Experiments in dissolving HIPS support material in Limonene and Turpentine

You must watch this videos if you are planing to 3d print with HIPS support material. Joe shows three great experiments and results of HIPS support material dissolving. He also experiments wit dissolving HIPS in Turpentine.



Dissolving HIPS in turpentine.






Source and more details: joes3dworkbench.blogspot.com

General information about HIPS:

http://diy3dprinting.blogspot.com/2013/03/hips-limonene-soluble-support-material.html

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HIPS - Limonene Soluble Support Material

Here is an interesting experiment with soluble 3d print support material. Support material used is HIPS (High Impact Polystyrene) in combination to support ABS. HIPS is soluble in Limonene (4-isopropenyl-1-methylcyclohexene). The results look pretty good.

More details on:
http://www.3dppvd.org/wp/2013/02/soluble-support-material/

Here are how to videos and experiments in dissolving HIP in Limonene-D and turpentine:

http://diy3dprinting.blogspot.com/2014/04/experiments-in-dissolving-hips-support.html

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