Rubber-like at 95 Shore A — for the gaskets, grips, feet and bumpers that rigid plastic can't be. Printed flexible parts are one of FDM's genuinely unfair advantages.
Some parts shouldn't be rigid: the gasket that seals a lid, the foot that stops a machine walking across the bench, the grip that makes a tool comfortable, the bumper that takes the knock. TPU prints all of them — rubber-like, abrasion-resistant, and tough almost beyond reason.
95 Shore A is about the firmness of a skateboard wheel: it flexes and compresses, but holds shape under load. At $0.209 a gram incl. GST, custom rubber parts stop being a tooling conversation and become a Tuesday.
Gaskets and seals — custom sizes that don't exist in catalogues
Vibration mounts, feet and dampers
Grips, sleeves and overmould-style covers
Bumpers, corner protectors, flexible hinges and straps
Fine detail is softer than rigid materials — chunky geometry wins
It's flexible, not stretchy like silicone — ~95A firmness
Slower to print, so per-part machine time costs more
No heat-deflection rating in the usual sense — keep it under ~80 °C
Design flexible parts roughly twice as thick as feels right — TPU does its job through bulk; thin TPU is floppy, thick TPU is rubber.
Compression features (gaskets, feet) work best at 60–80% the height they'll be squashed to; we can suggest infill levels that tune squish.
Holes in TPU stretch over fasteners — undersize them 0.2 mm for a grip fit rather than adding clearance.
Lid gaskets, enclosure seals, washer stacks — measured to your groove, not the nearest catalogue size.
Machine feet, motor mounts, camera dampers — kill the buzz without engineering a rubber supply chain.
Tool sleeves, edge bumpers, phone-jig liners, anything where plastic-on-plastic should be rubber-on-plastic.
Skateboard-wheel territory: a 2 mm wall flexes easily by hand, a 6 mm block feels like firm rubber. It returns to shape and survives abuse that would crack any rigid print.
Not in FDM — 95A is as soft as we print reliably. True squishy silicone needs moulding; for most gaskets and grips, 95A with the right geometry does the job.
Printed solid (high infill, thick walls) they seal very well — tell us it's a sealing part at quote time and we'll print it dense.
Upload an STL, STEP or 3MF, pick TPU 95A in the configurator, and the price reprices live — GST included, dispatch date shown before you pay.