Color powder for ABS?

hi.

Is ABS available in form of liquid material?
If so, is it possible to mix in diffrent colorpowder/liquid to ABS?
Is it possibe to add hardener into that mixed ABS which will be imediately activated by heat?

thanks and regards

... to your questions:

1. - you can solve ABS-dust in acetone to get a fluid or paste, depending on the concentrations.

2. - you can add/mix dye or pigment do the paste or fluid.

3. - with heating the paste dries (the acetone evaporates) to solid, but will shrink/warp more than with FDM-printing.

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VDX Wrote:
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> ... to your questions:
>
> 1. - you can solve ABS-dust in acetone to get a
> fluid or paste, depending on the concentrations.
>
> 2. - you can add/mix dye or pigment do the paste
> or fluid.
>
> 3. - with heating the paste dries (the acetone
> evaporates) to solid, but will shrink/warp more
> than with FDM-printing.

Thank You for answer.

I wonder why the direction of creating colorprinters didnt turn out in the above direction, first using a colormixing chamber, then mixing resulting colorpigment with abspaste before printing? Is it perhaps of reasons in chap.3?

regards

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/07/2013 06:10PM by janei.