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Thought it would be easier as a general chat to reference back to for future questions :cool:

Looking for some recommendations/feedback on some glitter filaments please?
 
I adore Bambu Lab's PLA Sparkle in onyx black. The base colour is like their PLA basic and has a little sheen to it. Not matte and not silk but an appealing level. The glitter picks up light and twinkles beautifully adding a subtle yet eye catching effect. I think it looks really classy.

I should say I am running this in a Bambu printer and I've not tried any other glitter filaments.

I have just bought Bambu PLA Galaxy in Purple and Nebulae. These are more of a glossy filament with glitter. I've not tried them yet but they look good on the spool.
 
Thanks @Fourstar I'll take a look, I ordered a few rolls of BL matt with my initial order discount and its been great but the prices have always been £5-7 higher than other brands.
 
Does anyone know of some PLA that's colour is close to a traffic cone orange / red? I have spent ages and have found out it's officially RAL color 2009 but I can't seem to get anything close unless buying RAL colour matched PLA at £60 a KG. I've tried Bambu, Sunlu, Eryone, R3D, eSun and the closest thing I have found is Prusament.
 
Tackle_Berry said:
Does anyone know of some PLA that's colour is close to a traffic cone orange / red? I have spent ages and have found out it's officially RAL color 2009 but I can't seem to get anything close unless buying RAL colour matched PLA at £60 a KG. I've tried Bambu, Sunlu, Eryone, R3D, eSun and the closest thing I have found is Prusament.
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eSun Matte tangerine is the closest I've found and settled on, looks very close to a slightly sun bleached cone not brand new :D Flash forge also does a tangerine that looks close in images but I haven't tried it.
 
tbh sticking with PET-G for most things atm. Though I've a spool of TPU arrive that I'm having to very slowly dry out.
maybe time to invest in 100kg of silica.
 
Dont sleep on the Sunlu PLA+2.0. £11.50 a roll direct form Sunlu with fast delivery. Im using it exclusively for my printed 40k army and its superb. There are some dedicated Obscura Nox / HoHansen settings on reddit for dialling it in.

I was also initially skeptical of dryers but the bought the Sunlu 4 bay dryer and its made a big difference.
 
I've been using the bulk buy options on the Anycubic site, that PLA-HT-GF stuff does look good though, guess it depends what your application is.
 
Another one worth a go is Tin Morry's PETG-GF (Glass Fibre). I'm printing it at 280°C nozzle and 80°C bed with the rest of the settings copied from Bambu Labs' PET-CF (Carbon Fibre) profile. Cheap, looks good (that slightly ripply texture like you get with CF) and behaves itself far better than PETG-CF - no dripping or oozing.
 
Cheaper still at major delivery-only store - between £14 - £17.
Also, worth knowing that they provide profiles for all filaments over a selection of machines.
github.com

TINMORRY - Repositories

TINMORRY has 9 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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That said, the recommendation for the filament was 270-290 nozzle and I think the profile was 260 so you might want to sanity-check them before use.
 
god I hate TPU.
how does everyone store it? what temps are you drying it and for how long?
feel like I'll need a dry box to run it from if I want to print for more than 30 seconds!
 
Ok, I THINK it's acceptable to post this link as it's not for something that is even vaguely competing with OCUK - apologies if I'm wrong :D
I store in one of these: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CFLJCJSF
and I use one of these in the bottom of it: https://thangs.com/designer/marsgizmo/3d-model/marsgizmo Filament Bunker V3-12690
I dry with a Sunlu Filadryer S4 using its TPU setting (55°C for 6 hours) and a rotate the spools by hand every hour or two (when I remember basically).
You can print directly from the dryer - even while it's running if necessary - but I just made a plug that takes a PC4-M10 fitting for PTFE tube and fits in the pouring spout supplied with the containers. You're welcome to the model for that if you go that route. So I'm running an external spool rather than using the AMS. I'm using the SmothY to do that: https://makerworld.com/en/models/18174-the-smoothy-y-splitter-connector
The TPU I'm currently using is Sunlu (what can I say, it's worked for me) and I'm running it on the Bambu TPU-HF settings on a G10 bed. Had to carefully peel it off the bed with a scraper under the edges but worked flawlessly - wasn't even drippy....although I'd recommend against printing multiple parts on the same bed if you want to avoid that problem.

I do have a spool of eSun TPE and the problems I had with that were feeding. Turns out the diameter varied WILDLY and some parts were just too thin for the extruder gears to even touch.
 
I used te Sunlus stuff with my Ender3, still got a load of it, but have started leaning into the AnyCubic stuff now due to it having RFID chips in it so the Ace Pro knows what filaments in there.
 
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