I'll let you know tomorrow.

I did some reading on curing pla recently.

And while you can do it in an oven - most ovens aren't that precise at low temperatures.

But it did say the lower the temp the longer the cure.
Also that you could actually cure at 70c if you left it long enough.


My excalibur food dehydrator will hit 68c - is that going to be hot enough ? No idea :-)

So i printed a box from transparent pla, and I'm going to 'cure' it overnight and see if it:

a) becomes any more transparent. it's got 2mm thick walls printed at a slant. But you can see your fingers through it - which is already fairly impressive.

b) shrinks significantly in size. I do have a black pla box that is identical, that I can use as a control. So I can use if for flextual texts as well as size comparison.

If it does work and has apositive efect on the pla - it means there's an idiot proof way to easily and cheaply cure standard pla.

I'll also do ma temperature comparison in the future if this first test does anything noticeable.

It's not like I'm making much jerky or snackstix at the moment, so it's about time the excalibur did some work :-)

see you tomorrow.