<![CDATA[SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — making abs flexible after print?]]> https://www.soliforum.com/topic/7931/making-abs-flexible-after-print/ Wed, 15 Oct 2014 22:03:32 +0000 PunBB <![CDATA[Re: making abs flexible after print?]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/68772/#p68772 pretty much if you need tho change the materials property you need to change the material.
Although eye doctors have been using a kind of hot sand to reform adjust eye glasses for years . Hot water has been used adjust the shape of printed objects. but they will stiffen as soon as it is cooled it is thermal plastic after all.

Tin

]]> Wed, 15 Oct 2014 22:03:32 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/68772/#p68772 <![CDATA[Re: making abs flexible after print?]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/68712/#p68712 you can paint stripes on a leopard but its not gonna become a Tiger. so NOPE

]]> Wed, 15 Oct 2014 08:02:35 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/68712/#p68712 <![CDATA[making abs flexible after print?]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/67986/#p67986 I just thought about this: can an abs print be threated with something to make it flexible *after* being printed?
Reason: 1. no need to have separate rolls of flexible filament, 2. can be sanded before treatment.

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