Prusa Spring Steel Sheet Vs Powder Coated

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Prusa spring steel sheet vs powder coated.

This product is a replacement spring steel sheet with smooth double sided pei for the original prusa i3 mk3 s and mk2 5 s heatbeds update. It makes sense since most of the factory printed parts are in petg which is well suited to the powder coated sheet. The smooth pei surface on the steel sheet as well as all other properties remain the very same for all color versions. One of the best elements of it is a magnetic heat bed with a remov.

I ordered my prusa mk3s about two weeks ago and they were not offering a textured pei sheet with the kit. Both sheets are covered by ultem pei polyetherimide. Powder coated textured vs smooth pei coated spring steel sheets. It is important to know that each type of steel sheet requires a different live adjust z value first layer height the smooth pei spring steel sheet being approximately 200 400 μm thicker than the powder coated spring steel sheet.

The textured surface also hides all potential imperfections of your first layer. These magnets are able to firmly hold removable spring steel sheets. We offer two types of spring steel sheets a textured powder coated one and smooth pei one. Looking at getting the mk3 kit but i am unsure of the choices between both spring steel sheets.

Spring steel sheet with smooth double sided pei sheet or double sided textured powder coated spring steel sheet. Both sheets are covered by ultem pei polyetherimide the only difference is that the powder coated spring steel sheet is covered by pei dust baked directly to its surface whereas the smooth pei layer is glued to the metal sheet as a sticker. Powder coating directly on metal makes it very hard to damage this build plate. If a heated nozzle crashed into it the metal can dissipate the heat.

It is possible to use both of them for printing with any type of material if used properly. I am rather new to printing but figured i would go big on this one. Posted by 1 year ago. Our powder coated sheets allow you to print with all the commonly used types of filament pla petg abs flex cpe etc without applying adhesive separation layers.