Please don't scratch up our build plates

This smooth plate isn’t very smooth any more, so future prints will have problems adhering or will have marks in their surface finish.

When you’re removing a print from a build plate, please be careful to not scrape up the build plate. The best way to remove a print is to flex the build plate and get the print to pop off. If that doesn’t work, try using a plastic tool to lift it off.

My personal favorites are the little black plastic razor blades (you can find more of these in the wooden tool table drawers), but the custom-printed orange scraper works well too. The plastic spatulas may work.

Don’t use too much downwards pressure. What you’re trying to do is slip the spatula edge just under the print and lift it off with sideways pressure.

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We now have some printed handles for the plastic razor blades. The blades work really well, but I felt bad having to re-clean plates due to oil from my hands.

Please make sure to only use these while they’ve got a blade loaded in, and not directly on the built plate themselves.

They’re in the wooden table drawers for now, although they also fit on the door of the printers.

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