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Review on 🖨 Premium Monoprice ABS Printer Filament – Enhanced Compatibility for Optimum Results by Ashwin Chauhan

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Cheap and cheap. in additive manufacturing products

This filament is cheap—and cheap to make. I printed a few rolls - both were very tangled - and kept jamming due to roll tangles so bad they wouldn't feed. After you used a third of the roll, the tangles were less, but then crumbly spots started. Each spool had spots so dry and crumbly that the filament broke trying to feed it. You can just crumble it a foot or two, it breaks into pieces with a light squeeze, it doesn't look like ordinary filament - and then the filament returns to its normal flexibility. Someone told me it was supposedly mislabeled. PLA not ABS - a plastics expert told me to burn a little and if it smoked it was probably ABS and if it smelled sweet it was probably PLA and it smoked and smelled sweet. ABS and I got some great deductions. I printed the T-Rex head and it didn't break during printing and looked amazing - then I couldn't print a mounting stick without warping. I printed a twisted star vase using a piece of vase and it came out waterproof. But I've had prints that didn't hold due to crumbling and others due to tangling. If I had to guess, it would be a mix of plastic, maybe poorly sorted recycled plastic. Don't do it unless you're worried some printouts won't work.

Pros
  • 3D printing filament
Cons
  • Not sure