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@mibzman Mostly temperature towers, honestly. I've been playing with PHA, so I printed temperature towers for two new colours of that, and also I subscribe to the protopasta "endless filament" programme (at 150g/month, supersized samples really but I like it) and those showed up so needed one for each of them.
I _really_ like the bottle colours they sent out this month, particularly the blue. Just gorgeous.
@moira I had never heard of PHA before, thanks for that. Are the print settings radically different from PLA? Thanks!
BTW, I can see your attached pictures just fine in Tusky on Mastodon. ๐
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@fedops @mibzman PHA is _pretty interesting_. More heat tolerance even than HTPLAs, but definitely also more flexible at all temperatures, which can be a plus or a minus - it's kind of like a less-flexible but more-durable nylon, I think? I haven't worked with nylon but from descriptions.
It also really wants a 0.6mm nozzle, though I have found - and this is what I did for these temperature towers - that the non-wood-infill PHAs can be consistently successfully printed with a 0.5mm nozzle, if the model is sliced for 0.4mm.
Also: Sure! I'd expect the pictures to work on actual Mastodon. But they didn't make it to Lemmy replies. Don't know if Lemmy even supports pictures in replies locally tho xD
@fedops @mibzman Oh, it does! But ones from Mastodon don't make it, alas. (Maybe because I posted two pictures? idk)
Possible. Still seems like magic to me I can follow this community also in Tusky through Mastodon. ๐