“There’s really no middle ground with you, is there? You either don’t care at all or you care 100 and crazy percent.”
“Time for this fawn to strap on a machine gun, spread its wings and fly!“
Day: February 20, 2010
Have you printed in HDPE?
I just noticed MakerBot discontinued their 5 pound rolls for HDPE. This page is essentially taken down. However, when it was last up it contained the following product description:
Update: Discontinued. It’s not fun to print with this stuff.
This is HDPE plastic aka High Density Polyethylene aka Milk Jug plastic. This is a nice, smooth, high quality plastic. It comes as a filament in 5lb coils with a diameter of 3mm.
This plastic is cheaper than ABS, but has a higher shrinkage factor which makes printing large objects more difficult. It does have a much lower coefficient of friction so you can print things that are very smooth.
I’ve never printed with this stuff. Have you? A higher shrinkage factor than ABS sounds pretty awful. Then again, I mostly print fairly small parts, so then again I might not care. And, for the last listed price of $30 for a 5 pound roll… it’s a dirt cheap printing option.
And neither one is Atlantis
We’re still missing two continents.1
I put up a collaborative MakerBot Map yesterday. As of this moment we’re still missing MakerBots in Africa and Antarctica.
Oh, and what the hell is up with Greenland? Why can’t they be their own continent?! Those guys need a better lobbyist.
- I suppose the title of the post would make more sense here… [↩]