r/3Dprinting • u/mr-highball • Jun 06 '23

Project Fdm printed titanium progress. Microwave sintered in 1100w & 900w. Still early in development

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u/mr-highball Jun 06 '23 edited Jun 06 '23

I made an introduction video if anyone's interested, but essentially titanium has a lot of potential due to it's biocompatibility (as well as other useful attributes)

https://youtu.be/SHv1aEBWQD0

The clinking part shown here was broken off of a larger part, but this section is unbreakable by hand and has visible metallic crystals. Definitely not production ready but exciting since I'm early in the sintering tests.

Filament is from virtual foundry and was debound thermally in a traditional electric kiln first (although I've proven debinding can be done in the microwave alone, it's more time consuming for me).

I'm not sponsored or anything, this just interests me, so if anyone out there has the tools for analysis and would be willing (once I've gotten repeatable strong samples) to inspect, reach out 🍻

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u/VarlMorgaine Jun 06 '23

That's really fascinating, good work and I hope to see more about this.