Review on 🔵 LulzBot Taulman Reel Filament in Black by Larry Gaines

I'll be the first to admit I'm no 3D printing genius, but I've tried really hard to love Alloy 910 and just tossed two almost full spools of it in my trash . That's because I just destroyed my second Aerostruder printhead with it. At $250 each, this is super disappointing. Problem? No matter what I do I can't get Alloy 910 to stick securely to the print bed and it fools me into doing so. I've tried a few different surfaces and glues, temperatures, casings, drying methods, and glue tricks like skirts and brims, and am able to print test small parts with the 910 using some of these formulas. However, as soon as I think all of my settings are perfect and I try to create the larger object that I really want, something really terrible happens. This inevitably happens when I've been observing how things are going well for some time. I see that I have multiple printed layers and they look great and the print job just needs to stack up until the part is complete. So I declare victory and leave, expecting to return later in the day to the perfect part waiting on the build platform. Now for the second time with the Alloy 910, I later returned to a very strange scene. The print job is done, the print platform is pushed forward to the feed position and the print head is retracted. My Lulzbot Mini has been declared successful. However, there is absolutely nothing on the print platform like someone stole the part from me. Further investigation shows that some time after I left the printer, the entire piece became detached from the print bed and stuck to it. Jet. The printer doesn't know this has happened, so it continues to extrude Alloy 910, which is then wrapped around the nozzle and welded to both the metal and plastic of the printhead. The resulting large droplet of 910 alloy completely blocks access to the nozzle with a very thick layer of extremely strong, tough material. I don't see a way to remove the mess without destroying the already inoperable printhead. The 910 alloy is stronger than the material Lulzbot makes the printhead assembly from and it's practically welded to it. It cannot be shattered, dissolved, or melted. You can just order another printhead for $250. When it first happened I thought it was some kind of coincidence. Now, with the second printhead in the trash, I give up. Alloy 910 no longer exists for me.