Comment on Chonky nozzel + decent amount of material = opportunity for lots of spaghetti
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months agoYeah. ASA basically acts like ABS when printing for the most part, it does need temps to be a tiny bit higher but mechanically everything else is almost entirely the same.
rambos@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Thanks, I ordered some Polymaker ASA recently, will try it out.
IMALlama@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Polymaker ASA is what I’m currently using. You can grab 3 KG spools on Amazon for as low as $50-60 depending on the color (new via prime) if you keep an eye out.
The mix of ASA and a higher flow printer as resulted in a lot more fickle prints though, but this is also true for PETG. Things like EM vary some as a function of speed, so I’ve found that I need to print all my features at a similar speed.
morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Total anecdote, I had nothing but problems with Polymaker ASA, which I believe was me trying to run it through too fast. i have a dragon UHF which is, in theory, supposed to be able to do speeds over 30 mm^3/s, first thing I’d try is just slower print speeds and then bump it up from there.
You could also look at a cht nozzle, but as a word of warning, I found the bimetallic ones super fragile, if I recall they want a way lower torque spec than a solid brass or steel nozzle, so they’re easy to shear off if you’re not careful.
IMALlama@lemmy.world 9 months ago
What kinds of problems have you had? It’s been OK for me. Sure, it’s harder to print than PETG but it’s also ASA. I do find myself wondering if it’s the material or my setup at times though. So far I’ve run about 7 kg of the stuff. You can find a bunch of it in my post history.
What did you switch to?
rambos@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Thx! Sounds like rly good deal, but 3 kg is not for me honestly. I dont print that much and also my spool holder is too small. 500 g spools would be better for me hehe
Not sure what EM is, but if you meant that some parts of print are shiny and the rest is matte, its probably different flow. Having equal speeds should fix that, I saw a video where they reduce max flow as solution
IMALlama@lemmy.world 9 months ago
EM means extrusion multiplier, which is also called flow in some slicers. Shiny vs not is usually a temperature thing.