Holy crap, that’s a lot of work to get a roll of filament. That’s only economical if your time is worth nothing. Ugh.

  • Thurstylark
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    22
    ·
    1 year ago

    Anything can be printed with enough heat.

    See: lava

    • sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      1 year ago

      Post: “My hot end is only reaching earth’s mantle. Do I need to reach the surface of the sun to make this work?”

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      Not to be like that… but… gases would be hard to print, I’m not sure why you’d want to….

      Liquids could be interesting, for like, ice sculptures. But at that point you’d be having to extract heat from ambient… drop the build chamber below freezing

        • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          Eh. That could work, might be more complicated though.

          I’m envisioning a freezer for an enclosure, then heat the water to just above melting. This would allow using essentially-fdm set ups on the printer itself.