We love hearing use-case stories from our Pro PCTG customers - they never cease to surprise us:
I am Master Sergeant Michael Wilson with the 141st Air National Guard in Washington State, and I wanted to share something fun that we did.
I am a machinist in our unit and we had an idea to improve a process we have with your PCTG. I bought the material for my own personal use a few months ago but we had an opportunity to prototype a spacer block. This was made to support two aluminum lugs that we were pressing bushings into. The spacer worked flawlessly and will soon be submitted as a locally manufactured tool. However, we wanted to stress test it to see its limitations...
We placed the spacer (three walls, 0.6mm thickness, 0.24mm layer height, 4 multi-line honeycomb infill at 15%) on our hydraulic press. We were able to achieve about 2.5 tons before permanent deformation, and an ultimate yield of 7.9 tons between two steel plates. The layers did not delaminate, and only a few splits happened towards the end!
This was by no means scientific, but just a bunch of us Air Force printing nerds with expensive tools and curiosity. I've attached a picture for reference.
Wow, Pro PCTG still continues to surprise even us at 3D-Fuel. What will you create?
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