#Standard PLA is very brittle. If you bend it to a certain point it shatters. This PLA+ will just bend unless you REALLY force it | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

solradguy · 1 year ago

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not to sound like hannibal lecter over here but having your own Outrage, lovingly handcrafting it over months, and not being able to use it beat the crap out of annoying people? I bet that just eats you up doesn't it. sorry this came off sounding really mean. truly though it breaks my heart because you deserve to beat up people that bother you with a flaming magic sword. -🐇

Oh, don't worry, it is VERY sturdy. I could definitely swing this thing at someone if I wanted. The handle segment might pop off again, but the rest of it? Impressively durable. There are two approximately half inch thick all-thread metal rods inside it bound with washers, epoxy, super glue, and heat that melted the plastic together; then a thick layer of Bondo on the outside with more super glue, epoxy, and green stuff (a type of epoxy putty). Its only weaknesses are temperatures over ~160f/71c and running it over with a car haha

#asks #I'm not actually sure if this thing is convention legal. It isn't sharp at all but it weighs 10lbs #It'd be like swinging a giant hammer at someone #160f won't melt it but it makes the PLA soft and pliable. It doesn't melt until 212c (413f)#The filament I printed this with is a PLA/TPU polymer so it has the rigidity of your standard plastic but-#-TPU is more like rubber. Combined it becomes a strong plastic that bends instead of snaps #Standard PLA is very brittle. If you bend it to a certain point it shatters. This PLA+ will just bend unless you REALLY force it #My only regret wrt this thing's construction is that I didn't install the one rod up into the handle the whole way #That made the 'body' segment heavy with a lot of pressure between the 4 handle pieces and it #It's not enough that I think it would be worth the effort taking it apart and installing a third rod though (which is why I didn't)#It just gives it a concentrated weak point that I need to be careful about but the epoxy made it solid as hell #I'm not very concerned about the handle popping off again unless I try to snap this thing over my knee or something #WHICH TBH WOULD HURT MY KNEE A HELL OF A LOT MORE THAN THE OUTRAGE LOLLL #Bringing up the construction of the Outrage activates me [positive]

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