First impressions:
Their packaging is nice, really really nice. Take a look-
[img]http://i60.tinypic.com/5yhpms.jpg[/img]
That doesn't say anything about the actual quality of their filament, but it does show that they care in general. The filament feels somewhat flexible, on par with ABS. In fact, they suggest approximately the same temperature range as ABS, so for my first print I ran it as 230c. Other settings are 60c bed, 50mm/s, .1mm layer height, 4mm retraction, and layer fan on (since it's a very low warp material, supposedly).
Here's the result:
[img]http://i61.tinypic.com/2hmd79f.jpg[/img]
It's a set of spinning rings, which printed very nicely. The much vaunted low-warp property seems accurate since it stayed stuck on glass with hairspray despite the layer fan being on high from the beginning, but then came away without too much fuss when it was done. There's no smell at all while printing...not the sweet "hey who's making pancakes" smell of PLA or the "oh god I'm getting cancer" of ABS. There doesn't look like there was any stringing, but this wasn't the best test for that.
After playing with the rings for a while the outer loops on the top and bottom started to peel away, so the layer bonding wasn't great. I reprinted it with the same settings except for the hotend being 5c hotter, 235, and that second version was actually incredibly hard to pull apart. I had to use pliers and really work at it for a few minutes!
Overall I'm incredibly impressed by this first test run, this might be my new default material!
Oh, and it turns out they have their own website, alchement.com, where everything is a few dollars cheaper than ebay. Bonus!
