monoprice_sla_printer
Monoprice SLA Printer
Name | Monoprice SLA Printer |
---|---|
Owner | Makers' Alliance |
Location | Storage |
Training needed | Yes |
Hackable | Yes |
Model | MP Mini SLA |
Serial | UNKNOWN |
Arrival Date | UNKNOWN |
Working | No |
Contact | Sam Harmon |
Current Status: Broken
- Somehow the Z axis is bound up. Suspect resin may have gotten into the stepper motor?
- resin tank has developed a leak again. Will need to be replaced if the printer is rehabbed to be operational again.
Caveats:
- DO NOT SCRAPE THE FEP SHEET AT THE BOTTOM OF THE TANK. Otherwise we'll have to order a new one and carefully replace it.
- Just use clear resin. Our one experiment with opaque resin ended poorly.
- Try not to leave the lid up too much, it exposes the resin and kinda smells bad.
Usage:
- If logged into MakerNet, go to the IP address listed on the printer. The slicer is a web interface.
- Use the slicer to render your .STL into an animated .gif.
- Try not to have an empty void with no way for resin to drain on the underside of your object relative to the build plate. It can get messy.
- Once you render your .gif, I suggest downloading it to your local computer, renaming it, and re-uploading it to the web interface (stupid, but it works)
- Check the printer for any forgotten prints on the build plate and make sure there is sufficient resin in the tank.
- SUPER IMPORTANT: When printing, be sure to specify a profile. The “Clear Resin” one in pretty reliable. Not specifying a profile gets you your first layer and that's about it.
- Once the print is done, open the lid and pull off the magnetic build plate.
- Carefully remove your print from the build plate.
- Wash your print: place it in a mason jar half full of 91% isopropyl alcohol. Give it a good shake for a minute or so to get extraneous resin off the print.
- Cure the print: Either place it in the UV curing station and run it twice (each cycle is about 30 minutes), or if it's a nice sunny day you can take it outside and expose it to the sun for an hour or so.
monoprice_sla_printer.txt · Last modified: 2022/10/26 15:15 by sdh7