ELEGOO 3D Printer Rapid Resin LCD UV-Curing Resin 405nm Standard Photopolymer Resin for LCD 3D Printing 500Gram Grey

My original review stood for two years, but within the last few months elegoo has changed just about everything regarding their resin. Literally the packaging is now cheap light weight boxes, the resin has a different thicker consistency, and the cure time is varying from one bottle to another. I am now running an ebay business manufacturing model parts that I have designed to upgrade scale model kits or to be used by gamers, so I am going through several bottles of resin a week. These changes were over a period of a few months, but after a several bottles of wasted prints, and worse the time involved to find the issue, I decided it was finally time to try a different resin. I have since swapped to Anycubic, which is more like elegoo used to be. Your experiences may vary, as little as a single degree in temperature can make a difference in results, but in my situation of running 4 printers 24 x 7 and shipping a dozen orders a week, I could no longer take rhe risk and had to make the swap. Hopefully my original review didn't miss lead anyone! Original review follows: To be fair, this is the only resin I have used, I started with it since I bought an Elegoo brand 3D printer and figured for the first few bottles I would use their brand to be safe. Since then, I have continued to buy just this resin. The color choices are great, I have used the grey, white, black, and clear red so far and they have all been great. I have had very few failed starts on my prints, and they may have had nothing to do with the resin. The reasons I have only bought this resin are: - The low odor is hardly noticeable to me, the 90% IPA actually has a MUCH more noticeable odor than the resin, and as I use this in the house in my hobby room that is very important to me, well, my wife really, but that is what matters. ; ] - The price is neither the lowest nor the highest out there, so I feel it is a fair value. - The print results have been really great, I will attach a few photos to the review. - I figure I have a good thing going, so why mess with it. The only things I have noticed with this resin so far are that: - It is very important to check the exposure times for the resin before printing, some of the darker colors take more seconds per layer. - The white resin sometimes has visible layer lines in the final print. You can not feel them, nor see them when painted, but when it is just the bare resin they are sometimes visible. - You will want a cure light if you live anywhere that you don't have access to a fair amount of sunshine. I am in the Pacific North West, and left a print in the window sill for a week and it was still not fully cured. But under a UV light on a turn table it is done in 5 to 6 minutes for most prints. If I learn anything else, or start to experience different results I will update this review.

Prints well most of the time. Seems to be a bit sensitive to room temperature: Too warm or too cool and adhesion problems develop. Price is excellent. Has some odor, but not excessive for use indoors. Washes well with 90% IPA. Shelf life is about 1 year.

The first time I bought this product was great But then my next two order the resin was not working well. Check printer and used a different resin and all was fine. Someone told me to check the batch and expiration dates I ordered 1000g clear translucent on Oct 19, 2021the EXP date was Oct 14 2021 no wonder I had o many fails. The last botted I had here and informed to check dates was ordered feb 2, 2023 500g Grey the pour date nov 10 2021,exp nov 9, 2023. Though it was within expiration, since sitting so long it had gotten so it was not curing well. I have been wanting a local dealer as I have had other issues with shipping as busted bottles and no good response for loss of resin and this issue is a closer. UPDATE since then have ordered again and the dates now were like mar 2023 to mar 2025 Iam much happiernow

The only print failures I’ve had was due tonmy mistakes with supports. Resin seems good. Odor isn’t really noticeable except when I’m dealing with the post print cleaning and cure.

New to resin printing and based on reviews both here on on the web I went with this. The resin does give a nice print, good even color and a strong oder. I wasn’t too worried about the oder I was expecting it but yeah it can be kinda strong. The 4 stars is due to the information on the bottle. There is none. Any info you need you need to go online and look it up (exposure times). After trying a few other brands I would recommend against the Elegoo resin, I have had better prints using on my Mars 2 Pro with AnyCubic. AnyCubic has more product info on the bottle and no oder.