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Topic: Looking for a "construction yellow" color

I'm hoping someone can suggest a filament to look for here.

I'm looking for a color of PLA that closely resembles the common "construction" or "hazard" yellow that's the trademark of Cat digging equipment and US road signs. Most of the yellow filament I've found has been somewhat transparent (I don't want transparent), canary yellow, too orange, or otherwise just not the right color.

To be specific, something like this:
https://image.shutterstock.com/z/stock-vector-caution-yellow-sign-102323377.jpg

I get most of my filament off Amazon, but am of course willing to buy from other vendors if prices are reasonable.

Anyone know of a filament color like this?

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Re: Looking for a "construction yellow" color

http://colorfabb.com/signal-yellow

https://filamentexpress.com/products/3d … 5939769096

https://www.filamentone.com/collections … nal-yellow



Hope this helps

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Re: Looking for a "construction yellow" color

Inland has a PLA that is very close, I used it to print a female robot with joints.

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Re: Looking for a "construction yellow" color

Awesome. Thanks, guys. Looks like that Extrafill on FilamentOne is going to be my best bet.

By the way, what's new and special about PLA-N? That's the first I've heard about it. I see it prints at a slightly higher temp than standard PLA. Is it just less brittle or are there other benefits?

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Re: Looking for a "construction yellow" color

Filakemp is made in Portugal


Colorfab is in the netherlands

so either may have a UK supplier.

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Re: Looking for a "construction yellow" color

I have never had an issue with any PLA being brittle. In fact the Inland stuff had more flex than ABS. I print exclusively  with PET and PETG. It is like a happy medium between ABS and PLA.

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Re: Looking for a "construction yellow" color

carl_m1968 wrote:

Inland has a PLA that is very close, I used it to print a female robot with joints.


Female robot??? Pictures please.

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Re: Looking for a "construction yellow" color

RCFerguson wrote:
carl_m1968 wrote:

Inland has a PLA that is very close, I used it to print a female robot with joints.


Female robot??? Pictures please.

Here ya go, meet Robotica.

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l5/solarenemy/20170310_170844.jpg

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