Wood infused PLA

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One way to find out, is the hope that it will give good weather protection?
 

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Pardon me for asking, but what is STL and what is PLA? My memory is poor!
 

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Pardon me for asking, but what is STL and what is PLA? My memory is poor!
A 'STL' file is used to drive a 3D printer..
Once you have created your 3D image, you feed this through a 'slicer' program, to create a 'STL' file.
This is then loaded into the 3D printer to print the object.

PLA:
Polylactic acid, also known as PLA, is a thermoplastic monomer derived from renewable, organic sources such as corn starch or sugar cane. Using biomass resources makes PLA production different from most plastics, which are produced using fossil fuels through the distillation and polymerization of petroleum.

So the 'plastic' filament used in 3D printers..
Other types of 'plastics' are also available.

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"I see" said the blind (to acronyms) man! So it's green then. What is the 'wood infused' part mean?
 

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Never personally used wood PLA but have friends who have - IIRC you will need a hardened nozzle as the wood will abrade a brass nozzle.
 

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Leaves me out - I've yet to dabble with 3d printing.
 

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Leaves me out - I've yet to dabble with 3d printing.

Edit added - must be diphylla
 
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"I see" said the blind (to acronyms) man! So it's green then. What is the 'wood infused' part mean?
The plastic has wood particles mixed with it, about 40% wood and 60% plastic
 

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Leaves me out - I've yet to dabble with 3d printing.

Edit added - must be diphylla
Plant - Jeffersonia diphylla is a charming low-growing woodland plant, or
Bat - The hairy-legged vampire bat (Diphylla ecaudata) is one of three extant species of vampire bats.

;) :)
 

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Has anybody had experience, good or bad, with wood infused PLA?
I have an STL file for wooden barrels which I am considering using the wood infuse PLA for.
I've got some arriving for my turntable project so I'll let you know how it goes.
 

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Prints turned out fantastic using the AMOLEN 30% walnut PLA.

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Zero complaints and pleasantly surprised how easy it was with almost no modifications of settings.
I had one failure on my first print as I forgot to lower the stock print speed of 80mm/s which my ender 5plus usually runs at. Recommended is 40-60mm/s.

It's also important to note this is with a brand new 0.4mm nozzle. Meaning the nozzle wasn't worn which bores out the hole increasing the diameter. I've seen other wood filaments which recommended a minimum 0.5mm nozzle which is a hassle. No need for that here!

Successful settings were:
210C
120% flow (but I use this for all my filaments as my ender 5 plus has a tendancy to under extrude - you may not need this.)
50mm/s print speed
60C heated bed

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This filament even did a better job on the internal supports than I usually get. Regardless of filament my supports are often under extruded even if the outer walls are great.
Not this time though! :party:

I bought this one after seeing Amazon reviews that said it printed just like regular PLA. Can happily confirm and highly recommend. :clap:

Now that it's loaded and is even printing better than my usual polyterra filaments I'm looking for the next project. I think maybe an agricultural style multi track crossing so the boys can get their tractor to the farm in the middle of my layout :cool:
 
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Looks to be a brilliant result. - Very impressive.

I need a Project like this, like a hole in the head, but some of the results I am seeing, are very tempting..

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The joist ends are done. Just realised this is also a great test piece for warping. No issues with bed adhesion. Printed one after the other so the furthest one has sat on the printbed for 4hrs without warping or releasing.

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I call that pretty much textbook bed adhesion.

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