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Review on Premium Silk White PLA Filament 1 by Elvis Kohl

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Lowest Temperature (190°C) = More Shine

LOWEST TEMPERATURE = MORE SHINE. Printing up to 230°C. After a heater failure I happened to find that if you raise the temperature it turns dull gray. You want to print at the lowest print temperature for the shiniest silver. (See photo) Please note that I did not measure the temperature at the nozzle with a multimeter, so it may differ slightly for your installation. Also, unlike other PLAs, this material is very sticky (will shrink on its own) so a bed temperature of 40°C wasn't enough, but 50°C didn't seem to make large prints warp at the edges. Glue sticks would also help. A high speed fan is essential for small prints. If you print a 1 inch test cube without a fan, you will see all the walls of the cube moving. The two cubes in photos 210 and 230 had a fan at 10% for the first half of the print and they look bad in that half. Cooling 100% took it away. In addition, the addition of a built-in filament dryer (Thordsen) eliminated small imperfections in each shift during troubleshooting.

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