Other Useful Equipment for Resin Printing

These things can ease aspects of the resin printing process and make them more convenient

Any Syringe that is 50ml or larger would be great for adding or removing resin from a build vat
- I used a short (~1" or 25mm) piece of silicone rubber tubing attached to the syringe, makes a soft non-marring tip to prevent damaging the build surface
- When vat gets closer to empty, tilt the VAT and only touch the build surface in the corner with the rubber tube

Anytime resin is being poured back into its original bottle, it MUST be filtered
- This catches any pieces of cured resin that might have broken loose in the vat
- Better to filter every time resin is bottled than to break something when a scrap gets in the wrong place
Do NOT use paper Coffee Filters …unless spending weeks filtering resin sounds like fun?
Disposable Paper paint filters
- Convenient because they are disposable, no cleaning filters
- Can be picked up at any Home Improvement or Paint store
- Would be an added operating cost, but ~$30USD for 1000 filters is quite affordable
- Larger mesh sizes (Lower mesh numbers) are faster for thick resins

Reusable Metal/Plastic mesh filters
- These are more of a pain, since they MUST be cleaned EVERY time!
- I chose a re-usable stainless steel coffee filter, but the ultrafine mesh makes filtering super slow!
- Now considering the move back to paper filters; I don't like washing dishes either...

Both Incandescent and Fluorescent lights produce small amounts of UV light
A 4 pack of these lights costs roughly the same as a good bottle of resin... Bright lights everywhere!
UV sensitive resin is not affected by White LED lights; these don't produce radiation in the UV spectrum, that costs extra!
I chose to install some cheap 4ft LED shop light fixtures from Amazon @ ~$10 each
- https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TM97LWY