a stronger material

[boep777]

Hi All, I need a material to print my fridge's door railing holder.
First holder I made was form PETG, after 2 month the holder broke. (I actually was impressed that it got broken perpendicular to printing direction ).
Now I made an ABS unit - lets see.
I ordered madesolid PET+ which is claimed to be stronger and less brittle. Any other suggestions ?
I would prefer plastic without infill - something which will not wear the hot end nozzle (v4). -- Thanks!

[jimc]

your really not going to get any stronger than esun's epc. thats about the strongest thing your gonna find thats actually easily printable. gotta print it at about 270.


pet+ is basically very similar to petg. you wont see any better strength with that. opaque colors layer bond poorly also. or atleast it alwasy did. i havent used it in about a year and half. petg will be stronger than the abs part as well.

[insta]

Hi All, I need a material to print my fridge's door railing holder.
First holder I made was form PETG, after 2 month the holder broke. (I actually was impressed that it got broken perpendicular to printing direction ).
Now I made an ABS unit - lets see.
I ordered madesolid PET+ which is claimed to be stronger and less brittle. Any other suggestions ?
I would prefer plastic without infill - something which will not wear the hot end nozzle (v4). -- Thanks!

Either eSUN's ePA, or cast it with polyurethane resin.

I have the ability and know-how to do either of these, feel free to hire me

[jsc]

How does the ePA handle bridging? Any fuzz issues like we see with PETG?

And which resin do you like, that is strong but demolds easily? I've played around a little bit with casting resins, but they're a devil to demold.

[boep777]

Either eSUN's ePA, or cast it with polyurethane resin.

Did you mean ePC ? Can't find the material online...

Will try ePC - thanks !

[insta]

How does the ePA handle bridging? Any fuzz issues like we see with PETG?

And which resin do you like, that is strong but demolds easily? I've played around a little bit with casting resins, but they're a devil to demold.

I've visited Smooth-On's local distributor pretty heavily. 95% of the time I'm doing a silicone mold first, usually platnium-cure (MoldStar 15 is my preference).

boep777: contact sales@intservo.com and order a spool of ePA. It's not ePC. It's a pain to get stuck to the bed (I use garolite, thick gluestick on glass might work), but it's really strong once it's printed.

[boep777]

Thanks, I wrote to INTSERVO - will try both ePC and ePA.

[boep777]

Ok, today ABS holder got broken - PET+ is installed, ePC holder is ready for test, go ePA roll as well ...
PETG survived about 2-3 months
ABS survived a month

[Bratag]

Carbon Fiber?

[jimc]

Yeah i just did some testing and samples on some esun carbon fiber filled nylon. Wow what awesome stuff. It stuck down to a hairspray coated bed rock solid and its got zero warp that i could see. Extremely odd for nylon.