Taulman T-Glass looks very promising. Anybody tried it?
http://taulman3d.com/news.html
Taulman had some testers, I was offered some from the “unobtanium” batch as he called it, but I turned it down due to lack of time. Obviously he’s going to be trying to push his product, but he told me that it basically had no warping, no smell, hard like PLA, optically clear (not just going in, but coming out too!), and was supposedly amazing to print with. He said his Nylon was amazing and he wasn’t blowing smoke about those, so I trust this is going to be an awesome material.
It’s definitely worth ordering a spool. @Richard_Horne is apparently teaming up later on to release pre-colored batches, as the filament is hygroscopic, meaning it absorbs moisture and can be dyed.
Cool. Thanks!!
Good to see innovation going on in this area. We need more (and cheaper) materials.
“as the filament is hygroscopic, meaning it absorbs moisture and can be dyed.”
Is that ^^ going to be a problem for ppl in humid climates?
And are the printed parts as vulnerable to humidity as the filament is? And as it’s FDA approved, is it going to be absorbing moisture from “wet” foods?
No warping, no odor, very easy to print. It’s really good stuff.
Is t-Glase affected by acetone?
Also has anyone tried printing t-Glase on ABS? If not, perhaps someone with some samples could try it out.
If it adheres well then its almost an unholy trinity: low stringing, low warp and adheres to an easily dis-solvable support material (PET isn’t normally affected by acetone).
Only a handful of people actually have had any printing experience with t-glase, these questions will probably have to wait until people start getting it.
AFAICT, t-glase is PET plastic, so you should probably start with looking up the chemical properties of that.
The t-glase is definitely affected by acetone. Haven’t had a whole lot of time to investigate further, but it seems to soak up acetone almost instantly and become very very brittle. It’s weird. I put a little acetone on a napkin, held a piece of filament against the acetone and it broke under very little stress. Then I put a few cut pieces in a jar of acetone for a few minutes. Removed one and let it dry and it was like nothing ever happened.