Hey all,
For my project I’m needing a very small plastic extrusion screw
As it has to work at high temp (and fir my budget), I was thinking of going with ‘regular’ steel 3D printing on this, but can the machines bring this task to a good end?
screw outer diameter 3.9mm (larger part has a diameter of 8mm), length100mm total. Wall thickness is larger than 1mm everywhere normally and I “succesfully” (wobbles) testprinted it in pla at 0.05 on my printer
TY,
Christoff
Dear Christoff,
thank you for contacting us.
There is risk that your model will be deformed. Designs that contain a connection between thin and thick walls, or “dumbbell style geometries”, can be affected by variance in the heating and cooling cycles during printing process in steel .
https://www.materialise.com/en/manufacturing/materials/stainless-steel
Since your part is considered as a technical part I would suggest to 3D print it in Steel at Onsite Materialise, because the technology used for printing in Steel at Onsite is different. The additional support structures are built to avoid deformation (in your case - to support the srew) https://www.materialise.com/en/manufacturing/materials/stainless-steel
However please feel free to share your file with us so that we provide you with a more precise solution.
You can share your file via WeTransfer service (paste a WeTransfer dowloading link to your message sent via Contact Form .
If you have further questions, please let me know.
Best regards,
Olha
