Those Black Replicator 2 / flashforge clones going on Ebay for $500-$599

[cjalas]

It seems I may have spoken too soon..

When I removed the blue tape on the bed that came with the machine, I found it was covering a massive gouge in the aluminum bed - a gigantic Z shape .. considering I want to print raftless shiny based ABS with this, that is a big problem for me - the Z will come out in the print base and that's actually the top of the print (I print upsidown alot, the base layer looks better than the top layers for me generally)

So have contacted them for a replacement heatbed, i'll see what their response is first.

First print... hmm not fantastic, a lot of layer splitting but I did print fast and had the air-con going, so this probably created the splits from cooling the ABS too fast. The bottom half, or first 5 cm of the print look really good, very tight layering and no splitting... it was only in the top half that started to occur so I need to tinker with it more.

Note also the 'z" shape on the bed thats etched in

1.5 hours, 2 shells, 10% infill ABS, 0.2mm, 80ms Feed, 120ms travel, 9cm high.

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I'd get a replacement aluminum bed, but honestly you don't need to replace it even with the scratches if you go with a 1/8" borosilicate glass bed.

[Geoff]

I'd get a replacement aluminum bed, but honestly you don't need to replace it even with the scratches if you go with a 1/8" borosilicate glass bed.

I could do with it as is, and already have about 5 glass beds spare, but I don't like buying something new and having it damaged when it arrives. All I asked for was a new aluminum plate, which will cost them practically nothing, so yeah we'll see.