Guys have you seen the prices of SLA Resin.

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Guys have you seen the prices of SLA Resin. If you could afford the SLA printer , the prices are crazy. I think I stick the filament.

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Besides the price it is a big mess handling resins. And the smell is what will get you kicked out of your house :))

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So does it smell and messy to work with

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I bought my filament printer because I was newbie (still think I am) and didn’t know about SLA the time. I was deluded to think I could print and then cast jewelry. (and you can… to a point.) The Detail I get with filament still isn’t to par with hand carved waxes but now I think I would like SLA. Unfortunately, being that it is one hobby that spawned from another, I cannot afford SLA yet. Maybe… Maybe… In the future I’ll just jump to laser sintered powder!

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MakerJuice G+ is $55 per liter, doesn’t sound too crazy to me. I’ve never tried SLA, so I have no idea if it’s smelly or any good though. The MSDS leads me to think that it’s not something I personally would want to mess around with in my appartment though.

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Also consider that for some printers the resin container is also an item that requires periodic replacement.

It’s a nice technology quality-wise but limited on print area and costly for occasional use.

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I think application for molding jewerly, SLA would be good choice. But still lack of polymers that can be used various usage.

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Hi @Stephen_Shimatzki ​ I bought from MachinableWax a special 3D Filament out of wax to 3D print and cast jewellery. (They also offer 10 Meter for free to test it, you only pay a little shipment for the envolop) The filament feel great, lightly softer like carving wax… The only trouble is the our Printrbot Plus prevent to print below 170c. Celcius and the wax filament should be extruded by 135 to 140 c. celcius. So I can’t us it on this printer. But if you can go lower on yours, try it out. You also can fill up you prints after with some wax (wax on…) and smothen everything out, before you cast ! Real cool stuff.

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@Stephen_Shimatzki ​ a friend is building now a new DLP resin printer especially for jewellery. His name is @Anderson_Ta1 ​ and his version will by really affordable too, compare to the rest of the market, you will be supriced.

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@Frank_Zottel I would be interested. New SLA breakthrus are carbon3d with the oxygen barrier and the speed they get, and there was another from Vancouver CA that they say are better and faster than carbon3d’s. (it was in a 2016 CES YouTube video somewhere…). Figure the formlabs units are between 2-3k+ So if your friend, Anderson Ta, brings it in around 900 it would be ripe for a desktop near me… :slight_smile:

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@Frank_Zottel hmmm I will have to look into this filament. I have wanhao duplicator 4s that I flashed with sailfish, so I might be able to drop it that low, never tried before. Thanks for the info!