 the bamboo lab cool plate is one of my very favorite plates to use on the bamboo lab machines and with this tool right here it makes it super easy to replace. My name's Jim and this is the edge of tech. Now don't get me wrong I use the textured PEI plates a lot and I really like them too. They work very good but I think my very favorite bamboo lab surface is the cool plate. It's better on energy because it really doesn't require the bed to heat up, prints come out nice and smooth as you can see on the back of here and things just stick to this cool plate like it's literally glued on and the best thing about them is when they wear out you can replace the sticker that's right it's actually just a sticker in mere minutes and have a brand new plate ready to go. Enter the bamboo lab cool plate replacement tool well that's what I call it anyway. This actually comes loaded on almost all of the bamboo lab printers and if you can't find it just jump in the maker world and you can find it there. This is a multi-purpose tool that allows you to take this plate right here and put a brand new sticker on it like this in mere minutes. Let me show you how it works. First you take your old plate find a corner and peel that old sticker off and it's actually generally pretty easy to peel off. Now grab yourself some isopropyl alcohol and give that plate a really good wipe down to clean off any of the residual residue from the glue that was already on the plate. This is a great time to jump in and tell you about today's sponsor PCBway. If you're looking for a custom PCB maybe some CNC work or even some specialized 3d printing services check out PCBway to help finish your project today. 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Now take your new sticker turn it around and peel that backing back about one inch down from the top once you get it down crease it so it doesn't flip back up then take that sticker and put it down onto the build plate following the guides in the top corner so everything is straight once you have your new sticker aligned and press down onto the plate then you can actually remove the plate and the sticker off the tool and set the plate on a flat surface so this is where it starts getting pretty cool with the tool here what you want to do is lift your sticker up and grab that paper in the back and peel off maybe like one or two inches then take the tool in your other hand and start pressing down and using it like like a squeegee or a press to stick the sticker down nice and tight then you want to take your tool here press down on the plate and flatten out that one or two inches that you pulled so it's nice and stuck down and everything's nice and tight against here now that you've got the hang of it what you want to do is take your tool and just start peeling that paper back on the sticker and pressing against the plate with your tool it reaches all the way across the plate so it'll just press that sticker down and you just want to keep going until that whole sticker is now stuck down to the plate once that's done you want to take the plastic that comes on the new sticker and peel that off unfortunately i missed hitting record when i did that so there's no plastic here but trust me a lot of the new stickers come with plastic and you want to peel that plastic off before you print on it then just clean it up with some isopropyl alcohol and get it nice and clean just remember what i said earlier about these plates they stick very very well a matter of fact bamboo lab suggests using the glue stick that comes with the printer to make sure that your prints will remove okay and that you don't damage the sticker you can either use that or their liquid glue or i use the the nano polymer by vision miner whatever you want to use but make sure you put it on here that way your prints do come off the bed they really do have a tendency to stick too much which is not a terrible thing when you're printing something that needs to stick down but you want to be able to remove them from the plate now i absolutely love that bamboo lab comes up with things like the scraper and like this multi-purpose cool plate replacement tool that's what i want to call it i think it's awesome that they think of these things ahead of time and they get it to us for free you don't have to pay for this tool you just print it off i guess you have to pay for the filament but you know what i mean you don't have to pay for the model and it's awesome that they do things like this again the scraper is another great example of a useful tool that they provide us now you can get the brand new stickers from bamboo lab for i believe 899 right now and there'll be a link in the description below to grab yours but these are so cheap it is probably the cheapest way to replace a bed or a build sheet that i know of you know for 899 you peel a sticker you put a brand new one on and you're ready to go let me know in the comments below what your favorite build surface is for the bamboo lab machines is it texture pei is it the cool plate what do you use and as always don't forget to check out this video right here