i live down the road from the industrial side of town

i can get any material i need, hell i can usually ask a buddy for some scrap and they go "yeah sure take i"

i harvest shit as well though, rebuilding atm but i have a filament extruder for recycling plastics

o shit cool

Anyone have an SLA/DLP printer?

60/40 virgin abs resin / recycled shells gives you serviceable plastic blend for anything where strength isnt critical

i'm looking at getting a dlp printer

wait for the wanhao d7 to hit v2

that's what i'm doing

I'm comfortable with the idea * of building one

be aware though uv resin is about as expensive as good quality rtv silicone

it's not cheap like fdm

How expensive are we talking about

$20 a liter?

try $60-$100

Holy fuck

for decent quality resin

But the resolution on dem parts

i'm sure there's some horrible shit resin that doesnt work right and takes too long to cure for $20/L

but you don't want that for sla/dlp printer

that's more for molding parts

Yup, i'm guessing that's the difference

between the regular resin that's 20$ a litre

Curing time

there's also the 3d printing markup

like how virgin abs pellets costs next to nothing but abs filament for 3d printer can cost $30/kg for a decent brand

Cant you combat that with an insanely bright UV projection solution though?

probably

give it a shot and lemme know how it goes

I know you can get 50W UV leds

it may make me less hesitant to go for dlp

and i can rig an adequate cooling system

i plan to sell miniatures to local tabletop people anyway and that'll offset the cost of even expensive resin pretty quick, but

i need some uv resin to make ciem shells

That's my use

o shit

also artisan keycaps

also will sell 3d print service

that reminds me

how much do you think i could sell a stone keycap for

I have no fucking idea