Dear all, we followed a lot of the discussions from damages of the silicone layer in resin vats from SLA printers that cause impacts on the UV light transmission and resulting in print defects. However, we also went through these experiences and we were looking for DIY solutions, since buying cons…

@Anton_G Well at first this is great! There is one thing that irritates me though. It is told by formlabs and already widely known by most members that cleaning the resin tank like you are suggesting will end up in cracked pmma surfaces! You should make clear that the IPA does not harm PMMA or offe…

Hey MarcusKnorr, thanks for pointing this out. Oddly we didn’t experienced this yet, the cracked pmma surfaces. BUT we also don’t say that you can refurbish a vat forever. We have figured that using our approach the vat can be refurbished at least 4 times. We also have experienced the vats pmma sur…

My grey resin tanks silicone layer is already starting to fog up so this soulds great! I’m just concerned about the cleaning process also. Ipa is said to attack the plastic which causes cracks. It’s pretty much impossible to get the tank 100% clean without using IPA though. Can these resin tanks not…

Hey Edward_Peretti, before and during the time we come up with recoat we didn’t experienced any issues with cleaning the vat with IPA. Maybe on the long run there might be issues, but i guess before that your vat is unusable due to the UV laser or physical stress. So regarding the ReCoat kit, we t…

@Anton_G Thanks for sharing! Looking forward to get my hands on your kit. Apparently causing some irritation here, sorry for that…

possibly because you joined directly after Anton_G and it looked like you wanted to just push his sales :wink:

ah yes the glass tank looks like a great idea. Though I want to see peoples experience with one before considering getting one.

UPDATE We worked out a solution and new feature of the ReCoat Kit which ensures less stress on the deposition layer with an adapted coating to reduce adhesion forces to the print model. This brings a novelty towards commonly applied coatings. please find further info on the campaign!

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Anton_G June 24, 2015, 9:16am 7

@Edward_Peretti have you seen this (Glass Tank). It seems to be feasable, but of course you would have to change the PDMS as often as with the acrylic tanks.

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