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Review on ๐ŸŒฑ Eco-Friendly RepRapper Printer Filament: Paving the Way for Sustainable 3D Printing by Ivan Brown

Revainrating 4 out of 5

It's definitely fiber

This stuff is REALLY fibrous, very fibrous. The coil says to use Tempo 190-225 but at 215 it was useless, at 200 the strings were so bad they actually created a new wall in one area of my pressure and the rest looked like it was a great halloween. Decoration made with all cobwebs. Finally I set it to 185 with a Print Speed of 70, Comb to All, Retract to 6.5mm, Retraction Speed to 25mm/s and Z-hop When Retracted to 0.2 in Cura, viz there were still some strings, they came off easily and weren't a problem. I think next time I'll try either temp 180 or speed 90 and they might not show up at all. Also, it says there in the description picture that it can be printed without heating. That's not true, I've tried using it like chalk and nothing happens, so it definitely needs to be heated to print. In the first image I uploaded, the right image was taken at 200 degrees and 70 speed, and I had already pulled a lot of strings and the "extra wall" he created before I even thought of taking the picture. The threads that are there are fixed into the walls quite strongly and I believe it will take a knife to pull them out. The one on the left was made in size 185 and this is what it looked like when the print was finished. The other picture is what the left one looked like after I dusted off the cord. Still needs a bit of cleaning but nothing like it.

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