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Topic: 3rd party filament

For those of you who are using 3rd party filament, could you give links to them that you've been successful using?

I am running Repetier on mine and when I used Taulman's TGlase or SeeMeCNC's PLA, both are giving my extruder issues. I get this clicking noise like it wants to grab but wont. When I run XYZ's it works great. I am also going to try some sample from http://stores.ebay.com/3D-Filament-Bost … 7675.l2563

it runs at only 1.70mm, but so far the gears are grabbing it without problems. I'll make a few quick prints and see if its worth buying a full spool. If anyone else has a reliable source, I'd like to see it.

2 Reply by schnixx

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Re: 3rd party filament

VOLTIVO-Filament works fine !

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Re: 3rd party filament

i dont get it here in the US so i cant buy it yet

4 Reply by heidkampn1

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Re: 3rd party filament

Gstar ABS is surprisingly good. It's a little softer than xyz ABS and the extruder has no issues taking it in.

Winbo PLA does NOT work with this printer.

If you find a brand of PLA that works please post it to my topic "problems with PLA" , I want to try it

5 Reply by piercedtiger

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Re: 3rd party filament

I've used 1 spool each of Sainsmart (black), Octave (white), and Printrbot (blue) without issues.

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Re: 3rd party filament

Piercedtiger .. ABS  or PLA?

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Re: 3rd party filament

Fair warning. DO NOT USE zentoolworks.com black PLA. I just got finished heating and drilling my extruder to clear the half melted mess that it left behind after cracking for the third time. I have a full spool that I don't think I would feel right even giving away. sad  I guess I should have known something wasn't right with it when it cracked while the head was moving back and forth but I kept trying to use it. The last time I was trying to unload it from the printer it cracked and left a chunk in the extruder. When I pulled on it with pliers it cracked again. So very disappointed with that spool.

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Re: 3rd party filament

Just thought I'd toss this into the thread, since the stuff is so ridiculously cheap on Ebay and I needed some "less than stellar" filament to test other slicer software with, I bought two spools of KBell Engineerings ABS. Purple and Green color and 1KG each on very small spools.

Now I have only printed with the Purple so far, but while it has issue's like being bad about curling away from the heated bed (and I upped the heated bed temp to 100c and extruder to 230), it hasn't jammed or done anything too bizzare. Upping the temperature on the extruder did help the stuff adhere to itself.

The "downside" to the stuff is that while I'm not quite sure exactly what it is, but it's not normal ABS. Acetone will dissolve it if you agitate it and have it in the acetone a very long time, but even then it doesn't look anything like what XYZ's ABS does after its been dissolved. It smells a bit worse when printing with it than XYZ's does, but nothing terrible.

If my current project with it succeeds, I'll post a pic in this thread so you can see how it looks directly off the printer.