I Started Resin 3D Printing Off With A Bang

Looking for how to get started with Resin 3D Printing? Well here's a quick video where I take you from 3D Printer delivery to your first print with a Saturn 4 from ELEGOO in 5 minutes!

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[DamiRahman]

Great video, but I would recommend using gloves, masks, and glasses (ppe) when working with resin because it is toxic. A wash and cure the station for cleaning the wrint would also be good.

[theender]

9:55 love the broken shoes Ive seen them in so many videos its like a tradition

[gregjackson]

It's really crazy that your long form videos get almost no views while your shorts get millions of views. I don't understand what's going on here. You are a straight up genius and love your content bud. Youtube needs to promote your long form content more.

[MrRedPortal]

Love it dude. Please get a wash and cure station for your resin prints. Its an essential part of finishing your resin prints

[chadbracken]

I'm sure this is great for ppl looking to start Resin printing, but I'm locked into what experiments your run on those lattices, will you be making a follow up video on just those with ballistic tests?

[Green__Man]

That's funny that you prefer the orange over the green because my resin printer has an orange case that I wish was green 😂

[abowden]

These kinds of structures make more sense a) at lower scales b) made out of ceramics. They are usually resin printed, but at far lower scale, and then shrunk by pyrolysis, or coated by some deposition process and completely burned out. Alternatively, chemical self assembly is some times used. biggest problem with them is scaling them up, IMO, because with self assembly you get defects and with pyrolysis you are limited by build area of the machine and perhaps other things I'm not aware of.

holy grail is getting these down to the nanoscales where you start to exclude defects just due the size, crazy mechanical properties measured there... In tiny samples. Womp womp.

[bocobocokingboco]

super cool definitely looking forward to you making those cool lattices to support and strengthen the amour

[christopherstephens]

I only just stumbled onto your channel so I don't know how relevant this will be after this long, but the standard resins are pretty much junk. A basic ABS like resin is generally a massive step up in just about every performance metric.

Sunlu ABS like is on sale from their website regularly for around $20 a bottle and it performs great for most things. Just don't get the water soluble versions - they have too many issues with warping, absorption of water after cure, and it isn't as strong.

If you want to start getting fancy you can get into engineering resins. They're expensive, but you can print stuff that is on par or better than things like the hard polymers they use for firearms. Phrozen makes a decent collection of them, but they are pricey. Liqcreate's seem to be the best for the most part, but those go from moderately expensive up to over 150 per bottle (bought some once - worth it). The big thing is that you really need to look at your hardness, stiffness rating, modulus of flexibility and so forth if you start getting into those because they're all trade offs.

Best of luck to you. This looks awesome so far.

[johndaviddoesmith]

So are you going to get into selling these plates that were able to take the 300wm but maybe a lil thinner?? Interested in your plans you’ve got a pretty amazing mind

[impguardwarhamer]

Please please get a proper wash+cure machine and get proper gloves and PPE. Printer resin is so deceptive because it starts off seemingly harmless but it wont take much exposure to develop a serious allergy. I've had some pretty bad resin burns from just a couple months using one irresponsibly and I at least had gloves.

Safety aside, I'd like to see what kind of stab resistance you can get with diy materials like this. I live somewhere with rising knife crime but very strict weapon laws, so I'm thinking subtle under your clothing armour might be something thats worth wearing out and about.

[TheAce]

My brother in Christ you just lift the whole item out of the cardboard box, then pop off the polystyrene in the top and bottom vertically…

[timonix]

Oh god, pouring resin on the machine, on the table, in your hands. What's going on there? Sure you can get started in 5 minutes from getting the box. But man, maybe spend half an hour setting up a workplace?

[ianh]

Watching you handle raw resin without PPE and without propperly washing & curing the part afterwards is horrifying. Please look into how toxic resin is and how to propperly protect yourself. Even the fumes are awful let alone it getting on your skin. Also id reccomend looking into ceramic resins, you can print with them and then cook them to make ceramic parts may be useful for ceramic plates with a textile backing for amour.