Pastel All PLA printed one-piece F16-like Controller Body.

F16-like stick body, PLA Matte printing with 100% infill, settings for strength, adaptive layers turned on... PLA support material, no post processing, just fresh out of the printer, with the support removed.

As you can see, the area the support touch does not have too great a texture. But, it's nothing a bit of aggressive sanding wouldn't take care of. In particularly, one of the reason why the artifact was rotated and sliced this way is that the best face would be facing the end user, and this "ugly" part has more "meat" for sanding.

While removing the support, I can already feel that the PLA support material is so much easier to remove than the Nylon12 Carbon Fiber due to its weaker strength and being much more brittle than Nylon. I think this material/print will hold for home user, if proper core support (say vacuum bagging in epoxy/fiber shaft, or using the originally designed two halves split with a central carbon fiber shaft to take the load. It should work just fine. I mean... if it breaks, you can just print the damned replacement parts yourself.

However, I guess the Nylon12 Carbon Fiber could possibly qualify for mil-spec... if it could pass the cockpit toxic smoke standards. Unfortunately, AFAIK, Nylon 12 when burned creates a toxic smoke for humans... so I highly doubt it will pass mil-spec.


Ok.. ok... that pastel color is so 1960s.... or Barbie. I admit... man... that's the colors I got from Bambu... they don't have much color choices!






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