acetone finishing
Today I've tried my first acetone finishing.
original on the left and acetone finishing on the right:
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I also printed an ABS smoothed version of my PLA heart:
ABS smoothed:
PLA:
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Niceresults! How much time did it take for acetone finishing (approximate) ?
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Looks quite good. Did you use acetone vapors or did you immerse it in liquid acetone?
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I've tried two methods (both work with acetone vapor).
The first one is with a tin can in which I've placed some towel paper with magnets and put a little bit of acetone onto it. I just put my printed object under the tin can and wait about 40minutes:
For the second method I used a rice cooker. Less than 5 minutes to get a smoothed object 😀 :
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Cyrille
Just a thought... The printer has a heated bed. Have you tried putting a small amount of acetone in a jar/can, putting that on the bed, dangling a printed model in the jar/can and turning on the heater.
I think you will find that method rather quick and effective...
(And yes, there is a video on youtube somewhere - I think it may even be Josef demonstrating it).
Peter
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Peter
Yes I saw a video explaining this method but it's faster and safer for me to use the rice cooker.
For me, once the print is achieved, I often remove it and check it before smoothing it. I would have to reheat the bed which takes almost 10 minutes. With the rice cooker, the preheat and the smoothing takes less than 3 minutes. Beyond this, I don't have a jar this big, and I can put my rice cooker outside, it's safer. I prefer not moving my printer... 😉
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Cyrille
Understood. But it does beg the question: What does the rice taste like???
Peter
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😆
I believe he doesn't use that cooker for meals any more.
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Ha ha red acetoned rice is not my favorite meal 😀
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Here are my last prints with acetone finishing and some painting:
colossus (50%):
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Terminator T800 (50%):
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sorry for the bad orientation of the pictures but I can't rotate them ?!?
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thats sick i must try can i do this with PLA? and do you heat the rice cocker up and what to you do with the acetone just pour some in bottom and not let touch the part?
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thats sick i must try can i do this with PLA? and do you heat the rice cocker up and what to you do with the acetone just pour some in bottom and not let touch the part?
No, pla doesn't do this. you can just use primer filler though, bit of sanding and spray paint.