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Brian Lamb
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Go to Matterhackers for a breakdown of available printing materials. I found PC listed, but it requires 280?C on the extruder and pretty high bed temps too, not sure my printer will get that high. A lot of nuances in 3D printing. One advantage, is there are
plenty of print farms that you can send your 3D deign to and they will print it for you, out of pretty much anything available... for a price.
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Brian,
Are any of the materials you mentioned are poly carbonate?Google search said it has very good strength. If not, would an inexpensive printer handle PC?
Imran
On Feb 23, 2020, at 8:43 PM, Brian Lamb <blamb11@...> wrote: ?The printer Mark Kessler is using is out of reach for any home hobby type situation. You can get a decent 3D printer for $500 or so, but it¡¯s going to take $3000-$5000 to get one capable of printing with carbon fiber enhanced materials (or a
lot of modifications to a cheaper model). With most home type machines you can print PLA, ABS, PETG and a few other alphabet soup combo¡¯s. PLA is the most common and easiest to print with, but it does have strength and durability issues. I printed a LED light
mount for my CNC mill using it and it has held up ok, even under the spray of oil and water based coolants.?
I also printed up some replacement speaker grills on my van when I did the handicapped conversion¡ the side doors required all new panels to accommodate the automatic door openers. That had to be printed out of ABS due to the summertime heat (would
have melted and warped the PLA). Using ABS requires that you enclose the printer and keep the heat enclosed or the print goes to hell.
I have not used the DLP (Digital Light Processing) models. The smoothness of the prints is much better than FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling) and I think they have units coming out that will print with fairly strong materials¡ at what cost, I don¡¯t
know.
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