Best soluble support filament?
Hi folks, may I ask for your recommendations for a water soluble support filament? 1.75mm (should that matter), to be printed on a Prusa i3 Mk2.
Note, I won’t be dual printing with this, but printing whole parts, so any concerns over ooze when dual printing are not really relevant, it’s the basic printability and quality that matters.
I’m in the UK, so UK/Europe suppliers would be preferable.
As far as I know PVA is the only water soluble filament. HIPS is soluble on D-Limonene, a citrus extract.
Hi @Scott_Williamson sorry, what I meant was a supplier , i.e. who sells the best brand.
Ah! Ha! I’m interested too, I’ll stay tuned.
what would be a nice development is a support filament that you could recover, reshape into a filament and reuse, instead of adding more strange plastic compounds to the environment. A high temperature wax maybe?
Hi
E3D Scaffold s a modified PVA for dissolving. Ultimaker sells a PVA that absorbs moisture slowly.
I’m confused by this line “not printing dual but making whole parts”. It doesn’t compute with wanting to dissolve supports. PVA doesn’t make good parts.
It makes sense if he is using it as a core to wrap carbon fiber on.
@Daniel_Kruger 's got it, @Jeff_DeMaagd - I’m going to use the printed parts as manually inserted support structures to be dissolved away. There are reasons why this seems like a good approach that are too complex to go into!