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Really? Another one of these posts???? Pretty much the whole world knows it’s impossible to find.

Great. Have you reached out to your local clinics to see if they need it and if theyre accepting donations?

Obviously just a post for the attention!

Isn't that the entire point of social media?

Wasn't for attention, in a small town, anything that can be used for clinic goes there. Mask and things like that are needed I dont have any of those. But thank you.

Why do people brag about getting critical medical supplies for their hobby during a pandemic?

I'm just using denatured...works fine

Andy Turtle Consiglio Because they want to appear more important than others

You might consider donating that to a healthcare facility that could use it. Some people are just too self absorbed in themselves.

:/

In his defense, he said he got them BEFORE the pandemic started, not during.

Scott Pavlich For the same reason others point it out.

"critical" at like 97 cent a pop

Cost does not equal availability

Check out what he has in his garage :/

It's called capitalism. If I want to hoard rubbing alcohol I will

Tyler Star and it’s also called an executive order that has criminalized the hoarding of necessary supplies. Don’t be an asshole.

Boy, you really need to go back to high school civics class, Tyler. That's not what capitalism is at all.

It's also called we don't care how you justify being a shitty person.

Um. This isn't hoarding. Having 20+ would be considered hoarding

What means of production do you own Tyler? Oh you don't? Then you aren't a capitalist. You are a consumer.

George Graves I'm a drop out

Keith Banfield nothing wrong with keeping a year or twos supply of necessities

Jordan Carey never said I was

Tyler Star see my previous comment

Andy Turtle Consiglio , nobody “bragged” about “getting critical medical supplies” for any reason.

He simply stated that he was glad that he got a sufficient supply *before* the pandemic.

Learn to read.

Or, barring that, learn not to be an asshole.

Your choice.

Assholes call other assholes assholes lol

Shawn Michael Rains touche!

Eric Hall donate your pinball machines.

Or we could both mind our own business

Shawn Michael Rains I think the point was to stay connected with people you know and share information. It was NEVER for attention.

I got a case months ago.... so glad I did. I'm about to produce 400+ face shields for EMS personnel and people that are immunocompromised. Disinfecting in this time is more important over printing for myself right now in my opinion.

Actually it all started with horny college kids wanting a quick easy way to "hook up". Lol

Weird flex . . .

99% no less

This!

James Byer You are a creepy one bubbles ... You actually went into my profile and looked at my photos... And what will a pinball machine do to help out a medical facility other than take up space. You know where you can stick it. You are definitely a pervert at best and a peeping tom at worst.

use it for disinfection. there are other solvents available for resin and printing

I bought a 24 pack off amazon when I bought my printer in December, still going strong with my supply lol

James Byer or, you know, you could actually not be a bag of assholes. If someone is going to flex that they have supplies that our hospitals need, they should expect to be nudged to donate it to help their community. Don't like it? Maybe you should just keep on walking by then

nothing like a global pandemic to out who the terrible people are in every group.

So you guys are saying we should all mind our own business?

Wrong again actually, but if you want to believe that go ahead.

James Byer no, he's saying you shouldn't be a twat

Liquid gold

If you don't think there's anything MORALLY wrong with hoarding necessary medical supplies, that's on you. But it's literally illegal to do so currently.

https://thehill.com/....../489125-trump-signs......

Dallas Winston Fitzgerald you, or anyone, is going to be really hard pressed to convince anyone that 6 bottles of rubbing alcohol constitutes an amount in excess of reasonable home, business, or personal use. Not to mention, ipa requires a reasonable stretch to even be covered as a "disinfecting device" under that EO.

I gave mine to the missus to use at the hospital where she works. They need it more than us right now.

George Graves read an article about that guy. The look on his face pretty much tells you where it got him.

Chris Christiansen I'd donate to those in need for medical purposes.

Jake Walker Our hospitals here are doing ok as far as alcohol goes, as for masks and stuff I’m printing with medical grade resin, and when my wife isn’t at the hospital she’s sewing masks

Chris Christiansen what printer are you using and which parts are you producing? I'm curious

Andy Turtle Consiglio
Because it was purchase before the crisis.
This poster planned a little ahead. Unlike the the politicians who create death panels instead of stocking up on ventilators 5 years ago after last crisis.

Jake Walker photon and a Mars, I’ve printed a few ventilator parts for what they use but mostly been making those copper 3D reuseable masks you add the bits of filter pad to

Dallas Winston Fitzgerald
Try reading the whole article. Six bottles is not hoarding.
Those like the guy with garage full of supplies that he cleaned out stores is as low as it goes. They are after companies with warehouses full of supplies that are being marked up or slow shipped to drive up prices.

Chris Christiansen so those have been accepted in the medical community?

Jake Walker only if your using medical/dental grade resin, some hospitals will even swing for antimicrobial/foodsafe resin but you’d have to talk to your local hospitals, a lot of places are different, I’ve been able to make them for my wife and sister in laws hospitals and am waiting on a reply from one other, but two others said they wouldn’t accept them

for example all those self-righteous douchebags pretentiously commanding other people what they should and shouldn't do with their own supplies instead of, if anything, displaying positive example... oh wait

Oh, look, another one. Don't you have some douche-bunker to go crawl in while the rest of us try to help in our communities?

I found one small bottle at Walmart today! ?

One day you'll be able to post things on the internet without attracting hordes of troglodytes crying and complaining.

One day.

Bert Harvey who hurt you man?

I worked in health care and biotech for years. I know a lot of the medical staff currently risking everything to help people infected. I'm currently running my printers around the clock printing ppe gear to try to help. A nursing home I used to work in has been identified as a corona-cluster, with 24 cases and more projected as more testing is done, with a number of the infected not expected to survive it. People I know through their families.

so, yeah, I'm taking this fucking seriously and I'm fucking tired of the shitbags 1) bragging about medical supplies they have that their community needs, which they're using for a fucking hobby 2) the pieces of shits white-knighting for those bragging pricks.

Right. Social media existed before facebook. Or myspace.

If you have that much why are u looking for more?

Some folks here need ladders to get down from those high horses their riding... sheesh.

this thread is turning for the worst, turning off commenting.
Guys & Gals, please be civil.

1. it depends on the kind of resin. 2. considering that most people use hot water to make supports easier to remove, my bet is no.

This is my resin

Nope it's too hot.

Jan Pfriender thanks ill just keep running my PETG

Check with the folks at Siraya. They have a resin that should be temperature stable at that heat or more.

I didn’t think resins were good safe...?

Siraya Sculpt is what you want: up to 160C...but it’s finicky stuff to print in cool temps...ideally you want it to be 30C and follow Siraya’s post-processing

Is it food safe? If not, keep it away from your food serving items.

Nope

Check to make sure you don't have two set screws. Sometimes they mess up put second on top of the first. Back it all the way out and see if there is another one in there.

Do you happen to know what tool that I need to take this plate apart? I have heard of two screws being inside but I am not sure what tool that I need.

https://youtu.be/Uc8senzACFM

Vladia M Vittler Woods .... the supplied Allen key

Thank you!

Sure enough in the depths of my closet there was another tool in the original box. This is the one that I needed. Thanks to all

Vladia M Vittler Woods use allev wrench to keep loosening the screw until it comes all the way out and then check to see if there is another screw in hole.

i have a stripped screw as well. i just put the whole thing in my ultrasonic for 10minutes

Drill out the heads, start with a a small drill bit and work you way up to the head diameter. Go slow and eventually you should be able to gently pry up the plate and pop the heads off. Just had to do that on a vat where one screw stripped.

The clear-ness you are seeing is the uncured resin filling in the tiny layer lines that refract light. You can get some of that back by clear coating your clear prints. It would even better if they're flat and you can sand then clear coat

5% Monocure rapid flex

Adding a 30% ratio of flex 100 to an existing resin will improve the flexibility, the higher the ratio, the higher flexibility. Not cheap of course, but I've never seen a truly flexible resin that was cheap. Siraya ABS-like is my go to for base resin, but I can't find it anywhere ATM.

You can just print. As long as there is no leftover cured resin

^^^^ what they said

You'll want to make sure that there are no left over bits from the previous print.

Thanks

The most I’ve done between cleaning the vat is about a dozen prints

I empty and filter my vat resin after every print, not necessary but it gives me piece of mind

If nothing failed, go for it. If something failed, there's a solid chance there is cured resin somewhere in the vat, thus cleaning time.

As long as nothing has failed, I keep going, but I also don't let the vat sit with resin in it for more than a day with out being used, otherwise I clean it out.

I take a quick swish of the resin, to make sure there's nothing hard in there to crack the glass, then hit print.

Phez Darryn Stanmore I have left resin in the vat for a week I added some fresh I gave it a steer and printed no problems

Panagiotis , I'm just paranoid after doing that, and none of my prints working until I cleaned it all out, probably didn't stir it Up properly, lol

Phez Darryn Stanmore https://youtu.be/a7fzNNqju8Q

This is to extreme but I have left it for a week no problems

James Bricknell James Teagle

It’s awesome! I had to update mine before I could print anything. I don’t remember the version though, just that it is free from Anycubic’s website!

Yes, update to the 5.x.x firmware it'll fix a lot of things and let you use .photon files

Vladimir Smith sane thing on mine. Of course you already knew that...

Michael Sage Indeed lol

Tim Borschel it says the v5 is for only upgraded photons? How would I know if it’s one?

Also I assume you just put the files in the flash drive?

yeah my first one was a spark.... yeah never pay that little again.

Because yours shipped with 3.x.x, more info here:
https://github.com/....../anycubic....../blob/master/FAQ.md

Tim Borschel thanks!

So nothing shows on the screen during the exposure test. Just the fan turns on and shows light, but no shapes. I’m going to try to update the firmware and see what happens

So the shapes don’t show up during the exposure test.

I was going to try to update the firmware before I open it.

I extract the files to the usb without a folder and insert the usb while the printer is off then turn it on and it doesn’t update anything.

Any ideas?

Josh Mcavoy try printing the files, you dont need resin or anything, you're suppose to do one before the other but I dont remember which order. One you do that then turn it off and pull the USB out then turn it back on should be good

Tim Borschel the 5x worked. Thanks! Now everything works.

So first 5 layers and no pop. Should I check it?

The original exposure test may not work, you have the photon with the new S board.

looks awesome. The more runny the resin the better!

Mothy Reynolds this resin is my favorite

Oksana Shevchenko i've noticed that thicker resins take longer exposure times, and recommend a heater to make it more runny. So, runny is good, but black resins can also increase your exposure time because, well its black...

but if your prints look like that don't touch your settings, keep printing!

Mothy Reynolds

Have to clear coat them, but they're taking 4 hours. Not too bad, I think

If the print stays on the build plate you've won half the battle.

what resin is that..?

Mothy Reynolds I've really come quite far from a few months ago

Aaron Strome ToAuto.

Oksana Shevchenko do you mind sharing that STL?

Mothy Reynolds I think it is... Red dragon from thingiverse. Knowing how well that site is working though .... Let me find ut

Can you send the stl file?

Mothy Reynolds https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4133733

Here you go!

Erkan Uygun https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4133733

Oksana Shevchenko figures i cannot get it delivered to Canada...

Thank you

You're welcome

Aaron Strome oh no.... Sorry...

Oksana Shevchenko thats ok. i am really into using the Hero resin lately as it has flexible properties to it..

Aaron Strome I usually paint my models after printing, and they have a lovely finish that I don't need to prime before I paint. I Love it

Oksana Shevchenko very cool the way those wings looks is really fantastic

Mothy Reynolds I wasn't expecting that, to be honest

Oksana Shevchenko yeah the Hero resin is translucent so i print and clear coat only. been using elegoo grey for paint-able models. still looking for that perfect resin for that..

Aaron Strome I've basically thrown the gray I was using at first away. I don't think I'll really print models with anything but ToAuto anymore. Maybe if I can come up with a mix to make them more durable... But for now, I found my perfect resin. Just with they had clear. I'd go crazy with colors

That's amazing!!!!!!!

Pedro Torres thank you!

Oksana Shevchenko you are good!!!!

Thank you for sharing your settings I'll learn from that.

Pedro Torres these settings are specific to the resin I'm using. You will get failed prints with other resins

Can you tell me what resin are you using

ToAuto

Oksana Shevchenko thank you!!!!

Pedro Torres you're welcome! The red is my favorite so far.

I'm really fun if dragons and the wings in this print it's just great!!

Fan of dragons ☺ sorry

Pedro Torres me too :)

Oksana Shevchenko I'll look for that resin and try it! Thanks again!!! ?

What resin are you using?

Bruno L'Archeveque ToAuto :)

Really neat how you got the translucency of the wings. Maybe it's a trait of the resin? Are they brittle at all?

Ryan Tudor I'm not willing to risk finding out. Lol

Pre post cure they are not brittle. I sprayed with clear coat afterwards

Ryan Tudor Hero resin is easily bendable if you're looking for that and is translucent.

Aaron Strome that's beautiful

i printed the blue at max volume on the Photon and the black at max volume on the Kelant S400s..

Aaron Strome thanks for the info, but also damn! Now I want to Re-reprint 12" of black dragon wings.

Oksana Shevchenko very cool. Thx for sharing

monocure make a flex 100 resin as well, for the aussies I've used it and I can say a brilliant product.

Your prints are very nice.

Been a while, but I'm pretty sure I just followed the instructions on the Photonsters site. I upgraded to 4.2.18

https://github.com/....../blob/master/firmware/README.md

Regarding exposure range finder files, the 'flat' one with 10 columns will work on your Photon original model. There are different version for different layer heights and one for slow resins. Most likely you will want to use the 0.05mm / 2-20 seconds v ersion

You get three files. First you 'print' one file to put the printer in a special mode. Then you print the range finder. Finally you 'print' the third file to restore the printer to normal (don't forget this one!). The whole process takes a few minutes.

The columns are exposed progressively more from left to right, with the left column getting only 2 seconds of UV and the right column getting 20 seconds.

You will want to cure the print while it is still on the plate, and take a photo at a good angle to show the detail as well as possible, then people here will be able to help you interpret it. Generally you are looking for the first column that gives a good balance of positive space (small details showing) and negative space (holes are not filled up with cured resin). As you go further to the right, more positive detail will show, but at some point the negative space detail will degrade. Further to the right also means longer print times, so typically you are looking for the leftmost column that gives reasonable detail without the negative spaces getting worse. Multiply the column number by 2 to get the exposure time

The 'small town' is probably the one from Ameralabs. This is just a normal .STL that you can print, with a bunch of details to help identify under/over exposure . I did a series of prints at different exposure times to compare with each other so I could dial in my exposure time more accurately.

The newer Photon models allow for a different kind of range finder test where you choose a model and print 8 copies at different exposure levels, but I have no experience of this one

Whatever you do, remember that there will be a range of expo sure times that will 'work' and that you will likely not see ALL the details included in the files: they go down to sizes that are virtually unprintable on the Photon.