Sylgard is expensive, with 500g you can use over 3 times to rebuild the surface when is burned(yes, when you repeat the layers at the same position tends to burn that area ALWAYS)so I hope to find a new material that works better and be more durable than sylgard.
price of 500 g in ebay:
about cleaning plate with microholes...no idea...i prefer to use just only one time, and when I the piece is finally printed, plate go direcly to trash.
to avoid particles and imperfections in VAT,when I mix and use over the vat I protect the area covering with a plastic bag (see photo):
heatin in oven helps to cure sylgard too fast, but remember firstly to wait about 3 hours or more to gone the little bubbles(caused for mixing).when you verify that is ZERO bubbles in sylgard, its ready to "bake"in the oven at 50 degrees or less.im using cristal VAT,so that temperature is well ressisted for glasses(totally bad for plastic,acrilate VATs, you can melt, so avoid oven!!!)Statistics: Posted by octanees — Sun Dec 08, 2013 4:52 pm
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