A potential idea after reading the bad with attempting the PETG route would be to create a mold from the 3d print.
Look into silicone casting. Or whatever grade you would legit need to be safe. Not sure if pure silicone is the right route or not. At least it’s an idea of a starting point.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 year ago
FDM printing is a bad idea for any material in a sex toy.
There’s several issues:
eventually, it’s going to delaminate. Worst case you catch it and it just causes some minor lacerations.
Worst case? Shards of plastic stuck in your ass (or where ever,) while surgeons get intimately acquainted while playing a game of Operation. Only it ain’t a buzzer Making that noise.
Secondly? Hygiene. FDM laminations create a bunch of ridged parallel to the print direction. These ridges (and cracks that form at them,) can harbor shit loads of bacteria and are best treated as single use (ie food safety.)
ASA/ABS can be vapor smoothed with acetone but that causes other problems.
Your safest approach is to use a “mold” setting in your slicer to print off two clamshell molds which you can then cast a silicone rubber version. If it needs some added stiffness…you can add printed parts inside and submerged in the cast.