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[–] RegalPotoo 16 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Having tried similar things, I cannot stress enough how much you want to be printing molds like this in TPU unless you really really want your mold to be permanently embedded in the concrete

[–] hooferboof 2 points 5 months ago

Pla and a heatgun works but its not ideal. Definitely takes a while to melt off from more complex geometries akd isnt reusable.

In theory ABS is acetone soluable but ive been having a hard time coming up with a usecase where acetone is preferable to anything else

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