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Drillpro Durometer. How Shore Durometer works? What's the hardness of 3D printed plastic materials?

Title: Drillpro Durometer. How Shore Durometer works? What's the hardness of 3D printed plastic materials?. Watch on youtube: https://youtu.be/aPo5CpFAeB8

Tags: 3dprint, strength test, hardness, tools,

Let's talk about what is the hardness, how Shore Durometer works and what is the hardness of 3D printed plastic materials. Two Drillpro Shore Durometers (scale Shore A and D) are sent to me by Banggood for the review. But also, in this video I tested the effect of the direction of measuring (layer direction or perpendicular to layers), effect of the temperature to the hardness. In last experiment I tested if Poldi Hammer can be used with 3D printed materials to measure the hardness.

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Other equipment used in the video:
Drill stand: https://www.banggood.com/custlink/G3md05YYIJ
Poldi hammer (mine is 30 yr old kit): https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Mobile-Hammer-Durometer-System-Poldi/dp/B01GVQ6OOM

Mentioned in the video:
Sunlu filament dryer: https://youtu.be/My5-E-STQo8
Patent by Albert F. Shore: https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/021773226/publication/US1770045A?q=pn%3DUS1770045
Shore hardness scale: https://www.smooth-on.com/page/durometer-shore-hardness-scale/

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STL files for 3D printed educational durometer can be downloaded below this text.

Contents:
0:00 Introduction
0:27 What is Hardness
1:12 Measuring the hardness
2:50 About Shore Durometer
3:37 How durometer works?
5:54 Drillpro Durometer review
9:09 Manual measuring (from hand)
9:59 Hardness of 3D printed materials
11:38 Direction of measuring
13:14 Hardness of PLA, PETG, ABS, RESIN, TPU
17:28 Effect of temperature to hardness
19:10 Results
21:30 Poldi hammer for plastic hardness
24:32 Conclusions

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