Pva Stick To Pla

Hi there one of the most annoying thing with the printing is to figure out how to stick your model to the print bed.

Pva stick to pla. So you have to design things so that pva goes all the way down to the bed. Some of them are available. Posted january 31 2017 pva not sticking to pla if you are already keeping your pva spool safe in a ziplock and silica bags i dont think its a problem related to that specific spool. As youre going to see the initial intention of the video was to smooth the pla pieces with acetone but the result is not very satisfactory.

When it comes to 3d printing filament pva stands for polyvinyl alcohol. In my experience pva doesnt stick very well to pla. At standard simplify3d speeds the pva doesnt stick. Some of them works on pla other works on abs.

Ideally the pva serves as an interface between the pla supports and the pla piece. Heres what weve tried so far. Atshaun167 pla doesnt stick well to pva. When using pva as a support material for your pla prints consider adding an ooze shield with at least two outlines.

And pla sticks to itself nicely. Well it will stick but if its a large part it might not stick well. The pva is able to adhere perfectly to the build platform and then the pla is able to stick on top of it. So i picked up some pva in an attempt to make my prints just a little bit cleaner when using supports.

Sorry about the baby noise hard to find t. Weve had trouble with the ooze shield because its alternating layers of pva and pla and those dont stick well enough at 04mm thickness to build up a higher structure. In my first few test prints the pva stuck fine to the bed but had a problem sticking to the pla later on in the prints. Most glue sticks are pva as well so the filament is essentially a printable solid glue stick.

I read many articles forums posts and mails about it and there are many ways starting with a perfect clean heated glass surface just with the right temperature hairsprays glue sticks blue tape etc. Glueing pla using acetone is an experimental technique that i discovered in the following video of thomas sanladerer one of the most famous 3d printing youtubers. Weve had success when all the supports are in pva. Glue pla con acetone.

So printing on a slab of pva probably just isnt going to work. However pva sticks to itself nicely. We print pla at 2000c and pva at 1900c with 400c heated glass bed on a flashforge creator pro at very slow speeds. A little guidance for a friend whos having trouble getting his pla print to stick to the bed.

Getting pva to stick to pla.