Plastic Tube

Hello - Anyone

Can this tube be extruded?

Huh, a patent on a plain tube with a 90 deg corner?

Do you mean to use this tube as filament or to print such a part? As filament it won't work. Printing a tube is possible, of course. With 3D printing, you can print about anything, even hollow spheres.

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Generation 7 Electronics	Teacup Firmware	RepRap DIY

The direct answer is yes.

It will not work as well as a real die-extruded and formed plastic tube except in the crudest of manner for most of the printers out in the wild, but yes, it can be printed, and as long as the fluid (be it air or other) is not corrosive to the underlying material it shoukld hold up pretty well except for stresses that cause delamination. I would not be inclined to run high pressure through it, ie, like a 40psi water jet...

(something more often than not lacking in this forum, or placed as secondary instead of primary when dealing with "customers", which traumflug, is just one of the problems you allude to indirectly in another thread that drives people away from asking questions. It is poor customer service to not directly treat a query. afterwards, you may speculate all you like, but not before. )

... I'll prefer hot-embossing, where you put a straight piece of tube in a heated 'squeezer', that forms the elbow ... to prevent folds, you can apply inner pressure.

Such an embossing system could output some thousand parts per hour and the mechanical properties will be as good as the original tube will have ...

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You see: three answers and three different interpretations of what "can be extruded" means. Now please discuss which of them fit for a 3D printing / additive manufacturing / machine replication forum and which are off-topic.

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Generation 7 Electronics	Teacup Firmware	RepRap DIY

No, there are not three answers. There is one. It can be extruded.