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Engineer, permanent pirate, lover of all things mechanical and on wheels

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  • IMO having the ability to do TPU is way more versatile than going to another rigid structural filament.
    ABS/ASA is just “pla but more impact resistant”.
    TPU is “haha funny squishy wait this turns into a living hinge?” and opens up a TON of print opportunities.
    I had a lot more fun trying out TPU (both high and low durometers) than switching to any other kind of filament. Whatever you print basically becomes shockproof l, is squishy/bendy, and you can chuck it across a room full-force with no problems. Super fun.

    However, TPU is happiest with a direct drive extruder. High durometer (95a) TPU’s are fine, but not optimal, in bowden extruders, while low durometer (Ninjaflex) straight up won’t print right thru a bowden. So keep your type of printer in mind when shopping for spools of test filament.



  • I started an internship as a sophomore in college with a local manufacturing corp. Did part time there while going full time for my mech.E bachelor’s.degree. I originally planned to only be there a year, but it ended up working out that I stayed all the way thru graduation doing a variety of jobs in their r&d labs as an assembly tech, CNC machinist, and also a CAD drafter. About 6mo before graduating I applied for an open product engineer position and was able to roll into working full time right after, have been there for about a year and a half ish now.

    I was able to graduate with some savings and a high paying job, I basically hit the fucking jackpot.