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Review on Top-Quality PLA Filament for 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing Supplies by Rusty Calcara

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0% success rate on a dozen attempts

tl;dr - After over a dozen print attempts this PLA+ has given me a 0% success rate. Stay away. Since this thread is relatively cheap and has a decent rating, I decided to give it a try. God it was a mistake. I have an all metal Micro Swiss hotend in my printer. I have used filaments from 3D Solutech (PLA) and more recently Duramic 3D (PLA and PLA+) with great success. In fact, the last three coils I emptied were from these two brands with no issues. Apparently Sunlu decided to reverse this trend. I have tried AT LEAST 12 times to print a particular part with temperature variations from 190° to 240°C (recommended range is 190°-230°C), speeds from 30mm/s to 60mm/s and with and without retraction , hoping to find the optimal combination of these three parameters that would give me the print I want. This thread glued my hot end together and jammed the printer in various places**ALL. SINGLE. TIME.** No exception. The first layer always lays out nicely, but after that it was a dice game when the printer got stuck. but always jammed. This thread got me 0% success. In the end I had enough, I wound up a roll of Duramic 3D PLA and printed the part at 225°C and 60 mm/sec without any problems. I didn't even look for a replacement for this Sunlu PLA+. I get a refund and will never buy Sunlu again. Keep in mind.

Pros
  • Additive Manufacturing Products
Cons
  • Could have chosen a newer model