that’s great! Totally worth the moneyz
I wish FL have the stock
I have a few LT tanks (I ordered as soon as I could) and have been doing a fair bit of Durable resin (in my experience the heaviest wear on the tanks) with no sign of wear.
My understanding is that the new coating on LT tank does not cloud from UV exposure. The lifetime of the tank is more dictated by mechanical wear or damage (from trying to remove stuck resin etc). The resins may also chemically degrade the tanks, but I think that would take a pretty long time.
LT resin tank started using for more than 50 hours of printing and still not seen any foggy kind of stuff. apart from this what I noticed is that, LT resin tank sits very hardly on the support unlike previous normal resin tanks. after some time when I tried to use normal resin tanks, I started seeing resin tanks are undetected. Seems the LT resin tanks are not quite right with the dimensions? and might be damaging a bit to the sensor pins?
Any one observed these kind of issue, thoughts are welcome please.
We’ve been using LT and Standard tanks on and off for the past 2 months, we haven’t had issues with tank detection yet.
Same observation regarding the wear of the LT tank using Tough resin : after more than 2 liters no visible marks. However we had failed prints and damaged the surface of the tank upon removing he stuck resin layer, seems like it’s much more sensitive than the PDMS of the standard tanks.
It is really much more sensitive. Usually I remove the failed prints with my hands in order to not scratch the tank!
Its easy and effective!
CPinto
Yeah we started doing that too, with gloves and fingernails we have a better feel of how much pressure we put onto the tank.
How did you get that heat map picture? That is awesome. We’ve tried to do something similar before.
It is through the dashboard ( formlabs.com/dashboard ). If you have your printer connected to your Dashboard then it keeps tracks of every cartridge and tank you use and creates the heat map.
can we please share more information regarding the removal of a failed print from the new surface?
I don’t think we have a best method yet for clearing stuck or failed prints.
We do know that running anything across the surface that has any irregular or rough edge can tear the surface easily.
Currently most of us are removing failures with a gloved hand and working the failure free as gentle as possible. I’ve used an old gift card to gently get under a failed print to remove it. My advice is to empty all resin from the tray first and then be very gentle.
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Thanks Fred
I remove mine with the spatula that Formlabs provided me and have not noticed any issues. I don’t dig in and try to pop the piece out, i try to apply force parallel to the tank surface and not into the tank surface as much as possible.
I have had 2 LT tanks for a few liters of resin each and decided to check the surface when putting in a new resin cartridge. I used a plastic (not rubber, though) spatula made for FEP and on gently going over the surface it is almost like there is a thin layer of dandruff specks. I can’t see an effect on my prints, so I assume that they get incorporated into the ‘raft’ as the next print begins, but not sure where they come from, whether to be concerned, etc., etc. Hoping for experienced feedback. I will try to buy an even softer rubber-like, but more knife-edged kitchen spatula for the future, or just not be so compulsive. It would be nice to have ongoing reminders (along with the print progress, etc, on the dashboard) to check the window for 'film accumulation (either side), check the LT tank for scum?, etc. if that would help preserve the wonderful consistency FormLabs provides.
Could you link to this spatula?