DIY printers first crown!

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Printed and pressed first test crown from DIY printer a few days ago. Pretty surprised by the result considering I still havnt finished tuning the hardware and resin profiles.
This started life as a cheap wanhao D7 but only the screen and mainboard left now, everything else has been stripped out and upgraded. Case still to be finalised once finished tweeking hardware.

Can I wax better with magnification sure, but not everyone can afford a bugatti :) so might get some use out of this with a bit more tuning. Really pushing forward with this for diagnostic models.

Way cheaper than a form 2, higher resolution (47um x/y),way faster and cheaper to run.
and whilst I'm writing this FDM printers running in the back ground printing denar base plates :) loving this 3d printing stuff .

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Whats the deal with the "dental" resins and why are they so expensive?

At this point I'm not convinced there any better than well tuned consumer resins.
 
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yep that's what I'm thinking! this castable resin (fun to do) was £60 for 1 litre. Need to do more test but from what i can tell so far burns out clean with no expansion issues on normal emax burn out cycle.

And accuracy/part detail (assessed with tiny formlabs cube test) is great.

Why do I want to pay 4 x the price for castable dental resin.!?!

I can understand for biocompatible resins but for castable and model resins I'm really not sure were getting anything better for the money.
 
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