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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.

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[–] thurstylark@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Anything can be printed with enough heat.

See: lava

[–] sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 6 points 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?"

[–] tonyn@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Now I want a Lava Printer

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] OminousOrange@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ice printing could work with supercooled water.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 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.