Quote Originally Posted by Ama-fessional Molder View Post
I have a sneaking suspicion that you could obtain better results with an extruding head that has a .020" or smaller nozzle diameter and a long channel. This would force the polymer chains to orient parallel to the melt stream, and would cause a much stronger extrusion in that axis... But I doubt a 3d printer would be very fast or effective with such a nozzle - that is a very, very small hole.
Would it not do a better job of aligning the molecules if you used a bigger nozzle and moved fast to stretch the extrusion?