dbclunie: August 2013

Thursday, August 29, 2013

T-Glase - New Filament from Taulman3d! (updated!)

I got my hands on a spool of the latest 3d printing Filament called T-Glase from the folks over at Taulman3d.com . Its a low temp (212c) filament that is food safe (its FDA approved!), no fumes when printing, has excellent layer bonding, almost no shrinkage, and has great strength and is stiff like pla/abs, prior to to printing its very flexible(see video below).

There is also discussion of various colors in this materials for release later this year or early next and the man they got to help with the colorizing of the filament is none other than Rich from Richrap.com .

The filament is a bit on the pricy side @ $30 for just 1 lbs of filament, which the normal spools of ABS/PLA are 1kg or 2.2 lbs and go for as little as $19.99 to $30 on average.

Can't wait to test this filament out with some cool designs! :D Here are some pics from Taulmans site with some of their test prints:

UPDATE: So I arrived home and put this into the Rep2x and printed out a small sample chip I used 215c print head, 80c heated print bed, 50 head speed extrusion with 150 travel, 1 shell, 100% infill. I set another sample chip next to it, transparent abs from 3d2print, the t-glase is on the LEFT. Here is the pic of the results. I printed this on blue painters tape. Also once printed its stiff like PLA/ABS.

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Thursday, August 22, 2013

Filament Rolls Galore! From Protoparadigm!

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Check it out! 10 rolls of the stuff! WOOT! Lots of fun colors to print with! I got these from the folks over at Protoparadigm ! I wanted to augment my printing with some alternate shades and hues of color vs the standard red, blue, yellow, green, black, and white, of most other manufacturers. I can't wait to print out test print chips for these fun colors. (note two of the colors are also from their florescent line, i think the top right two in the second column, violet and hot pink!)

One thing I also wanted to say was that I ordered these at 1am on Aug 20th and received them today Aug 22nd! Talk about FAST! The other cool thing is that they have free shipping on orders over $300 bucks! (not sure if that's a standard or a one time thing.)

I'll include these on my test report when I finally do the write up for all the filament that I have, which so far is i think 42 and counting. :)

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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

3D Print & Video : Multi Scoops! (5hrs @ 200 microns)

Check the quick video after the jump of the multiple scoops print almost complete. This was on a Makerbot Replicator2x. The scoops are printed in 3d2Print.net translucent ABS filament, 5hrs print time @ 200 microns, 228c print head 90c heated print bed, 2 shells with 5% infill, other settings are default makerware.

3D Print : Custom Made Sugar Scoops

Initial testing of various orientations for printing out this custom designed sugar scoop in one piece. In the end created a two part print, first part handle and second part scoop, which resulted in the "cleanest" finished product. (can be seen as the largest scoop).