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Cons to UV printing
Taken in order your questions:
Maintenance for a resin printer means keeping the vat or tray clean, using appropriate methods to remove the unused resin (or leaving it in the vat per manufacturer's ...
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Why are Carbon 3D are not selling a home version?
I will take the question seriously, and consider reasons why Carbon 3D might choose to offer their technology through a yearly subscription, rather than building a product accessible to the consumer ...
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Cons to UV printing
Despite how many vendors make it appear, resin-curing SLA/DLP printers are industrial or commercial tools that are really not suitable for home desktop use. Here are the major downsides:
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What are the long term material properties of VeroWhitePlus 3D printer material?
In our experience, the parts will continue to cure. I don't have the chemical science background to provide proof or evidence, but I operate from an assumption that if the part requires UV rays to ...
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Pros to UV printing
When using a DLP 3D printer, a projector (or other UV light source) is shining on a layer of resin. As the light source shines on a whole layer at a time, it is able to print at a rather constant ...
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How to thin UV sensitive resin
You've covered a couple of concerns "outside the box," but the real tests will come when you pour some of the resin into the vat.
If you don't get a reaction with the release layer, score one for ...
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What is the correct process to make a correct resin casting for jewelry?
Factually, the correct process is to heat up the mold hot enough to evaporate the positive.
In investment casting the process to remove the wax or plastic positive is called the ...
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Is it normal for clear resin to lose transparency after curing?
This happens to most resins and the amount of haziness is directly related to the type of resin. Not all clear resins do this mind you, but it has to do with the curing sprlectrum of light(natural ...
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Why are Carbon 3D are not selling a home version?
It looks like they have only one innovation: their resins. Everything else looks like standard SLA.
All the things Carbon 3D are pitching on their website are more about having a dedicated support ...
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Is it normal for clear resin to lose transparency after curing?
Clouding is a known issue with colored transparent resins, as is yellowing with clear resin.
Uncle Jessy did quite a good video explaining the issue and how to best avoid it.
The conclusion was that ...
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Delaminating in the middle area of photon printer
The print you do is a sealed cup in the position it sits directly on the build plate. As a result, there is a column of resin in the cup as you print and at some point, the weakest spot delaminates, ...
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Accidentally over curing a 3D print
You are correct, you can over cure a print by leaving it out in the sun. Prints can even over cure just by the ambient light in a room from the sun (though it would take a while).
One easy option to ...
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Clear coating resin 3D prints
I'd go for the easy option of using a composite setup: Acrylic lacquers themselves are very low reactive and can serve as a foundation before the UV clear coating is applied. The acrylic lacquer ...
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LCD for SLA 3D printer resin curing
Hmm I seen videos off people pealing filters off of lcd screens to let uv pass through.
I believe the sharp unit maybe popular because not all lcds have square pixels and have poor pixel alignment ...
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What is the correct process to make a correct resin casting for jewelry?
Traditional lost molds.
The reason many jewelers use wax for making the molds for lost mold casting is, that it has (compared to plastic molding materials) a very low melting and boiling point, ...
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How to create an accurate mask for a UV 3D resin DLP printer
I've created software to do just that. See the project on Github: CreateMask. It has a wiki page that explains what to do.
To summarize: you measure the LCD build area using a multi-meter and a light ...
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