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Lab talk, the good, the bad, and the ugly
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What's your favorite 3d model resin?
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<blockquote data-quote="tuyere" data-source="post: 364485" data-attributes="member: 26916"><p>I know Siraya Tech encourages blending their products to fine-tune your resin for whatever your application, and they produce a bunch of products largely intended for blending. For example, Tenacious is incredibly tough but is too soft for most applications and doesn't hold detail well, so most end-users blend it into other products, usually 10-20% by weight, to improve resistance to fall damage without sacrificing much in the way of detail. Sculpt Ultra can dramatically improve hardness and heat resistance in generic modelling resins with a similar proportion blended in. And they sell a CMYK pigment set for customizing resin colour, which can have some non-aesthetic applications- improving contrast/detail viewing is one, like you note, but I do know of another lab that pigmented their Keymodel Ivory into three cyan/magenta/yellow shades and assigned one shade to each of their three printers, to help track jobs, match dies to models, and for QC purposes. </p><p></p><p>If you're printing for a dental business, though, it's probably not worth your time blending products- a lot of this experimentation has turned into people developing commercial products, so you can probably reap that benefit with much less trouble by just buying a better product that has been iterated by actual end-users for a specific purpose, vs. just buying whatever's cheapest. You can generally get a much better product for, like, $10 more per liter, so you're not even saving very much in the bargain.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tuyere, post: 364485, member: 26916"] I know Siraya Tech encourages blending their products to fine-tune your resin for whatever your application, and they produce a bunch of products largely intended for blending. For example, Tenacious is incredibly tough but is too soft for most applications and doesn't hold detail well, so most end-users blend it into other products, usually 10-20% by weight, to improve resistance to fall damage without sacrificing much in the way of detail. Sculpt Ultra can dramatically improve hardness and heat resistance in generic modelling resins with a similar proportion blended in. And they sell a CMYK pigment set for customizing resin colour, which can have some non-aesthetic applications- improving contrast/detail viewing is one, like you note, but I do know of another lab that pigmented their Keymodel Ivory into three cyan/magenta/yellow shades and assigned one shade to each of their three printers, to help track jobs, match dies to models, and for QC purposes. If you're printing for a dental business, though, it's probably not worth your time blending products- a lot of this experimentation has turned into people developing commercial products, so you can probably reap that benefit with much less trouble by just buying a better product that has been iterated by actual end-users for a specific purpose, vs. just buying whatever's cheapest. You can generally get a much better product for, like, $10 more per liter, so you're not even saving very much in the bargain. [/QUOTE]
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