First attempt with Klean Strip produced mixed results. 30 min soak turned the test piece (2 mm thick walls) completely opaque and rubbery. I either need a much shorter soak, or vapor smoothing as...
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First attempt with Klean Strip produced mixed results. 30 min soak turned the test piece (2 mm thick walls) completely opaque and rubbery. I either need a much shorter soak, or vapor smoothing as...
It turns out that I actually have a canister of Klean Strip paint stripper at home, and yes, it's supposed to be >60% dichloromethane (they also add something to turn it into viscous paste.) Before I...
Got a roll of PETG filament. Prints look nice and somewhat semi-transparent, but the surface is not perfectly smooth (especially on top and bottom surfaces, you can see lines formed by each pass of...
I wanted glow in the dark. I still don't see many uses for UV reactant filaments.
You are correct.
I probably should have known better, but it was not apparent to me that anyone would want to make filament whose distinctive feature is being able to glow under a UV light /...
If you were naive like me and you thought that the terms are interchangeable ... apparently they are not.
I have three rolls of filament. Shaxon's "fluorescent green" ABS and PLA, and MG's...
If you use d-limonene to dissolve support and you want to stretch your quantity a bit further, here's a trick you can use.
Take used limonene, pour it into a container (e.g. a mason jar), and...
Curious. I have Shaxon pink, green (glow-in-the-dark), blue, and black ABS, and Flashforge white ABS and blue PLA. After a night in limonene, Shaxon's pink and green ABS filaments completely...
Interesting. However, in your link, they got their ABS degraded after multiple months of soaking. I had regular (non-glowing) printed ABS pieces immersed in limonene for up to a day with no apparent...
So far I've been printing with regular ABS, using HIPS for support and limonene or orange oil as solvent for HIPS. It generally worked out all right: though HIPS was dissolving quite slowly and I...
I'm experimenting with HIPS as raft/support. I got a roll of HIPS, but I couldn't get chemical-grade d-limonene yet (no local stores have it and Amazon insists on shipping it to me via UPS ground...
I switched from rep g to makerware. Native support of dual extrusion is nice. It can easily print with ABS from one extruder while using dissolvable filament (HIPS) from the other for raft and...
This actually gave me an idea. I tried covering the handles, that didn't help, I tried to up the platform temperature to 120, that seemed to make it even worse. So I went the other way. Put more...
Yes, I have the acrylic pieces over the top. But, of course, there's a big hole where the wires go in, and slits in both side walls of the enclosure. I did a bit of poking around with an IR...
Just had another failure.
ABS, 115 C platform, 230 C extruders, kapton+hairspray, relatively large part (~5 cm across at the base.) Part started out perfectly fine. By 10 mm, the piece was visibly...
Hi everyone,
I'm a new owner of FF Creator Pro. Been experimenting with it for several days now, with mixed degrees of success (made a pretty cool looking owl, a skull and several unrecognizable...