Heated bed insulation

Hi everyone,

I am getting into 3D printing and I have read that my bed would benefit from some insulation underneath it. Has anyone on here got any experience or recommendations on what type of material to use, or any to avoid.

Thanks

Greg

Ow blow it, I read the title and thought it would be about keeping warm at night.

oh well.

'sigh'

I've just added insulation to the underside of my Mk3 Prusa bed.

For support I used expanded Aluminium mesh with the edges bent up around the bed and trimmed off level with the top, this supports 4 layers of glass fibre tissue matting with a lower layer of Kapton tape to stabilise the glass fibres.

I assume it's doing something as the insulated underside of the bed is now comfortable to touch with temp stable at 100C

- Nick

We succesfully used neoprene, cardboard, and also polystyrene on different printers.

I looked at lots of possible materials but eventually went for that which would be hardest to set light to in the event of an electrical fault :D

Wheeltapper,

l'm with u, get a younger woman like I did.......hahaha......Clogs

Wheeltapper,

l'm with u, get a younger woman like I did.......hahaha......Clogs

I've used a ceramic blanket, a bit of 12mm thick aluminium silicate blanket fitted nicely and made a very big difference to warm up times (and has probably greatly reduced the electricity use)

I also used a bit with some kapton tape to make an insulating blanket for my hot end (oo-err missus!)

Neil