1 English review written for Zimple Ziflex Ultimate Starter Kit - Low Temp

Coating of bed permanently damaged

Rated with 3 out of 5 stars.

UPDATE : customer support was very helpful as always, I'm updating this to 3 stars.
Will maybe give it another go but NEVER level your bed with a hot nozzle when using flexible beds. Learnt it the hard way ;)

I was EXTREMELY enthusiastic about this product, and most of it looks perfect when it's mounted. Although, the coating of this bed MELTS if the nozzle touched it even slightly, i.e. if the bed unlevels itself over time, or if the leveling is too tight.
I followed the instructions CAREFULY and began with a large gap of 2mm for initial leveling. But when one screw gets around the good position, the others often end up touching the bed, that's what happened to me, leaving me with holes in the bed on one extremity...
I decided to try a print anyway, so I leveled it again carefully. It was not tight enough so I had no adhesion for initial layer.
I then leveled it slightly tighter, and the nozzle began MELTING the coating, MERGING the initial layer of my print to it...
The margin of error for bed leveling with this is very tiny, and any error risks PERMANENTLY damaging the coating. Also, the bed height was slightly uneven (tighter in middle), being unreliable.
I really, really wanted it to work, having had pieces glued too strongly to the default glass bed.

MY ADVICE : stick to the default Ender glass bed (pun intended), and play with adhesive sprays/ethanol cleaning.
If you decide to go with this, I'd first change the default screws of the Ender 3 to the orange upgraded ones, as your bed will constantly unlevel itself and you will damage this product.

The magnetic linear technology in itself is a very good idea and works very well, but the coating isn't realisticly usable IMO.
I will try for a refund and will change the review to 3 stars if I get it.

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