MxRemy

ColorFabb claims that it is, but I’ve never looked into it! It’d be nice to know

You must have your stuff pretty well dialed in then, congrats! We don’t get like a lot of jams, but since we print for so many patrons, the machines are just kinda always running. So it’s relatively rare, but it still happens

It depends I guess. How many different types of material are you switching between, and how often? We commonly use PLA, PHA, ABS, ASA, HIPS, PETG, TPU, PP-GF, PA-CF, BVOH, and occasionally a few others/composites/etc. Some of them really don’t play nice with each other either.

I love it, yeah. There are some hiccups, don’t get me wrong… it warps as bad as ABS, and not many people sell the pure stuff. But:

• It’s non-toxic.
• It’s biodegradable.
• It smells really nice! kinda like… play-doh?
• It’s realllyyy strong!
• It’s got this weird-but-nice texture, almost more leather than plastic.
• It never jams my hotend.

Agreed lol, “Taco Cat Goat” sounds like something a bougie gourmet SoHo cheesemaker would make. I bet it’d be good on a pizza though

PHA seems to work pretty well in the AFC. It’s not super prone to shattering into a million pieces, the way some materials can be (especially when old and/or moist). The only notable issue is that, due to the very slow hardening, sometimes the “kick” procedure breaks the purge in half instead of knocking it into the purge bucket. I think I just need to add a “dwell” command to the macro between purge and kick, to give it a little more time.

The yellow and black filaments are both from the “Terraform” line of PHA by HartSmart, who I’m pretty sure is sourcing their base materials from EcoGenesis. The pink filament is from the “LooPHA” line by PHA Eco Goods, and is blended with real sakura blossoms.

Also, the Box Turtle is the only AFC I’ve ever built, so I don’t have anything for comparison, but… it was awful!! What terrible tolerances on those printed parts! Honestly quite surprised I ever got it working at all, let alone this well.

I feel like I definitellyyy saw a CMYK printer in a VOD of some printing convention a couple years ago? It was presented by some company and looked huge and expensive, wish I could remember who they were.

Maybe something to do with your max volumetric flow rate? Could cap that lower and see if anything changes with the 0.4mm

Oooh, if that algae-derived TPE would just hit the market already… 😍

Definitely, our Vorons have spoiled me lol

I did and I even agree! Ours just seems to be a bit of an anomaly, or else we’re just way too tolerant of jank lol. Definitely wouldn’t get a second printer from them

We have an ancient Ender 5 Pro in the library makerspace that’s running pretty much constantly, and it was already well used when it first got donated to us. Granted, it’s farrrrrr from our best printer, but it’s pretty reliable! I barely even maintain or upgrade the thing lol

I refuse to use any extruder without easily accessible gears anymore, for that exact reason lol. Using a Galileo2 on a Stealthburner I’d get flexible filaments wrapped around the gears alllll the time, and disassembling it was super annoying. Now it’s wristwatch style all the way!

That’s what I was thinking about saying too… They’re probably still mostly right, in the sense that this is a company and companies are almost always primarily concerned with their profit margin, not the environment. However like you said, most things now are made out of plastic, most plastics are made from fossil fuels, and fossil fuels need to be retired like yesterday.

WHOAAAA this is so exciting!! Nevermind the awesome mechanical properties, let’s hear it for the somewhat better environmental impacts!

Materials science folk will hopefully weigh in on this, but it’s my understanding that PA11 is more sustainably produced, but breaks down at a similar rate to other polyamides? I think I heard they did find some things that’ll eat it though.

Either way, an improvement is an improvement. Now if only Prusament would get into PHA 😈