“You need to buy this special heater pad to break the screen adhesive!”
No, I think you will find that in fact I don’t.
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Can I use it to warm up a sex toy? Asking for me.
Yes, and you can also warm up lube as well.
I won’t take any questions at this time
Has anyone else found a use for their 3D printer that wasn’t exactly listed on the label?
Not from the 3D printing world, but sometimes I’d use our heating plate to reheat pizza LOL! Gotta make sure to clean the surface really well afterwards though.
Sounds like a job for tin foil or parchment paper
Fair enough. I just ended up placing it on a paper towel, then cleaned the surface with rubbing alcohol afterwards.
How about all three? Really make sure you don’t get that thing dirty.
I know a guy whose cat will take naps on it.
Used to have problems with the cat sneaking up while preheating, and being very intent on not getting off. (Even with the cold hot end poking him. It was… hilarious. Took an old i3 and sacrificed the build plate to solve the issue though.)
They need an enclosure
it really was hilarious watching the cat stubbornly refuse to move out the way as the bed moved back and forth and the hot end poked it. the cat had this most baleful look like it was being martyred by the machine.
(Yes, the friend was careful not to hurt the cat.)
I used to use the heated bed to brew tea while I was modeling. Poly makes a good cup.
The wife and I once used it to keep our fondue warm.
Bed is good at keeping fresh krispy kreme warm.
Holy shit. I do a fair bit of small electronics repair on the side, the cost of a decent heat pad is about half that of a 3d printer… This may be what finally inspires me to get a 3d printer.
Opening phones and heating burritos :)
And melting gallium when I 3D print moulds to make some silly metal objects (probably not so smart next to so much aluminium extrusion)
Wax is cheaper than gallium I think
Oh I know, I just have a few hundred grams of it since I like collecting elements, so I recast it into something funny when I’m bored
Sound’s fun. I’ve been meaning into getting into a 3d printing to casting process to make metal objects.
I’ve used it for releasing an iPad screen adhesive as well as for warming cinnamon rolls so they’ll rise when our oven was in use.
Totally had the food wrapped with Saran Wrap all around and had something between the plate and the glass pan. To make sure nothing that wasn’t safe for food prep didn’t touch it and to stop from “cooking” the bottom by accident.
Doesn’t that require a much higher temperature than most beds would be able to safely achieve.
I had to take the screen off of a Pixel not terribly long ago to replace the battery. I used a heat gun and I remember it requiring a temperature of like… 240C° or some such? And when I’m printing PLA, my printer bed only gets to 60C°. (Not saying it couldn’t go higher, but 240C° seems way higher than 60C°.)
90 degrees was the spec for this job. 240 is way too high.
You are thinking about a soldering plate? Those go up to 300°C or some times 400°C.
A phone screen is fixed with hot glue, that starts to melt around 60°C.
What I’ve used for this purpose is one of these. And I can attest that 60C° is nowhere near high enough to set that kind of thing for purposes of getting a Google Pixel 3a off safely.
But I bet ThetaDev is right that a flat plate heater can work just as well when set to lower temperatures because they heat the whole screen at one time.
