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Day: August 15, 2011

  • Reversal Zits: Temperature Variations

    Just for completeness, it turns out that extrusion temperature doesn’t have any effect on Reversal zits. A while back I dropped the standard temperature from 210 °C to 190 °C in one fell swoop and it didn’t change anything worth mentioning, let alone the zittage.

    The white one was hotter, the orange one is cooler:

    Octopodes - Temperature variation
    Octopodes – Temperature variation

    The zits are pretty much due to Reversal followed by in-plane motion, it seems to me.

    A dramatically lower extrusion temperature works fine for smaller objects, but I’d expect very large objects to delaminate like crazy. The Barbie Pistol was, IIRC, printed at 220 °C, and it had some troubles.

    It’s also worth noting that the indicated temperature has only a casual relationship to the actual extrusion temperature. I’ve put considerable effort into electrically insulating and thermally bonding the thermocouple to the Thermal Core, so I think it’s a good indicator, but your results will certainly differ.