A commenter suggests investing in a Formlabs Fuse printer as a potential in-house SLS 3D printing solution for a company manufacturing complex nylon parts.

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        "author": "ppsieradzki",
        "excerpt": "I'll agree with others that, while this is totally doable with FDM, switching to a different manufacturing technology like MJF and outsourcing that if your volume doesn't justify the upfront cost might be the way to go. Happy to recommend some shops if you like.\n\n In the meantime, I highly suggest using Polymaker's dedicated PA12 support material as your breakaway supports. Should work much better",
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        "excerpt": "In general scaling FDM production for parts that are small and require support with \"desktop\" 3d printers and technical materials (pp, pc, nylons etc.) does not end up well. If you are building a proper business or production run I would consider outsourcing to a service bureau printing in PA12 with MJF technology for example, or SLS for that matter, but I have had better experiences in small part",
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        "excerpt": "As others have said, while it's definitely doable to tune in FDM in a way that this will work, SLS is the better way. And as soon as your model dimensions are fixed, having the parts injection molded is even better and will bring down the price by orders of magnitude. There is also a middle ground: you can do injection molding (even into 3d printed molds) with hand operated devices. This gives you",
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        "author": "ghostofwinter88",
        "excerpt": "Is there a reason why you want to print zipper heads when you can get high quality metal ones for pennies?",
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        "excerpt": "Mine is a small operation producing 70-100 nylon parts a day they range from 90-190 grams per piece. For PA6 and PA 6/66, PAHT and PPA,I use yxpolyer breakaway support material. I don not print CF additives as in my applications i may get stiffer parts but the are weaker after long term testing. You can certainly print these without issue if you maintain chamber temp slow it down and possibly cons",
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        "excerpt": "Printing nylon is extremely easy with a heated chamber. I make sure that my bed temp is the same as the chamber temp and I never get warping.",
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        "excerpt": "Throwing another vote in the hat for MJF/SLS if you are willing to outsource (or invest in something like a formlabs Fuse).\n\n My company operates a few SLS and MJF machines for printing small detailed/complex parts like this, and having both isotropic material properties and zero supports needed ks extremely useful.",
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    "post_text": "Hi,\n\nMy company is making zipper heads out of carbon fiber reinforced nylon (PAHT-CF) and we are running into an issue of scaling up our process. Right now we have a design we are happy but have discovered that given our material choice we have to print by object instead of by layer since the cooling that happens in between layers pulls the whole model that it warps the whole zipper head. The issue is that with doing print by object I no longer have a prime tower with which to get the support material, ABS, flowing again. Watching the video last night it would be the ABS's turn to print and nothing would come out before it switched back to the nylon.\n\nWould switching to fully nylon supports be a good answer?\n\nCan anyone give me their experiences with this material and the methods or tools you used to get this completed? My company is willing to upgrade our printer, from a X2D to a H2D, since having the different support material does seem to be a very useful thing to have.\n\nedit: we have a number 30 zipper that was are using, which is gigantic, here's a picture of one of our doors.\n\nhttps://www.tuffwrap.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Article-3-TuffWrap-EXT-Zipper-Door.jpg\n\nSo we need a really big zipper head that is really tough to handle closing during high winds while still standing up to UV from the sun.\n\nand here is a picture of a number 30 zipper that we use.",
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