Recycling PLA. InstaMorph - Moldable Plastic. Specially formulated color pigments.
The easiest, cleanest, and most powerful way to color your InstaMorph. These black, red, blue, and yellow pigment pellets were specially formulated to work with InstaMorph moldable plastic. They melt at the same temerpature and mix completely with our classic, white InstaMorph. We've included four basic colors which you can mix to create any color in the rainbow. 3mm PLA Green Glow in Dark Filament 1.0kg (=2.205 lbs) on Spool for 3D Printer MakerBot RepRap and UP! - Jet: Amazon.com: Industrial & Scientific. PLA 3mm Blue Translucent 5lb. A RepRap Breeding Program: Glowing PLA... After receiving my PLA from UltiMachine on Monday I put the natural roll on and did some test prints.
I was saving the blue translucent until after adjusting the machine a little more. For some reason I thought "I wonder if either of these PLAs glows under black-light? " So I dug out a black-light and tried, nothing from the natural but look what the blue does... This is very cool and as far as I know previously undocumented. Update: lost PLA metal casting — The Movie. Making plastic filament at home. Bioplastics - PLA lifecycle. Etheses.bham.ac.uk/1611/1/Murphy11MRes.pdf.
Technical Resources. Compostables® — Cereplast. Cereplast creates compostable bioplastic resin pellets from renewable resources. Manufacturers use the plastic pellets to make packaging and single use consumer products. Products are 100% compostable, breaking down in 180 days or less in industrial compost facilities. How to Make Biodegradable Plastic. Glasses case. Smoothing ABS prints - Awesome hack from reprap.org - Google Groupes.
Perfectly Smooth Your 3D Prints - But Be Careful! After the initial thrill of seeing a 3D print emerge from thin air, 3D print newbies often notice the layering effect.
This is, of course, caused by the gradual deposition of plastic layers during the build process. Depending on the layer resolution selected for print, these layers could be very visible, or not. The point is those visible layers make the 3D printed object's visual and tactile feel very different from other plastic objects found at the neighborhood store. 3D printer owners are cursed with this problem. Or are they? Two solutions have been attempted in the past: tumbling the finished object with specially shaped ceramic bits to slowly rub down the layering, and secondly dipping your ABS plastic print into a tub of acetone. The tumbling solution works, but requires a tumbler and the correct tumbling media. Poultry feather fibre composites and PHA/PLA blends. Bio-polymer distributor A and O FilmPAC Limited have added 2 new materials to their product range.
Both of which are New and Unique and offer exciting market opportunities. EMERALD Fibre Reinforced Bio-Composite and SOGREEN PHA /PLA blends. A and O the UK’s leading distributor of bio-based polymers including PLA, PHA and TPS has now added the Fibre Reinforced Bio-Composite from Eastern Bioplastics of Mt Carmel USA to the range of available products. The Bio-composite fibres are derived from chicken feathers which are normally sent to landfill- Over 2m tons a year in the USA and around 1.2m tons in Europe go to landfill . The sustainable fibres added to Polypropylene have a low carbon footprint they are totally bio based and GM free. Properties of the material are close to virgin PP with low specific gravity of 0.9 g/cc for the 30% fibre filled grade and slightly higher stiffness. Transmuting PLA Into Metal. You can't transmute lead into gold, but these days it is apparently possible to change a part, 3D printed in PLA plastic, into a metal part.
The method used by maker Jeshua Lacock of 3DTOPO, emulated the eternal lost-wax casting method. He printed parts in PLA on his Ultimaker 3D printer and then surrounded them with plaster and sand. By heating this to some +1200F the PLA burned away, leaving a cavity in the plaster mix corresponding exactly to the original printed part. It was then simply a matter of pouring in liquid flowing aluminum and waiting for it to cool. According to Lacock, the metal parts emerged successfully on the first attempt.
3DP Materials Review. The list not exhaustive — and it is certain to keep growing over time: Wood: The New-comer The newcomer in the group of 3Dprinting filament materials is wood.
The material itself is a mix of wood particles and polymers, which can be used to 3Dprint objects that kind of look like cardboard more than real wood. What is positive about it is that the print texture is simply beautiful and it hides print layers nicely, without making extremely thin layers. American Graphite to develop 3D printing material, including exploration with graphene #3dthursday. April 25, 2013 AT 1:00 pm American Graphite to develop 3D printing material, from 3ders.org: American Graphite Technologies Inc.
(OTCBB: AGIN), a mineral exploration and technology development company, announces Letter of Intent with a European institute for research and development collaboration for 3D printing.American Graphite Technologies, in collaboration with the National Academy of Science of Ukraine; National Science Centre; Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology (“KIPT”), Kharkov, Ukraine, will research the properties of graphene contained matter as working material for 3D printing. Stone Spray project uses 3D printer to build long-lasting, intricate sandcastles.
3D Printing Is Getting Pretty Flexible These Days. The folks at Objet are doing some pretty awesome things with 3D printers.
Even better, they’re doing some awesome things with the kinds of materials that 3D printers can work with. It’s not just about hard plastic anymore as models can also contain moving parts or be flexible enough to bend into other shapes. The Objet blog takes a behind-the-scenes look at some of the latest 3D printed models being printed at Objet HQ.
3D Printing Tutorial. Multi-colour prints from a single extruder February 13 Tutorial shows how to liven up your 3D prints Are you finding the monochromatic output of your 3D printer a little drab?
LAYWOO-D3 3D Printing Wood Filament. Food with the Fab@Home. 3D Printing Hempcrete Buildings Proposal. Smoothing 3D prints with acetone and without patent violations. Austin Wilson and Neil Underwood from the North Carolina makerspace Fablocker invented a great, simple process for smoothing out 3D prints using evaporated nail-polish remover in a large jar.
The process produces a beautiful finish and sidesteps a bunch of dumb patents for polishing 3D printing output. They're still experimenting with the details, and the fact that the first experiments turned out such great looking pieces is cause for excitement about where this will go when it's fully refined. ABS-based printed parts are placed in the jar with the acetone and heated to 90 degrees Celsius on the hot plate. Acetone has a low evaporation point, but is heavier than air so the process creates a small cloud around the model which melts the surface, slowly smoothing it to a mirror finish. Introducing 3D Printed Black Elasto Plastic : I Can't Believe It's Not Rubber. It's squishy, it's flexible, it stretches, it bounces, it blends, it's 3D Printed Black Elasto Plastic!!!!! Squishy SpringBall by Opresco Black Elasto Plastic is our first fully flexible material! It is still in the experimental stages of development, and we are learning more about the possibilities and restrictions of this material each and every day.
Design, order and give us feedback when your model arrives at your doorstep! This material will be on trial until the July 20th, 2012, so get your orders in soon. Flexible Design Rules.
Materials to build your world. 3d printed electronics. Plastisol. Plastisol Production[edit] Pilot turbosphere (200 liters) equipped with water cooling system to produce plastisols. Uses[edit] Textile ink[edit] Plastisol is used as ink for screen-printing on to textiles. Recipes.