Topic: [4043D] Playing around with composites
I decided to try doing something different than the ordinary colorants. I present to you, McCormick Ground Cinnamon filament. 5g of ground cinnamon, 750g PLA, mixed in a bag and dumped in a Filastruder.
It's actually a pretty color - the cinnamon stuck to the pellets pretty easily just as is. My diameter is a bit off, so I have had some jams when the diameter goes over 1.9mm (Capricorn PTFE liner on hotend so it's 1.9mm ID), but I think it's more of an environmental thing than the addition of the cinnamon. Kind of hard to get the pellets dry in a 95F room at 82% humidity like it's been here lately, or to cool PLA properly with room temperature air.
This was obviously for play filament, not for big useful mechanical parts, so in that spirit - I present to you - Tiny 'Cinnamon' Rick:
Model: https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-55133
Yes, the room does smell like cinnamon, hot cinnamon, maybe burned cinnamon depending on what temp you use for your PLA, but the smell is not present in the finished item unfortunately (unless you put it in your car on the dashboard, then when it starts to melt you'll probably get the smell again).
