Sunday, 16 March 2014

Acetone Vapour Bath gives a shiny smooth finish

We can get rid off the annoying layers(rough surface) on the 3D printed objects by this method called acetone bath. But Acetone bath is only used for ABS plastic. So we cannot do it for our 3D printed hand.



Further doing some research, Yay! Instead of acetone, we can use tetrahydrofuran, or THF, as a solvent for PLA. The process for smoothing PLA with THF is the same as smoothing ABS printouts with acetone.

Here is the method,

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