As some of you may know, taulman3D is releasing a new high strength nylon 3D printing material to the community.
The material is named “Bridge” as it is designed from your input and requests for a high strength material that bridges our Industrial nylon 645 with price and ease-of-printing features. At $18.00/1 lb spool and much better adhesion to print beds using standard PVA glues, Bridge is a consolidated effort to maximize your abilities in printing “Utility”.
To us, “Utility” is simple. The part you print won’t let you down, won’t need to be re-printed, won’t delaminate, won’t crack and won’t dissolve in harsh chemicals. Those of you that have printed ABS, PLA and our nylon 645 know the difference is more than striking.
No marketing catch-phrase is required.
While Bridge is available now, over a hundred spools are going out to testers all over the world. We are looking forward to their evaluations along with the settings they use to get the best results from Bridge on their printers.
We continue to be amazed by the ideas, designs, results and efforts of users worldwide.
This stuff sounds super exciting. How do I get ahold of some?
Finally, looks like materials are catching up with needs
so its tougher than printed abs? its not quite clear as it does not come right out and say it.
@Stuart_Bloody_Cactus when compared regular printed ABS, all grades of taulman Nylon come out superior in that regard. In fact, even PLA can show some remarkable strength when printed properly (but still comes short of what Nylon can do).
@Stuart_Bloody_Cactus YES! I’ve been printing it at 238c and .5 layers with a .5 nozzle, and it comes out stronger than abs, but MUCH easier to keep stuck down than abs. It likes slower speeds, and a fat extrusion width. It’s easier than the straight up nylons for sure
Just ordered some from the Taulman site! My first foray into nylon, once I get my RigidBot, as I don’t think my PrintrBot Simple is up to it.
@Carlton_Dodd , if you have a .5 or larger nozzle, your pb should do it
@J_O11 Hmmm… I have a spare nozzle that I could MAKE 0.5mm. Won’t work with a 0.4mm at all?
Try it? It prob will. Go layer height equal to nozzle, and force the extrusion width to about 135% of layer height
Ordered, thanks for the heads-up! With the T-glase I had great results printing with 0.4mm layer height, 0.4mm nozzle. It’ll be interesting to see how this compares.
@Carlton_Dodd I was a bit intimidated to try it on my mendel at first but it’s really GREAT stuff (I have used 618).
It’s like it says on the tin “just put it in a and hit print” - I found the extrusion rate was 99% of my extrusion rate for ABS so I just left it and apart from needing better adhesion than the blue painters tape bed I use it’s been great!
Parts are HEAPS stronger, it’s a bit more oozy on my bowden setup but I feel I’ll have that tuned out after some use…
As long as it can heat up to at least PLA temps, if you have any problems just pull it out until you get your RigidBot 
@Tom_Martz do you know if Bridge is as dyeable as the 618 & 645 were from @Richard_Horne 's testing?
@Mark_Oates should be, it’s one of the first things I plan to try. And see if it makes a difference to the bonding and warp. I have managed to get some more intense colour dye’s now too.
@Richard_Horne Can you share the product name of the more intense dyes, or was it a product of leaving the filament in the solution longer?
@Tom_Martz I would like to know what the glass transition temperature of Bridge is.