Resin prices - Materials

13 May.,2024

 

Resin prices - Materials

This is just a gripe post to be honest. I’ve been trying to find a good stockist of SLA resin here in the UK. Formlabs want a total of £134.13 for a litre of resin delivered to the UK from the European store. That is equal to 182 Euro or $204. If I lived in Washington (a state I had a Zip code handy for) it would have been $162 delivered from the US store. This really pees me off. Why am I paying $42 more to have a litre of resin sent to me from the European store? Is it being sent from the US to them first? I think it’s probably to do with Customs tax and the European Union, but why have a European store if we still have to pay the high tax, can’t it be manufactured in the EU?

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Having researched prices and suppliers, and after being supplied with some MadeSolid resin with my printer that worked more reliably than the clear Formlabs resin I also got, it’s a sad fact that for the moment, I can’t afford to buy Form1 resin for my Form1 machine. I would if I could, but I’m not in a position to spend this much before I am ready to go commercial and before I can get the Formlabs resin to print as reliably as other makes. This makes me pretty sad, I’ve got a fabulous machine but can’t afford to run it how it’s supposed to be run.

I ended up buying two 500ml bottles of Makerjuice (1 black, 1 green) from a European company called iMakr.com, it cost me half the price of a litre of Formlabs resin. Ideally I need grey resin, but for half the price I’ll settle for another colour.

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Sorry, needed a rant, would appreciate hearing other people’s opinions on this as I have a feeling I’m doing it wrong.

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