Olaf the Stout Posted March 13 Author Share Posted March 13 Well, in an annoying turn of events, I just printed a build plate of minis that failed for one reason or another. Not only did this entire print bed fail (except for the arm piece of one mini), I also got a very small hole in the corner of my FEP. Thankfully no resin leaked onto my print screen, but I do need to replace the FEP. Hopefully the change doesn't cause as many problems for me as the FEP change on my Mars 3 did. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olaf the Stout Posted March 14 Author Share Posted March 14 I have a spare FEP to swap over with the broken one, but I decided to order a Siraya Tech NFEP to try out as I’ve heard good things about that material. Amazon being able to deliver it in 2 days tipped me over the edge. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olaf the Stout Posted March 16 Author Share Posted March 16 Well this sucks. 3 of the little screws on my FEP frame won’t tighten, no matter what. They just spin in place. I googled and others have had a similar issue, so I think I got a dud tank frame. I’ve contacted Elegoo support about it. They’ll probably send me a replacement tank, but who knows how long that will take to resolve. Angry ordered another tank from Amazon in the meantime which will arrive Saturday. I figure the extra tank will be useful for times when I want to use clear resin for a single build plate print, but don’t want to swap out the resin. Just use one tank for clear resin and the other one for non-clear resin. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olaf the Stout Posted March 17 Author Share Posted March 17 Looks like Elegoo will be sending me a replacement vat. I had to send them a video of the problem to prove what the issue was, but they confirmed that there is an issue with my tank frame. At least the extra tank I ordered from Amazon will be here tomorrow so I can get printing again while I wait for the replacement. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olaf the Stout Posted March 19 Author Share Posted March 19 The extra tank arrived yesterday. Glad I got it as it may take a few weeks before I get a replacement from Elegoo. I relevelled my plate and printed late yesterday, but had 1/3 of the build plate fail. I think that may have been due to the error on my part. Fortunately the FEP was not damaged. I did a tank clean and printed another build plate overnight. This was the end result. Very close, but not quite 100% success. There is a gap on the bottom left of the plate where one crystal didn’t print for unknown reasons. Hopefully this is the end of my cursed run. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olaf the Stout Posted March 20 Author Share Posted March 20 Another print another single STL out of 29 STLs failed for no apparent reason. Failed on the first few layers in the corner of the build plate. It was a presupported file, but was almost identical to 4 other STLs I printed right next to it. So no idea why it failed. Annoying to have to keep doing tank cleans, but at least most stuff is printing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haldir Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 On 3/20/2023 at 12:18 AM, Olaf the Stout said: Another print another single STL out of 29 STLs failed for no apparent reason. Failed on the first few layers in the corner of the build plate. It was a presupported file, but was almost identical to 4 other STLs I printed right next to it. So no idea why it failed. Annoying to have to keep doing tank cleans, but at least most stuff is printing. Have you re-leveled your build plate lately? It might have something to do with the corner fail & such. I know I was having problems awhile back & after a re-level it solved the problem. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olaf the Stout Posted March 21 Author Share Posted March 21 3 hours ago, haldir said: Have you re-leveled your build plate lately? It might have something to do with the corner fail & such. I know I was having problems awhile back & after a re-level it solved the problem. Yeah, I relevelled it when I got the replacement tank, so I don’t think that is the issue. Hopefully it was just a couple of one offs. If it persists I may relevel the plate again. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olaf the Stout Posted March 25 Author Share Posted March 25 No more printing done, but I did get my replacement tank from Elegoo. I spent yesterday playing build plate Jenga and creating 5 build plates worth of STLs to print in clear resin. I’ve got a litre of Siraya Tech Easy Clear and a litre of Siraya Tech Blu Clear to try out. So I’ll print some in the Easy and some in the Blu, just to compare. The Blu is meant to be the toughest resin Siraya Tech makes. I just need to swap out the dirty isopropyl from my wash station with some fresh stuff and I’ll be good to go. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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