3d printing planes

[Mac82]

long time no see flight test folks.
its been a long time since ive done any rc projects. recently i got myself a 3d printer for verious reasons and printing an rc plane was one of them by now weve seen the 3d printed planes and suprisingly they fly nicely. i have the files ready for one such printable plane the spitfire avaible on thingyverse. i know that most people are printing them with either high impact pla or a petg filament. now, im wondering.... how would one of these planes preform being brinted from a wood filament? to me its only natral to think wood for this seing as weve been using wood for this hobby since the beginning. thaughts ????

 

[jhitesma]

Might work...most of the wood filaments are just PLA with wood added to them. The big question how it would affect the weight.

I'd try printing a test piece in PLA and the wood filament with similar settings and then comparing their weights to get a feel for how much of a difference there may be.

 

[Mac82]

Good point
I'll have to get a new digi scale

 

[Snarls]

I think I remember seeing Tom Salanderer on youtube testing wood filled PLA and finding it was weaker than traditional PLA. That does not mean you can make a plane out of it, it just might suffer a little more in the event of a crash. Whatever you choose, please show us the prints and build process!

 

[Mac82]

You got it man.
I'm going to do a couple test runs with the pla and the wood but it'll be some time next month when I can order more filament