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Re: 1325's First 3D Printed Gear!
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Originally Posted by luckof13
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. |
It isn't quite the strength of aluminum, but ULTEM has a tensile strength of 71.6MPa.
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