“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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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.
This is an amazing tip tbh. Never thought of using it for that.
Ngl that’s fucking genius
Seeing as you can do the exact same thing with a hairdryer, it’s inventing a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.
A hairdryer or heatgun kinda work, but it’s super easy to accidentally heat damage the display underneath (and it’s sensitivity only gotten worse with these super fancy displays these days).
It also doesn’t spread the heat very well.
This is a great solution because the bed is temp controlled and evenly spread
The heated bed is coupled to a thermistor. I’d argue controlling the temperature in order to not accidentally overheat parts of the phone is a step above a hair dryer.
Also bad is that hair dryers don’t spread their heat around very well at all. You can easily create hotspots on the object and damage things with them.
And, I don’t own a hairdryer. (Or much in the way of hair, these days.) But I do own a 3D printer…
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
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.)
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.
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°.)
No, that temperature would damage your screen. The professional hot plates for phone repair are typically set to 85-90°C. With a heat gun you may need to set a higher temperature since you are only heating up part of the phone and it cools down again during the process. My printer (Prusa MK3) with PCB heater can go up to 120°C, so it looks perfect for the job.
