I agree but I don’t think the other distributors do much bean packing. That seems to mostly be done in USA and Canada. The containers Sebring uses are fantastic and he just scoops the beans in using a 1/8 teaspoon. I still think that would be the quickest but these containers are certainly a game changer for me and can be made much cheaper. Personally I couldn’t be happier.
Me too, it’s like Christmas here today 
It takes about 2 and half hours on my tiny printer to do 14 of them, not sure on the time frame for a larger printer
What’s not to like about these seed holders? lol They’re cheaper, lighter, faster to fill and don’t give out a telltale ‘rattle’…
game changer for sure, I totally agree 
I pack hundreds at a time. Now I will be doing even more. But, I distribute for many here that can’t or don’t want too.
I know but I consider you a distributor and are in the USA. I was talking about those outside USA and Canada who get their beans already packed by Sebring and now you 
I know you were distributing for a bunch of private runs and now with the co-ops. That’s why I said “seems to be mostly done in USA and Canada”.
You are right on! 
25 with a name embossed in bottom takes 8 hrs here. thinking on eliminating that as it adds considerable time.
you all can send commission checks for my design right to me…
I mean the pockets WERE my idea / design lol… let’s give credit where it’s due!!
print time is linear for filament printers. larger doesn’t mean faster, just more. for resin, it could be faster with a Saturn vs a mars cause you can fit more to a plate and the do entire layers at a time. for filament printers, if one takes 20 mins, 100 will take 2000 minutes since filament goes down in lines…
Nagel did you ever make some larger canagar moulds yet? Been itching to make some 7 gram torpedos!
I have made a whole 0$ on these, nor do i plan on ever charging. In fact between materials, time, and shipping it has cost me money. I have only sent pods to Doug and no one else.
This thread was not created by me nor was it something I had intended to blow up as much as it did. I shared the sorter I was working on in the chatroom and woke up to the thread created by a mod and a ton of notifications
I was merely sharing something I thought was neat with the community
Anyone that has come to me about the design I have sent your way, it was not my intention to step on any toes
For now I will be removing the files.
He did bud in the OP.
I think everyone is appreciative, I know I am. Thank you. @SensiBowl was kind enough to make some for me but did not charge me anything. He gave them to me to help with the seed packing I am doing for members.
as for resin times…
6 mins and 30 secs roughly for Eight 25mm holders and same time for Fifteen 20 mm holders
.125mm print layers
saying that im also on an first gen non mono screen elegoo mars, so with monos and bigger plates those times decrease by a couple minutes and numbers increase.
Also the rest of you stick to the round ones as my hexs i havent made a holder for though it was considered a ways back but mine would only require edges as you can link all the pucks up into a tile for more efficiency i’ll take a pic
… as example of the advantage of hexs and how you can load them up, but again stick to the rounds these are mine lol
i obviously kid and freely share the ideas of course and am happy to see other run with them and do their own things, go for it
actually came across a design sketch i did of some from two years ago though shape at the time i was thinking more like a rounded off rectangle where its round on the one short side and a curved indent on the other short side so you could put them all head to tail in chain and lay them side by side aswell, they just didn’t hold the seeds as well as i would like
then i started playing with square shapes and they were so so with the rounded centres for how seeds would pack in and i was doing tape on both sides at the time which in hind sight was more trouble than it was worth thus i started playing with 1" round stickers and holders with printed in backs on one side for efficiency and ease.
Also another idea i played with but didnt follow through with the totality of it.
stamps for the envelopes anyone
I take it that….
Your new design does, in a way that pleases you?
I like the “hex” look, it’s so neat and trippy and I like the colour you used too! 
AND the envelope stamps… so cute!?!?!?
well for mass seed loading square or more slightly rounded inner corners hold the seeds better and allow them to kinda layout like those hexcells, big rounded inner corners or say just a blank inner circle they wouldn’t fit as nicely as they would get pushed out of there natural linking layout.
As for single pockets thats different as your not stacking them together
Thank you, makes sense. 
And don’t think I posted these though i talked about it, was a way to personalize them that I was playing with so if say they got thrown in ones seed horde you know who the came from without having to write it.
Sides with the bigger print layers were a bit to rough to do the smearing paint trick cleanly and easy, though could be refined as I was think more top or bottom faces vs edges would be better for that paint technique.
But really just adding complexity and time at that point.
Have you done any research / trials on long term exposure of seeds to resin though? They do warn of not using resin for things you will be wearing / eating or drinking from, without clearcoating it. And well, you know what uncured resin can do, so cured resin still raises a flag for me because of that. I even wonder about the adhesives on the backs of our labels. I’ve used Avery labels and had no issues so far. Your non-pocket packs allow for cotton or tissue though, which also helps rattles and can “shield” the seeds from adhesives on the sticker back.
The detail available in resin though? 100x more than filament, thats for sure! I don’t use my Mars nearly as much as I’d like. with a dozen filament printers here, the Mars only gets used occasionally for things with super detail. Would be GREAT for printing cars for HO scale railroads IF everybody in your little town owned supercars (they seem to be the most common models available LOL). A town full of exotice ferraris, lambos and other supercars I never heard of.
MAJOR advantage to resin is print time for 1 item, or a full plate, is the same. It prints entire layers at once. Disadvantage is plate size currently, but they are getting bigger. Got my Mars before they Saturn was created. Saturn would work better for me (Mini-Z bodies are just a smidge too large on a Mars), so I didn’t put effort in to making more of my own. But the curves and contours, the tiny details, WOW…
no no no, they gotta do squares, or octagons, or triangles. You did the hexagons, I did the round ones.
