Rainbow Packs from Diamond Age in NZ

[Garth Kidd]

Anyone want to join me for a bulk order of brightly coloured PLA?

Diamond Age are selling 100m (~880gm*) bagged coils of PLA for NZ$33.
We can buy a “rainbow pack” of 11 coils for NZ$397 (AUD$310) with
oceanic delivery to Australia. That works out at around AUD$28 per
coil.

http://diamondage.co.nz/pla.html

I'd love some variety of colour, but don't want to stockpile a whole
100m spool of each. I'm happy to split a roll and mail it out. Split
four ways, you'd get ~220g (25m at 3mm) of 11 colours for around
AUD$90.

If I order, I'll pick up black, white, yellow, red, green, blue, lime
green, orange, clear, clear red, and clear amber. Who'd want which of
those, in which ratios?

In case there's massive demand, the colours they have in stock are:
black, white, yellow, purple, red, orange, lime green, green, sky
blue, blue, brown, silver, lilac, clear, clear amber, and clear red.
See the web site for some examples. They can also do pink, but it'd
delay delivery.

Finally: if you're happy with plain white and don't mind waiting a
while, Adam's researching local suppliers and might be able to find a
better deal.

– Garth

* 3mm cross section gives us 7.0686mm² or so. One cubic cm is 1000
cubic mm. 1m of 3mm feed would be 7.068cm³, and weigh ~8.836gm at
PLA's specific density of 1.25gm/cm³. So, 1kg is around 113m. Or,
maybe I screwed up. Anyone? Bueller?

[Rebecca]

Hey Garth,

PLA behaves significantly differently to ABS in extruders.

If you would like to trial some I can give you some filament to experiment with before you commit  yourself to an expensive order.

Bec :D

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[Garth Kidd]

I'd much appreciate that. I was quite worried after reading horror
stories about PLA killing Mk4 and older Plastruders. It seems the Mk5
can cope, though: http://cliffle.com/article/2011/02/17/using-pla/

Will you be around the space this Saturday afternoon?

– Garth

[Garth Kidd]

Ok, after the sounds of crickets and the creak of rolling tumbleweeds…

I'm talking to some extrusion companies about getting ABS extruded
down here. RBM Plastics might be able to do runs as small as 15kg. I'm
hoping they can get under the price of

I also asked whether they could do MakerSlide in PVC, but for the
~$3500 setup cost I bet I could get 200m of the official aluminium
version here in a shipping container.

– Garth

PS: I'm still waiting until I've printed another extruder before I try
PLA. Y'know, just in case. :)

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[Jason Ball]

I'm starting to get the distinct feeling that that primary use of a makerbot is to make parts for the said makerbot :/   A bit like the classic home workshop and tooling.

J.

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[Garth Kidd]

Oops! Cut myself off, there.

I'm hoping to get well under the $65/kg it'll cost you to buy MakerBot
white ABS in 10kg batches.

– Garth

[Garth Kidd]

There are a number of upgrades which improve the quality. I'm sure
it's easy for some kind of psychological momentum to set in, such that
the only thing you use it for is to print more printer parts. As long
as you're having fun, though, where's the harm?

– Garth

[pelrun]

Right now it seems the only aussie plastics company that is doing
reprap filament is Lybina. Details are at http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?129,88335,88335,quote=1

Up here in Brisbane we're all-PLA-all-the-time with excellent results,
although we aren't running makerbots.

- James

[Garth Kidd]

I'm fine playing with PLA once I have a spare extruder and no longer crash my extruder controller on large builds. Thanks for the lead re Lybina! 

 – Garth

[Adam Long]

Hi all,

I've found on alibaba a Chinese manufacturer who will do $16.20USD/kg.
I'm planning on making a minimum 25kg order of white in the next two
weeks if anyone is interested in joining in?


--- Message:

Dear Mr Adam,

Many thanks for your enquiry!

As the leading manufacturer of ABS Welding filaments in China,
we are confident to cooperate with your esteemed company!

The competitive offer is as following:

Plastic Welding Filament
Diameter: 3mm
Color: white
Reel: 5kg/reel
MOQ: 25KG
Price: 16.2USD/KG ( ship to Australia by DHL)

Looking forward to your long-term cooperations!
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Regards/ Bobo

Shandong YT Plastic Co.,Ltd.
Add.:Xingfu Middle Road,Zhifu District,Yantai City,China.
Tel:0086-535-6255378 Mobile: 0086-15244571400
http://www.ytplastic2011.cn.alibaba.com/

[Adriaan Swanepoel]

Do they do 1.75mm and what other colors do they have?

>> � Garth

[Garth Kidd]

I've got some spools on the way from somewhere else, but definitely let us know how your ABS turns out! I'm curious about its measured diameter, consistency in diameter, melting point, and how bad it smells. 

~AUD$15/kg sounds pretty bloody good — especially if they can change colours every half kilo. I'd gladly pay $100 for a 5kg spool with some white, yellow, orange, red, purple, blue, green, brown, and black, and put up with some unpredictable colour on the boundaries. Let's see how well this order turns out first, though. By then, I might have decided to switch to PLA to reduce warp and smell, and have half an idea how much plastic I consume.

 – Garth