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Originally Posted by techhelpbb
If all you want is to make something shine - you can sand the pieces and get a nice shine back with shellac. This trick does actually work with PLA as well.
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Originally Posted by jagoldman
In the past, my team has used PLA on our robot without any problems, and if the tolerances were off, we would use sandpaper, files, and drill bits to correct. I see no real purpose of polishing a part like that or any reason to use ABS instead of PLA.
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Originally Posted by MrBasse
What do you want to smooth out and why? If it is just for appearance, you can't go wrong just trying it. If it requires holding dimensions it will take some trial and error to find the right times and heat, then very good consistency to repeat results.
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Thanks so much for your help. I'm looking into smoothing a structural PLA piece for appearance purposes, so tolerances still apply - I didn't know acetone vapor polishing wouldn't work for this application.