While cleaning the bird’s nest off the extruder, the need for a protector over the steel build plate became obvious:
Yes, it’s laser cut, which trivialized the two little holes for the locating screws in the back.
Given the dimensions, it should take you five minutes, tops, to cut your own from some chipboard:
The blobs along the front edge mark the magnets where you could add a bit of steel to snap the protector in place, if you’re inclined to remove the plate. I just let it sit there, which seems entirely sufficient.
Long ago I made a similar corrugated cardboard sheet for the M2 that is still covering its glass platform today.
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 
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4 responses to “Prusa MK4 Platform Protector”
your doodle-fu needs a snap-to-grid function :)
It needs a lot more than that! :grin:
I’m trying to be kind
You should see the ones I don’t post!
Sometimes I find a doodle that I absolutely have no idea what it is. Presumably it was something I intended to build / fix / investigate, had gotten to the point of doodling up the general layout, then put it aside for some reason. Months to years later, I find a piece of paper that’s unquestionably in my handwriting, but what was I thinking? :sigh: