Inventables acrylic in Arizona heat?

Hey guys!! I have a customer asking about how the 1/8 in acrylic from inventables will hold up in 115 degree Heat in Arizona. I don’t have any experience with this… here in Canada.

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Auto-annealing? :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: I don’t know either!

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Should be fine…I think the melting point is somewhere around 300° F.
(PLA…not so much.)

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Acrylic will be fine. The glass transition temperature is about 110 C. I print with PMMA, which is about the same, and it is fine. Even leaving parts in the car in the sun is fine for parts with a glass transition higher than 80 C.

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I made some PLA carabiner things that attach to the headrest posts of the truck so I can hang a plastic trash bag off of them and keep tidy… they are a little droopy now lol.

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Thanks y’all!! Knew you’d know! :heart:

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330deg F melting point. Doesn’t even start to soften til right around there so now worries. Pain when you’re trying to bend it though =P

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