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Sunheat - 'stretchtesting' ..and the winner is....cool smiley

Posted by chriske 
Sunheat - 'stretchtesting' ..and the winner is....cool smiley
May 29, 2017 07:24AM
Hanging in the sun for many days during a heatwave in our country.
Rings are hollow, thickness of the material only 0.5mm across. Outer diameter of the rings 150mm(6")
There's a load of 1 liter bottle filled with water hanging on each ring.
Materials -from left to right- black XT, bleu nGen, black PLA, white PLA.

Only white PLA withstand this kind of heat. It only sags just a little bit during this torturing test.
Even better would have been using white XT or nGen I suppose.
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Re: Sunheat - 'stretchtesting' ..and the winner is....cool smiley
May 29, 2017 11:41AM
That may be because white reflects the heat.. A fair test would have white nGen and XT as well
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