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04-11-2018, 09:42 AM #6
well I've got items printed in standard pla that have been outside in the british weather for 3 or more years.
Apart from colour fading slightly, they're as good as new.
Bird feeders and poo bag dispensers primarily :-)
It's abs that doesn't like sunlight.
Not that we get much in the uk. But, cold, damp, rain and just plain misearable - we get a lot of that :-)
I have one pet-g item that is ridiculously strong. pretty sure it's esun white pet-g. It's a scraper I made to help change a motorhome awning.
Can't remember what settings I used. But even my dad couldn't break it and he's one of those people who looks on the term: 'virtually indestructible' as a challenge :-)
It's way tougher and stronger than injection moulded abs.
It was printed at 0.1mm layer height.
As were the miniature cogs i made a couple years back. That was colorfabb xt (they call it co-polymer, but I understand it's pet-g)
Everything I made in pet-g recently has been really bloody awful. Just weak as anything.
So I don' know if it's down to settings or my pet-g filament absorbing atmospheric water and getting 'wet'
Pet-g is more prone to stringing than pla.
Not a clue on your machine. Never had any type of i3 clone.
Please explain to me how to...
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