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Re: 1325's First 3D Printed Gear!

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Originally Posted by yash101 View Post
Most printers support either PLA or ABS or both. However, there are some more expensive ones that support different materials, sometimes as strong as Aluminum!

We print in ABS
What are you basing this on? What printable polymer is as "strong as Aluminum"? My high school just got a $40,000 printer that prints ABS. According to the spec sheet, that has tensile strength of 37MPa. By comparison, my Materials Science textbook says that Aluminum has a tensile strength of 90MPa. Please provide support for your claims.
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