Filastruder's impact on the filament market

Maybe the filament sellers will start offering pellets as well, and hopefully masterbatch.  They would already be set up for buying a 25kg bag of colorant and splitting it out.  OS Printing has a head start in that department, and hopefully the revenue from their part of the Filastruder business will help them put together a decent selection.

The basic masterbatch for OSP, is pretty solid from their various posts on kickstarter, what I am hoping their first waves of pellets sales from the filastruder launch will allow them to start stocking strontium aluminate masterbatch glow pellets. Which from my sourcing is pretty often at least $100/kg,  and one supplier informed me that diluting the glow pigment greatly diminishes its photon emission, also clear bases are best used, to allow ease of photon transmission. On the note of support filament, extruding PVA offers a very good footing in a market that is growing in demand. If suppliers work in volume, many more makers can start printing "impossible" complex objects for cheaper than e r before. A win.

It would be interesting to have home users creating and selling filament to cut down on the costs of shipping filament from china. Although, do the pellets come from china?

Alibaba returns for plastic Pelletizer, lowest quote, $500-2500 and monstrous machines topping out around $180000... but with a backyard foundry and lost pla casting, one could be made for around a grand plus the huge amount of time for designing all the unique parts to be printed, then you'd also want a wood gasifier to make bio crude to further refine plastics from said hydrocarbon goop.

Not that I am aware of, just saying getting domestic supply of pellets is a corner stone to self reliant printing. Maybe some one who passes this thread will be the first to take this step.

ouch i'd say that is an issue. Are you partnered with them? Ive no idea on you official situation. I have to admit i saw the filastruder a while back and only just realized you created it, and it was also the first i heard of them. Have you thought about just changing the name to include theirs? or selling it through their website only?

Not at my house - they won't do residential addresses. A friend of mine runs a body shop, I'm having it delivered there (in 55lb bags) and picking it up with my Frontier.

That's what friends are for!

Luckily I don't have to weigh each bag - just use the same size measuring cup. It's not bad, I can do about 4 bags a minute which is 400 bags over the course of a movie. I think the most tedious part is knocking out nozzles on the drill press, though I made a jig for that.

My brain took a break, I meant, domestic manufacture, not just distributing of pellets from abroad. Unless we manage to over throw the petrol-cartels and push hydrogen infrastructure, then it wouldn't matter where the pellets come from, since the carbon foot print will all be the same the world over.

As far as I know, Sabic MG94 (what OSP and I are distributing) is made in the US. I buy it from Sabic Americas, Inc. which manages sales, marketing, business development, manufacturing, and research and technology throughout the Americas.

I know their warehouse is in North Carolina. Hope that helps!