Testing Out ASA Filament

Trying out a new filament for the first time on the Ultimaker S5. Unfortunately we are currently unable to use ASA as the filament choice on the print station so we used generic ABS instead.

When we used glue stick for the actual first test the print warped part way into the print.

The bed was cleaned and a generic hair spray was sprayed on the print bed. No problems with warping.

Z Layer Adhesion

Printing this part provided us with another opportunity to pay attention to Z Layer Adhesion.

 

 

 

 

When the pivot point on your refrigerator breaks it’s handy to have a near by 3D printer.

However, when printing the part you need to pay attention to the direction of loading when the part is being used.

In this case if the part is printed vertically as in the image with the ruler.

The part shears on a Z layer under use as it did in the following image.

Printing the part horizontally increases the amount of support material needed but also results in a part that is much stronger when trying to shear the post off the base.

3D Printed Gasket

Is it possible to use Ninjaflex filament to 3D print a gasket to make a weatherproof wildlife camera?

tl;dr Yes, but neither the resulting gasket nor the slot in the printed parts were true to the size of the SolidWorks models.

The gasket was printed using the LulzBot Taz 6 with the Flexystruder tool head and Ninjaflex filament. The width and height of the gasket in the SolidWorks model was 2 mm. The printed width ranged from 2.20 to 2.37 mm. The printed height ranged from 1.77 to 2.01 mm.

The plastic model was printed using the LulzBot Taz 6 with the LulzBot v2 Hot End tool head and ABS filament.The width and height of the slot in the SolidWorks model was 2 mm. The width of the slot in the plastic model varied on the printed part from 1.76 to 2.11 mm.