Resin and Mica Equals Pumpkin Madness!!! - Elegoo Mars Resin Prints!

  

About a month ago I picked up this, A Elegoo Mars Resin Printer for a mere $279 bucks. I've been pretty happy with my purchase so far.  I tried a few of their resins, translucent, translucent red, translucent green, and their matte grey resin.  All great resins.  And the printer produces some great detail results!!!  (affiliate link helps support the blog/website/youtube/me!)

Scary, Derpy, Normal

Then I wanted something a bit more on the robust side to make some functional non brittle parts.  I came across Siraya Tech's Blu - Strong Resin https://amzn.to/32pgYge .  Then I saw on the facebook group for the Elegoo Mars Printer that Bastian Stevens did something that I had been thinking about, he used mica's to color his clear resin!  I was thinking of using alcohol inks as I had seen other youtubers use those in other resin projects, and thought why not do this with some clear resin to make some custom color resins.  I like the addition of the mica as you can get a really cool shimmer effect that the photos don't do it justice.  So I created these from a file on thingiverse by user fabricke.  He has three different models.  So I downloaded then sliced them in chitubox and printed them out using 100 ml of the clear tough resin and about 1/4 of a teaspoon of orange mica https://amzn.to/2MXgaJb

As you can see in the pictures it worked out very well.  I plan on selling these at a Oct 26 pop up arts/crafts faire near Vallejo, CA.  I also take custom orders and commissions, so feel free to contact me.   

After a print the mica settles a bit in the vat of goo!

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The Joy of Practical 3d Printing AND Lasercutting!!!

So last night I decided to quickly create a under the shelf hanging spool holder for my prusa's.  I found a "L" bracket on thingiverse, by user Chuanyee223, printed 4 of these out which took about an hour and a half.  While the bracket was 3d printing, did a quick'y design in Adobe Illustrator for the lasercut wooden portion.  Threw on some cool pattern for some "flair" but just scored the pattern, should have engraved it, but then it would have taken longer than just the 10 min it took to cut out 4 of em.   Its jkust a thin piece with a hole for a 3/4in dowel to sit in that will span my entire shelf.  Here is one half of the print all assembled.

I only had some really long screws so i used them and then just hacksawed the ends off to fit nicely and then filed the burs off the edges.  I'm just using a regular dowel.  Unsure if the friction of wood on wood of the bracket,  or friction of wood on plastic of the spools, will be too much for the printers to pull the filament without causing issues. If so I could use some ptfe tubing as liner for the spool holder hole by cutting the tubing down the middle and placing into the hole, or I could just use some paste wax at the very minimum.   Of course I could 3d print a 2 part collar if needed as well. :)  That is the beauty of 3d printing and laser cutting combined, you just make what you need when you need it!

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Laser Cutting : Materials Settings Journal!!! Glowforge.

Just a quick post.Organizing my glowforge laser cut materials settings in a makee journal so i can keep track of all the various settings.  Later today will make a box to fit all the little material cards, kind of like a recipie box! :)

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