Topic: [ABS] LG Chem HF380
Resin: ABS LG Chem HF380
Equipment used: Filastruder #1700s melt filter, full barrrel insulation, vertical mount with Filawinder.
Filament printed on a heavily modifed Rostock Max v2 and a Mendel Max 2.
DETAILS:
Tip Diameter: 1.6 mm
Extruded temperature: 203°C (my temps have always ran high)
Filament diameter and tolerance: 1.75mm +/- .04
Extruded speed is 9 in/min.
Pre-extrusion processing: No pre-drying, been sitting in my garage doing nothing for over a year
Extruded filament is smooth and shiny.
Printing: Printed from layers .2-.6 on PEI heated print beds. Printed speeds vary from 60-160mm/s. Beds are heated to 105-125 degrees, depending on how much I want it to stick. Printed temperature is from 230-260. 260 insures ROCK SOLID interlayer bindings. Hot 110+ hotbed insures almost zero lift. Sometimes its too stuck.
COMMENTS:
This stuff was bought as a 20# bag over a year ago for around $3/#. I was looking for the cheapest ABS I can find at the time, and remember reading somewhere that this was good. No need to dry out apparently. The filament looked great!
This stuff mixes with with various colorants that people around here use. Virgin material is not quite as pure white as MG94, almost a slightly more dull.
Honestly, I love this stuff. I haven't been able to find anymore lately. Maybe it's my imagination, but I think warping is much less than MG94. Either that or I'm just more experience with printing with ABS, as that's pretty much what I print almost exclusively.
Below is my setup and prints.
Next step is Nylon 6/6 and Delrin 500p I have on order.
