eSUN brand filament. Can anyone comment with personal experience? Lulzbot sells their PLA on their website and it’s also sold on Amazon Prime. It’s slightly cheaper than the Hatchbox I use now but I wanted testimonies before I buy. Thanks for the help I’m looking up all the good filament on Amazon Prime for the Prime Day sale on Wednesday so any filament recommendations on Amazon Prime are also helpful.
I’ve been through about 30kg of eSun ABS and pla and had very few issues. It’s quite resilient to absorbing moisture so storage isn’t an issue, the diameter is very consistent and the colours are good. In terms of printing, I get good results for PLA at 185-195 and ABS at 235. The only issue I had was with an early spool of PLA which was tangled on the spool meaning I had to respool it by hand. That was a one-off though in my experience.
@Colin_Bell Just the type of response I was looking for. Thanks a bunch
For a small project I ordered several spools of pla, and some of them were from esun. Compared to the other brand I ordered, the esun filament was absolute crap.
It needed very high temperatures for pla, the colors were a bit pale, didn’t flow nice, and very brittle.
I will never use it again. In fact, I have several spools left, that you can pick up for free whenever you are in the neighborhood.
Do they guarantee ±0.1 or ±0.05mm ?
Just ordered a spool off Amazon the other day to try it out myself. On a per spool basis with free shipping, it was cheaper than I could get from HobbyKing which had eSun on sale for the fourth. Didn’t think about the sale Wednesday though which is a little annoying.
The issues I have heard about were brittle filament and a lot of people having success with it if they dried a fresh spool out in the oven before printing. The Amazon reseller I bought from though has a 100% satisfaction guarantee though and supposedly throws in a 30’ sample of other material they offer, so I thought it was worth a try.
Esun is good filament in my opinion. I have printed with that and Toner plastics. I think the blend toner plastics has is better as it tends to print better to me.
Before you buy check on http://microcenter.com or if you have a microcenter near you. Mine has tons of filament and at crazy cheap prices
I see, some local chain of shops limited to north america.
@John-Paul_Hopman Can you post a link to that seller?
@Rien_Stouten Wow that’s disconcerting. Is it possible it wasn’t stored well and absorbed moisture? Also what other brand(s) did you order?
@Marcus_Wolschon Looks like ±0.05mm
@Griffin_Paquette Yeah I know Micro Center. Haven’t been there since I purchased my old Da Vinci 2.0. What brands have you bought there that you’d recommend?
@Adam_Steinmark I buy the $18.99 filament there. That stuff is the Toner plastics brand. I’ve had nothing but positive prints with it and it is made in the USA, which I really like.
I’ve tried the inland brand which I’ve heard is rebranded esun but I don’t see it printing the same. I’ve had two kg of that one and have had a jam on each kg. It’s not terrible but since it’s $14.99 a kg I would spend the extra couple bucks and get the Toner plastics. Never had a problem with theirs.
I have no idea why they have their filament so cheap but no complaints with price haha.
@Griffin_Paquette I’ll add Toner Plastics to my list thanks.
I just did a little research and it seems a lot of people have different opinions of what Inland actually is. Someone on another forum claimed its rebranded Toy Builder Labs/PrototypeSupply.
It seems that the reason Micro Center sells filament so cheaply is becuase the brands they sell are sold exclusively by them, I couldn’t find either brand anywhere else online.
@Adam_Steinmark
It came in a sealed bag, with a little bag of dessicant, so I don’t think that’s the problem. Maybe the oyher filament was just a lot better. Almost the same price though. The ‘good pla’ I used was branded ‘real pla’ from http://www.reprapworld.com.
@Rien_Stouten Did you leave it out in the open before printing or did you print right when you opened?
Thanks I’ll look into Real Pla.
@Adam_Steinmark
Printed just after opening.
Has anyone used FoxSmart or WYZworks?
@Adam_Steinmark Inland and Toybuilder/Prototype Supply both come from esun, though @Joseph_Chiu does better QA on it than some of the other esun resellers.
I’ve used more spools of their stuff than I could count on all of my friends’ fingers and toes. The tolerance is good, I don’t even bother measuring it anymore, because the settings I used for the last spool just work. There are occasional spots where it gets brittle, but if you have a feed tube on your extruder (which you should have for other reasons) and reasonably low spool friction, it shouldn’t be a problem.
This is more common with the more opaque colors, and I suspect that it’s related to how the color pellets are mixed in. Some colors should really have been chopped up and run through the filament extruder one more time. The opaque white in particular has issues, and I would avoid it because it seems to have different melting properties in different places, which results in some print artifacts no matter how you print it, and the white creates hard shadows that make those artifacts stick out like a sore thumb. If you can find it, there’s also a slightly warmer and more translucent white color that prints much better. Any of the translucent colors (except the darker green, for some reason) seem to produce nicer-looking prints, partially because they have refractive properties that allow light to penetrate the surface just enough to hide the layer lines, and also, I suspect, partially because producing the translucent colors that look consistent requires better mixing of the colorant, resulting in more consistent extrusion properties.
I’ve gone through about 40kg of Microcenter’s Inland ABS. Dia is very consistent at 1.71mm and the print quality is very consistent as well. It’s a no-brainer @ $14.99/kg.