Decided to get a resin setup.

[curious aardvark]

I am ready for the machine !

curing box is made and while i don;t yet have the machine, I have cured some resin :-)

I've got two types. One that claims its magenta, but looks like pink to me, and one that's clear/transparent.

poured a little of each into a small glass jar and tested the curing chamber with it.

The pink is fair;y brittle, but still really hard and the clear is just rock hard and doesn't appear to have the same brittleness.

After making a framework the same size as the proxima's build volume - I discovered that you could make a coffee cup with it - just !
So the search for food approved resin begins :-)
Always had a hankering to print my own coffee mugs, but fdm just doesn't reallly lend itself to it until you hit the industrial filaments.

Turns out the tuirntable is not needed after all.
So I've just cut and popped a piece of 4mm acryic into the bottom of the cure box.
With the aluminium lining and 6 10watt 405nm uv leds, it doesn't need to be turned or moved during curing.

I removed the metal surround from the spotlight and bolted it to a lid I printed for the box.
Job done :-)

coffee.jpg

cure1.jpg

cure2.jpg