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Review on ๐Ÿ–จ๏ธ ELEGOO Standard UV Curing Photopolymer 3D Printing Additive Manufacturing Supplies by Chris Bowden

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Weaker than their standard resin

Warning: I have a technical background but am new to 3D printing. Note on my application: I'm trying to make small parts for attaching electrical connectors to the wall of a project box. Of course, my priorities will be other than creating fantasy characters or other miscellaneous uses. The product description wording makes it sound like this resin is stronger and tougher than general purpose resins. I made the same design with both resins. I noticed that parts like ABS were less consistent with my design than standard parts and didn't hold their shape even with light stress. As a rough test, I attached one piece to the other, holding them the same way and touching them in symmetrical places. The ABS-like part flexed about three times more than the standard part and then broke. The boxes these resins come in have exactly the same properties in terms of hardness and flexural strength, which seems strange for products that are said to have different physical properties. Both real bottles state: basic shutter speed 60s, normal 8s. Of course there is room for user error here, but I tried to follow their advice. Some suggestions for Elegoo: 1) Use agreed terms for each product specification. For example I see flexural strength and tensile strength for standard but flexural modulus and flexural strength for ABS-like. 2) Please make the profiles for these resins easy to download. The "Community" table you provided is better than nothing, but it's incomplete, uses terms that don't match your products, and needs to be entered manually. 3) Each product is considered great, but there is no way to compare them. Please make it easy for yourself to choose the right product.

Pros
  • Additive Manufacturing Products
Cons
  • Socket required