Review on Sovol 3D Printer Resin Vat 2 Pack Aluminium With PTFE Coating by Leslie Matlak

I bought this, like many people, because of YouTube videos saying it was a good alternative to the standard photonic mono camera that proprietary (and from what I've read and heard, rarely) overpriced proprietary replacement cameras needed . . didn't know about the recycled pad until it arrived. After it arrived I read the bad reviews criticizing it but opened it up to look at the included FEP to see if anything could be done and now I agree with other reviewers who say that they couldn't press down hard on your FEP. the ideal frequency is within 333 Hz. By the way, the FEPs that are installed on these Sovol containers have a protective film that must be removed first, so you need to unscrew the screws and take out the FEP, remove the film, and then put it back put in the pool. before you have to remove that with the film, it measured 190 hz. After removing and even loosening the screws, the frequency was only 160Hz, which is much lower than it should be. If you are wondering why this is so important, you may have problems with prints sticking to FEP and other problems caused by FEP being either too tight or too loose creating the wrong peel force. BTW, if you receive these and decide to use them and notice scratches or bubbles on the FEP that appear to be caused by a piece of dirt stuck between two layers of plastic, this is a screen protector. You need to remove the gasket, remove the foil and put back the FEP with the gasket. I've seen at least one bad review about their FEP being scratched. If I had to guess, they didn't know the protective film was still on. After I removed mine the one I did it with had no scratches and the FEP looked very nice and clean. They didn't tell me anything about the protective film, I had to find out for myself. I initially thought it was due to poor assembly quality control, but it makes sense to protect it during shipping. When I removed the spacer and looked at the holes that were originally punched to fit the pins and screws, they were super stretched and yet the FEP still couldn't get the correct tension. I wonder if it can ever reach the right tension even with more travel, or if it just rips holes before that happens. I think this design is just fundamentally broken because instead of compressing the sheet metal hard from all sides and pulling evenly from all sides like the alternative two-piece sandwich gasket design works, it relies on stretching these holes to add tension generate. Another great benefit of the sandwich liner is that you can change the tension before you even screw it into the vat by putting something like a milk jug lid under the plate while you tighten the liner, or something smaller or even nothing if you want it to be denser. It's a significantly smaller clutch, as I and many other bad reviewers have said, fails to create any real tension. maybe if you used a really thick FEP, but even then I don't think that would work because it needs to be thick around the holes but thin in the places where you really want it to stretch, which doesn't exist . as far as I know. If you want to know what the original Sovol container looked like before the pointless redesign, the Elegoo Mars ladles are obviously compatible with the Anycubic Photon Mono and have a two-piece sandwich seal. The only significant difference is that they are just anodized aluminum and not teflon coated like these and only have a max fill line and no ml lines, but that doesn't make much of a difference if your prints are constantly coming out of order due to too loose FEP. You can get two of these for the same price as two of these Sovol kegs. At the time of writing this article, the Amazon listing is: ELEGOO 2 PCS Metal Resin Tank for ELEGOO Mars 3D Printer with Preinstalled FEP and 2 Caps and 2 Hex Keys, Resin Tank for ELEGOO Mars, Mars pro, Mars 2, Mars 2 pro, Photon and Epax X1i will be shipping these Sovol tubs back to Amazon tomorrow afternoon and I have already ordered elegoo tubs to replace them. I'm glad I couldn't even waste time or tar getting them to work as my printer doesn't arrive until the end of the week. save yourself the headache. maybe they would have worked fine but I've only heard complaints about the way this redesigned version is described, I've never heard anything like it about two piece sandwich gaskets so I think it's fair to say it's just a safer one Use is of your time and money to stay away from it unless they bring back the old block and liquidate the old stock of this new 2021 block not working.