6000 PSI PLA?? Originally shared by John Car 6000 PSI PLA What??

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6000 PSI PLA??

Originally shared by John Car

6000 PSI PLA What?? Got to try some of this
http://www.makergeeks.com/hipeplvigro6.html

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This company is really innovative. I asked them to make a glow in the dark version for drone parts. Prices are great also

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That does sound pretty interesting…

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Doesn’t matter what the tensile strength is if it creeps to fracture in a few weeks or months… Can’t trust PLA under load.

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I care more about the temperature abilities of that material than the strength. But then I care more about their business practices, they’ll advertise for sales when they can’t fulfill the order in months.

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6,000 is pretty mid-range for tensile testing on virgin thermoplastic. Put in pigments and run it through a 3D printer and test the printed part and you’re not going to get that.

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Getting high temp resistance requires annealing it… Which changes the part dimensions as the residual extrusion stresses relax. You can’t get low-warp, high-temp, and high stiffness in the same filament without compositing in somethings like glass or carbon fiber… It’s not physically possible. That’s just how warping works. In order to be low warp, a filament has to be low glass point (like regular PLA) or low stiffness (like PETG or TPU).

What I’m hearing here is regular PLA, maybe with minor improvements to its annealing behavior, and a lot of marketing fluff.

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I bought one of the first batches. Prints like PLA, but has the impact resistance and thermal properties of PETG.

It’s not as brittle as PLA or ABS - it’s bendable in long skinny sections. Maybe they added some softeners (like something in the BPA family).

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Water cooled? I would never imagine that

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Thanks for the update Jason. I am going to give it a try. I asked them if they can make a Glow in the Dark Version.