Upgraded my Adept trackball to use the AnyBall 57-68mm mod, with an Aramith tournament series cue ball and Rexroth BTUs.

Sorry for constantly proselytizing about the wonders of PHA lol. But look at this thing! The Adept is pretty ingeniously designed for printing, but I wouldn’t really say it’s an easy print either. There are steeeeep overhangs and really long bridges. After getting the settings dialed in, PHA more or less handled it just fine, and now my trackball is home compostable. It also has this really interesting feel to it, kind of reminds me more of leather than plastic.

Few more pics:

  • IMALlama@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Thanks for the links!

    Colorfabb lists products for sale and claims compostability in any environment. I am tempted to buy a spool and give it a go, including composting in my compost pile.

    PHA 3DESIGN’s website says their products are not home compostable :(

    100% bio-based, blended from PHA and other bio-based materials, industrially compostable.

    EcoGenesis’s website spends a lot of time saying “PLA isn’t compostable outside of very specific conditions”, but doesn’t appear to say that their product is more widely compostable. I also didn’t see an obvious place to buy their filament or even really a listing of filaments.

    • Remy Rose@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Oh yeah, PHA3DESIGN sells both pure PHA and PHA/PLA blends, their pure stuff is (to the best of my understanding) fully home compostable. Any pure line of it should be, it’s just a matter of some companies being sneaky about whether it’s actually 100% PHA or not.

      EcoGenesis I’m prettttyyyyy sure is pure PHA, mostly because they’re the ones who usually call other people out when it’s not. They ran spectrometry on this other brand (Regen) and posted publicly about it clearly being blended. Also their spools have labels with pretty hardcore and believable verification on them.