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        <description> Hello everyone. I&#039;ve been wanting to find a way to make my prints look really smooth, and I&#039;ve somewhat hit a snag. I want to be able to polish the colorfabb metal filament, which I know is usually done by rock tumblers, but I also want to be able to smooth out regular prints, which it seems a sand blaster is best for. My question is whether a rock tumbler will be able to smooth prints or if a sand blaster will be able to polish prints? I doubt sand would work, but some other medium probably will. Any ideas would be great. Thanks!</description>
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            <title>Re: Sand blasters/rock tumblers</title>
            <link>https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,507070,507478#msg-507478</link>
            <description><![CDATA[ Sand blasting tends to melt plastics. Would probably just make a mess of the surface. I have used a vibratory tumbler on some ABS and it did help the looks though it takes a very long time (24 to 72 hours) and for ABS cold acetone vapor smoothing is quicker and does a much better job.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>tmorris9</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2015 17:48:43 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: Sand blasters/rock tumblers</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Sand blasters are too powerful and too abrasive for printed parts. A tumbler is the preferred method to smooth printed parts.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>ggherbaz</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2015 14:03:37 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Re: Sand blasters/rock tumblers</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Can't answer that but on a Facebook post, for the ironman helmet the used sandpaper, polish and a lot of elbow grease to get it smooth.]]></description>
            <dc:creator>GRAYWOLF</dc:creator>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2015 07:49:39 -0400</pubDate>
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            <title>Sand blasters/rock tumblers</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Hello everyone. I've been wanting to find a way to make my prints look really smooth, and I've somewhat hit a snag. I want to be able to polish the colorfabb metal filament, which I know is usually done by rock tumblers, but I also want to be able to smooth out regular prints, which it seems a sand blaster is best for. My question is whether a rock tumbler will be able to smooth prints or if a sand blaster will be able to polish prints? I doubt sand would work, but some other medium probably will. Any ideas would be great. Thanks!]]></description>
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