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Topic: Filaments

I couldn't figure out where to post this. So just picked where I thought best. I have quite some time till my SolidDoodle 2 comes in so have been looking into 1.75mm filaments, mostly ABS and a few specials.

- Gold colored filament- Some seems just yellow. Anyone tried a gold colored filament and which looks the most "Gold"?

- Flexible Filament - I found some over at makergeeks.com that didn't have a huge international shipping cost(I am from USA). I will get it soon but still waiting on my 3D printer hehe. The only thing I saw is that you need to Print way slow, like only 25% normal.

- Wood Filament- I have seen this a few places and on Amazon.  Anyone actually try this stuff?

- I saw a video with some Nylon Filament. Interesting for sure.

I am likely getting WAY ahead of myself since I never printed anything as of yet.

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Re: Filaments

Welcome and yes you seem to be getting a little ahead of yourself.  Search under wood filament, search under nylon, search under flexible and you'll get answers to most of your questions.  As for filaments which produce the best gold color you'll have to look around.  Here's a good place to start.

http://www.3ders.org/pricecompare/

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Re: Filaments

Thank you!

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Re: Filaments

amazon.com has some pretty good deal... 1kg shipped for 30ish.
as for color... you will have to search a little

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"1kg should last for an while" is a lie!

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Re: Filaments

I got some from amazon too. I have amazon prime so free shipping. smile

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Re: Filaments

It seems that PLA gives a better "gold" color than ABS. However, PLA is more difficult to work with. Get to know your printer first. Get good with ABS before moving on.
This will probably get you the results you want, even though it looks a bit more like copper to me:
http://www.amazon.com/Filament-3D-Print … ament+gold
And the "gold" ABS jsut looks orange:
http://www.amazon.com/Octave-1-75mm-Fil … ament+gold

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Re: Filaments

Yea I got some ABS gold and it was not overly "gold", more a hint of it. I can print something and spray paint over it with plastic paints I suppose.

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