there was once green stuff … then greenwash took over… there was once genuine desire for 3D printing advancement, now “there’s a 3D printing consumer market” that is as prone to abuse as the delicate environmentally friendly companies and products that have been “washed” away by marketing strategies instead of green products…
With this stuff, marketing aside, does anyone know a good source for hardened nozzles that will work with one of SeeMeeCNC’s Orion printers? A tungsten alloy would be nice.
The material properties here don’t make sense. Addition of any kind of stiff fiber of granule (ie any form of carbon) will make a filament STIFFER. So they can’t be using PLA as a base. It has to be something that’s already significantly flexible, like nylon or TPU.
Should of put the price first, not last!!, Well that’s 5 minutes I won’t ever get back. grrrr
Yeah, you’re not going to see any performance advantage with adding CNTs in there (if they even add them). Youte better off going with carbon fiber.
@Brett_Giesler Right, both CNT and graphene are basically just carbon-black when you look at the macro scale in a bulk material additive usage like this. Carbon black has been used as an additive to harden elastomers (eg o-rings and car tires) for ages.
“carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide” Are they throwing in a list of chemicals benign to most plastics? The pricing is in the commercial user range but without information about what’s in it, I wouldn’t use it for a commercial environment. The material might be PHA or a variation on PET.
Does anyone else think it is odd that they say that it is compostable and resistant to caustic soda? Caustic soda is supposed to eat most organic substances and the finish off of pans, or so I thought.
Yeah, you can’t have both. Either it’s incredible resistant to chemicals, or it’s biodegradable. Either that they’re claiming the plastic matrix component will degrade (it won’t), and the CNT’s will be left, which are resistant to caustic soda (because it will be carbon dust at that point). Either way it’s deceptive.