abs filament

[chris bate]

hi all,

i need to get some feed back in regards to filament,

i have a supplier that can produce filament in the 1.75mm and 3mm but from virgin granule not the recycled stuff the Chinese use,
it comes with a guarantee that it is consistently round, but also throughly dried out, the downside is that the cost on it s about $50 a kilo and it comes as 2kg reels,

anyone got any thoughts?
if it were made availble would people be prepared to pay $50/kg

[Lemming .]

I doubt anyone would be willing to pay that much.

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[Tristan Steele]

If it is good quality plastic, I would happily pay that.

How much is the minimum quantity required?

Tristan

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[chris bate]

at the moment they are looking at 20kg but I'm going to have a nice stock of the stuff here

if it's viable for me to use for the parts i do, then i'll be able to sell off 1 and 2 kg spools, and the minimum order qty isn't really a problem, delivery won't be a problem as it gives me and excuse to join the brisbane space and get into the city every week :) i live out near toowoomba

[Madox]

the pp3dp plastic is more than that (I have them for $50/roll if anyone is interested) and is well worth the money.

The only downside I see is that there's a risk,almost everyone says their plastic is good and virgin but I've not seen it except in the pp3dp and stratasys plastics [both which you have to pay a premium].

[chris bate]

I'm getting a sample reel of the 1.75 stuff and i've got some of the 3mm abs but it's in rod form, i can bring that into the space on sunday if anyone wants to see it

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[Max Nippard]

that's close to the up! stuff we buy now.

[Max Nippard]

in price that is.

[chris bate]

judging by the 3mm stuff i've got and the way it want through my wades extruder i would say it's on par with it,if not exactly the same,
hopefully i can get the price down enough so it's a little more economically practical

[Adriaan Swanepoel]

What is the melting point? I have found that even the colored filament from pp3dp has a melting point lower than the natural color. This makes removing rafts difficult and prints higher then 0.25 very droopy. I will gladly pay $50 for colored filament that has similar properties as the natural. 

[chris bate]

i think it it's 240, but its more about the grade, they can formulate it so the melting point is consistent between the natural the colored, i'm waiting for a datasheet on it so i'll have that information soon

[Madox]

Hi Adriaan, 

pp3dp do not sell coloured filament.  Are you talking about the stuff from Bruce?

PS : Do you have the "AUS" version of the Up! software?  Buzz me via E-mail...

On Monday, 6 August 2012 21:12:13 UTC+10, Adriaan Swanepoel wrote:

What is the melting point? I have found that even the colored filament from pp3dp has a melting point lower than the natural color. This makes removing rafts difficult and prints higher then 0.25 very droopy. I will gladly pay $50 for colored filament that has similar properties as the natural. 

On 06/08/2012, at 8:59 PM, chris bate <thejollyg...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm getting a sample reel of the 1.75 stuff and i've got some of the 3mm abs but it's in rod form, i can bring that into the space on sunday if anyone wants to see it

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Madox <mado...@gmail.com> wrote:

the pp3dp plastic is more than that (I have them for $50/roll if anyone is interested) and is well worth the money.

The only downside I see is that there's a risk,almost everyone says their plastic is good and virgin but I've not seen it except in the pp3dp and stratasys plastics [both which you have to pay a premium].

On Monday, 6 August 2012 20:37:55 UTC+10, chris bate wrote:

hi all,

i need to get some feed back in regards to filament,

i have a supplier that can produce filament in the 1.75mm and 3mm but from virgin granule not the recycled stuff the Chinese use,
it comes with a guarantee that it is consistently round, but also throughly dried out, the downside is that the cost on it s about $50 a kilo and it comes as 2kg reels,

anyone got any thoughts?
if it were made availble would people be prepared to pay $50/kg

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[Lemming]

Hey guys,

FYI Vik sells ABS for about $50 per reel.

http://diamondage.co.nz/?wpsc_product_category=abs

Also if you check the HSBNE list we have sources to get it for as low
as $19 a kg if you are willing to buy bulk.

Lemming.

On Aug 6, 9:58 pm, Madox <madox....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Adriaan,
>
> pp3dp do not sell coloured filament.  Are you talking about the stuff from
> Bruce?
>
> PS : Do you have the "AUS" version of the Up! software?  Buzz me via
> E-mail...
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Monday, 6 August 2012 21:12:13 UTC+10, Adriaan Swanepoel wrote:
>
> > What is the melting point? I have found that even the colored filament
> > from pp3dp has a melting point lower than the natural color. This makes
> > removing rafts difficult and prints higher then 0.25 very droopy. I will
> > gladly pay $50 for colored filament that has similar properties as the
> > natural.
>

> > On 06/08/2012, at 8:59 PM, chris bate <thejollygrimrea...@gmail.com>

> > wrote:
>
> > I'm getting a sample reel of the 1.75 stuff and i've got some of the 3mm
> > abs but it's in rod form, i can bring that into the space on sunday if
> > anyone wants to see it
>

> > On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Madox <madox....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> the pp3dp plastic is more than that (I have them for $50/roll if anyone
> >> is interested) and is well worth the money.
>
> >> The only downside I see is that there's a risk,almost everyone says their
> >> plastic is good and virgin but I've not seen it except in the pp3dp and
> >> stratasys plastics [both which you have to pay a premium].
>
> >> On Monday, 6 August 2012 20:37:55 UTC+10, chris bate wrote:
>
> >>> hi all,
>
> >>> i need to get some feed back in regards to filament,
>
> >>> i have a supplier that can produce filament in the 1.75mm and 3mm but
> >>> from virgin granule not the recycled stuff the Chinese use,
> >>> it comes with a guarantee that it is consistently round, but also
> >>> throughly dried out, the downside is that the cost on it s about $50 a kilo
> >>> and it comes as 2kg reels,
>
> >>> anyone got any thoughts?
> >>> if it were made availble would people be prepared to pay $50/kg
>
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[chris bate]

at the moment I'm about to buy 10 spools of black 1.75mm abs if i can get it from somwhere other than repraper.com then it would be better,

how quickly/and for what price could we arrange above amount?