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Review on SainSmart Dissolvable Printers Filament Natural: Unleashing Advanced 3D Printing by Colin Watkins

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Works fine after some trial and error

This is a very fibrous material that doesn't stick well but through trial and error I got a good print. I found that I had to increase the temperature for the first coat to 200°C and apply a thick first coat at 10mm/s to ensure adhesion. After that I lowered the temperature to 190°C and kept the print speed below 40mm/s. It still doesn't stick very well to very small areas on PLA. In my attached picture there should have been some kind of support between the middle and top hair that wasn't sticking. Other larger areas above the PLA seemed to work better. If you're using Cura, you'll have to play around with advanced settings like Z-Distance Support, X/Y-Distance Support, and Minimum Support Area if you notice small bumps that have no support. I also enabled "Connect Support Lines" so it prints very hard supports. I absolutely needed a wipe tower as I have yet to install any stationary wipers on my printer. This stuff likes to seep in while it waits. It's really hard to stick to PLA. I had to refine it so that the layer was at least 0.2mm, no faster than 10mm/s when printing PVA, and set the temperature to 210C. Finally stuck. as if. In summary. I took off a star because I finally understood what other people are complaining about. It sticks well to the glass surface, PLA sticks to it well, but I'm having a hard time getting it to stick to PLA.

Pros
  • PVA 3D printer filament vacuumed and sealed with desiccant
Cons
  • disappears