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Trying to print with SLA, can I make more then these coin slugs? (ttrpg.network)

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Right, so at a glance alot of the posts here are for FDM printing, and while I love my Ender 3 and have no problems with it (anymore...) I really want to get into resin printing. I have a 2 year old Elegoo Mars 2 Mono that I've used a handful of times, because each time I try to print a test model instead of something that looks like a chess piece, all I get is a circle of solid resin about the thickness of a US quarter. I'm kinda discouraged by this, since I know plenty of people get into resin printing and love the level of detail they can get on it. Yes, I know I can get similar details with FDM, and sometimes I do, but I want to expand my printing horizons as well. I've tried printing at different ambient temperatures, reslicing the model with different slicers, and warming the resin before use, but I can't seem to get more then a disk from my printer. Does anyone have some advice or insight into this issue?

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[–] copymyjalopy 1 points 1 year ago

I have an Elegoo saturn and have been doing a lot of debugging recently.

So my first questions would be what resin are you using, how old is it and what are your exposure times?

Second, how are you cleaning your prints? Turns out there is nuance to this step as well.