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Re: PLA At Workshops

Posted by Adrian Bowyer 
Re: PLA At Workshops
March 20, 2007 02:46PM
That's good - I have a student working on synthesising PLA too, so his
results will go on the wiki as soon as.

Best wishes

Adrian

Dr Adrian Bowyer
[staff.bath.ac.uk]
[reprap.org]

Quoting Vik Olliver :

> I finally got around to dropping off the PLA with Allan Booth in
> Henderson. He's partially bemused but very sympathetic to our cause. I
> think he sees the potential market for a lot of PLA...
>
> He says he's busy for the next couple of weeks, then should be able to
> extrude our filament. Their machine is probably going to run at +/-0.2mm
> so I told him to do it slightly undersized if there is an issue - this
> is to ensure our 3mm holes in the PTFE rod don't get bunged up.
>
> Vik :v)
> -------8<---------8<---------8<---------8<---------8<---------8<-----
> "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,
> signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not
> fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."



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Re: PLA At Workshops
March 20, 2007 04:33PM
I've been reading lately that it's pretty easy to create PLA but the trick is to get the molecular weight up high enough to have something that you can use.
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