okay YouTube got the flexplate cleaned off here I removed the sticker wiped everything down with
some acetone there to clean it off really well and then what I did along this side is I've marked off
approximately five-eight inch increments so I could get 19 strips of tape from edge to edge
and then I just worked from one edge held a little extra bit of tape stretched it down to
the other edge and cut it off flush down here and you can just kind of stretch the tape and keep an
eye on the mark and you just want to keep the half inch strip of tape between the marks there
and yeah they came out pretty good I got a couple couple here that we're kind of close together but
that's okay I have to get in here with a razor blade and peel up the protective backing on a
double stick tape and then the other thing I did I took my Guerra light sheet and give it a light
sanding with an orbital a random orbit sander and then wipe that down with acetone as well so once
I get all these strips peeled off it's time to put the Guerra light on the flexplate the other thing
I did I took a little plastic card and ran down all the tape to work the bubbles out and I think
I got all of them out some of the backing tape makes a lump in the in the surface but I think
the adhesive is all stuck down I've got all the all the little doubles worked out there let me get
all the protective tape peeled off of there and we'll see what it looks like okay YouTube success
I work pretty well so they've got the Guerra light on top and the steel plate on the bottom I think
if I were to do this again I would go for the 32nd inch this got really stiff I mean it's still
flexible you can see I can I can bend it but it's it came out quite a bit stiffer than I expected
it would I don't know if if you're supposed to leave this shiny or if you're supposed to rough
it up with sandpaper that's why I thought a little bit thicker material sixteenth of an inch which is
what one point six millimeters would be give me a longer life and it should hold down hold pretty
flat and never go YouTube's got the gara light flex plate working so I'm doing a few calibration
prints I've changed to a point six millimeter nozzle at the same time got a dial in the print
bed and the nozzle size at the same time but yeah look at that there's the nylon sticks really well
there so all I did to the gear alighted they took some greens got sprite and this kind of
took the shine off the surface wiped it down with some acetone to get all the dust and fingerprints
and everything off to install it it was a little time consuming that black knob in the back that's
the Z stock adjustment that's where you set the where the bed comes up to for the home position
I was up near the top and when I went to the added thickness of the gara light i couldn't adjust the
knob anymore so what I had to do was come into the bed leveling screws and screw them down probably
about five turns each and then I had to real 'evil the bed after I did that so then when I switched
to the build tack flex plate I'll have to figure out what how many turns on the screw that equals
they just have to reset the bed height between the two prints or to build the plate but look at
that there we go everything stuck down no warping has a pretty small part let's see there it it's
tucked down pretty well nylon filament is stringy there so you can see that's what I'm trying to get
dialed in here is the extrusion multiplier I used to use 75% with the four 10 millimeter nozzle but
I think I'm here at 85 percent might actually go up a little higher and they'll try 90 so I'm
getting pretty good fill here still a little bit rough you can see how I got the surface roughed
up a little bit and that's where I was printing if you can see that it's a little shiny right there
where you print so these are the screws I had to adjust there's two on each side so I screwed them
down about five turns because what I wanted to do was make able to adjust the black screw clear
to the top and still have a little bit of a gap here so I have a little bit of adjustment room
okay YouTube looks like the parts printed okay had to do a few adjustments on settings you get
the main thing I did was out a brim here to get the it's bit adhesion on these smaller
parts they look so I also tried a few other things actually tried heating the bed actually
up here in the attic it's about 40 degrees C so the bed is is basically the ambient temperature
but I tried heating it to 50 and I have trouble with the parts they were lifting up that didn't
work so actually running on an unheated bed is the way to go yeah let me try to peel these off
and show you what they look like and there we go parts finished printing yeah I think they
came out pretty good I got the extrusion factor and outside printing speed dialed in looks like
they're pretty solid on top yeah I'll have to do is just trim off the brim on these parts and they
are ready to go there's a little bit of cleanup you get with the nylon you do get a bit of string
there's really no way to eliminate that kind of part of the nature of the material it's very
it's very stringy guess what this the smaller parts you do need a brim because there's just
not enough surface area compared to the height between the height and the small diameter they
tend to pull loose pretty easy so print them with a brim and they're good to go so yeah there's the
gara like flex plate so I think that's going to work pretty good no heat and no bed prep other
than just about all you need to do hit it with a little scotch brite pad and clean it off with some
alcohol get the fingerprints off of there and it's good to go I'll try to wrap this up here
if you have any questions about the materials I use post up in the comment section below I'll put
links to the gara light and the build tech flex plate in the video description and I'll put some
other videos over here on the left side you might be interested in and as always thanks for watching