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The New Hotness

  • Translucent vs. Transparent PETG Soap Dishes

    In addition to printing bendy objects with TPU, the 0.8 mm nozzle 3D-prints PETG into thin walls with better transparency than the default 0.4 mm nozzle:

    Clear PETG - 0.4 vs 0.8 mm nozzle - side view
    Clear PETG – 0.4 vs 0.8 mm nozzle – side view

    The wall is now 1.0 mm thick, rather than 0.6 mm, and is much closer to being transparent. Those gray links from the RPi camera mount inside the dishes help show the difference.

    The 2.0 mm thick base plate is also more transparent, but mostly just reveals the 0.4 mm thick infill layers:

    Clear PETG - 0.4 vs 0.8 mm nozzle - top view
    Clear PETG – 0.4 vs 0.8 mm nozzle – top view

    More study is needed, even if we already have far more soap dishes than strictly necessary.