Been printing for 2 months with 91% success. Yesterday i changed clear resin and tank to a new black resin and new tank. I started a print, and while preparing and heating, i noticed that printer says “unused” under the tank. After heated to 30 degrees, it was stuck on filling tank yet nothing was…

It seems to me that Formlabs should take some responsibility for this failure and at minimum offer to do a factory cleaning without interruption of your warranty. This cartridge valve is an old design which is known to be problematic on other machines that are not 3d printers. I also suspect that …

Formlabs had me disassemble the printer (i made sure for the record that they know the printer is a month and half old and under warranty) and clean and drain the resin and there was A LOT in there. It was on the electronics and power supply and optical window and on and on :frowning: [image] . [imag…

This is painful to see. :disappointed:

Yep. Happened to me only 1 week in with a grey cartridge. It dumped 1/4 liter of resin into the printer, All over the laser housing and fried something as the printer would never level. Luckily I have the advanced support and they sent me a new printer. Still lost $75 worth or resin though, Out of c…

Here is my original post if anyone cares aka “FORMLABS” [image] Resin Overflow Puke Can Feature Requests & Ideas I have my printer for 10 days and now I have to send it back for repairs for a simple design flaw. While doing a 9 hour unattended print The rubber stopper on …

Thanks for sharing the pix. Ugh. It is painful to see all that. Please update us when things settle down.

Yeah, I think if that happens the printer is pretty much trashed, you’re never going to get it cleaned enough when it goes everywhere.

billiejean, Sounds very similar to my problem. Sorry to hear that. Part of perfecting a product is the disasters that happen and taking care of the, but Formlabs support have been very good so far. I just repacked the printer and i am sending it back as soon as i get the shipping label. I am hop…

jimy_f_84 Glad that Formlabs is stepping up to take care of your “DISASTER” Good for you that you will be back printing soon. Good for Formlabs because they can analyze and reconfigure things and fix this issue with resin cartridges. Cartridges is a good idea but…there maybe better ways.

Form2 resin over fill DISASTER!

Support & Troubleshooting Form 2

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Here is my original post if anyone cares aka “FORMLABS”

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Form2 resin over fill DISASTER!

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