Hi
Polymaker offering HT-PLA now, it’s seems to be quite a good choice for my Lowrider Built.
Can anyone recommend it, somebody who already used it?
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Or should I go for PLA+?
Just normal PLA. Do not use PLA+. If you want it fancy, PET-CF (not PETG-CF).
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Agreed. PLA is ~48MPa in tesile strength in XY, VS ~43 MPa for this stuff.
Aside this, doesn’t HT-PLA shrink when you anneal it?
I’d avoid it like the plague.
If you need heat resistance, PET-CF.
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I wanna thank you guys very much.
PLA it will be.
Watching out for ~48MPa+ Tensile Strength…
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Some further information on how CF in PLA doesn’t do anything good to stiffness:
If you look up for the YTchannel: “I built a thing” and watch his last episode “3D Printing’s Biggest Scam Is Even Worse Than We Thought!” …It shows the structure of the print and the fibers via CT scanning, and there isn’t anything beneficial from them.
So… simple, high quality PLA will do the job
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