Prusa i3 Hephestos Printing Handbook - page 11
5.3.2 ABS Juice preparation
Acetone is extremely flammable, rapidly evaporating liquid. Handle it in a
wellventilated area only, protect your eyes and skin from splashes. Never operate
with acetone near open flames or other heat source; especially in areas where a
spark can occur acetone
vapors
are easily ignited.
When you run out of the ABS
Juice
supplied with the
printer
, you can easily make your own
mix. You will need a container in which you can retain pure acetone and an ABS
filament
.
ABS
Juice
is made by dissolving ABS in pure acetone 34 cm
filament
(thickness 1.75 mm) to
30 ml of acetone. Original ABS
juice
container is 100 ml, so you need a
filament
length of
approximately 114 cm. Cut the
filament
into shorter pieces to fit comfortably into the
container and then cover it with 100 ml of acetone. Close the container securely and shake
for several minutes. Before first use, let the mixture stand for several hours to ABS
filament
completely dissolved in acetone.
Prepared
juice
can be also purchased in our eshop. Unfortunately, UPS service
does not allow to deliver any acetonebased products due to shipping constraints. In
that case you get only the bottle and ABS from our eshop and you have to source
the acetone locally. You can also use the alternative solution, e.g. hair spray always
choose nonperfumed spray and
look out for
extra hold
with ingredients including Acetate,
Copolymer and Vinyl.
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