u/Toobrish

I’m developing products professionally as an entrepreneur with a single BL A1.

Currently I am 3-D printing a mould to cast PU foam and having had real trouble with adhesion on my non-enclosed bamboo labs A1.

This mould is in 16 parts and will take about 60 hours of print time and then I will need to iterate it a few times so well over 150 hours of time total.

Hence I’m thinking of building a small print farm with three or four machines. I’m looking at buying Elegoo carbon centurai or more A1s or A2L or H2x.

Top of my needs is I need to have no more print adhesion issues (tried three plates with numerous temp tweaks but never sorted this issue)

I also need to be able to iterate this project much quicker - hence the need to more machines. Alternatively, I am looking at printing with 0% infill and squirting expanding foam into cavity to achieve strong parts with less print time.

I would also appreciate a large print volume on other projects (not this one but in future).

I’ve only ever printed in PLA and PETG so have no idea if I need to explore stronger materials.

Which machines should I be looking to for?

I’m developing products professionally as an entrepreneur with a single BL A1.

Currently I am 3-D printing a mould to cast PU foam and having had real trouble with adhesion on my non-enclosed bamboo labs A1.

This mould is in 16 parts and will take about 60 hours of print time and then I will need to iterate it a few times so well over 150 hours of time total.

Hence I’m thinking of building a small print farm with three or four machines. I’m looking at buying Elegoo carbon centurai or more A1s or A2L or H2x.

Top of my needs is I need to have no more print adhesion issues (tried three plates with numerous temp tweaks but never sorted this issue)

I also need to be able to iterate this project much quicker - hence the need to more machines. Alternatively, I am looking at printing with 0% infill and squirting expanding foam into cavity to achieve strong parts with less print time.

I would also appreciate a large print volume on other projects (not this one but in future).

I’ve only ever printed in PLA and PETG so have no idea if I need to explore stronger materials.

What should I be looking to for to solve all of this?

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