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A project log for Liquid Laminate Lithography 3D Printer [gd0105]

The best of resin with the best of filament; is such a 3D printer possible?

kelvinakelvinA 04/28/2022 at 15:580 Comments

I'm planning to use the abandoned Anycubic Photon my university just happens to have to perform any initial tests. I also want to give PET film a go before going with more taditional film materials to see if this printer method can overcome the "sticktion" issues when using PET in a usual vat. 

Lastly, I watched the full 49 minute presentation over the course of yesterday and today, and there were 2 things that stood out. The first was that they said that impact modifiers are solid and greatly increase the viscosity, even in small quantities. That sounds like it'll be a beneficial way of converting a standard resin to a VLM process compatible resin, potentially making it better than the current engineering resins on the market. The second was a graph:

I was focused on the cost per part graph, showing that VLM was the cheapest, even with a large labour cost. As I'm thinking of this in terms of the maker / hobbyist instead of a company, I'm converting "labour" to "post processing time", or the time a person would have to spend to finish up the part after it's done. I'd like to believe that an integrated+automated wash, cure and dissolving wash feature will greatly reduce this time. The dissolving wash is to dissolve soluable supports.

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