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Okay, so I am finally looking at getting a resin printer, My Ender 3 has been working almost non-stop for a year but I want to print all the tiny little bits that I have gotten .stl files for. I have it narrowed down to a few, but my big question is do I HAVE to have a wash and cure machine? I can afford a better printer now and get the wash and cure later if needed, but do I absolutely need one. I am not a master painter, so if the print isn't perfect it won't be a total loss, but if it really is a must then I can hold off a bit longer and do it the right way.

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I feel like the Wash and Cure has made the whole printing process 3 or 4 times easier, cleaner and safer.

Just being able to take the build plate out and wash it without dripping resin all over the place seems like it's worth the price alone.
   
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The wash and cure station doesn’t help the models be any better. It just helps contain a bit of the mess. I use 2 food pot things with little integral baskets. I think they are also
Called pickle strainers or something. I use like 3 or 4 sheets of paper towel per build plate to wipe up excess resin and to dry stuff off after washing. I use water washable resin, so it’s all pretty easy. It’s not like you need massive aprons or anything to handle this stuff. Just some gloves.



Then for curing, I stick them in the windowsill or give them a blast in a curing chamber I made from some cheap UV leds

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Wash and Cure are purely optional machines.

They are nice and can help contain some of the mess and speed things up, but you can achieve the same results for less fairly easily. The only trap to watch out for is some of the cheap "resin curing lamps" can be very weak and thus instead of a 2m cure it can be hours to cure. So do make sure you do some research and make a good choice.



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I use paper plates quite a bit when pulling items after the rinse to dry before curing. They are also much better than putting down a bunch of paper towels and can be wiped off fairly clean to re-use over and over.

But, yes, lots of paper towels or just the extra napkins you get from your drive-thru work great, too!

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Well my Ender 3 will now have room mates with a photon Mono and it’s wash and cure machine . They have a good deal going as I got both and 1ltr of resin for $335 shipped, even better than the mother’s day deal.

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What is the purpose of the cure machine? The resin coming out of my printer (photon mono) is plenty hard enough to clean and glue right out of the printer?

I just wash with alcohol then rinse with water - dry with a fan and within 1 hour I am cleaning and assembling.

Am I missing something?

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 Xenomancers wrote:
What is the purpose of the cure machine? The resin coming out of my printer (photon mono) is plenty hard enough to clean and glue right out of the printer?

I just wash with alcohol then rinse with water - dry with a fan and within 1 hour I am cleaning and assembling.

Am I missing something?



As far as I am aware, uncured resin, even if it is hard, is still toxic. It needs to be exposed to UV light to cure properly. You can either leave it sunlight or use a designated cure machine. The advantage being that the UV machine only takes a few minutes as opposed to an hour or so in the sunlight.

From my own point of view, prints that come out of my machine and then cleaned are sticky to the touch and smelly until they are cured.

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 filbert wrote:
 Xenomancers wrote:
What is the purpose of the cure machine? The resin coming out of my printer (photon mono) is plenty hard enough to clean and glue right out of the printer?

I just wash with alcohol then rinse with water - dry with a fan and within 1 hour I am cleaning and assembling.

Am I missing something?



As far as I am aware, uncured resin, even if it is hard, is still toxic. It needs to be exposed to UV light to cure properly. You can either leave it sunlight or use a designated cure machine. The advantage being that the UV machine only takes a few minutes as opposed to an hour or so in the sunlight.

From my own point of view, prints that come out of my machine and then cleaned are sticky to the touch and smelly until they are cured.

Ahh okay - that makes sense - the prints are still a little sticky. So that goes away once they are exposed to UV for a few hours?

What would happen if you painted a model without curing it?

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 Xenomancers wrote:
 filbert wrote:
 Xenomancers wrote:
What is the purpose of the cure machine? The resin coming out of my printer (photon mono) is plenty hard enough to clean and glue right out of the printer?

I just wash with alcohol then rinse with water - dry with a fan and within 1 hour I am cleaning and assembling.

Am I missing something?



As far as I am aware, uncured resin, even if it is hard, is still toxic. It needs to be exposed to UV light to cure properly. You can either leave it sunlight or use a designated cure machine. The advantage being that the UV machine only takes a few minutes as opposed to an hour or so in the sunlight.

From my own point of view, prints that come out of my machine and then cleaned are sticky to the touch and smelly until they are cured.

Ahh okay - that makes sense - the prints are still a little sticky. So that goes away once they are exposed to UV for a few hours?

What would happen if you painted a model without curing it?


I think I may have done that accidentally a couple of times (incompletely curing models) - basically what happens is you have a 'glossy' area that will persistently stay glossy even after painting it, which is quite irritating.

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 the_scotsman wrote:
 Xenomancers wrote:
 filbert wrote:
 Xenomancers wrote:
What is the purpose of the cure machine? The resin coming out of my printer (photon mono) is plenty hard enough to clean and glue right out of the printer?

I just wash with alcohol then rinse with water - dry with a fan and within 1 hour I am cleaning and assembling.

Am I missing something?



As far as I am aware, uncured resin, even if it is hard, is still toxic. It needs to be exposed to UV light to cure properly. You can either leave it sunlight or use a designated cure machine. The advantage being that the UV machine only takes a few minutes as opposed to an hour or so in the sunlight.

From my own point of view, prints that come out of my machine and then cleaned are sticky to the touch and smelly until they are cured.

Ahh okay - that makes sense - the prints are still a little sticky. So that goes away once they are exposed to UV for a few hours?

What would happen if you painted a model without curing it?


I think I may have done that accidentally a couple of times (incompletely curing models) - basically what happens is you have a 'glossy' area that will persistently stay glossy even after painting it, which is quite irritating.
Okay - glad I did not paint!


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 Xenomancers wrote:
 the_scotsman wrote:
 Xenomancers wrote:
 filbert wrote:
 Xenomancers wrote:
What is the purpose of the cure machine? The resin coming out of my printer (photon mono) is plenty hard enough to clean and glue right out of the printer?

I just wash with alcohol then rinse with water - dry with a fan and within 1 hour I am cleaning and assembling.

Am I missing something?



As far as I am aware, uncured resin, even if it is hard, is still toxic. It needs to be exposed to UV light to cure properly. You can either leave it sunlight or use a designated cure machine. The advantage being that the UV machine only takes a few minutes as opposed to an hour or so in the sunlight.

From my own point of view, prints that come out of my machine and then cleaned are sticky to the touch and smelly until they are cured.

Ahh okay - that makes sense - the prints are still a little sticky. So that goes away once they are exposed to UV for a few hours?

What would happen if you painted a model without curing it?


I think I may have done that accidentally a couple of times (incompletely curing models) - basically what happens is you have a 'glossy' area that will persistently stay glossy even after painting it, which is quite irritating.
Okay - glad I did not paint!


I was going to skip the cure machine and get one later, but I was told (up the page) that it made clean up easier and less overall mess, so with the sale I just went ahead and got it.

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The wash/cure machines aren't strictly necessary. You can use a bowl full of IPA and an old toothbrush to clean, and set your print in the sun for a couple of hours. But... they do make for a nicer workflow. Quick spinny in the bucket, then 3-5 min cure in the lights and your'e good to go.
   
 
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