Setting up for Resin Printing
Messy, Smelly Nasty Suff
Resin Stinks, is messy and stick stuff and hurts skin and presumably lungs. It can be very easy and painless to deal with while maintaining domestic bliss, with the right equipment and process.
There is a chap named Michael who goes by the Youtube name “Nerdtronic” who has a good video on setting things up. He’s thought it through well and his video got me started
The Bench
Just a 4′ x 18″ wire shelf cut to the right height.
Its on casters for two reasons. I have some woodworking machines in the this room, so can roll the whole resin printing setup out to keep it sawdust free. Secondly, if I have something else I want to do under the hood (painting? silver soldering? electrolysis? plating? other?) it would easy to swap out this bench with another.
Ventilation
Resin Stinks, is messy
Think like a Vet
My youngest son is a veterinarian. I can remember in his early school days him describing ‘practicals’ or testing of some as simple as giving shot generating an automatic failure if one deviated even slightly from the scripted step by step process. The script prevented contamination and maintained cleanliness.
Resin printing is reminiscent in that if you follow a procedure with everything needed at hand, the mess will spread to everything.
Gloves
Resin Stinks, is messy
Trash
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Vynil
Resin Stinks, is messy
Trays
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Bottles
Resin Stinks, is messy
Alcohol
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Wash & Rinse Bins
Resin Stinks, is messy
Draining Stand
To drain the resin back into its bottle, I 3D filament printed a piece the resin tray can sit in. Underneath is a paint filter, and below that the resin bottle.
Its really important to filter the resin being return to the bottle. If you don’t, its always possible that a broken bit or of some semi-cured resin ends up back in the bottle which will cause havoc in a later print when its caught between the tray and the platform.
Other
- Blacked out Windows
- Funnels,
- Funnel Brushes,
- Paper Towels,
- Plastic Garbage Bags
- Safety Glasses
