High Heat Resin BoxTurtle

[azure stone]

Reason = Want to make the BoxTurtle into a 4 chamber Dryer with Klipper/Mainsail integration, and be able to dry engineering grade filaments without warping Box turtule Parts. Oh, and the resin looks super smooth and purdy.

I have been modifying and printing most of the upperside of the box turtle over the past week as the attched pictures can show, waiting on magnets from amazon today before printing the spooler sides this evening.
Hoping i get in this first run of Batch #2 from West3D, if so this will progress very quickly over the next week or so.

After the basic box turtle build i will start on ordering extended aluminum extrusion and polycarbonate sheets to make a double walled insulated 4 chamber version, as well as the electronics to make this happen.

Let me know what you think!

Resin = Siraya Tech Sculpt with Black Alumilite dye mixed in.

[warm mountain]

Damn this looks good, interested to see how everything fits together for you.

[azure stone]

i'll keep this updated, i promise.

and once everything is working, i'll make the altered parts available, a lot of edits made for QoL and to address certain issues for printing in Resin vs FDM

like the tray, i started to try and support the OG file and realized it was not happening lol

[fathom cargo]

Layer lines what

[azure stone]

Magnets are in and fit perfect, realized one mistake where i gave no way for air / extra glue to escape, had to chisel a channel with an xacto knife, I have updated my CADs to provide this channel. Will be printing spooler frames tonight.

[warm mountain]

Nice, you changed that part to have magnets instead

[azure stone]

had to, resin don't flex. Which is also why the LED retainer screws in with an m2 x4mm now instead of cliping in

[lost stream]

This is awesome! Can't wait to see how it's gonna turn out

[azure stone]

Today's work has seen the frames completed, feeder switches and guides for extruder, I also did the hub and the depressors incase i need them, they are air drying currently will post hub and depressors once cured.

Will also post a mock up of housing assembled once glue dries on magnets

Also got Extruder parts done in FDM

[candid horizon]

Those resin parts look great. Will be interested to see how it all gets assembled

[vivid crown]

Wow those parts makes me wanna do the same

[azure stone]

E-Spooler mock up and test fit for keying, also lets you see how i supported the models to keep the visible parts looking good. Nothing is screwed in so gaps are expected in these photos.

Now if only i could get my LDO kit from West3D batch 2... Got my Tracking # woot woot

[azure stone]

Why does today have to be busy workwise!? all i want to do now is play!

[azure stone]

slowly making progress, having to trim / sand a little to get fitment currently, but the no parts are considered too much effort or just downright un-useable yet.

[azure stone]

some of tonight's progress

i have hit a few issues of the CAD being a bit off and 1% shrinkage biting me in the ass... on the trays...

idlers won't sink and there's ~2 mm gap with the frame lined up properly, thus this will will have to wait until i have disposable income for another 5kg container of Sculpt, so for now, 1/8th foam adhesive weather stripping.

have also been updating all the CADs for Resin as i go to avoid as much sanding as possible for anyone following in my footsteps and for my future self on BoxTurtle #2. For the moment joining no skirt gang but will be printing them this weekend. Skirts and corner coverswill be done in FlashForge PETG Pro - Burnt Titanium. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BYN5YS5G?smid=A3IJ74OD57QMXP&th=1

otherwise all switches and modeled threads have worked well, had to sand all of the idler posts and pressfit bowden pieces. i chose to sand instead of reprint to avoid waste, but have updated my CADs so others will not have to.

[vivid crown]

so clean

[azure stone]

fitting these LED diffusers took wayyy longer than I care to admit

[azure stone]

Progress for today... so close, yet so far...

[azure stone]

Soon (TM)

Hit one issue here, i'm guessing at some point I thought a certain hole for bowden tubing in motor mount was for a thread and then 1/2 way through realized and started working on the correct hole... forgetting to undo what i did.... Long story short because it took a vise to get the bowden adapters in i had to find a way to drill a bit of resin out with them in place; yep, probably as ridiculous as you can imagine... holding the blue thing in while turning a drill bit in a hex screwdriver by hand to open it up. This has been fixed in my, to be released, CAD files for those that want to do any part of this in Resin.

i'm gonna give it the rest of the week to walk off this shame / hide the dunce cap, and then Voron rebuild w/ boxturtle this weekend woohoo! (which may take two weekends as this has a whole new electronics kit, hotend, Tool Board, bearings and belts. I switched up boards from FYSTEC spider to the BTT Octopus Pro and am using CANBUS. I've been working all week on Katapult, CANBUS, and klipper config so base line is already good to go hoping that saves a bit of time and lets me complete in only 1 weekend but no guarantees.

[sullen garden]

@azure stone How'd the BT with the resin print work out? I was considering trying to do my next one with resin.

[azure stone]

I haven't gotten to testing yet. you know how one thing leads to another.... well I had to update my self designed tool head, to incorporate a filament cutter, and nozzle camera which led to it's time to do belts and bearings, fraught with erroneous and / or delayed shipments from vendors, then decided we needed an electronics overhaul and as of this weekend the printer just got back online. added ability for rpi to stay allways-on and relay board to activate high power parts of printer and in the very near future, a klipper controlled 4 bay dry box build of the box turtle. There were a lot of upgrades during this, like Chaotic labs tensioners and carbon fiber gantry pieces, with light weight X rail, cleaning and regreasing of rails (in which i take the carriages down to the ball-bearings to clean.)
So quite literally just today I got the mount for the Turtle Neck Completed.
Photos are a before and after of electronics bay.
New tool head which included moving from drag chain to umbilical.

@sullen garden Update for ya

also if you want to take this on i can send you my files, or invite you with read access to the fusion 360 team where i made all the alterations to print in resin

Some of the time is also the tedious stuff I take on; for example, to fit the nozzle cam wire and orbiter toolboard wire in the same umbilical and fit through the cable glands I had to de sheath both, do my own EMI shielding then nylon cover.

Last thing I really have to do is grind a piece of aluminum down to match the tool cutter lever arm pictured, the resin one surprisingly holds up but i don't trust it for long term, and then make the impact point for the filament cutter to attach to the gantry. Realistically I expect a week or 2 before i can print my serial proof part, unless I hit an extreme late night focus phase and just go until exhaustion getting it done and done to a standard I'm happy with, which if you haven't noticed is quite high.

guess I can show the dirty parts too... had to modify the orbiter toolboard to get rid of that chunky connector, i didn't like it, and it wouldn't fit through nylon sheathing easily.

[sullen garden]

Nice! I'm not on fusion, but I'd love to try to print it and see how it goes! Is this the abs like resin?

[azure stone]

siraya tech sculpt

low shrinkage, good strength, high temp rated

[sullen garden]

You absolutely did do a full rewire on your printer though, looksd great!

[azure stone]

thank you, it's been a labor of love

i'll see if i can dm you zip files of pre supported and base stls

[sullen garden]

High-temperature resistance of 180C

Wow, that's impressive for resin!

[azure stone]

i plan to do high grade filaments, that why you see resin all over the internal of the printer too

[sullen garden]

Yeah, get at me with a DM. I've got 2 more BT kits coming and this looks like a fun build. Currently printing one in ABS, but I'll but absolutely print one with the resin

[azure stone]

word, i got you

when you get to the trays

add 1% shrinkage to avoid the issue i posted above

smaller stuff doesn't matter

gimme like 10 - 20 min just verifying everything

[sullen garden]

Sounds good

How much resin is needed for all of the prints?

[azure stone]

because I was forging the path i killed almost a 5kg container, had about 1 kg left over

[sullen garden]

hot damn!

[azure stone]

i believe you could get away with 2 min, 3 most probably

i had multiple failures from lack of supports and stuff

on big stuff like trays

[sullen garden]

Gotcha

How big of a plate do you need?

[azure stone]

for the tray, i have a saturn 4 ultra

and it barely fit

[sullen garden]

lemme peep that size

Damn, I'm rocking an old school OG photon mono.

● Build Volume: 130mm(L）*80mm(W）*165mm（H）

Saturn 4 is MASSIVE

Well, nevermind 😅

[azure stone]

lol, no worries, still want the files?

[sullen garden]

Nah, I don't have a resin printer with enough 🍆 to manage that tray!

FDM it is 😅

Build looks top notch though!

[azure stone]

np, and ty again

[sullen garden]

I will however scoop up some of that resin and print some of my internal parts for my printer with that!

[azure stone]

great resin for sure

i was running with the mark 1 of the print head above for >3 years

printed in that resin

[sullen garden]

Yeah, with temps like that, i can most def use that in my qidi plus 4 with that sweet sweet heated chamber. Great builds all around with what you are cooking. Congrats on getting your electronics in order. Those projects are easy to start but extra hard to finish 😅

[azure stone]

i feel that comment in my soul, there were days that were just like "ughhh i dont wanna"

[sullen garden]

Hell yes! Start eyeballing new printers as easier options 😄

[azure stone]

my boy got the new anycubic mid process of this for you know like $600
made me question my choices in this project.

[sullen garden]

I recently finished up a frankenstein bed slinger printer. I think it's longest stretch of collecting dust was easily 6-8 months

[azure stone]

for all the hell bed slingers get, until this overhaul my best printing printer was a Clearpath servo driven bed slinger i made like 7 years ago

hah found photos of that monstrosity.....

[sullen garden]

my bed slinger project was my first 3d printer. Longer LK5 pro. Went absolute full send on it. Replaced all the electronics, new toolhead, converted from pom wheels on the X and Y to linear rails, extra z screw, move from marlin to klipper, write all new macros, and probably a bunch of other stuff. I bought a lot of experience for sure! The juice was not worth the squeeze from a performance or qulaity standpoint but it was super fucking fun! Man I learned a lot!

[sullen garden]

Ha, that's awesom!

[azure stone]

my dumbass decides i can always do it better and do DIY from the start, above was my 1st

[sullen garden]

Yeah, my longer went from a $250 printer to around $800. I'm sure I would struggle to give it away. Purrs like a kitten though and it's actually pretty fast 😅

[azure stone]

'tis the hobbyist / enthusiast life

[azure stone]

but the journey... is so worth it

[sullen garden]

Learned so much along the way.

[azure stone]

good 1st layer testing, the hard part figured out there

[sullen garden]

Good luck on your serial!!!

Just got mine the other day. What a print. I ended up switching from cutting to tip forming. Less waste for my tool head. Qidi put the cutter above the extruder 😥

[azure stone]

thank you much, good luck on your next 2 BTs

If you end up with a compatable resin printer, i went ahead and sorted files they'll be ready for you

[vivid crown]

how is the project going ?

[next dawn]

Hello, is it possible for me to get the file from the roller for resin printing? Thank you.