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Black Goku, model from thingiverse.

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For those resinaway, how do you dispose of it after use?

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Lets see which castable resins perform the best.. casting rings is easy.. this will seperate the play resins from the good ones.. BC, Senertec and the CCW to the test.

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Anyone else using MeshMixer to generate the supports? So far the prints are coming out great and it does actually detect all overhangs properly and doesn't have any problems with generating efficient internal supports - if anything it's generally too much which requires a bit of tree prunning

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Hello, just got my photon a few weeks ago. It printed well so far except for one problem. Twice now it's stopped towards the end of a print with the memory error 11820. it says to take out and plug in the usb again but it inevitably just decided the print is done when it's like 98%. Is there a know solution? Should I consider returning it?

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Anycubic clear with monocure flex (no idea ratio), left for 2 or 3 weeks in the vat. All good.

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One for those with experience using UV nail polish. Stay with me, I have a point...

My printer is in a small cabin with no extractor, I have to heat it (it's freezing outside in the UK at the moment!!) so no open windows or anything. Needless to say I'm not working in there while the printer is doing it's thing! Today I've had a 14 hour print going and have just checked in every few hours. Each time I come out after just a few minutes of exposure to the contaminated air and the nasty taste of resin is stuck in my mouth, just like when you have fresh UV nail polish and you get that horrible taste from your nails.

So, if UV resin is so bad (which I've no doubt it is!), why on earth are people putting it on their nails if there's the slightest chance of any residue getting into their mouth?! Are (mostly) women slowly poisoning themselves? Or are the two things very different somehow?

Also, those of you using nail polish to colour the resin, are you using UV nail polish, or normal air drying stuff? I feel there's a cool crossover here that needs exploring!

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Do. Not. Trust. PreForm!

I used it to calculate the resin usage on my print (added supports in Photon slicer, exported to .stl, imported into PreForm) and it was way off, by like, a third! Luckily I checked just before disaster hit in this 14 hour 150ml+ print, the only loss being a couple of non-essential supports and a small chunk from the side (you can see it on the left side near the bottom) of my print which I can work with. Amazingly, after I quickly dumped more resin into the tank this amazing little printer just picked up and carried on, so the rest of the print should be ok now.
My old Form1 wouldn't have done that!!

I'm using Anycubic white settings 0.05, 10, 1, 70, 8. My printer has been happy with stock settings so far, so fingers crossed tomorrow it'll clean and cure in the sun just fine with these exposure settings.

I did discover, when I saw just a small puddle of resin left in the tank, that the tank isn't perfectly level. The resin was sitting more to the right side of the vat, hence the anomaly on the left. So tomorrow's job is to level the machine and vat to help with future prints. Every cloud eh!

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What support tip diameter do you guys use? How about the rest of the support?

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Does anyone have any experience/advice about best practices to slice up large figures so they assemble well after being printed in pieces? like good tolerances for the connection pegs, etc? I know how to model/cut up models and I can figure out where to put joints and such, I'm just wondering if anyone has specific things that have worked well/didn't work for them, etc.

Pic for attention, but I'm considering making a nicer version of the character (which I made a few years ago) and printing it for grins/because it was a fun project.

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