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Glow In The Duck (lemmy.world)

More noodling around with Overture glow PLA.

I tried to tweak the exposure a bit this time to make it look more like how you perceive it in reality.

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[-] fuzzy_feeling@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

holy duck...

[-] crashoverride@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Sweet! Something I can easily turn blue!

[-] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago

Pretty sure you will earn forgiveness for that pun.

Eventually

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 1 points 1 month ago

You have any tricks for glow filament? I tried to print with it again and just like always it immediately clogged my hotend to a stage where I have to print way slower and I hate to think I have to sacrifice one to this stuff every time.

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I'm using a diamond tipped nozzle, 0.4mm. I understand that smaller nozzles like 0.2 don't play well with filaments filled with solid materials, and the glow stuff suspended in this is indeed a solid material.

Temperature may be an issue, but I wouldn't know. I print PLA typically at 230° C, including this filament, which I am certain many people will find jowl-flabberingly appalling but that's what I do. My machine goes pretty fast and I found that gives me the best results.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Going to a larger nozzle and kicking it up a bit on temp is going to solve a lot of the problems.

Slowing it down and reducing retraction will also provide some help but not as much.

Side note- use a hardened nozzle (micro Swiss is inexpensive for the occasional abrasive, but they’ll still wear, just slower. Diamond/ruby nozzles won’t wear nearly as much, or, at all but are expensive.) this won’t stop clogging, but it’ll wreck the normal brass nozzles and throw off your flow settings.

[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Oh I was wondering where you got the uranium for the glass...

[-] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Neat...how long does it glow for?

[-] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Probably at least one

this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2024
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