Highland Railway 7 ton timber wagon - Type L

Hi Mossy

Notice I only lifted the model on one axis, it may also work for you, normally I end up rotating models with large undersides in both X & Y axis to stop the underside looking as if its melted, but the green resin has printed perfectly, so maybe I have been under curing the resin.

I moved away from using the green resin as it's very difficult to see the detail until you give it a coat of paint - maybe happen tomorrow as my daughter has arranged a day of activities for me in her garden - Build Green house, attach trellacing you know all the fun stuff I avoid doing in my own garden.

I've sliced the project for an increased cure time of 3.0 sec per normal layer from 2.4 sec, and as a test I've upped the second lift speed to 240 from 180, the net effect is a small change in overall cure time. If the results are ok then I will modify the standard cure settings

Paul

 

Suppose its better than being Orange (TV series Orange is the new Black).

40 mins remaining on the print, and is looking good from what I can see

Paul

 

It worked

With the supports removed - still not cured yet

A happy camper, with 6 timber wagons but no Chassis, and no wheels for my wagons, looks like I need to get some brownie points before I send off for several sets of spoked wagon wheels. I wonder if I can get bulk packs ?

Paul

 

Fingers crossed for your print.

Thanks for the Haywoods, I will give them a look.

Paul

 

Hi Mossy

Your base layer exposure seems ok, but your normal exposure time is too short

Here is my Craftsman grey resin settings from Chitubox



You need to increase your Exposure Time highlighted in Yellow.

Remember the above settings are for a Mono X, your lift distance will probably be 6 to 8 mm.

Paul

 

My normal resin exposure for Standard Grey and Eco White and now Green is 2.4 sec.
I may try the Standard grey at the Craftsman setting if I order more up. I suppose I will need to do a HR Passenger tank print with the Craftsman Grey to compare the prints.

Needing to start the wagon chassis, beauty is apart from the brake arrangements I can use the same base chassis other 3 wagon drawings I have.

Paul

 

Hi Andy, the Mono & Mono X would appear to have similar exposure ranges , the Photon & Photon S (the RGB screens rather than Mono screens) exposure range is 6 to 12 sec depending on the resin and model.

Paul

 

Start made on the W iron.



I know it should be curved, but I have a cunning plan, I have made the supports finish at the underside of the floor. I intend to print the chassis as a sub assembly, but I'm not sure whether the chassis will be fully sprung, rigid or pivot compensation on one axle - you never know all three versions may appear. The chassis assembly will also carry the springing for the buffers.

Still at the pencil and paper stage at the moment.

Paul

 

Trying a test print of buffers on the Mono X, I've dropped the Exposure time to 2.8s from 3.0s.

The first batch were printed on the Photon, so I opened the project file, but this time with the Mono X selected in the settings profile. Duplicated 4 times to fill the build plate and auto arranged.



Only an hour to wait for 64 buffer heads and bodies to print.

Settings used were



No progress on the chassis, but did test fit a Peco coupling hook and a pair of the buffers

Paul