Welcome to another episode of Tinkerine Experiments!
In this episode, we will be trying to smooth out our PLA print with our rock tumbler again.
One of our subscribers suggested to have a burnishing compound to our tumbler when tumbling
so we went back to using screws but this time we will be adding some dishwashing soap to it.
Let’s start!
We’ll move the screws over into
the tumbler.
Now we can add our dishwashing soap in.
We have roughly around 20 ml of dish soap in this box
which we are going to add to our tumbler.
Let’s drop the print in and then we'll secure it.
Since the square prints didn't do very well, I thought this print will actually give us better results.
Close the lid and then put into our mount and then we can start our experiment.
Okay, we’ll start now and our leave this tumbling for a week and lets see how it goes.
It’s been tumbling for a week now, let’s take it out and take a look at the print.
I wonder what it’ll look like inside.
Oh, this isn’t what we expected, interesting.
I’ll try to wash this off and we can see how the print went.
So I actually went back to check our subscriber’s comment, and he actually mentioned to put a drop of
dishwashing soap in it, so it would seem like we put a bit too much in.
We will keep in mind for the next experiment.
Let’s take a look at the print.
Visually it is a lot more matte than before.
The sides feel relatively the same as before i put it in.
However, the front of the model is really smooth I think.
The middle of the print and the back of the print is also really smooth. I think it did something here.
Here’s a comparison, to one that wasn’t put in the tumbler.
The sides feel relatively the same.
As for the front face, the one we left in the tumbler is definitely smoother.
The bed on this DittoPro model feels smoother as well.
Just like the back of this print here too.
Other than that, the other faces feel relatively the same.
Well, there we have it.
We tried to smooth our PLA print with our rock tumbler but this time we added a burnishing
compound; dish washing soap.
We definitely put too much in it but the results came out alright.
Not as good as I expected but it did show some results, especially on the front face, the bed, and the back of the print.
Maybe we’ll try with less in another experiment and with a different type of medium.
Before I end, I just want to remind everyone about Tinkerine U.The platform has a lot of
teaching resources on 3D printing and how you can incorporate it into your curriculum.
So be sure to check it out!
That’s the end of our experiment.
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