MB3D
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I glued the parts with standard glue. If you live in germany it’s called “PATTEX kraftkleber”, but i guess every standard glue or a hot glue gun will work. Printing the letters with dual extrusion wouldn’t work that good because then you have a hard time working on the metal parts, also i don’t know if the polish would affect the Glowfill.
I have a bowden setup so the sort samples are even less, due too the heavy weight 40g of the filament comes down to 3,8-4m of which i can use ~3,3m for copper, i think bronzefill was a little lighter.
All filaments print well with a brass nozzle, just make sure to not go too slow (especially if you use 3mm filament) as the heat will rise through the filament and maybe even melt it on higher points of the extruder. I used 35mm/s with 1,75mm filament. Btw if you have glowfill make the parts solid, that makes the parts shine longer and stronger.
If you have any other questions feel free to contact me, i even have tested a little woodfill, ninjaflex etc.
-Marius
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I will have to give this a go with the lettering. I have just used random super glue previously and works well so far. Lucky I have direct extruder so used as much as possible before buying spools. Been going at 50 or 60 as my default speed so seems good so far!
MB3D
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Nice, as i had just such a small sample i didn’t want to risk anything with speed. If you have some CAD software available just take a screenshot of some text from word on letter size 250 or so. Select the text type you want and redraw it in the software, it’s not that difficult.
Simplify3d has this feature implemented, but it doesn’t make smooth curves, instead the letters have very much tiny corners as the picture that i took for that was an upscaled word text, it comes from the pixels.
Good luck and let me know about your results.
