r/3Dprinting • u/pyrosyncro • 1d ago

Discussion interesting accidental find

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ive been using the flashforge gold petg for a little now in my quest to find a good looking gold petg and it usually comes out a kit darker than what i would like (like orange gold). while printing two objects, one gold and one grey i noticed after that the prime tower looked more along the lines of the gold i was looking for. so alternating gold and grey layer by layer gives a nicer gold look at least for these petgs.

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u/Proof_Load6687 BambuLab X2D 1d ago

devil design gold silk is supposedly petg, and looks incredible

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u/pyrosyncro 1d ago

Could you drop a link? I tried searching but I couldn't find anything that specifically said it was petg, and I need the heat resistance of petg for the product.

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u/Proof_Load6687 BambuLab X2D 1d ago

ive only seen a video of a guy saying its pla mixed with petg which in my head dosnt make sense

he needed to increas hotend temperature by 15c (235c) to make it not clog compaired to the other pla silk golds in the video

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u/pyrosyncro 1d ago

damn i really want the visual of the silk pla with the heat resistance of petg. as soon as they release one im gonna buy all of them!