Leveling the print platform on Creality Resin printers - Halot 1 - Halot Sky - LD 002R LD 002H

Hey folks, Tech Nibbers here. Today we are tackling some more maintenance on the Halot Sky over, excuse me, the Halot One over here. This is Creality MSLA machine. It uses resin to 3D print and I'm going to show you how to properly level your bed. So before we get into that, make sure you reduce your Z offset on that little red subscribe button down there and give that notification bell a good first layer squish so you can get notified when we post new videos. That being said, let's jump over to the printer and see how to level this out. So here we are with the Halot One. If you saw my last video, we just replaced the FVP film for the VAT on this machine. I definitely encourage you to check that video out if you're looking into maintenance and replacing the VAT. However, today we're going to be dealing with this and this is the build plate. So with resin printers, generally it's a backwards build. The Z is inverted from when you would do a machine like the Ender over there, a Cartesian or something like that where it builds on the build plate and builds up. This is the build plate and we lower it to the glass here. We make sure it's level and then we put our VAT on. So we need to do that before we install the VAT. The way to do this is to take your handy dandy Allen wrench that came with the printer. You're going to loosen all four of these screws here on the side. One more thing we want to do before we lower the VAT here is make sure that our plate is clean. So you don't want to leave any resin residue on the screen there. If you have resin in your machine or your build plate is dirty, you will need nitrile gloves for this process in order to be safe. Mine was just thoroughly clean and I haven't installed the VAT, put resin in it yet. So for now I'm okay sliding by without using the gloves, but if I didn't know for a fact that it was immaculately clean, I wouldn't be touching it without my nitrile gloves. Very, very important and it's important you get nitrile because this stuff will eat through vinyl and other types of plastic, which renders the gloves pointless. So now that we have it loosened, you can see that it wobbles here, which means it's adjustable. So now all we need to do is go down here into our settings and we're going to go and hit print or no, excuse me, we're going to hit settings. You need to go all the way back. Okay. Settings, other settings. Sorry guys, I just updated this machine. So it's not letting me do what I want to do here. Wait a minute. Before we go any further, I have to point out that it is now 2023 and there's no better time to start investing than right now. The stock market's been down a little bit lately. And as you know, in the game, you'd like to buy low and sell high. 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It's one of the reasons that this machine is so quiet, because it's not really in need of a lot of up and down speed. It does a whole layer at a time instead of having to print layer by layer. And it makes it a lot faster printing process, as well as a lot more accurate. So we're touching the build plate now. As you can see, I still have a little bit of leeway here. I don't want to push too hard, but I'm going to place a hand on both sides, making sure that I keep it touching the build plate. And I'm going to tighten these screws here. The ones we just loosened, there's four of them. And there's one. And just like with doing the FEP, you want to do opposite corners, get them down, and then do the other corners, and then go back and tighten everything once you're sure that it's where you want it. So I have my initial tightness there. Now you can see a little bit better what I'm doing, just tightening the screws. And I have a nice even lay here. There's no gaps, and it should work really well. Now, one of the reasons that you do this without the vat on is because this negates the thickness of that FEP film. So it's going to push up against it really, really hard. And that's what's going to allow it to release from the film. So you get really good adhesion to your bed and not so much adhesion to the FEP film, which is exactly what we want. That is pretty much it. Now that we are done, you go ahead and go back to zero, and it will lift out of the way so I can install my vat. Once that's done, you can put your resin in and get a file and get to printing. So let's go ahead and slide this back on. We'll be back to printing in no time here. You want to make sure that you get both of these in the hole before you tighten them down. And the instructions do say to tighten them down evenly. So you want to tighten them both at the same time. You want to make sure it's nice and tight, and then you are ready to add your resin and get to printing. I'm going to be doing a lot of videos on this machine coming up, guys. I have several projects that I'm working on for a company I'm closely working with in the medical industry in South Dakota. So we have some interesting things we're going to be printing. I definitely recommend you check those videos out. But if you just want to know more about the Creality resin printer series, definitely stick around because I've got some really interesting stuff that's going to be coming out of this machine really shortly. That's going to be it for this video, guys. Thank you for stopping by. Hope this was helpful for you. Go ahead and leave me any ideas you have for videos or questions you may have on this machine in the comments, and I'll see what I can do to make that video for you. That's it, guys. Tech Nibbers out.