Comment on Recycling 3D Prints and Waste Plastic into Filament (PET & PLA) by Dr D Flo

• thurstylark@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Anything can be printed with enough heat.

  See: lava

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  • sj_zero ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Post: "My hot end is only reaching earth's mantle. Do I need to reach the surface of the sun to make this work?"
  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not to be like that… but… gases would be hard to print, I’m not sure why you’d want to….

    Liquids could be interesting, for like, ice sculptures. But at that point you’d be having to extract heat from ambient

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    • OminousOrange@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ice printing could work with supercooled water.

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      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Eh. That could work, might be more complicated though.

        I’m envisioning a freezer for an enclosure, then heat the water to just above melting. This would allow using essentially-fdm set ups on the printer itself.

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• cyborganism@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes. Well they are mixed with an epoxy.

  You can find the research online with all the details.

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• thantik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Glass reinforcement material is a common filler, just as much as carbon fiber.

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