Thermal Glass for 3D Printer Platform Printing Bed 9" x 6" x 0.25"

WOW~ I have a FlashForge Creator Pro. I was not happy with the blue surface provided with it. It was hit and miss.Everything another reviewer (Air Cooled) said is true.Got this, fits really nice. I printed a shim, printed two solid L brackets for the back and two with "arms" to hold it from the front.Glass is thick enough to allow those to not be above the surface. Glass is also not as heavy as I pictured in my mind..Sprayed a little aqua net unscented hairspray on the plate, put the glass on the bed and let it heat up.WOW! PERFECT prints. I don't even think I will need rafts much unless the part calls for it. I won't need one just to get parts to stick, it seems.Held perfect, printed perfect. Allowed to cool and the parts just slid right off. No prying at all. I could not have asked for better.I printed several ABS parts, perfect each time so far. Just one fast coat of hair spray was all that was needed. You probably don't even need to do this every time.Printed some PLA and heated the bed to 60c, perfect!This saved my printer. I was getting frustrated to the point of wanting to send it back. Now it just prints, perfect every time, at least so far.Night and day experience.I may get another of these in the future so i can swap if doing multiple prints. Allow one to cool while the other is printing.Edit: i did buy two and it was worth it!

This has significantly improved my prints. I love the very flat surface. Good adhesion requires an interface layer. I use acetone with dissolved ABS and spray it on. Cleaning is easy with a straight razor blade. This works much better than kapton tape or the surface shipped by my printer manufacturer.You still need to print a shim (1/4") and corner retainers, but those are available on Thingiverse for my printer and many others. I would like to have seen this included in the package and thus the 4 stars.On large prints there is still an issue with corners lifting with ABS, but that happens no matter what surface is used. Just need to take into account the corner problem in the design and include anchors or round the bottom edges.

I purchased this thermal glass and promptly installed it in my Qidi Tech 1 (Replicator2 clone). I have a heated bed and the temperature was set to 100ºC. I coated the glass with hairspray (while bed was cool), let it dry, and then proceeded to make a print. The print itself seemed to work perfectly and as soon as it finished I let it cool and then turned the machine off for the night. When I came back the next morning most of the work pieces came off without much fuss. The last piece felt more stuck then the others, but I gently slide a razor blade under the edge of the piece and worked my way around until the piece popped off. I didn't even notice anything was wrong until I started to clean up the glass with a cloth and noticed a rough spot. When I looked closely I noticed a large chip had popped free of the glass and was adhered to that last print.I promptly requested a return and was asked for pictures. I have enclosed said pictures. I received a response today letting me know they had contacted their supplier (FlashForge USA) and shown them my pictures. They had come to the conclusion that the damage was caused by my own inexperience. "Damage is not something the glass can fall apart by itself." Obvious language barrier issues aside (really a non issue for me), it would appear that according to them it must be caused by me because glass can't just break on its own. While I agree that glass sitting on a shelf in a temperature controlled environment would likely never break on its own, that isn't really what we are talking about. This glass is being sold as a bed for a 3D printing system. In said system the bed will be heated and cooled, heated plastic will be deposited on the surface of the glass and removed, and some solvents such as isopropanol and acetone will be applied to clean the surface. I am not trying to claim the glass broke while sitting unused, I am saying through normal use a defective product broke. Regarding the hairspray, I was also told in the email that ABS does not need anything to aid in adhesion to this glass "...as that is what the heated bed is already for." That isn't why a bed is heated from what I've read; its heated to prevent warpage of the bottom layers during printing and cooling. The fact is people are using many things to aid in ABS adhesion to the bed, including ABS juice, glue sticks, and yes, even hairspray.In the end, I can accept the fact that I may have played a part in the failure of this product, but given my procedure I don't see how. I didn't heat the bed excessively (100ºC), I allowed adequate cooling time (6+ hrs), I used established ABS adhesion techniques (hairspray, applied on cool bed and dried), and I used care in removing the work pieces (small razor blade slid under the edge of the piece). If by following the aforementioned procedure I have voided any recourse through them for a seemingly defective product, they should state their conditions in the product description (no hairspray, etc...). I have since moved on to using a Maghold Magnetic Build Plate. The removable build plate seems to work much better with removing prints as it only needs to be flexed.

For the price I expected it to match the bed size perfectly. It's a few mm smaller in both the x and y directions. If I would have known this, I would have just bought a glass bed from flashforge that gets it perfectly.

I decided to purchase this product after my stick on build surface because unglued after heating the bed to 100c. I opted for this product because of the extra weight and 1/4 inch thickness of the glass. I also purchased a .5mm silicone thermal pad to adhere it to the aluminum build plate on my QIDI Tech One. I'm able to use this product without any clips and I haven't seen the need to remove the glass from the build plate after many prints. I noticed when using either ABS or PLA, if I let the glass cool completely before trying to remove the print it just pops off, no need to use a scrapper. I applied Aquanet using a paper towel for the first 5 or so prints. But stopped applying it since my prints are sticking just fine now. I haven't noticed any quality issues such as, chips, scraps, and or sharp edges. Would recommend to other QIDI Tech One owners.

Works great, not perfectly flat, the edges are a bit weak, and it doesn't fit perfect but it's still great. Hairspray is the perfect, and most clean, way to get you prints to stick to this. I really wish I had known that FF sold an official glass bed that's much (much) thinner and fits the bed 100% accurately. A great product overall just not perfect.