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You Can 3D-Print Some Amazing Stuff With This Ultra-Strong Resin

CHRIS MILLSYESTERDAY 8:00 PM

Formlabs, a 3D-printing supplies company, has a new kind of resin it’s calling ‘tough’. It’s still plastic, but plastic you can make real things out of.

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The company claims that things printed with Tough resin have about the same strength and impact resistance as ABS plastic. That’s not quite the 3D-printed car future we’ve all been promised, but it’s strong enough to make useful objects like chains and wrenches.

You Can 3-D Print Some Amazing Stuff With This Ultra-Strong Resin

To print something out of Tough resin, you’ll need a Formlabs Form 1+ printer, which uses photosensitive resins and laser beams to sculpt objects. That technology enables the printer to bind each printed layer chemically, creating a chain of semi-flexible atoms that lends the final part extra strength, without needing to embed fibres in the material.

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eyeoutleft @eyeoutleft

JULY 4, 2015 11:12 PM

Cool, where's cad file for that gun?

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fluffybunnyfeet @fluffybunnyfeet

JULY 5, 2015 8:26 AM

They should print bongs out of marijuana resin.

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- Kendal @kendal
  
  JULY 5, 2015 1:33 PM
  
  Is marijuana resin edible? You could solve the munchies issue while destroying the evidence.
  
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Kendal @kendal

JULY 5, 2015 1:38 PM

Also - 3D printing is getting practical - and so, far more awesome than before.

I'm going to be Batman!

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