Review on 🖨️ 3D Printing Supplies: SainSmart TPU Filament 1 - Premium Additive Manufacturing Product by Nicholas Erickson

Another update: I came back to buy another spool. It's tougher than Ninjaflex, 95A seems right. I don't have a good method of measuring, but the prints are just as hard as other 95A materials. It's glossy and definitely works better with a straight feed due to the relatively curved nature of the material. It works well for things that need to be semi-rigid. I use it to make things like mug handles (need to be pliable but rigid) and parking blocks (again pliable but rigid). For small items like handles, washers and plugs I prefer the 85A Ninjaflex. --- Updated this review -- from ** to *** 1/2. I made a new extruder plate to avoid the binding issue and I rewound the filament before printing. It helps a lot and I was able to successfully print about 30g of an OpenRC bus. It's still a lot more work to print, but after typing (which for me involved printer mods and filament rewinds) everything is fine. It's not as flexible as Ninjaflex, but it works for tires. ------- --- I am not interested in this product. It's very reasonably priced, but so far I've had one good print (my own little benchmark for setting up this filament) and two bad prints, both because it got stuck in my extruder. I'm using a modified Monoprice Select Mini, maybe a straight one. Feed extruder will be more generous. I print fine with Ninjaflex which is softer and more flexible but I think the problem is that this filament coils and twists on the spool. The kinks seem to get stuck in the extruder even when I have disabled all retraction. I was warned against using cheap filament and it definitely makes a difference. I was trying to print wheels for an RC car; They work well in PETG but I was hoping this TPU would work better. So far I can't successfully print this straight meter without getting stuck. Aside from the jamming issue, the material appears to be of acceptable quality. It's definitely harder than the 85A Ninjaflex, so I can't doubt "95A". It looks like a skateboard wheel. He looks very shiny, bigger than Ninjaflex. Adhesion between layers is excellent, but I did the tuning. It prints relatively cold, around 210, and adheres fairly well to a glass surface. If I could print it I think it would be great for my application.