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3D Printer restoration

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2023Completed

The story

I was walking around a flea market checking out old electronics. There I saw an old beaten up Anycubic Photon 3D printer. I decided to buy it hoping that it was working properly and only needed a deep cleaning. Sadly, when I got it home I discovered that it had a dead LCD matrix, but at least I knew that it was still alive. So I did what I had to and ordered a new one from Aliexpress. While waiting for it to deliver I completely took apart the entire printer to clean it because the there was a resin spill. After a few days of scrubbing the parts and putting the printer together the printer was a bit cleaner and most importantly wasn’t sticky with resin anymore. I did mess up and accidentally used the wrong solution on of the yellow transparent plastic windows and made it cloudy, but I like to think of it as adding a bit of personality to the printer. When the replacement LCD matrix arrive I replaced the old broken one and the printer finally worked. I bought myself a bottle of resin and made my first print with this printer. Now I have a pretty decent SLA 3D printer.

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