I’ve made Car seat button pressers and chapstick holders for my car that gets plenty hot and have never had any problems with PLA. They are thicker prints so you might have problems with thinner prints or if you live in a hot climate. I live in a fairly hot in the summer and cold in the winter climate.
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fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I’m curious how it holds up as well. I was printing a little deflector for my air vent out of regular PLA, and on an 85 degree day the PLA warped in just a couple of hours. I finally have a design I’m happy with, I just need to print in a better material and all I’ve ever printed in is PLA.
Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
mipadaitu@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We’ve had a couple 100 degree F days, and the thermometer read 110° a couple times, and the plastic seems to be fine (so far).
It’s mostly out of the sun, since it’s low on the dashboard, so I expect it’ll hold up.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Mine is sadly right in the window, but I might get tint at some point so that should help.
I see you have a window shade, but do you also have tint? On 100f days my interior gets well over 110 even with my shade up.
Captnkrk69@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Try petg. It prints just as nice as pla. I run it full speed on a 5m no problem.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I think I bought a spool of PETG a while back. I know I have two spools of ABS that I haven’t touched yet, but that was very much for a reason. I’ll be near micro center this weekend so I’ll have to dig through my box of filament before then.