Cuiring box design

26.10.2017 This page is being created and therefore in the process of editing.

Final project of Kasper Dienel in course ELEC-L3999: 3D Printing of Open Source Hardware for Science at Aalto University.

26.10.2017 Comment: The plans for the curing box are ready and most of the parts purchased, printed or CADs created, but the whole box is not yet put together. This is because the LED strips ordered on ebay will not arrive until in november or early december.

Designer

Kasper Dienel Aalto University, Research Group of Polymer Technology

Project

This page describes how you can build a Curing box for photocrosslinkable resins. Such curing boxes are mainly used for after curing of stereolithography builds. Research Group of Polymer Technology develops biodegradable photo-crosslinkable resins for SLA devices. Therefore, we can use a box like this one to test the crosslinking of our materials. There are many designs on curing boxes on the web, but none of them fit all of our needs. One requirement set by our users was to be able to create a N2 atmosphere within the box.

Parts

  • The box
  • UV LED Flexible Strip
  • Shelf brackets
    • I modified this model found on Thingiverse to suit my needs, here is a link to my shelf bracket that you can modified using eg. the parametric OpenSCAD file
  • Bars for insulating strip
    • To make the door airtight, bars are needed to attach the insulating weather strip on. Parametric 3D printable model I created can be found [here] including OpenSCAD file.
  • Hose connector
    • A nice Universal hose adapter can be found here. I decided to use it as it is by just scaling it a little.
  • Weather strip for sealing door and silicone sealant
    • Buy in local hardware store
  • Glas plate as shelf


Directions

1.) Prin 2.)


Final Prints and Parts

Estimated Cost

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