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this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2026
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I have a bottle Isopropanol for cleaning the bed before printing.
Poor choice. Beds are best cleaned with soap and water. IPA just dissolves oils and redeposits them when it dries.
Reminder that while people talk about isopropyl alcohol for bed cleaning, its only really a disinfectant and doesn't actually clean invisible debris off the be very well which when not cleaned with dish out it will cause bed adhesion issues.
I didn't know why I was having adhesion issue for awhile after I had a ton of experience under my belt and trying a lot of different things and nothing shrot of changing the bed would fix the weird unfisable adhesion issues I had everh so often until I learned thst isoprpyl alcohol was not actually the correct thing for bed cleaning and when I did that the issue went away.