I don't know what I want one for yet, but pretty sure I'll find some uses.
RJ Howell wrote:Is the wash n cure machine required?
celadon wrote:Hi, this is celadon's husband. I tell this to anyone who asks me about resin printers and I cannot stress this enough:
RESIN IS A HAZARDOUS TOXIC MATERIAL
Resin is an eye irritant and a skin irritant, and direct exposure to UV light will damage your eyes. Curing resin with UV light is exothermic - it heats up when it cures - which means you do not want resin to cure on your skin because it will burn you. Resin is a progressive toxin and repeated exposure to skin can make you develop severe allergic reactions to it. You MUST wear nitrile gloves - not latex, resin goes right through it - and safety glasses while handling liquid resin and unwashed and uncured prints. You MUST NOT dispose of uncured resin in general waste disposal because it is hazardous material. NEVER pour unused resin or used washing fluid down the drain. Dispose of used gloves, paper towels, uncured resin bits, and unused liquid resin as though you were disposing of lead acid batteries according to your municipality's regulations. The only safe resin to touch with bare skin or dispose of in the general waste stream is fully cured resin. DO NOT ALLOW CHILDREN OR PETS NEAR A WORKING RESIN PRINTER.
I don't mean to scare anyone off but I take this very seriously ...
Have fun with it, and if you've got any further questions please ask!
Squigie wrote:Anycubics are decent, and very appropriate for your wife's desired use - so long as the parts will fit in the print volume.
If she has the motivation, she might even be able to turn it into a source of income.
The single most popular use of resin printers, right now, is printing "Warhammer 40k" figurines - that sell for $35-90 each.
tony.latham wrote:I design a lotta my stuff using Sketchup. But frequently I find stuff here I want to print:
https://www.thingiverse.com/
Shelly's plans include learning Sketchup.
Tom&Shelly wrote: (Personally, it seems like trains or airplanes ought to be involved, but to each their own!)
Capebuild wrote:Hello Tom. If I read the price correctly, $450, including wash station; that seems like a very inexpensive printer and a pretty good deal. As a comparison, you can look at the Formlabs printer($3500 when I bought one for work several years ago). That also required a special heat chamber to post cure the model. If you're not all that familiar with SLA technology you can google Formlabs and compare the printer you're interested in with the Formlabs to see what the differences might be. The SLA process has been evolving pretty rapidly over the past few years to include the hobby market. I’d also suggest looking at FDM technology as well (less messy not using resins but solid plastic filament) but not as refined detail as the SLA technology (look at Makerbot, although maybe more $$, but there are other less expensive FDM machines out there too). Good luck with whatever machine you wind up getting. They’re a lot of fun and it’s great to make parts for “everything”. The other thing is the resin machines usually have a variety of resins with different properties such as flexible, rigid, nylon filled, etc.. I also have a fairly robust Stratasys FDM printer which also makes strong reliable parts (think high tech glue gun). Cool technology.
John
tony.latham wrote:Shelly's plans include learning Sketchup.
You'll have to add an extension to Sketchup to be able to export a design as an STL file for 3D printing.
Here's a flashlight holder for your Tacoma (in case you keep it) that I designed.
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5010455
Tony
I wonder how that will do on a resin based printer?
Tom&Shelly wrote:Thank you celadon's Husband!
We will definitely respect the safety matters with the resin and UV light. (I worked with lasers for half my career--it would be embarrassing to blind myself in retirement! ) How bad are the fumes? We have several places we can use this, one is in the back room of our basement/garage, which has no windows and so poor ventilation (although we can fix that if necessary). Another possible location is in the front, where we do woodworking, and can open the garage doors and windows, but, of course, we have to deal with sawdust in that room.
Tom&Shelly wrote:I wonder how that will do on a resin based printer? We may have to try...
Squigie wrote:I also have some contacts that occasionally use SLS machines to 'print' parts for me in metal.
celadons_husband wrote:Sintering printers are so cool. Adam Savage had an Iron Man suit SLS printed in titanium for one of his TV shows a couple years back. I've heard they're messy beasts to operate and of course expensive to boot. Much better to have a friend with one than to have it yourself!
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