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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Anyone have a link to the fleshlight stl?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

To print the shell, maybe ? To print the nice part, terrible idea !

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Even with this new perfect tpu??! Should I cancel my order? Shipping from CR isn't cheap.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

TPU is a little too rigid for that kind of use, it would not be comfortable.

You'd ideally want to print a mold and then use silicone to fill it in and use the silicone as what you "interface" with.

But you definitely could use tpu for the shell that holds the silicone interior.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Using 3D prints as sextoys with any kind of materials is a bad idea because of higene. The layer lines will accumulate lots of dirty stuff and are basically impossible to clean. Same goes for food related items.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Ive seen people use beeswax as a mold release, it apparently works really well as a release and fills in the layer lines in the mold so that don't transfer to the cast. Or at least that what I've read.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Didn't Bambu just do this same thing about six months ago?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

This sounds like a different formulation to make a more reliable TPU for industrial or commercial applications that need more consistency.

Bambu made a slightly stiffer TPU to feed better into their AMS.

Sounds like both are useful for different things.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Bambu doesn't make their own filaments.