{"id":1469,"date":"2016-06-24T17:25:01","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T17:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2016-06-24T17:25:01","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T17:25:01","slug":"silicone-oil-for-filament-lubrication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=1469","title":{"rendered":"Silicone oil for filament lubrication?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='http:\/\/ifttt.com\/images\/no_image_card.png' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>I have an air rifle and a while ago I purchased some silicone oil to lube the parts; I recently started using it to lube the threads, rods and bearings and the printer runs very smoothly.I have heard that it is good to lubricate filament and along side this I am currently printing a filament filter which holds a sponge to pull dust etc off of the filament as it feeds. Would a small drop of silicone oil on the sponge be good for lubricating filament? Or would I need something else? Is it even necessary?Thanks everyone \ud83d\ude42 http:\/\/ift.tt\/28UWvrs<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have an air rifle and a while ago I purchased some silicone oil to lube the parts; I recently started using it to lube the threads, rods and bearings and the printer runs very smoothly.I have heard that it is good to lubricate filament and along side this I am currently printing a filament &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=1469\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Silicone oil for filament lubrication?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,8,9],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-3dprinters","tag-3dprinting","tag-discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1470,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions\/1470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}