{"id":43840,"date":"2020-01-28T22:39:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T22:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=43840"},"modified":"2020-01-28T22:39:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T22:39:09","slug":"an-interesting-fact-about-white-filament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=43840","title":{"rendered":"An interesting fact about white filament"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/ifttt.com\/images\/no_image_card.png' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>So I&#8217;ve worked in plastics for quite a while, up until a few years ago it was only known within the industry that white plastics are made using titanium dioxide, now in 3D printing it&#8217;s pretty common knowledge.Amazingly I&#8217;ve only just realized it&#8217;s Mohs hardness is actually higher than brass, so it should be abrasive on regular nozzles. I asked a guy at the filament company I use a lot and he told me that common grades are coated to prevent clumping, which has the side effect of lubricating the TIO2 to prevent the abrasion. Just something interesting I learned I thought I&#8217;d share. https:\/\/ift.tt\/2RBtNAY<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve worked in plastics for quite a while, up until a few years ago it was only known within the industry that white plastics are made using titanium dioxide, now in 3D printing it&#8217;s pretty common knowledge.Amazingly I&#8217;ve only just realized it&#8217;s Mohs hardness is actually higher than brass, so it should be abrasive &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/?p=43840\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An interesting fact about white filament&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,8,9],"class_list":["post-43840","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\/43840","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=43840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43841,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43840\/revisions\/43841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.3dprinterbank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}