This weekend I've been printing exotic filaments! I want to release an exhaustive study

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This weekend I’ve been printing exotic filaments! I want to release an exhaustive study on these materials, their properties and how to best print them.

I have these so far and have tested them:
NinjaFlex
Carbon Fibre PLA
ABS-PC blend
High Temp PLA
PET
Flexible Polyester
Taulman Nylon 618
Taulman Nylon 645
Recreus Filaflex
Polycarbonate
HIPS - (I have some, but not printed with it yet.)

On the way -
XT from ColorFabb
WoodFill from ColourFabb
Soft-PLA
Taulman T-Glass
BendLay
LayBrick
LayWood

  • and some other really really cool stuff I can’t talk about yet!

Is there anything else you guys want to see printed? Anything I have missed? I can print pretty much anything, and money is not a problem.

The material market is getting so interesting and diverse, but there is little documentation on how to actually print these things and what they are good/bad for. I want to change that!

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That would be good to know. Which materials work best for what types of structures. Someone’s going to have to do it, chart it, and prioritize it for people if it’s going to reach any level of regular use.

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Yeah! Definitely want to see the results!

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Can’t wait.

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Working on a list here, which includes some things you didn’t mention: https://github.com/camerin/UFIDS_pages/wiki/Mixture-IDs

All of the ones you marked as tested are accounted for on that list, either directly mentioning the material or covered with one of the composite material flags. I’d like to get datasheets and/or MSDS’s on the others so that I can identify the materials on the lists (no brand names allowed). The last few that I listed, POM, PMMA, and polypropylene are ones that I’ve seen very little testing on.

BTW, was your Filaflex as horrible as mine? I got two spools of different colors, plus a sample of a third color, and all three varied about from 3mm down to 2.3mm over about 150mm of length.

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@Sanjay_Mortimer I would love to see if any of the claimed conductive filaments actually work

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@Sanjay_Mortimer give a try to filaflex

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I have made some very small batches of carbomorph that do actually conduct but way too hard to make to claim success. I’ll do a demo of printed parts soon.

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@Robert_Wozniak the “conductive” filament is more resistive then conductive.