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Beyond PLA and ABS?
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It's less rigid than PLA, but wayyyyy more durable. It can really take a beating. The only major downside is that it warps, but there's definitely ways around that. Also just from having handled it a bunch, for some reason it's just got the nicest texture. You know how those incredibly strong thermoset plastics they use for pot handles and such almost don't feel like plastic, compared to something like PET? It's like that.
All I see out there is pls/pha blends. Who is making good PHA, I’d love to give it a try.
When you say it warps, do you mean during printing like abs? Do you print it in an enclosure?
There aren't many people making it yet. So far as I know there's just Colorfabb AllPHA, Filaments.ca Regen, and Beyond Plastic PHA. That's like 2 more suppliers than there were a year ago though, so I'd say it's growing more popular?
It warps during printing pretty similarly to ABS yeah, but it has the exact opposite solution weirdly enough. You wanna turn your bed heat completely off, and have it as unenclosed as possible.
Thanks!