RepRap: Blog

I made a wee box to hold a UV light and some CO2. There's a bit of tape at the bottom to hold the slide in place, and a hole in the lid for me to gently squirt CO2 into from the family Sodastream. Being dense, the CO2 should accumulate at the bottom of the container.

The test article for the cure is an attempt at printing a flexure. Unfortunately the dot spacing was finer than I thought I'd get away with using Probe One, so the lines don't join up. I spaced the proping points at 10μm and will use a finer 5μm resolution on the next attempt. I can probably do more than 15 dots in a row too.

 

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The flexure frame is about 500μm across. I deliberately blobbed the bottom of it unto a puddle of resin to give it a sort of handle. Dragging a line from the puddle to the object makes too large a blob and wipes out the object. Must drag from object to puddle next time.

Not going to be a pefect result, but it'll test the process. We'll see how it goes.