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PETG will not, the glass transition temperature is 80-85C. For PLA it's 55-60C, so those will go floppy if you go at full tilt, though you should dry PLA at 40-50c-ish.
Got it, so I should be safe if I print it in PETG. Thanks!
Use ASA. PETG will creep.
ASA will creep significantly less. If you have fibre-filled materials they also excel in this regard but are probably overkill here.
Yeah, PETG or ABS/ASA would probably be my go-to. For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure basically all commercial plastic spools are injection molded out of ABS.