I have a stock bed on my Taz 6 and would like to switch it to a straight glass bed. Can anyone explain what I would need to change other than the surface itself? (bed leveler corners, heat plate, etc.)
Stock bed on the Taz6 is (borosilicate) glass with a PEI sheet. You can remove the PEI from it if it’s damaged and replace it, but there’s almost zero materials that print better on bare glass vs PEI.
To remove the PEI sheet, just remove the entire bed, put it in the freezer for an hour or two (the adhesive loses strength when cold), and peel it off. Adhesive residue will take a fair amount of scraping and isopropyl alcohol to remove, but is more tedious than difficult.
Thanks for the info. We have a taz 5 at work with a glass bed and it gets a glassy finish on the side that prints to the bed. Haven’t had a ton of trouble with it sticking using purple glue stick but also don’t use it but once or twice a year.
Goo Gone will take off the adhesive off really easily, but avoid getting on the adhesive for the heating pad. I used to use it all the time to clean off the adhesives on used glass plates. The adhesive will pretty much just rub/scrape off after some time just soaking with the Goo Gone! Then just wipe with Isopropyl to get the Orange oil(aka - Goo Gone) off the glass.
I used a razor blade scraper before using anything else.
Oh, and another tip for those doing this - do it outdoors or a very well ventilated area. That 3M adhesive has a very strong odor, and probably full of bad VOCs.