Plate Lab - Cleaning Textured PEI Building Plates

3D Printing + Cleaning Textured Pei

How to clean a Textured PEI building plate? It ain't much more than simply cleaning the dishes...

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Step by step

Unless otherwise stated use the following method for TEXTURED PEI and only TEXTURED PEI!

First try step 1, if that doesn't help steps 1 and 2, if that doesn't help steps 1 to 3, and so forth. Some skip the IPA step -- use the approach that works best for you.

1. Try not to touch the build area with your fingers.

2. Wait for objects to fully cool down before removing them from the plate.

3. Quick clean with IPA / rubbing alcohol, when needed, mostly to get rid of oily fingerprints -- when needed.

4. Clean with a drop of dish washing liquid, some warm water, and a sponge -- when needed.

 

5. Use warm water, soap, and some force, using a dish washing brush, or a nail brush -- when needed.

 

 

6. At this stage no regular cleaning will restore your plate, so you may need to deliberately 'scratch' the surface using (the hard side of) a cleaning pad. This may damage your plate, so use your own discretion and risk!

Don't use any other chemicals but IPA on textured PEI. Remember that non-PEI materials (polyurea, for example) may not be IPA resistant.

Aruco code

Warning: if you used a sticker to add an Aruco code, then make sure you don't damage it or accidentally completely remove it.