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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

Not sure about TRI, have to talk to the Dictator-for-Life-Until-Next-Year (Lucia) about it.

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

What about delamination? We got a Makergear M2 in the printer raffle, and I used it last year to print string pots for the team out of ABS, but in addition to warpage, I had issues with layers just not sticking together, no matter how hot I ran things. I gave up on ABS and printed stuff from PLA this year, and recently discovered PETG. PET doesn't absorb moisture (I know!), doesn't warp, and isn't as brittle as PLA, though not quite as strong as ABS. It can be a bit messy to print since it's super gooey and stringy at temperature, but since I can't get ABS working for me....

No delamination. I get it some on ABS but not a tremendous amount. When I do I re-level my bed and that - so far - has taken care of that problem.

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

3DXTech

That might just be where we ordered ours

Furellia53,

I read the same warnings. It is hard on the nozzles due to the coarser nature of CF. Makes sense if you think about it too.
If I had to guess I would say we have run about 40+ hours of CF/ABS printing and so far my nozzles have held up. They are still printing cleanly and don't appear to be having issues. I make sure to lubricate them often when I am running CF/ABS though and that may help some.

Regarding the acetone bath we haven't tried that as we have not had any delamination issues with the CF/ABS and the finish is already really nice.


*Edit*
Looks like someone has already done some tensile testing http://goo.gl/lZKCkK