Polycarbonate and nylon pellets. More color options. Filament winder/spooling kit.

PP/nylon are tough to source, though I have some nylon powder if you shoot me a PM.

Color options scale with demand.

Winder/spooling: Lookin' at you, Ian

another 12 volt heater band, or a more powerful alternative.  it takes about 30 minutes to reach temperature with the default setup (kit #15)

I picked the stock one in order to limit maximum temperature to about 250C, which is below the point at ABS offgasses HCN and CO.

You can at your own risk run the stock heaterbands at 18v. They'll handle it fine, and that will double the heat/power output. The heaterband will handle the heat and increased voltage no problem - it's just the possibility of thermal decomposition of the polymer. At that voltage they'll draw just under 5A, which is fine for the PID controller.

Is a shipping warehouse in Europe planned?

Oh man - Maybe one day. I'm not sure we're big enough yet. It would be the first warehouse at all .

They're somewhat famous for the in-stock/out-of-stock - in their case I suspect it prevents a huge backlog of orders for a very popular product. That seems like a problem the filastruder is likely to have in the short term, especially as testimonies like supraflyer's start rolling in.

Upgrade kit of making (and cooling) PLA filament

Shouldn't need anything special as far as the extruder goes, a spooler would go a long way though.

re: using heat shrink to join filament, you could use a piece of heat shrink 1/2" long, I can see that you might get a small lump which you would have to try to place on the inside of your object. I'll have to play with the idea.

I used to be certified to do Butt Fusion welding on Poly Ethene gas pipes. the problem with butt fusion is you extrude excess material. You could probable clean the filament with a exacto.

Ralph

Ralph

jesse wrote:

1.75 mm and 3.0 mm inner diameter clear tube for joining strands of plastic

Why don't you just use some heat shrink tubing?

I doubt there would be enough to make much contamination.

Ralph

You mean to shrink down to do the joining? The heatshrink won't extrude through the 3D printer, though perhaps you could cut it off when you finished. The only issue would be whether the heatshrink would melt with the plastic to become unified, and if you could control the heat so you didn't carbonize the ABS. Could be cool, though!

What Jesse wants is a means of joining two strands of filament to become one. As of right now, you can do this with acetone or heat, but it's hard to keep the strands aligned. This is one solution:

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:9850

1.75 mm and 3.0 mm inner diameter clear tube for joining strands of plastic

Why don't you just use some heat shrink tubing?

I doubt there would be enough to make much contamination.

Ralph