How To Upgrade Glass Bed For FlashForge Creator X Pro 3D Printer With Brenden Macias

Maker some has introduced their Glass Bed Upgrade Kit. A Borosilicate glass bed upgrade is an excellent upgrade to your printer if it didn’t already come with one.

The Flashforge Creator X Pro and Flash Forge Dreamer are excellent machines and print wonderfully just the way they come from Makersome. We found this small and simple upgrade makes them even better to use.

At Makersome, we generally print with heated beds even with PLA to keep prints from warping. When I finish a print I want to get it off the bed and start using it right away. This would generally mean getting a little rough with the machines in order to pry the print off before it cooled down, which we do not recommend at all by the way (Note: If you wait for your bed to cool down completely your prints will generally pop off very easily).

The solution for us was a removable glass bed. It has worked out great! It’s allowed us to print even quicker than before by hot swapping out plates. When one print is complete we can remove the glass plate from the printer (be careful it will be HOT) and swap it out with a different plate already prepped for printing. It also allowed us to have multiple glass bed plates setup for different printing materials to make printing with multiple materials less of a headache. We can be printing our second print as the first one cools down. It’s a great system when you have a lot of printing to get done quickly. Another advantage is that, once removed, we can apply a little measured force to the prints to coax them off the glass bed plate without having to be rough with the machines at all.

To help prints sick to our glass plates we like using hairspray for PLA and PET tape with ABS Juice (aka ABS slurry) for ABS prints. A couple of things worth noting, it will take a little bit longer for your bed to heat up with the glass bed plate in place. You will also loose a tiny bit of build volume to the thickness of the glass plate.