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carl_m1968 wrote:

I am throwing in the towel for SLA. The post processing hassel is just not for me. See my listing in the buy/sell/trade section.

What happened to your Form 1+ for sale listing?

I was trying to show it to someone at work that might have been interested, but the post is gone.

It was sold on ebay.. Went in less than 24 hours as I thought it would..

I am throwing in the towel for SLA. The post processing hassel is just not for me. See my listing in the buy/sell/trade section.

What happened to your Form 1+ for sale listing?

I was trying to show it to someone at work that might have been interested, but the post is gone.

I suppose that if you're planning on making money with this, and you're looking at the time required for the finished product, then perhaps that might be an issue, but then again, maybe you're not charging enough

Once you get better at this, you should be able to estimate the amount of time required to produce it, and charge accordingly.  You have to remember that this is not for making bits and pieces people can buy in a store for a couple of dollars.  It's for making one-offs, that would be impossible for the customer t buy over the counter.  As such you can charge more.

Anyway, good luck with the sale, and I hope your experience doesn't scare other possible buyers away.

What would you estimate the respective costs of these prints?

-Kevin

A liter of resin is $56 in the grey, the vat is $65 and good for about two liters of resin if you move your prints around. The vat gets burned by the laser over time and the bottom gets cloudy to a point it can no longer shine through enough to cure the resin properly. So just these prints I would say about 15 bucks. I don't count time since I let my printer run while I do other things. The only thing that consumes my time is stirring the resin in the vat to get the pigment suspended again (5 minutes) and topping off the vat if needed. The post process is time consuming as you have to put the print through multiple Alcohol washes to get the uncured resin off.. Then you have to bake it in a UV oven for an hour or so to cure the resin fully. Depending on your preference you then have to remove the supports before cure or after cure. I prefer after as the part is a bit sticky before when I use the grey. Depending on the size the support removal could take 30 minutes. Again I surf the web or whatever while I clip support branches. Of course I already have a few people willing to pay 3 times that for the bear alone. So I guess it depends on your market and what value it sets on your prints.

-Kevin

Thought I would post my recent prints.

Which resins are you using here, from what I can see it appear to be at least 3 different ones.

P.S.  Love the bear.

Are you planing on using any of your other printers ??????

As my sig says and listed in the buy/sell/trade section both the CTC and near finished Kossel are for sell. I have no need for them as my potential clients all complained about the lines  and I was never able to tune an FDM to print less than .15 and even then the lines still showed si doubt it was printing that low.

With this Form 1+ I am virtually line free. If I can't sell the CTC I might keep it for larger rough jobs that don't need an SLA finish.

some very nice prints from both of you... and that War Machine print is nutz! OMG, the details!