Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Metal Foil Experiments
While waiting for nail art supplies I thought I'd try out metal foil. I have some gold-ish "Dutch Leaf" which I placed gently on top of a few resin dots and held over the UV lamp. I gave it 4 minutes and peeled off the foil.Fragments ended up all over the silide, the tools, me, the microscope, and the bench. Attempts to remove fragments guilded everything.
Examination of the remains showed 0.1-0.2mm dots of resin on the foil. It prefers to stick to the foil, not the glass. Observe the circular spot centre left frame between the two horizontal thin lines:
This is resin. It has cured, but is exceedingly thin and fragile.
I would love to continue, but we have a severe storm and the power is out. House is shaking like a caffeine addict, debris pinging off the outside walls everywhere. Backup power does not extend to the workshop, and I wouldn't use it if it did.
Would you like me to make the comment sound more technical (for fellow RepRap developers) or more enthusiastic/general-audience (for casual readers)?
I'm happy with the style of my bits for now, but it'd be great if you could put together some results of your own - lots of things accidentally specific to me would be removed then!
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