Hi All,
Just curious if anyone else weighs their waste Nylon 12 powder?
I currently run 7 Fuse1+ printers alongside 1 FuseBlast, 1 FuseSift and 2 vacuums. I run 2 prints per day on each machine with each producing 12-18 various sized parts each. I have begun weighing my vacuum bags once full and also the waste from the FuseBlast. Last month it totalled up to about 90kg worth of waste powder and am wondering if this is excessive or not?
Are you dumping a lot of used powder out of sift or is this all from vacuum bags and the blast waste hopper?
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This is only the blast waste and vacuum bags.
If you are running 25%ish packing density average/30% refresh rate, then I would call it good. If you run a lower packing density and are having to increase your refresh rate above 30% due to low used powder its possible you can knock off more powder in sift before moving to blast.
My packing densities are on the higher side on average, so I try to recover as much used powder as I can.