NinjaTek NinjaFlex TPE Filament - Flamingo Pink - 5Kg Review

Supplied simply in a full size spool, half filled, with no moisture support. No bag, no desiccant. Just a thread on a spool, not even a very good winding. Not printed yet. If I don't have to bake I'll update my review.

For the money spent on TPU, I expect 0.5kg of filament to not come out of the box like a spaghetti disaster. Half of the spool was loose, miswound, or simply wound without enough tension to keep the thread in line. how does it print I do not know yet. I untangled several knots on the spool. I'd rather try to unravel 4 adult wrestlers in a mud-filled pigsty with a pay-per-view extravaganza than deal with a nightmarish thread knot festival fueled by this role. As a side note, the thread does not…

, I tried this as my first flex filament experience and with a few tweaks it printed fine. Print speed 20mm/s, temperature 240, no heated bed but using a substrate (I'll experiment with switching later). I played around with the retraction settings (retraction from 40mm/s to 8mm) but otherwise used the default Cura 4.7 "Generic TPU” settings. For the most part, these are the settings specified by the manufacturer on their website, although they say nothing about break-in. It's slightly larger…