ELEGOO Water Washable 3D Printer Resin 1.0, Upgraded LCD UV-Curing Resin 405 nm Photopolymer Resin for LCD 3D Printing - Ceramic Grey 1000g

Good quality

Purchased a new Elegoo Saturn 4 printer as an upgrade form my Mars 2 Pro. I had a little Anycubic water washable Resin left over so used it up in my first batch pf prints and using the default settings everything came out perfect. As I was running low on Resin I thought I wold be better off using the same brand of resin as the printer so purchased a bottle of Elegoo water washable resin. It's now Tuesday and I've already used up the 1kg bottle. Not because I've done 100's of perfect prints, far from it. Nearly every print failed. Either it detached at the supports, or simply produced a miss shaped print. I tried changing the settings to those suggested on YouTube, and by using the downloadable profile - all the same. With the last bit of resin left I ordered a bottle of Anycubic Water washable 2.0 resin which arrived today. I used the last bit of the Elegoo resin to print off some N scale model containers and every one failed again. I cleaned the build plate and resin vat and then filled the vat with the Anycubic resin. I did nothing else, just set the machine to print off the same file that had just failed. 90 minutes later it finished and I had 10 perfect parts, all still attached to the build plate via the supports. So why did I give this review 5 stars, because of the fantastic after service care. Elegoo reached out to me after Amazon published the above review. I sent a few images of the poor results, along with the batch number. Over the course of a few days and an exchange of messages a refund was offered and accepted. The funds were back in my account within a couple of days. So whilst my experience with the resin was not great, the service and supports post purchase was second to none.

I bought this material as an alternative to the resin that you need to wash in IPA. The first prints I did cracked but I think I didn't shake the bottle enough before the first print. I have printed 8 times since and there have been no issues since. The difference is now I have shaken the bottle but I think it is important to wash any leftover resin in the product. I do this with an acoustic wash tank for a few minutes. The detail is amazing and the grey is very striking. This is far easier than washing in IPA and the smell is a little less (still a smell).

My first time using an SLA pinter ( https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08FR39QJ7/ ) I read all the horror-stories of what can go wrong, but I was printing 10 minutes after unpacking and the first print was great. Look at the detail in that photo! (Glasses for scale). No re-work whatsoever on that model, just water wash and post-cure. This is the only resin I tried so far, but it's obviously easy for beginners. The exposure I used for that printer was 5 base layers at 30 sec each then 3 sec per layer (0.05mm layers) The resin is brittle, which I expected, but pretty strong and it does have a little flex - not like glass. Files and drills easily. Consider that I brushed those very fine railings you see on the photo with a toothbrush before realising that the delicate detail was there! The resin washes off quickly under a running tap and a light scrub with a toothbrush - then cure under a UV lamp. I intend to try more flexible resins, but this one works perfectly OK, and I cannot smell it at all.

Very pleased

great resin

This is my first foray intro Resin Printing. I have been using FDM printers for 6 years now, and I wanted to try out the MSLA option too. This is my first time using resins, and I chose this Elegoo Water Washable resin as a beginner. First of all the bottle came well packed, inside a box and sealed in a thick plastic bag so no real risk of getting resin everywhere I'd the bottle breaks. The bottle itself is plastic, but very strong and thick, and it comes very well sealed. It also had a small brush in the package. The resin smells. Quite bad. I can't compare it to other resins, but it is an acrid smell. I bought a respirator and filters for VOCs and I don't have any problems now. First time using it without a mask, it did give me bad headaches. Dialing in the resin wasn't very difficult. I used Elegoo's spreadsheet to match my printer settings (Elegoo Mars 3 Pro). The test print that came with the printer came out fine. I also did a Siraya Tech calibration which helped me dial in the settings further. This was washed in tap water (not in the sink). I think it doesn't clean very well the small details, but I used the brush that came in the package to get in every nook and cranny. Still, an ultrasonic cleaner would probably produce better results. I have cured the resin with a small UV light I have from smartphone tempered glass installation kit and it seemed to work well enough. I do need a proper UV light to do it. Even after curing there is a smell to the printed parts. I'm not sure if that's from the curing light not being strong enough. But you can only smell it if you hold the prints close to your nose. All in all I'm happy with this resin. I just wished it was cheaper.

highly recommend if your looking for resin for a person that is printing for the first time go for it