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Topic: Sugar Glass Filament?

Has anybody thought about making filament from sugar? Such a filament does exist btw, look on YouTube.

So I guess you could make edible objects (?... maybe), dissolvable objects or for support structures (dissolvable).

This is an object printed with such filament... Pretty nice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp1H8ksyphk

2 Reply by jdb1930

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Re: Sugar Glass Filament?

If it did work, once that caramelizes in the pipe, you would never get it out completely.

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Re: Sugar Glass Filament?

How do the sugar extruding 3D printers work? Do they use 'filament' or do they take sugar granules into the extruder head? If the latter, I wonder how they control flow...

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Re: Sugar Glass Filament?

There is some high quality sugar printing being done by either melting or binding sugar powder, much like the high end printers that use powdered Nylon.

Here is a post at RepRap about the sugar extruder - http://blog.reprap.org/2012/07/on-chall … r-for.html.  It isn't sugar filament, but was originally sugar sticks in a glue gun.  The final extruder is a derivative of Makerbot's Frostruder, with a heater added - http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:26343.  You can print chocolate with it too.