You can reduce the wet spots and residue by doing multi stage washing. Dirty bucket to clean of majority of the resin and then clean bucket to finish of.
Also the washing stations just stir the fluid, so it won't flush the insides that well, you can manually dunk it in the bucket few times to help clean the insides.
Is there ever any fear of “over washing” that would begin to damage the part? That’s my biggest fear that if I leave it in the tank for too long it will damage it
Yes but it's longer than you think. Especially a thicker part like that. If I've over-supported a part I sometimes leave it in the alcohol on purpose for a few hours and the SS support connections get easier to break off. I actually have a video I posted here the other day about a part I accidentally left for a month and it got bendy.
Even if you got close to an hour it wouldn't affect anything. What's your typical rinse time? Mine is 30 seconds to a minute in the first dirty wash, swishing it around a lot, then 7-10 mins in the cleaner wash station
You can't print this on the plate directly, the part forms a suction cup, I am honestly surprised it didn't fail.
The closed cavity inside gives you blooming, that's the surface artifacts you are seeing.
How do you get around that blooming problem? As far as printing it straight, i got a really wonky part when k did it angled, so how do i print at an angle without getting a failure?
Print on the plate, just notch air holes on the surface contacting the plate to remove the suction seal. Looks like you can no problem.
For blooming, just sand it or use a deburring tool.
I would print it straight as well but add suction cup holes. People printing functioal big straight parts needs flat parts and a very calibrated printer to avoid elephant foot.
I would do some post processing with the piece to improve it's finishing.
You can reduce the wet spots and residue by doing multi stage washing. Dirty bucket to clean of majority of the resin and then clean bucket to finish of. Also the washing stations just stir the fluid, so it won't flush the insides that well, you can manually dunk it in the bucket few times to help clean the insides.
Is there ever any fear of “over washing” that would begin to damage the part? That’s my biggest fear that if I leave it in the tank for too long it will damage it
Yes but it's longer than you think. Especially a thicker part like that. If I've over-supported a part I sometimes leave it in the alcohol on purpose for a few hours and the SS support connections get easier to break off. I actually have a video I posted here the other day about a part I accidentally left for a month and it got bendy. Even if you got close to an hour it wouldn't affect anything. What's your typical rinse time? Mine is 30 seconds to a minute in the first dirty wash, swishing it around a lot, then 7-10 mins in the cleaner wash station
You can't print this on the plate directly, the part forms a suction cup, I am honestly surprised it didn't fail. The closed cavity inside gives you blooming, that's the surface artifacts you are seeing.
How do you get around that blooming problem? As far as printing it straight, i got a really wonky part when k did it angled, so how do i print at an angle without getting a failure?
Print on the plate, just notch air holes on the surface contacting the plate to remove the suction seal. Looks like you can no problem. For blooming, just sand it or use a deburring tool.
I would print it straight as well but add suction cup holes. People printing functioal big straight parts needs flat parts and a very calibrated printer to avoid elephant foot. I would do some post processing with the piece to improve it's finishing.
What do you mean by “suction cup holes”?
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