New PLA Pricing

[Rick Pollack]

We are very pleased to announce new pricing for several PLA colors. The following colors have lower pricing and are in stock or will be later this week:

$35 for 1KG spool of 1.75 for:

Black

Red

Natural
White

Orange

Blue

Additional colors are in process

This PLA is designed and tested to work on your MakerGear 3D printer. Please purchase your M1/M2 PLA from MakerGear. We'll be improving the filament ordering page soon, too!

Thank you,

Rick

[Toby]

+1 for this!  I confess I was thinking of jumping ship and buying PLA elsewhere because of the price, but now I'm happy to stay with MakerGear.

[Jamil F.]

NICE!!

[Kurt]

Excellent news!

[Bret Allen]

Great! Any chance you'll start sourcing ABS around that price? Would be nice to be able to buy everything from 1 place.

[Rick Pollack]

We are working on ABS but it may be a while.

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[Patrick Smith]

Great news ! Any news on shipping ?

[Rick Pollack]

Patrick - you mean the PLA? It is all in stock and shipping immediately.

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Rick Pollack
MakerGear
23632 Mercantile Rd. Unit L
Beachwood, OH 44122

MakerGear 3D Printers are Designed & Built in Beachwood, Ohio, USA

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 7:04 AM, Patrick Smith <pcsmi...@gmail.com> wrote:

Great news ! Any news on shipping ?

[Mark Gordon]

Rick-

You might also want to consider stocking PET+.  Particularly with V4 down the road.

Mark

[Hank Dietz]

For what it's worth, I've used many filaments with our M2s. Aside from "normal" PLA, the useful ones I've found are:

• Clear PLA (no cloudly additives, just slightly yellowish) makes nice "frosted" looking stuff.
  
• Soft PLA (is it really PLA with whatever additive makes it soft?) is a goey pain to print, but behaves a lot like hard rubber. Not good for bending joints, but impact-absorbing parts.
  
• T-Glase makes stuff that looks like designer kitsch from Target -- clear isn't yellowish, although black is tinted-glass-brown.
  

I think adding these to the options may be worthwhile.

[Walt]

I just received the lower cost filament expecting it to be the exact same material as I've been getting, but this is different. I had my M2 all tweaked such that I could throw any design on it and get great results, but the new filament is giving me problems, which is very discouraging. The new filament is supplied on a different style spool, and the surface is very rough. The rough surface is putting an added strain on the extruder trying to pull it through the tubing at higher rates. I would much rather have the original smooth filament that MakerGear originally sourced. Can you verify that this filament is from a different supplier, and therefore has slightly different characteristics before I start the drudgery of playing with the printer settings?

Regards,

Walt

On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 1:49:01 PM UTC-4, Rick wrote:

[Rick Pollack]

Hi Walt - how old is your hot end? Maybe there is something else going on as this is the first complaint we've received.

Ultimachine may still carry the PLA that you like.

Rick

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Rick Pollack
MakerGear
23632 Mercantile Rd. Unit G
Beachwood, OH 44122

MakerGear 3D Printers are Designed & Built in Beachwood, Ohio, USA

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[Walt]

Hi Rick,

The last print from the old spool went great, then I had to switch to the new spool with different results. The best I can figure is that the new filament requires a higher temperature than the original material. Teflon tubing with a slightly larger I.D. may help reduce the friction from the rougher filament. Pulling the filament through the tubing by hand requires quite a bit of force compared to the original filament. I had problems extruding solid first layers, as the extruder would skip on longer travels. I had to either increase the temperature or slow down the speed to get useable results. It's not that I won't get the printer back into peak mode that bothers me as much as I always ordered filament from MakerGear at the higher price so that I would get consistent results. Finding the optimum settings is time consuming, and I'd rather avoid it by always using the same material if possible. Please let us know if and when you are changing the filament supplier in the future so that we can allow time for recalibrating the printer if needed.

Regards,

Walt