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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Extruder type: Standard Filastruder with 1.75mm melt filter, full barrel insulation, hopper shaker, and vertical setup with winder.<br />Picture of my set up:<br /><span class="postimg"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/nlHCumX.jpg" alt="http://i.imgur.com/nlHCumX.jpg" /></span><br />On the winder laser sensor, I added straws where the PTFE goes to help guide the filament better.<br />You can find more pictures on my imgur here: <a href="http://ggalisky.imgur.com/all/">http://ggalisky.imgur.com/all/</a></p><br /><p>Printer type: SD2, E3D v6, Bulldog XL, Glass bed, and Lawsy&#039;s Carriages.</p><p><strong>Mixing ratios</strong><br /> I usually use 1 colorant pellets to every 96 ABS pellet. Since I do not want to count each and every pellet (no one else wants to either), I ended up converting the 1:96 ratio into weight, and I ended up with 56 grams of ABS for every 1 gram of colorant. A benefit of using the weight system, is you do not have to worry about differing colorant pellet size. How did I get that number? Time for some math! 80 ABS pellets = 1g and 56 colorant pellets = 1.2g. Lets say you have 56g of ABS and you want to figure out how much teal colorant to add in order to get a 1:96 ratio. <br />1. Multiply 56g by 80 (this gives you the amount of total pellets) you get 4480<br />2. Set up a proportion like this: x/4480 = 1/96. Solve the proportion and you get 46. (you can skip the proportion and divide by 96 too)<br />3. Multiply 46 by 1.2 and divide everything by 56. You get 1 at the end of all that. The last number, 1 in our case, is the number of grams you need to add.</p><p><strong>Tips and tricks for colorants:</strong><br /></p><ul><li><p>Make sure to mix your colorant evenly with the rest of you plastic</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>To get awesome color consistency you need to use really fine colorant or chop up and re-extrude.</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Some colorants dramatically slow extrusion, and mixing colorants usually leads to extremely slow extrusion</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Big colorant pellets = horrible color consistency and the other way around too.</p></li></ul><ul><li><p>The Filastruder is perfectly capable of producing consistent colored filament. If you are getting color banding try the following: Decrease pellet size, add more colorant, or increase extrusion temp. Usually the problem is with pellets being too large and not mixing evenly.</p></li></ul><p><strong>Extrusion</strong><br />Extrusion temperature: 195°C<br />Extrusion rate: 18 inches per minute.<br />Average diameter of filament: 1.65 mm<br />Tolerances: + or - 0.04mm</p><p><strong>Comments</strong><br /> I got this from <a href="http://3dsupplysource.com/.">http://3dsupplysource.com/.</a> I mainly use black to add to my recycled ABS/ virgin ABS mix to hide color defects. I heard that a Chinese filament supplier also does this, except they are hiding more than just recycled ABS in their filament... Purging from black to natural can take up to a pound of plain ABS pellets, but this also means that the color consistency on black is immaculate.<br /><strong>Printing</strong><br />Setting my glass bed to 104°C, the hot end to 240°C, setting the extrusion multiplier to 150% for the first layer, and using a coat of PVA glue worked very well against warping. This is a very easy material to print. I had excellent layer bonding and no problems with delamintion. I printed this with the spiral vase setting in slic3r, and the spiral vase preset is slow. The final printed part is not very strong, and since it is a single perimeter, you could crush it in your hand.</p><p><strong>Brittleness</strong><br />1-10 scale, 1 is TPU and 10 is acrylic. 4 <br /><strong>Layer bonding</strong><br />1-10 scale, 1 is Nylon and 10 is acrylic. 3</p><br /><p>Comparison to commercial ABS filament: N/A ( I have never bought a roll of ABS filament thanks to the Filastruder)</p><p>Pictures:<br /><span class="postimg"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/vhjNcmp.jpg" alt="http://i.imgur.com/vhjNcmp.jpg" /></span><br /><span class="postimg"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/Y2CMcOO.jpg" alt="http://i.imgur.com/Y2CMcOO.jpg" /></span><br /><span class="postimg"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/y7xQsM5.jpg" alt="http://i.imgur.com/y7xQsM5.jpg" /></span><br /><span class="postimg"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/rOhieUr.jpg" alt="http://i.imgur.com/rOhieUr.jpg" /></span><br /><span class="postimg"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/iddxz0o.jpg" alt="http://i.imgur.com/iddxz0o.jpg" /></span></p><br /><p>Questions? Comment? Feel free to send me a PM, or post a reply down below!</p>]]></description>
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