I received the printer Tuesday (12/24/2019) and had it unboxed and assembled in < 10 minutes. 1h and 45 m later I was cleaning my first "printout"; a Wonder Woman cookie cutter for SWMBO:
This was done at the most "coarse" layer thickness the printer is capable of, 50 μM (0.050 mm, it can do 0.01 mm; 10 μM). My first thought; "Hot damn thing thing is amazing", and I set out to do my DSO-150 battery holder (it was also printed at the 50 μM "coarse" layer thickness):
This case extension will--sometime later this week if family and friends leave me alone for a while-- house a USB rechargeable "9V" battery, and a relocated power switch.
The machine is VERY well constructed, the firmware does just what it is supposed too--it is a "good thing".
The dreaded post processing procedure is a piece of cake, I put a pint of rubbing alcohol in a 1 gallon bait bucket that was handy and swished it around for a couple minutes; the goop just disappeared, dissolved into the spirits. Next I washed the printouts in hot water and Dove dishwashing liquid--blow 'em off with air, give 'em 15 to 20 minutes in a DIY 40W UV curing box and they are ready to go.
After printing out the DSO-150 case I did a batch of 8 BNC dust caps (the model came from from
Thingverse), cleaned them as above and threw the platen and resin tank into the bait bucket and left over over alcohol. Swished then around with a bit of old tooth brush scrubbing (I used my grandson's) then wiped them down with clean paper towel and alcohol--all done..
The DSO-150 battery case was first created in
FreeCAD, then further manipulated and sliced using
ChiTuBox (Google it; good software, horrid name). The entire bottom of the USB "9V" battery glows red or blue to indicate charging state; that's why the big hole.
I also used
ChiTuBox to clone the single BNC cap to 8 units, so as to print 8 at a time:
By any determination of final product resolution and composite integrity this technology blows FFA out of the water--it will be interestin to see where it is 10 year from now...