ELEGOO ABS-Like 3D Printer Resin, 405nm UV-Curing LCD Resin High Precision Fast Curing Non-Brittle Standard Photopolymer Resin for LCD Printing Mint Green 1000G

I found Elegoo water washable too brittle for miniatures. Something always breaks if dropped. I am looking forward to giving ABS-Like 2.0 a try. My bottle of grey arrived in the Elegoo box I expected in the sealed bag I expected.

I was a little concerned about using resin that is as transparent as the clear blue. I did a test print and found that 2.3 seconds was the best exposer for my printer and room temperature. Durability seems better then standard resins but is still not what I would consider a tough resin. Fidelity was excellent considering the general reputation of clear resin fidelity. I will likely buy other colors of the same type.

Once I tweaked the exposure (YMMV) a tad higher, it worked just fine. While not glass brittle, it's also not as flexible as non-translucent ABS resins. I accidentally dropped a medium sized gem print from about 4 feet and no ill effects discerned. Otherwise, it performs as well as any resin should when capturing details.

Prints well

So I got this resin to try and get a more durable print for my miniatures and terrain we use in wargaming. The resin is WAAAAYY stronger and more durable, by a long mile over others I have tried. I am very pleased with that part. Where I have had issues is getting the resin to not fill in the gaps. It is very "thick" and tends to cling to itself even after washing in iso. I consistently have fine holes that should be in a mini getting clogged with hard resin.That said, for what I am doing it is no big deal and I am able to easily work around it and get the results I want. But for any die hard perfectionist out there it may be an issue. I have played with several different exposure times on my Anycubic Mono and the results are pretty much always the same, so not sure if I am doing something wrong or this is just how the resin prints. Overall I am very happy with the resin and already bought another batch of the grey this time.

So, after using the basic Elegoo 3D Rapid Resin, I decided I needed something a little sturdier for the bulk of my projects. The extra money (approximately $10 more for the same volume) means you have a more durable cured product, with a slight amount of flex. It does seem to need a little more curing time than the basic settings (35 second exposure for base layer, 2.5 second exposure for subsequent ones) so I've played a little with them. I've found 60/5 to work best for my minis. I mentioned adhesion in the review for the 3D Rapid Resin, and I'll say it's a lot stronger with this product. depending on how I have the objects arranged for printing, they sometimes pull off of the support contact point and stay stuck to the FEV film. Over all though, I prefer this resin, especially when working with thinner pieces.Moving on to my curing issues. It seems that even after washing for 10 minutes (90% alcohol wash, with an agitator) and setting on a UV turntable for 10 minutes, they still feel kind of tacky to me. I took one print set to cure in the sun after being cured in the machine. I'm not sure if the UV lamp isn't strong enough or I'm not letting it cure long enough on the table, but natural daylight helped quite a bit. A little inconvenient but not so much that I wouldn't recommend the product.I'm still learning, so I may update if things change as I get more experience.

There are a lot of misconceptions out there about what ABS-LIKE (imagine "like" being bold and underlined) resin can and cannot do compared to regular resin. It is less brittle and more flexible, but still resin. Having ordered both the Elagoo standard and ABS-like resins, I was able to compare. Use is not necessarily a fair test, so I decided to actually test a belt clip printed in beige, grey, and ABS-like grey. The beige was easily snapped and could be crushed without much effort. The grey took a little more effort to snap and crush. The ABS-like grey bent almost completely away from the light before snapping and required the aid of pliers to crush.Resin will still snap and crush and it will still be far easier than PLA. The other thing to consider is the detail. With each upgrade in strength, there is a little bit of detail sacrificed. This is where an ABS-like resin can be better than PLA. If you are looking for the best balance, it is going to be standard grey. If you are willing to give up an almost unnoticeable amount of detail for more strength, then that is where ABS-like is going to be the best choice.As for this particular brand, it is significantly cheaper than a lot out there. My first week of printing was done with Anycubic resin until I realized what I was spending. After a lot of research, I decided to try Elagoo. I have not only switched my resin to Elagoo, but also some extra vats to avoid cleaning between color changes. It is a lot cheaper without being cheap. I may have purchased an Anycubic printer for the features, but everything else is Elagoo.

I picked this up to print some translucent crystals for a tabletop game on my new Elegoo Mars 3. The crystals came out looking great, though quality with each subsequent print became lower. My FEP sheet has been badly damaged after 3 prints with this resin.This resin sticks to the FEP 2 sheet in the Mars 3 a lot more than any other resin I have tried, actually ripping all the supports off my first print overnight due to adhesion to both the bed and FEP. After completing 3 prints with much heavier support settings, my FEP sheet looks like it's been through the wringer, and is so badly scuffed up it no longer handles fine details on my water-wash gray resin prints.I'll be replacing my FEP, and I am wary of using this resin again.