Differences

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--- filaments:pva [2025/01/29 00:46] – [PVA - Polyvinyl Alcohol] megacookiez
+++ filaments:pva [2025/01/29 21:41] (current) – [Other notes] megacookiez
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 ==== Advantages ====
-  * Water soluble
+  * Water soluble.
+  * Can be used for casting.
 ==== Disadvantages ====
-  * Water soluble
+  * Water soluble.
+  * Not suitable for mechanical parts.
 ==== Variants ====
-Unknown if variants exist.
+PVA filaments only come in natural coloration and does not contain fill additives such as glass fibers.
 ==== Baseline Printing Recommendations ====
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 These numbers are provided as a baseline, and **need** adjustment and calibration for your specific printer/filament/color combination.
-^  Variant  ^  Hotend Temperature  ^  Heatbed Temperature  ^  Chamber Temperature  ^ [[filaments:maximum_temperature#optimistic_usable_temperature|Optimistic Usable Temperature]] ^  Drying Temperature  ^
+^  Variant  ^  Hotend Temperature  ^  Heatbed Temperature  ^  Chamber Temperature  ^  [[filaments:maximum_temperature#optimistic_usable_temperature|Optimistic Usable Temperature]]  ^  Drying Temperature  ^
 |PVA  |220  |60  |Not required  |70  |80  |
 ==== Other notes ====
-This page is a stub.
+It is ideal to print PVA from a dry box with a bowden tube and a fresh silica gel packet to delay the ingress of moisture into the material.
+If PVA filament soaks too much moisture, upon printing the material will turn white out of the hotend and loud crackling can be heard as the moisture evaporates from the material.
+Additionally if the filament has soaked too much moisture, for example the spool was left unattended to outside of a dry box for a week then hydrolysis will degrade the material substantially and individual strands of the spool can fuse together upon attempting to dry it.
+PVA becomes flexible when it is wet.
+Print at slow speeds for best results.
+For optimal bed adhesion it is recommended to apply a thin layer of glue stick.