🔮 HATCHBOX Silk PLA Filament for 3D Printing: Additive Manufacturing Products Review

This is a review of the filament Hatchbox Pink. Other Hatchbox products are great, but this one sucks. I may have a bad roll but it doesn't print well. Everything goes well for a while, then the shifts separate. 3D Benchy does not print. The hull of the small boat was printed a little, but the top part just fell apart when printed. I thought something was wrong with my printer so I downloaded Hatchbox Yellow and it printed beautifully with no blemishes. If you observe the print of the first…

This filament is very difficult to process. I've used a lot of Hatchbox PLA and usually use it over other colors. This usually produces fantastic results. Regardless, I can't get this thread to print smoothly. And I really want to use it because it's so great. The filament sent to me seems to be "softer" or more flexible than other PLA filaments. I wish I had a better name for it. Because of the flex, my coil has trouble going from 225C to 180C and turns are difficult. Also, I had to increase…

I've tried all sorts of settings and even at 215°C with 45% fill and 8 wall thickness everything will do brittle and airy. When I lighten the settings a bit it has no layer adhesion at all. If you improve all the settings you should be able to print it, but don't expect anything for kids to play with. It will just be something that will sit on the shelf. It's funny because one of my favorite PLA filaments is the orange Hatchbox filament, which at 200C and 5% infill and 2 walls does just about…