🤖 NinjaTek NinjaFlex: High-Quality TPU Filament for Additive Manufacturing Review

Supplied in full size roll, half filled, no moisture barrier. 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 not to 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 foray into flexible filament and with a few tweaks it printed well. Print speed 20 mm/s, temperature 240, no heated bed but a liner is used (I'll experiment with changing it 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…