MxRemy

The v1 is so freaking good that I have full faith v2 is worth going for. Unfortunately I don’t have any experience with either of the extruders it supports, but if I were picking one I’d go Orbiter.

Whoaa, I didn’t know there was a version 2 of the A4T!! Does this one not support the G2WW extruder? The first version does, and I’ve been greatly enjoying that. If it does, that’s what I’d go with.

Orca, but Preflight is definitely growing on me! It’s got some really unique stuff

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