Showing posts with label PLA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PLA. Show all posts
Thursday 19 April 2012

ABS Fudge

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Many months ago I put some HIPS, ABS and PLA in a jar of limonene . The HIPS dissolved completely fairly quickly and the ABS and PLA were se...
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More trifurcated PLA

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I repeated the PLA in acetone experiment with red PLA and pure acetone. Same result, trifurcation after a few minutes: Here is what hap...
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Sunday 15 April 2012

Peeled PLA

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I have read conflicting forum posts as to whether acetone dissolves PLA or not, so I dropped a piece into a jar of acetone for an hour or so...
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Friday 14 May 2010

PLA on glass

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A while ago Jordan Miller emailed me to say that PLA can be printed on hot glass. He had tried ABS but it did not stick at 90°C, which was t...
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Friday 2 April 2010

CU + PLA

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Vik Olliver asked for a volunteer with a heated bed to see if we can extrude onto copper clad board. I didn't think it would stick, but ...
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Thursday 11 February 2010

PLA on a vacuum bed

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Having successfully made one Mendel z-leadscrew-base_2off as an experiment to try ABS on a vacuum bed, I decided to make the second from PL...
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Saturday 23 January 2010

Will it stick?

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ABS sticks very well to hot Kapton , so I wondered what else would stick to it. The first thing to try was PLA. This sticks pretty well to c...
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Monday 30 November 2009

Pinchless Extruder

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While dismantling my extruder for a small mod I accidentally discovered that the worm pulley has so much grip that it will still extrude PLA...
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Friday 20 November 2009

Beefed up bracket

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When I started reversing my extruder I noticed the motor bracket flexing. Here is a short video showing it in operation: - BendyExtruder fr...
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Tuesday 3 November 2009

Hacking with Erik

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Erik de Bruijn (RepRap evangelist) is in the UK at the moment visiting Salford and Nottingham universities to spread the word. Yesterday he...
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Tuesday 1 September 2009

Pear shaped

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My wife has a tiny orchard in our front garden, four fruit trees on dwarf stock. This year the espaliered pear tree has got a bit out of ha...
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Sunday 9 August 2009

Black and blue

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I got some of the 3M blue masking tape that Vik Olliver recommended as a bed material for PLA. It seems to be available up to 50mm wide, so...
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