Pegasus PDMS replacement

[chooch]

I'd whip out the printer and start using it, there is a learning curve to it, but you'll figure it all out in time. It is capable of doing amazing prints once you figure it all out, it's just that it is it not user friendly and take a lot of patience.

Meanwhile... I found something that has a much higher density than 3D print resin on my 3rd attempt.

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I may start experimenting tonight. If there is no peeling, well this printer will get a whole lot more reliable or at least that's the goal.

[doobie]

That's really cool if you can use a liquid for a base material in the VAT that wouldn't mix with the resin or interfere with the build plate. It might have issues separating out later or due to evaporation and the level lowering needing a new starting point for the base, of course we could easily expose the first layer more so that it would just solidify more for the first layer on the base plate.

[fred_dot_u]

The peachy printer, not yet in production, purports to use saline solution to float the resin for a bottom up build. With the pegasus, having the resin float to enable easier release would certainly reduce the amount of flotation liquid required. If it's higher density than the resin, I would not expect too much evaporation. Contamination of each layer would be a valid consideration in the pegasus.

[fred_dot_u]

I think I got that wrong. If the device starts at the bottom, but each layer is added above that, is it a bottom up build? I think there are so many different build methods that the terminology may be insufficient to describe in a few words.