Proto-pasta stainless steel filament
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2015 3:33 pm
Not sure if anyone else has seen this or tried it, but I had ordered 125g spool of it on their pre-order page to try it out and it came it last week.
The results are pretty nice, the material has a lot more weight to it then standard filament and the finish looks pretty sweet once it's polished. I will say the filament seems a bit temperamental, mainly with trying to extrude it, I've found I have to print really slowly or the extruder starts slipping, I also had better luck printing at a higher temp, they recommended 215, I've been printing at 225, I used their recommended 50C bed temp and used purple elmers glue stick on it, had no problems at all with bed adhesion. I do need to figure out what's up with my printer though as my infill keeps having small gaps from the perimeter, I hadn't noticed that with any of my ABS parts, but most of what i've been printing lately doesn't have a smooth top surface like that so it could be it's having that issue and I haven't noticed it because of what I've been printing.
Anyways here's two things I've printed with it so far, this one is a pendant with the S.H.I.E.L.D. emblem from the Marvel movies/agent's of S.H.I.E.L.D. tv show.
This one is a pair Wonder Woman earrings, the top one is after polishing, the bottom one is what the print looks like straight off the printer. These were printed on a V1 Rostock MAX with an E3D v6 hotend with a .4mm nozzle.
The results are pretty nice, the material has a lot more weight to it then standard filament and the finish looks pretty sweet once it's polished. I will say the filament seems a bit temperamental, mainly with trying to extrude it, I've found I have to print really slowly or the extruder starts slipping, I also had better luck printing at a higher temp, they recommended 215, I've been printing at 225, I used their recommended 50C bed temp and used purple elmers glue stick on it, had no problems at all with bed adhesion. I do need to figure out what's up with my printer though as my infill keeps having small gaps from the perimeter, I hadn't noticed that with any of my ABS parts, but most of what i've been printing lately doesn't have a smooth top surface like that so it could be it's having that issue and I haven't noticed it because of what I've been printing.
Anyways here's two things I've printed with it so far, this one is a pendant with the S.H.I.E.L.D. emblem from the Marvel movies/agent's of S.H.I.E.L.D. tv show.
This one is a pair Wonder Woman earrings, the top one is after polishing, the bottom one is what the print looks like straight off the printer. These were printed on a V1 Rostock MAX with an E3D v6 hotend with a .4mm nozzle.