Top products from r/3Dprintedtabletop
We found 4 product mentions on r/3Dprintedtabletop. We ranked the 3 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
1. Gorilla 7805601 Super Glue, 20 g, 1-Pack
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Impact tough: unique rubber particles increase impact resistance and strengthAnti clog cap: keeps glue from drying out. It's Gorilla tough use after useFast-setting: dries in 10-30 seconds, no clamping requiredVersatile: bonds plastic, wood, metal, ceramic, rubber, leather, paper, and moreBest for i...
Show Reddit reviews2. Epoxy Putty Tape, 36 Inches- Blue Yellow with Green Stuff
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
#1 preferred sculpting putty since the early '70s.Sculpt models and prototypes.Mixes in minutes.Long work life.Paintable No shrinkage; solvent and VOC-free.
Show Reddit reviews3. ELEGOO ABS-Like 3D Rapid Resin LCD UV-Curing Resin 405nm Standard Photopolymer Resin for LCD 3D Printing Grey 500g
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 1
【Low Shrinkage and High Precision】ELEGOO photopolymer resin is specially designed for reducing volume shrinkage during the Photocuring process ,which ensures the high precision of the print model with smooth finish.【Fast Curing and Great Stability】ELEGOO 405nm Rapid Resin was designed to sig...
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I've tried some variations myself, and usually I simply revert to printing upright. The biggest issue I have with this is snapping off a piece while removing supports.
Splitting a figure in half does produce nice-looking results, but they never seem to fit back together nicely once printed. It took a while to find a good glue (I'm mostly using gorilla glue now), and I would have had to use green stuff to seal the gaps. All-in-all a lot of work, and it just seemed easier to bring the STL into MeshMixer and inflate it a little to make it a stronger print so that removing supports wouldn't break it as easily.
I'm very curious about printing miniatures on their back, though... that might work great. Will have to try.
My problem with PrusaSlicer was that those supports were a bit too heavy, and were very difficult to remove. That being said... I'm only about 4 prints in, and am still trial and erroring my way through a bit of it. I probably just need to reduce them a bit (or really I think I had over exposure on the ones that were hard to remove).
Right now my biggest issue is some prints stick well to the bed, some don't. Between all prints I filtered the resin in the vat, and cleaned everything down with Sprayway cleaner.
The first print (the Anycubic Cube) turned out perfect.
My next print on my own everything fell of the print bed. I suspect I had too little curing so it stuck to the FEP a bit better? (Everything likes to stick to that FEP, lol).
The third print I hollowed everything out and added relief holes (to reduce suction)... re-zeroed the bed a little closer to the screen, put some pieces on 45 angles, some left with their base flush with the plate (as they were support free minis)... 75% made it through the print successfully (one of the flush ones failed). I noticed my prints were much more securely stuck to the bed.
My final print everything was hollowed out, mix of sliced in PrusaSlicer and ChiTuBox came out, but I used a smaller layer height and I don't believe I lowered my exposure time enough, as everything was DEFINITELY cured when it came out. This is the one where I had a hard time removing the Prusa supports (but the ChiTuBox light supports came off wonderfully).
Here's all my prints so far!
https://imgur.com/a/JEPq4iJ
My biggest questions so far is at what layer height should I be printing at? Are some better at others for getting solid first layers. I know in FDM you use a .2mm layer for your first layer, then go to finer detail if you need it.
Do some resins do better than others for adhesion to the bed (and less adhesion to the FEP)?
Are translucent resins bad for detail? I'd imagine you get scattering... but maybe not. I picked up a bottle of Elogoo Grey Resin ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FCLLNFY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 ) that I'm excited to try out.
Does the FEP just get less sticky over time?