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check every couple of minutes till they stop being sticky and rotate them as needed :)

Zena Andreou thank you

In sunlight 20-30mins

Brandon White thank you

Window glass blocks some UV, better in direct sun.

20-30 mins sounds very long. You do not want to over cure because the part gets more brittle.

Dan Andersson it might be but it also depends on uv concentration, 15-20 in, with just sun light my prints are still sticky, its the main reason i switched to a uv light, but im sure in different locations its short times/longer times

If you put your prints in direct sunlight, i have a very hard time to believe that a uv light would be faster. If you have a window between, then it is possible.
A cloudy day is easily beaten with uv light.

Dan Andersson uv light has always been faster for me

Usually uncured resin will take a dent from a fingernail being pressed in. Leave it out in sunlight until it no longer takes a dent

sun 10 to 15 min tops...imho...i have a curing box but use the sun every chance i get...

I keep resin in my vat for weeks on end with no cover. No issues at all, I just give it a stir with that plastic spatula thing that comes with the machine.

Even went on vacation for 4 weeks with a print halfway through. Got home and all fine. Print turned out great, gave the resin a stir and started up the next print.

Michael Pollard I am coming from the age of darkroom so a little sensitive when I was told it’s light sensitive ? ?

Movement control order? You mean a lockdown? But you have a FedEx delivery, isn't the whole point of a courier service is that they deliver to your door?

Sen Kun movement of essential activities only with reason and documents to support, original shipping address is my office which need to close down and shipper prohibit diversion so receiver must present in distribution centre to self collect, if u ask me then Anycubic may hv to answer as their CS told me they can’t change delivery address after the item been courier

Chiewata I was the same way, printed a cover for the vat and was worried.
Than one day I got lazy and soon found out my worry was for nothing. As long as you keep it closed those yellow panels stop all UV.

To pick up my Ender 3 this afternoon, I had to go down to the pickup location (it's at a stationery store), hold my ID to the window, and then step behind a line on the sidewalk until the guy inside brought it outside, placed it on the ground, and then went back inside.

If you have access to a FDM printer then you might want to look into printing a lid for your vat. I use this one and it works great.
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3359046

Sounds like a movie

Alexius Lim yes 28 Weeks Later if it still not showing in your place lucky you but most parts of the world are experiencing it live

Chiewata I’m in singapore we were one of the first to have it ? no police or military on the roads tho

Alexius Lim that’s because your citizens are self discipline over here they are many idiots

Chiewata ? was just interested to know that they set up checkpoints over there.

Thanks for sharing

Hi, i'm italian and i can say photon was really used in this process, not for final product, but for prototypes... The final version is "professionally" printed in Nylon SLS. The photon in the image was used for fast prototype in the reverse engineering phase.

Hahaha to all of jerks and know-it-alls that kept telling people in this forum to stop printing because it is bad... That is the worst case of "I know better than you because I'm not a scientist, but I play one on TV" that I've ever seen! And yes, I'm well aware these were prototypes.

Shane Johnson how so? If they weren't used with people it seems they agree with the sentiment

Shane Johnson read the post above they were prototyped on an Anycubic Photon. The final parts were SLS.

Shane Johnson dummy

I wandering doesnt have sla resin fumes?

FFS. Another clown who can't see the wood for the trees.

Marcin Stolarek not after its cured

I thought these only worked on sls?

Marcin Stolarek it doesn’t matter, these were prototypes and never used on people.

Shaun Reno prototypes.

Nobody was ever upset about anyone printing a prototype. What we don't need is for people to print a ton of these on their Photon and send them to their local hospital, where they will go straight into the trash.

Badly spaced out the parts, the printbed could have easily housed 6 or 8 of them

Richard Humble haha read my whole post... I'm well aware of that. Just goes to show how many Headline Heros there are these days...

My point..people... is that you telling somebody that they cannot do something like this is asinine. The authorities at the hospital will let them know what they can and can't do. You are not the authority and by you telling people that they can't do s omething to try to help this pandemic tears other people down.

If somebody wants to help by doing something and it makes them feel better, then let them. they might also realize at some point that they need to use what they created as a prototype without so many assholes ripping them apart.. Stop tearing people down and let people feel better about trying to help.

Stefan Giudici I saw quite a few people just flat out tell someone that they are wasting their time in a pretty mean way. That isn't how people should be acting right now. Encouragement is what should lead people. Keyboard Warriors are damaging other people's mental health and right now that is not a good idea (it never really is...)

Shane Johnson apologies I did not read your full post.

But when someone turns up at a hospital with a ropey design of mask printed from known hazardous material in an unproven way and says this is ace use it... Guess what... You have no idea what risk you have exposed those people to, long or short term. That is not fair.

Print stuff that is not in the breathing air path, those face shield holders for example, they have a far lower risk. They are also more use as the virus can enter through they eyes too.

If you can't cope with criticism then don't ask for opinions. Not every idea is a good one and deservedly gets a kicking.

Richard Humble that is such a wrong way of looking at it. There is a MAJOR difference between constructive criticism and criticism. There has been very little of the former...

Some of those things being printed could cause more harm. Plus, you are trying up someone's time that should be helping others. The CORRECT way to go about it would be to have spoken with the hospital in advance to see if there was something to do. Not just just print a 100 items that can't be used.

I haven't commented on any of this until now. But I'm sorry, you are wrong. Many of these people are causing more issues. If they want to help then that is great, ask the hospital how you can help. If people want to help, there are plenty of ways.

Erik Jonathan Gonzalez Hahahaha!!! How many prints have you printed that go unused...?

Shane Johnson how is that related to anything I said ? Did you tag the right person?

Is plant based resin not good for this model?

Erik Jonathan Gonzalez yes to "not just print 100 items that can't be used."

Erik Jonathan Gonzalez and please read the damn article... They brought their NON-production, RESIN models into the hospital... Oh no! They did testing IN a hospital!? What??.........

Shane Johnson First off, you need take a few deep breaths cuz you are flipping out.

second, the comment about printing items that wont be used purely is about wasting one's personal time on on thing, when doing something else would be more beneficial. Which is why i also mentioned asking the hospital for what they want first, not just printing something you thought they might need and then finding out they didnt. It could be as easy as a simple phone call. So whatever prints i make that i dont use really has nothing to do with the topic at all, because im not judging "wasted" plastic. Im specifically talking about hospital aid.

Third, i dont care about the article. I am not responding to the article. I am responding to your comments regarding people's criticism. They are very valid criticisms, for the reasons listed above.

TL;DR If you want to help, ask them what they need first. Dont make assumptions and waste your time or theirs.

Erik Jonathan Gonzalez I'm actually as calm as can be... ?‍♂️ I'm just calling you out on your inability to comprehend words...

tldr; let people do what they want; let them feel good for once, and for God's sake...read the article before you spout off rediculous crap. People can waste their own time the way they wish.

haha seems more like you didn't comprehend anything i said...

But i can see you are being purposely obtuse and have no intention of actually listening to other people.

Good luck with life.

Ah good, its all calmed down !

Erik Jonathan Gonzalez and I can tell you are a rational person.

"plant based resin" is still toxic af

Try 8 seconds at 0.025 layer height. I find most of the resins I've tried an 8 second exposure gives the best results. I've tried as low as 6 second but tend to get more cases of supports not connecting to the model and so partial print failure. 7 second exposure is half way between - less failures than 6 second but still some.

Daniel Kelly I’d agree with trying 8 second exposure, but not with a .025 layer height. It’s best to do layer heights in .01 increments, as that’s what the machine handles best. Just try the new exposure time with whatever layer height you’re at now and see what results you get.

Also would love to know where you got these rats. Loving the variety of body and tail positions.

Sam Applegarth I keep hearing this about the increments but I don't understand where it comes from. I've been printing commercially at 0.25 for years without any issues.

Its interesting that there isnt any documentation etc about this issue...

Sam Applegarth thingiverse. Just type tabletop rats

Cory Lautzenheiser not seeing them ? creator name?

The Z step motor steps in .010mm increments. If you have a .xx5 layer height, the motor has to micro step. That has inconsistent results. It basically guesses where the half step is, and that's what you get. better to use .xx0 layer heights.

Fred Bey please don't take this as me being funny or anything but I'm hearing this a lot, but never with any scientific or technical evidence. I've been printing at 0.025 micron layers since 2016 and what I'm seeing doesn't show any sign of issues (as ide from where I'm experimenting with cure times or I've tried to shortcut supports). My first 3d printer has a number of layer height presets to select and the one I used for the best balance of time Vs quality was 0.025. I've stuck with it ever since, even on other printers and have to date had no issues with layer lines being visible or printing anomalies or anything.

Can't speak to any other printers you've been using since 2016, but the photon Z stepper motor steps in .010mm increments. You can certainly get motors that step in smaller increments, but the photon is a budget printer.

If it works for you, keep at it. Probably hard to see when your layer is .023 or .028, but it's more than likely happening.

i've been running .02 layers at 6 seconds with a lot of success and getting crip details but i do have to take some time making sure the supports are correct. I will normally anchor the model with a few medium supports then use the thin for everything else.

Zachary T Maheu ahh. Okay i may try that as well

How tall are those guys?

Matt Shears 4”

that would give u an idea of scale

Damn those are awesome!

Looking lovely, I think this is the largest Timmy I have seen so far

Thic Timmy

dude, they're awesome big. stl....?!? lol

Charles Lease timmie the techie is his name

you can have roughly half the amount of surface area contact between the model and build plate than the currently printed model layer adhering to the FEP film... This ratio is dependant on the weight and will need increasing amounts of more surface for the build plate as the object gets heavier. I would add supports along the sides just cause it would look really easy to sand off and keep any guesswork away.

Zachary Chin I concur.

I printed these gun barrels standing on their end just like yours. 120 seconds for 10 layers to stick. I put supports under them 10mm high and then sanded ends smooth after print

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Zachary Chin after rub and buff

Zachary Chin

Just use a raft or brim

I would try. I have made straw like tubes standing on the build plate without problems.

I used to use quite a bit of it. It’s a good resin

A lot of people like it. I use monocure rapid clear, and elegoo rapid grey mostly.

Also. Adding 10% Monocure Flex 100 to my resins and it helps flexibility quite a bit.

Scott Pavlich seems to be the best deal atm in the 5 litre bottle

Chad Elstad oh nice, I will have to try that, hopefully swords and spears won't break as easy

Vincent Balmont I think they will still break if you bend them enough at the 10% level, but with longer, slender parts they're definitely is more give and bendability.

Gonna be testing my bottle of gunmetal over the coming week!
My fav so far is their rapid clear - pretty much flawless results :)

Its dark...while I loved it I had a few complaints that it was difficult to prime over: it wasn’t something I had a problem with personally...all mine primed fine. But I do actually still use it...but mixed 50/50 with Siraya white-abs: makes a super durable part that’s closer to the standard grays out there

Their rapid blue is my absolute favourite. I don't paint, so any resin that looks that sexy with just a clear-coat gets my tick. It just gives you this gorgeous translucent crystal effect.

Sam Bishop I ❤️ their clear!!!

David McGyver got a photo of a print ?

Sam Bishop post pics when u do

Not a recent one on my phone. I ran out of the blue ages ago, but promised my wife I wouldn't buy more resin until I was running low (My first resin order from monocure was 6L, I'm still working my way through it.)

I'll have a look at the shelf when I get home, see if I've got any nice old stuff I could share.

Vincent Balmont Will do!

That said, all of their resins I've tried have been great i.m.o. I got started with the R,G,B 3-pack and the Black,White,Clear 3-pack, and haven't had any issues with any of the 6 so-far. Black's nice as-well, gives you a smoky crystal effect. I know I've got a baby groot in that at home, so I can share that for sure.

I just picked up 3L of the gray to get me through the pandemic. I've never used this brand before.

David McGyver ill check the website, just the 5litre bottles seem the best value here atm

30% off most resin at 3dprinteruniverse.com including monocure if anyone is interested. Code is RESIN30 This is for US BTW

I'm a big fan of Monocure3D's Gray (just plain Gray) also if you buy from them directly grab a sample size bottle of resinaway to try that stuff is awesome!

Read posts in this group; go back weeks and months if you have to. All the questions you are going to have will be there. But first read the Photonsters FAQ.

Thank you ?

Cure them in water

Placing them in a container with clean water under the UV light / direct sunlight helps.

hope this works!

Scrub with a soft toothbrush while in IPA. Don't just shake and/or stir.

this

i bought a specially soft tooth brush, just enough pressure so it moves the uncured resin but not harming the surface of the half cured model