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There are already different types of filament that are mutually-incompatible. You can't load 1.75mm filament into a 3mm extruder and expect it to work without
by jstanley 9y ago
There are already different types of filament that are mutually-incompatible.
You can't load 1.75mm filament into a 3mm extruder and expect it to work without any modifications.
It's not too much of a stretch to imagine different cross sections.
The equipment required to melt down plastic and extrude it into a new filament of the appropriate type is still too expensive and inconvenient to be popular.
- FridgeSeal 9y agoCan filament be heated back up and reused once it's been printed? Because if so, could you solve the issue by getting your stock filament, and then printing it into filament with a different cross-section?
- jstanley 9y agoYou can re-melt it as many times as you want, but you probably can't print with sufficient accuracy to create a new roll of filament. And it would take several days of printing to get through a whole roll of filament. And besides, if you already had a 3D printer that could print with the filament you have, you could just print things with that filament instead of printing filament that isn't compatible with your printer :p Here's a project to make a machine that produces filament for printing, but it's at about the stage hobbyist 3D printers were at ~10 years ago or more, in terms of reliability and ease of use: http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-your-own-3d-printing-filament-factory-Filame/ http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-your-own-3d-printing-f...