Gecko Tek

Oh ya. Good-Bye 3m blue tape. Check out this new build surface I am using..

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Here is a link to their website if anybody else is interested: https://www.geckotek.co/

Had enough left over from the piece I bought for the 300x200 bed to cover my old monoprice select mini..https://i1050.photobucket.com/albums...oWiz/24_41.jpg

doesn't last very long.
Other than that, probably quite good. there's some decent surfaces around these days.
About the same price as a bottle of dimafix or magigoo.

Have you tried pei ? that's a lot cheaper.

interesting to see how you get on with this.

And how is the flock of planes getting on ?

Well so far I am very happy with the build surface. The blue tape left a ruff surface on the bottom of my prints with a line at the seems where the strips of tape meet. Now all my prints look like they came off a glass plate. So far I have no nicks or chips or any imperfections in the build surfaces to speak of. But I also haven't used them much yet and still only with the PLA. So more time is needed for a better assessment but so far so good.

As for my air force I have not flown a single one. As I was strapping in the electronics and making my way through the programming and setting up the flight controllers I had a handful of people come forward and convince me this was a really bad idea. That I need to learn to fly small light RC aircraft and spend time with them before I just try to fly something big and heavy. And not because of what I can or can not do but because without experience there is good chance that I might hurt myself or worse someone else and that I need to be able to control something big and heavy that travels through the air fast. My friends scared me. But I still have them. Collecting dust. With 4s lipo batteries, game controller style controllers, flight stabilizers/controllers that are programmable, all the bells and whistles to have some fun. I guess I just lost my balls along the way. Right at the end.

well how else do you learn except by flying stuff ?
Ignore your friends and just have a go !

It's a given you'll break the first one, but the second should be good :-)

is it worth using?

So far so good. For all I have heard about gecko tek not being durable all my build surfaces are still perfect and without flaw today. And i love the way it looks like i was printing on glass instead of the ruff finish left by printing on tape.

For what it costs and what I have already printed on them I would definitely recommend this build surface to anyone.

Well I finally had to change the build surface on one of my printers. My home made printer, Printalicious has entered extreme duty as it prints out the lion's share of the parts for my Black Widow rework. I have been printing all the parts for my BW with translucent red PETG. And I am finding that PETG can have adhesion problems the other way..https://i1050.photobucket.com/albums...utoWiz/144.jpg

I have been moving around items before I slice them to avoid the damaged areas of the build surface and have gotten a bunch of use out of it even after the first chunk came out. I got a pleasant surprise when I went to remove the build surface. I was prepared for a fight and got out the scraping tools and the goo gone and the blow torch and the pliers but then the build surface just peeled right up..https://i1050.photobucket.com/albums...utoWiz/145.jpg

So I have a huge printer I am reworking right now to print larger things and also to print with multi materials and it has a glass bed. So I got a 400x400 sheet of build surface for that 400x250 bed and I took the remaining 400x150 piece cut it in half and used it to recover Printalicious so I can get back to making parts for the BW rework..https://i1050.photobucket.com/albums...utoWiz/146.jpg

From my experience I like this build surface because it is cheap and easy to replace and it does the job pretty good. On the subject of the sticking issue and the chunks that left the build surface aside from raising the nozzle a touch for the first layer I could and will also try turning the bed temp down a bit as per the user's guide for this build surface: https://www.geckotek.co/pages/ez-stik-user-guide

still say printbite or good pei is a better option. never wears out for one :-)

Hey CA I got my MMU2S unit I am going to use for my BW rework from Prusa Research and the printed parts have this incredible texture to the first layer. I cant even see the lines. I am assuming these parts must be printed from a Prusa MK3, no? I would love to know what build surface gives a textured look to the print that hides the lines.