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November 7, 2021 at 1:48 pm #1691867

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Anycubic’s own brand is pretty pungent. I use ST and Elegoo resins and either I’m much more used to the smell, or they’re not as stinky – I couldn’t say which! (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07FD84353/ )

You can leave your resin in the vat – I often leave mine for weeks and weeks on end. But find and print/lasercut yourself a resin cover! (there’s an AnyCubic vat cover on thingiverse I printed years ago that’s still going strong). The only thing is, if it’s been standing for, say, a month or more (not often, but it has happened) I give the resin a stir with a soft-tipped cotton bud before printing (or if it’s really cold and I can see that the resin is starting to “separate”).

I only clean my vat when I’ve had any kind of failure (again, that rarely happens for me, but when it does, I *always* clean the vat fully). If there’s a chance any amount of cured resin might be floating about in the resin, clean the vat (else it’ll damage your screen). Otherwise, it’s fine to leave it in there (with a light-proof lid over it).