card scraper because basically
I'm just removing little supports or
little overhangs I don't really need to
get all that dust into the air I have
dozens of these scrapers from when I
used to be a clay modeler they are
basically spring steel so it's a treated
hardened steel that is flexible holds an
edge fantastic and allows you to
basically remove just little tiny bits
of 3d printed material they work
fantastic the square con scraper is used
by woodworkers and you can buy that at
just about any good woodworking store
this is a curved one that was originally
used for clay modeling but works great
for little curved and domed surfaces you
can really see how the scraper just
allows you to scrape in just very
specific little areas something that you
basically can't do with sandpaper and
that allows you to keep that gloss and
shine and finish on your part and just
get into those little areas that need to
have a little bit of a material removed
heyy
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videos that I upload how do you store
your spools of extra 3d printing
material to leave them out in the open I
store them inside of a sealed box this
box is less than $15 at one of your
local home stores
holds several spools of 3d printed
material I also put some desiccant in
the bottom you can buy these packets or
you can use a refillable one that you
can reuse over and over but you want to
keep your filament and clean and dry
this is my bonus tip build yourself a
rolling cart or a stand for your 3d
printer it'll allow you to move it
around your shop put it anywhere you
need it very handy super versatile many
3d printers put the spool of material on
the back or on the side but they neglect
to figure out what to do with that
stupid brick that power brick I've
removed the spool from the back of my
printer and mounted my power brick where
the spool normally goes this way I don't
ever have to worry about dragging it
around or having it get broken or
damaged or being in the way say Eric
what am I gonna do with my spools of
material they have their own box of
course this is a multi spool box holder
and in here in this sealed container
I've 3d printed some hangers that
connect to a piece of inch-and-a-half a
PVC to keep my three most recent spools
of material handy and
to use at a moment's notice so I can
swap them out as needed and inside here
is a reusable tin of desiccant and I'll
show you what it looks like on the
inside when they start to turn green and
they're no longer fully orange and you
can see a few of them here are green
they've absorbed moisture inside the box
and they're keeping my filament dry we
can pop this desiccant back into the
oven for 2-3 hours
dry them out and turn the pallets orange
to have them continue to reabsorb
moisture you can also of course use
these store-bought packets of silica gel
so super easy to change out the
filaments inside of this box there's the
inch and a half piece of PVC - and the
3d printed holders that I printed on the
sides and I have even sealed them into
the box with a little bit of silicone
and a plate on the outside and for nuts
and bolts so I can easily remove and
change out any of my night filaments
into my printer
very handy and it stores right below the
3d printer itself and allows me to
quickly and easily change that filament
and slide it into the Bowden tube and
the back of my 3d printer whatever
filament is next on my print job
if I have too many spools of filaments I
have some shelves on the side of my 3d
printer cart or I could store them in
gallon plastic bags
my number one 3d printing tip is get
yourself an uninterruptible power supply
this is always plugged into your 3d
printer so that when the power goes out
even for a millisecond
your 3d printer doesn't lose power this
is essential if you're printing a 12
hour a 24 or a 36 hour print and the
power goes out so that your print is not
ruined this is how you make money when
the power goes out it shows you the time
remaining on the battery of the power
supply how much power is left and that's
your on battery power if you liked the
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