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Poorly. PLA has a notoriously low heat deflection temperature, losing nearly all yield strength above about 60ºC. Any 3D printing enthusiast will know that PLA
by jdietrich 1y ago
Poorly. PLA has a notoriously low heat deflection temperature, losing nearly all yield strength above about 60ºC. Any 3D printing enthusiast will know that PLA turns into a wet noodle in a hot car. Unless they've made a significant breakthrough in polymer chemistry, this substrate just won't work for the vast majority of applications.
- userbinator 1y agoIn other words, it's just stupid eco-virtue-signaling at its best.
- serf 1y agoPLA is too vague to know anything like that about. There are 100% 'bio' PLA variants with HDT values over 130c+, colorfabb PLA-HP comes to mind.
- jdietrich 1y agoPolylactic acid is polylactic acid. It has known properties. I don't know what Colorfabb's PLA-HP filament is actually made of, but it obviously isn't PLA; it's almost certainly some kind of proprietary (and therefore non-recyclable) co-polymer. "Bio-based" is a very different claim to "biodegradable".