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Topic: Hot melt filament

Has anyone tried making filament out of hot glue gun pellets?

For instance: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hot-Melt-Glue-P … 1180706020

2 Reply by Sungod3000

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Re: Hot melt filament

Well cant be worse than PLA smile if you lower the temp down to 60-80C, but for what would you use it? Printing in hotglue?

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Re: Hot melt filament

Sungod3000 wrote:

but for what would you use it? Printing in hotglue?

The use case would be to create rubbery/flexible parts.

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Re: Hot melt filament

TPE! I used duraflex, worked well in the Filastruder. Never tried printing it.

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