Australian Filament Suppliers (Page 3 of 9)

The Crysta-Line range is looking great!
Definately interested in that wood filament, crazy stuff!

Hi Jamie,
any feedback yet on the crysta-line stuff ?
i am thinking i may need a couple of spools of that quite soon. I assume a 7 segment display hard up against a thinnish layer of this would be quite readable.

what did you mean by stronger ? is it less bendy, more brittle, harder to dent ?

I have the samples of the colours now. Just done some prints and have put them up on the blog. Also made them available for preorder. Stock should be only 7-10 days away.

My printer won't print single layers, so all the examples I show are at least 2 layers thick. If you can print at 220C and single layer it should turn out quite transparent.

The strength is only subjective at this point. I haven't done a proper A/B comparison. But I did have a failed print that I tried to break and couldn't. This is at 270C mind you. I'll try and do some tests when I get time.

Cheers
Jamie

Jamie (aka 3Dprintergear).  You did a post on your blog regarding lithophanes using the software Photo to Mesh.  Can you possibly post your settings and how you export that to the printer so I don't have to go through the same learning curve.  I was able to get a couple STL files out but they have errors when I try to view them. 

I'd really appreciate it.  Ian replied to another thread I had asking about this very process.  You also mention there are other softwares out there that do the same thing, could you give me the names if you remember them?

Thanks!  They look great by the way.

Testing with the wood yesterday things started out looking good, but sure enough the tip clogged up. Although it was in the pre chamber, not the actual nozzle, which is odd.

My printer has a .35mm nozzle, and the makers told me to use .5mm, so I will drill out a spare I have and try again.

The small wood part looks cool. Very flexible when thin and there is quite a bit of droop, so probably needs lots of air. Funny thing is it smells like cut wood when extruding, and due to the texture the layers are virtually invisible! Worth persisting I think.

It will give you time to drill out the nozzle.  For Solidoodle users, it is easy.  You can order a .5mm nozzle from Makergear and just switch them out.

BTW I got the clear samples, I'll try to print them today or tomorrow.  The red definitely leans heavily to the pink side.  That's fine for me, there are some girls here who would like some pink prints.

Isn´t the solidoodle .35, so you should order a .35 nozzle

Hi Ian, glad they arrived. I'll be interested to see how the clear compares.

Not sure what can be done to the red to make it less pink. My thoughts are that it is just what happens when you "water down" the colour red. Maybe if I had a clear pink it would make the red seem more red! 8-)

I just ordered a .5 and a spare .35...on there own. Do the nozzles just screw in and out? Or should I have actually ordered an entire "hot end" with a .5 nozzle?

Oh ok, so in that instance I would just separate the insulator and nozzle, screw the insulator back in and screw the new nozzle back into that?

I figured I'm paying $30 shipping anyway so an extra $10 for a spare .35 seemed like a good idea.

that looks good .. it would work well in other colours, especially black..
it sort of looks like mdf .. does it have the same texture printed ?

order placed for some crystaline stuff .. hope the reds not too far away, i have a job and hope to put it in front of a 7 segment display, will be interesting to see how it looks.
might break out the sandblaster.