Removing supports from 3D resin prints can be a tricky task. It is important to be careful and don't hurry up. Most of the people think that the best way to remove resin supports is to use a pair of tweezers/pliers to gently cut supports off but there is another possibilty as well.
If you are using a sharp tool, make sure to wear safety goggles and be very careful.
In some cases e.g. when 3d object has unregular parts it's much safer just to do this using mentioned above tools because there is always a risk to rip some piece off and in many cases we're going to need print whole object again which in higher scale printing might get us annoyed and hurt our wallet.
Of course when you are printing a lot of infantry models or less detailed, smaller objects damaging the objects might happen and it's not a big deal afterall right?
Method that we're going to present today is not a Elon musk plans to settle people on Mars but it's preapeared for people who wants to get into 3d printing. I hope whole topic is going to help you and save your time in resault.
Removing resin supports fast and efficient
If you're printing a lot of 3d objects and you would like to optimise process of removing resin supports then we have solution for you.
- Find a container and fill it up with hot water.
- Put 3d objects into it wearing gloves for 2-3 seconds.
- Pick it up and remove supports easily!
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4. Before you put objects into curing machine make sure that you dry them carefully.
5. Done.
As you have seen this is very, very fast! We're printing a lot of stuff so optimising this process have saved us a lot of time and made our printing process much faster.
Removing resin supports using hobby knife
In addition we have created video in which we're using tweezers instead of hot water.
As you can see from video duration this same process took us x3 more time to do the same thing and resault is pretty the same.
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