I am inclined to agree with you, but I’m also super curious. It looks like you could get 25 KG of say PETG pellets for $1.80/kg and I suspect true bulk pricing would be even less. Add in additives, colors, the spool itself, etc and I would be surprised if a 1 kg spool has much over $5 in material in it. I have no idea how much other overhead like packaging, handling, shipping, adds to the cost. I have a friend that works in injection molding and niavelely it seems like it wouldn’t be too hard to enter the filament game.
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MrSlicer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Seems like a total waste. That buys a tremendous amount of filament. I don’t think even print farms do it. There are so many filament companies out there that the margins have to be razor thin.
IMALlama@lemmy.world 1 year ago
MrSlicer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Now add in the price of the machine and you will need a way to dry the pellets if you don’t use it immediately. I really want this to be a thing but I just don’t see it being economical… It might be fun however to make custom filaments.
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Hmm. I’m not doing it for economical reasons but I’m concerned with wasting plastic. It’s more ecological combined with the interest in engineering.