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Review on πŸ”© 3DNF14117505 NinjaTek NinjaFlex TPE Filament 5Kg by Adam Huper

Revainrating 3 out of 5

I love NinjaFlex but this gray has BIG issues compared to Midnight Black

UPDATE: I just printed a known good part design that was printed in black and even this gray before and after almost 4 hours all four specimens are in containers. They looked great but almost hollow - 1.7.5g when they should have weighed 26g! I took a sample for measurement and the diameter of my sample was between 1.6 and 1.62mm, that's an error of -0.15mm (8.5%), totally unacceptable! I measured a midnight black sample and it ranged from 1.7mm to 1.73mm so the -0.05mm error is at the upper limit of acceptable. I'll try to compensate in the slicer but if that doesn't work I'll report back. With ninjas?! I love the black version of this product but am very disappointed with the steel gray version. As black it *may* look really great - a shiny shimmer - of course combined with a wonderful shore hardness of 85A, which nobody else has. But I can take the same GCODE and switch between black and gray - both dry - and the gray will have problems and I'll throw away detail. Just finished my second roll, ordered at different times, this is the product not me. I make items for sale and sometimes they need to be grey. So, this really sucks. I can change the settings to get a gray print: slow down in general, especially the perimeters; increase the temperature increase flow. This changes the result (harder), but *kinda* works. Yield is poor, around 67% (holes and specks around outer perimeter) but it's better than 0% (horrible layer adhesion, skin peeling off core) which I get if I don't change the settings from Black Offense to overpriced injuries, this arrogant irresponsible company refuses to ship spools in a plastic bag so they arrive soaked with water and you can't use them until you dry them overnight. Competitors - why don't you listen to the chorus of these complaints - please, someone else is competing with this company and making TPU/TPE with a hardness of 85A!

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