<![CDATA[SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — Free Filament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/topic/1319/free-filament/ Sun, 29 Sep 2013 14:43:25 +0000 PunBB <![CDATA[Re: Free Filament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/37627/#p37627 Output is around 18in/min now, but everything else cckens said is spot on.

That said, it requires a degree of tinkering. Based on your struggles with the SD, it might not be for you, Rocketman.

]]> Sun, 29 Sep 2013 14:43:25 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/37627/#p37627 <![CDATA[Re: Free Filament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/37619/#p37619 Yep... Tim setup a kickstarter based on this thread

http://www.soliforum.com/topic/557/fila … -filament/

Now he's finishing off the KS rewards and is taking pre-orders for the production kits.

Filament costs upwards of $30-40 a kilo; ABS pellets can be had for ~$10 a kilo in 1-5kilo increments.  Substantial savings there.  If you order larger, it can get cheaper...

Masterbatch colors can help you achieve a variety of colors and is relatively inexpensive.

But understand, production is not fast.  On the order of 10 in/min, but still, the quality output has been good and I'm sure with the new melt filter it can get even better. 

The 2nd string stuff I got from Tim was as good as anything you'd get from retail, so I imagine that the 1st out stuff was even better.  My filastruder has done some good output, enough so that I don't worry about paying for retail filament again.

]]> Sun, 29 Sep 2013 13:33:29 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/37619/#p37619 <![CDATA[Re: Free Filament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/37605/#p37605 elmoret wrote:

Sold!

What is filastruder? People can make their own filament with this?

]]> Sun, 29 Sep 2013 05:05:12 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/37605/#p37605 <![CDATA[Re: Free Filament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/12707/#p12707 i'm still waiting for when he has a new extruder available

]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:27:21 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/12707/#p12707 <![CDATA[Re: Free Filament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/12703/#p12703 elmoret wrote:

Sold!


I guess I shouldn't have thrown away all my scrap filament off the filastruder.

]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:21:32 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/12703/#p12703 <![CDATA[Re: Free Filament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/12632/#p12632 frozensoda wrote:

Can I try some? I don't get paid until friday but I would definitley like to try this!

PM me, I can send you some from the filastruder, it won't be 3.5lbs though.

]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2013 01:32:00 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/12632/#p12632 <![CDATA[Re: Free Filament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/12631/#p12631 Can I try some? I don't get paid until friday but I would definitley like to try this!

]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2013 01:29:05 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/12631/#p12631 <![CDATA[Re: Free Filament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/12630/#p12630 Sold!

]]> Wed, 13 Feb 2013 01:15:11 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/12630/#p12630 <![CDATA[Re: Free Filament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/12616/#p12616 Tim,
I'm game... the other filament you shipped out worked well.  I'd be proud to run this through the machine.

Sending this via email too..

Ken

]]> Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:52:23 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/12616/#p12616 <![CDATA[Free Filament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/12615/#p12615 I have about 3.5 lbs of filament I made in various lengths while testing my filastruder. I make no guarantee of the quality of the the filament - some of it may be the wrong size or have bits of contamination, but I thought I'd offer it if anyone was interested.

A medium flatrate box is $12 shipped anywhere in the US. Let me know!

]]> Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:37:31 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/12615/#p12615