What are you guys using as support filament for PEBA?
I don’t know how it will work but I was planning on trying pva
Im not a fan of PVA, I was looking for breakaway supports. I guess I will run some tests myself to figure it out. The candidates are:
- ABS - since its nylon based
- Support for PA (as a side note bambu has discontinued it)
- Support for ABS (HIPS)
- PC
Just finished printing a basketball in Sainsmart 90A PEBA using BBL PVA normal supports & it worked a treat. For the PEBA, I increased the max volumetric speed to 6mm/s, absolutely no stringing & the print was clean.. The PVA was dried for 18hrs & did start to ‘Pop’ slightly towards the end of printing support but the H2C cleaned the left nozzle periodically which prevented any problems. I left the model to soak in a bowl of warm water for 30mins after which I removed some of the supports manually, another few hours & the rest had dissolved. Needed to change the water a few times to speed up the process. In sum, I’ll be using PVA again!
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