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Topic: PVA water soluable filament

http://www.3ders.org/articles/20130228- … erial.html

a very interesting idea for dual extruders

http://ultimachine.com/category/catalog … /pva-175mm
its kind of expensive

2 Reply by elmoret

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Re: PVA water soluable filament

Yeah, PVA is expensive and really sensitive to moisture. It shows promise, though!

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Re: PVA water soluable filament

I've heard that PVA is difficult because ABS doesn't stick to it very well.  They've had dual printing Makerbots and PVA for sale for a long time and it never really took off.  Maybe the HIPS will be better.

4 Reply by ysb (edited by ysb 2013-03-03 02:01:35)

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Re: PVA water soluable filament

HIPS is the way to go for dissolvable support... more practicale than PVA

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Re: PVA water soluable filament

ysb wrote:

HIPS is the way to go for dissolvable support... more practicale than PVA

HIPS prints nicely on the SD2.

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