Re: First print with Ninjaflex, cool stuff
I'm bumping this thread to add a few pictures of my prints.
I'm very happy with ninjaflex so far. The vase was one of my first prints after a few calibration cubes and I think it is near perfect. Filament diameter was dead on at 1.75 mm everywhere I measured it. Even my extrusion multiplier calibrated out to 1.0. I'm running it at 225 C and all speeds set to 20 mm/s but I think it could go up to 30 with no problems since I'm running an E3D V6 with a PTFE tube right up to the drive gear so there is no gap. I turned the heat bed to 60 C even though it said I don't need to. I use a very thin layer of glue stick with all prints now and I had absolutely no warping or lifting with ninjaflex. Texture can best be compared to an RC car tire and my prints came out very smooth.
The phone case is for a Galaxy S5 and it fit on the bed of my SD2 with less than 4mm to spare. It has a little bit of layer splitting, probably due to trying to fit the comparatively thick 0.48 mm extrusion width into the thin wall. This would be a good print to bring out the 0.25mm nozzle and use 0.2 or 0.1 mm layers. That will be a 6- 8 hour print at these speeds. It will never be as tight as an injection molded case but hey, its still cool to make it and you can then you always have a conversation starting piece on you if someone mentions 3D printing.
Support material was not particularly easy to remove at the bottom and left a bit of a mess when I can to cut it off since I didn't want to pull and risk breaking the part. I'm not sure I can do bridging without speeding it up a good bit, so some experimentation is in order. Any tips?
More prints to come!