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        <title>Polyvinyl Alcohol for Support Material</title>
        <description> Has anyone tried polyvinyl alcohol as a support material?  I know the melting point is pretty low, but its water soluable..

Just wondering,

Adam</description>
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            <title>Re: Polyvinyl Alcohol for Support Material</title>
            <link>https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,114591,115916#msg-115916</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ That is really great to see working, nice job.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>richrap</dc:creator>
            <category>General</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:12:05 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: Polyvinyl Alcohol for Support Material</title>
            <link>https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,114591,115764#msg-115764</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ Thats fantastic!]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Adam.m.Nelson</dc:creator>
            <category>General</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:31:35 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: Polyvinyl Alcohol for Support Material</title>
            <link>https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,114591,115763#msg-115763</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ Yeah it's all at [<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tbuser/sets/72157628948049239/" target="_blank"  rel="nofollow">www.flickr.com</a>]<br />
<br />
Specifically: [<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tbuser/6733255635/in/set-72157628948049239" target="_blank"  rel="nofollow">www.flickr.com</a>]<br />
<br />
Video of gears turning: [<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tbuser/6733182253/in/set-72157628948049239" target="_blank"  rel="nofollow">www.flickr.com</a>]]]></description>
            <dc:creator>gr0k</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:14:45 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: Polyvinyl Alcohol for Support Material</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ thats awesome! can you post a pic of it for me to see?]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Adam.m.Nelson</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:08:18 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: Polyvinyl Alcohol for Support Material</title>
            <link>https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,114591,115761#msg-115761</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ Yeah, all the PVA dissolved and the internal gears turn.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>gr0k</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:03:07 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: Polyvinyl Alcohol for Support Material</title>
            <link>https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,114591,115748#msg-115748</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ Did all the PVA end up disolving in the end gr0k?<br />
<br />
Printing with support interestes me a lot, I wouldn't be above making my own PVA filiment if it was going to work well.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Adam.m.Nelson</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:52:53 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: Polyvinyl Alcohol for Support Material</title>
            <link>https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,114591,114850#msg-114850</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ I have, and it works fairly well with PLA  :)  Check out: [<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tbuser/sets/72157628948049239/" target="_blank"  rel="nofollow">www.flickr.com</a>]]]></description>
            <dc:creator>gr0k</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:49:01 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: Polyvinyl Alcohol for Support Material</title>
            <link>https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,114591,114664#msg-114664</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ Has anyone tested how well PVA sticks to ABS and/or PLA and also how well ABS and/or PLA sticks to PVA?]]></description>
            <dc:creator>billyzelsnack</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:17:14 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: Polyvinyl Alcohol for Support Material</title>
            <link>https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,114591,114659#msg-114659</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ it was sold by makerbot but i think they dropped it not enough demand, but with more dual extruders coming onto the market i think that may change again.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>dissidence</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:21:09 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Polyvinyl Alcohol for Support Material</title>
            <link>https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,114591,114591#msg-114591</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ Has anyone tried polyvinyl alcohol as a support material?  I know the melting point is pretty low, but its water soluable..<br />
<br />
Just wondering,<br />
<br />
Adam]]></description>
            <dc:creator>Adam.m.Nelson</dc:creator>
            <category>General</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:06:11 -0500</pubDate>
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