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What's your go-to "Bang for your Buck" filament brand?

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/20123114

What's your go-to "Bang for your Buck" filament brand? - Divisions by zero

As I’m graduating college in a few weeks, I’ll be losing access to my university’s free printers and filament. I’m going to build up a home lab with a couple printers where I can make goofy little mechanical projects as well as some components for my cars and stuff. Who’s your go-to for PLA and ABS filaments? Those will be my primary print jobs in any serious volume. I know our college’s club has had hella problems with random chinese brand filaments not printing consistently but I also don’t want to spend $30+ per kg for something like Prusament.

May 12, 2024 at 12:16amWeb
Show threadqwertilliopasdMay 12, 2024

In USA I usually get Printed solid’s Jesse and 3D Printing Canada’s Budget PLA

Filament sourcing is pretty region specific. Where are you buying from?

Show threadIMALlamaMay 12, 2024
TIL of Jesse, thanks for the link!
Show threadbrightandshinyobjectMay 12, 2024
I have been using tangledfilament.com for my PLA and it’s been great. Their goal is to get to $10/kg for US manufactured filament and then expand to PETG.
Show threadoldfartjmb says FREE PALESTINEMay 12, 2024

@brightandshinyobject

Do you remember what the shipping charge was?

@empireOfLove2

Show threadbrightandshinyobjectMay 12, 2024
Free shipping right now.
Show threadoldfartjmb says FREE PALESTINEMay 13, 2024

@brightandshinyobject

Thanks!

Show threadempireOfLove2May 12, 2024
Oooh, tangled. Thanks for reminding me about them. Having all US produced product is a nice plus and if they can keep it that cheap domestically, I’d happily buy it for all my bulk printing that doesn’t care about color. $15/kg is about as good as it gets these days.
Show threadbrightandshinyobjectMay 12, 2024
The just had another price drop to $15/kg and their road map is going well.
Show threadqazMay 12, 2024
Clickable link: www.tangledfilament.com
Tangled | 3D Print Filament

Tangled Filament by Slant 3D is Driving Down the Cost of Filament to $10/kg one step at a time. We know a bit about making filament. We have been making it for our 3D Printing farms for years. But now we are going to, very carefully, begin taking that production and turning it into a consumer product.

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Show threadIMALlamaMay 12, 2024

I’ve printed a decent amount of PETG from both Push Plastic and Atomic Filament. Both have been very solid/reliable, but I would probably give an edge to Atomic as far as quality. Their PETG has never let me down. On the ASA front, I’ve run around 9 kg of Polymaker ASA through my Voron with another 1.5 of blue and white sitting on two different 3kg spools. I ran 2 kg of their ASA through my i3 clone printing prints for my Voron. I haven’t had any problems with it, and it does occasionally go on sale for very attractive prices. I bought my last two spools on November 24th last year for $50.39 (for a 3 kg spool of blue) and $67.19 (for a 3 kg spool of white). Polymaker’s ASA does require what seems like a very low extrusion multiplier (I’m currently at 0.893), but you can print the stuff blazing fast in terms of mm^3/s.

Now that I know that both Atomic Filament and Push Plastic offer ASA, I might give them a spin when I need a refill. I don’t go through that much filament and don’t mind spending a little extra $$ for something that could result in less headache. I also like supporting American companies/manufacturers where I can.

Push Plastic 3D Printer Filament Made in the USA by Push Plastic

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Show threadTolookahMay 12, 2024
Microcenter’s Inland pla+ has been good to me. Microcenter used to ship it free, and they may still, but it’s been a bit since I ordered. It’s $15-20/kg. Some day I’ll use great filament and might call this stuff garbage, but I’m not there yet. The standard pla is less impressive, causes me more grief than I like.
Show threadThrashyMay 12, 2024
Inland is (or was, at least) relabeled eSun filament, and they’re considered a decent brand for basic filaments. I’ve only ever used their PLA(+) but it’s always been bulletproof.
Show threadlightnsfwMay 12, 2024
There stuff has worked well for me too.
Show threadbronxasaurMay 12, 2024
Big big fan of Fusion filaments, especially their ABS 2.0. It’s what my Voron Trident is made of. It looks amazing and is the best ABS I’ve found to work with as of late.
Fusion Filaments | USA Made Filament

Show threadMrQuallzinMay 12, 2024
Tried IID Max’s PLA+ since they were always posting discounts on Reddit. I’ve stuck with them since for anything that needs color, their filament is vibrant and I’ve never had any issues. Buying in bulk you’re looking at roughly $10/kg. For my black I use Elegoo PLA. It has a nice sheen to it.
Show threadempireOfLove2May 12, 2024
The bulk 10kg options look good. I might stock up on those and packrat a few colors since they dont’ really go bad
Show threadagamemnonymousMay 12, 2024
I do everything in black anyway, and 4 packs of Elegoo PLA are like $45. No complaints so far and $11-12/kg is hard to beat
Show threadManifish_DestinyMay 12, 2024
Sunlu pla+ prints super well for how cheap it is.
Show threadDettweilerMay 12, 2024
I’ve been using Creality’s hyper PLA. It’s pretty good quality and my printer/slicer combo has presets that are 95% what I want (I tweak the print and bed temps as needed). I’m using an Ender 3 V3 KE for reference.
Show threadqazMay 12, 2024
I’m in the EU and have been buying filament from www.123-3d.nl so far.
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Show threaddlatchMay 12, 2024

My go-to is their “REAL” PLA brand. It’s good quality, is made in NL and comes on cardboard spools.

I am a bit fed up with all the shit they throw in with each order though, there’s only so many pens and stacks of post-its I need. When I remember, I add a line in the notes field to leave it out.

Show threadneclimdulMay 12, 2024
Had great luck with polymaker and find they’re in the sweet spot of predictable quality and price for me.
Show threadJustBrian7872May 12, 2024
If you’re shopping in the EU, I recommend Devil Design PLA - they’re available through a couple of shops.
Devil Design | Resellers

Show threadJustEnoughDucksMay 12, 2024

My favorite webshop tinytronics.nl (very little markup on their electronics unlike almost every competitor)

And they have both Azurefilm and Devil Design. I was debating on which to try. Sounds like J should go devil design

Show threadJustBrian7872May 12, 2024
Thanks for the tip with the shop (shipping is reasonable and electronic components are well priced)! Cannot help with Azurefilm filament as I haven’t tried it yet.
Show threadGrayBackgroundMusicMay 12, 2024
Whatever is on sale 3dprintingdeals.com
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Show threadCyanFenMay 12, 2024
Filacube’s pla 2 has never done me wrong, and it’s STRONG as hell
Show threadOhaMay 13, 2024
3djake’s PLA is pretty decent from my experience
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Show threadmorbidcactusMay 13, 2024
I bounced around a couple, my goal was to find stuff cheaper than prusament that also produced nice results. i really liked the stuff spool3d in Canada sells but ended up coming across matter3d as spool3d carries some of their products. They’re way cheaper than anything I can get on amazon and I found the quality up there.
Products

Matter3D is a 3D printing material and filament manufacturer, supplying print farms and FDM printers. Matter3D carries a variety of materials, such as: PLA (Polylactic Acid); ABS (Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene); and Nylon (Polyamide). We are located in Victoria, BC, Canada.

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Show threadth_in_gsMay 13, 2024

"Jinos 3D Filament” is pretty cheap. I started using them during the pandemic when it was hard to find PETG. Seem to be a small place in North Carolina that manufactures mostly for their own use? Sometimes they take a couple of days to ship.

They sell mostly on eBay: www.ebay.com/itm/382556327412

Jinos 3D Printer Filaments, PLA/ASA/TPU/Carbon-Fiber/PETG, Made in USA | eBay

Get the print you want on the first try!

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Show threadBastingCheminaMay 13, 2024

In France I’m buying from ArianePlast. It’s good PLA for a decent price.

I have not tried it but they also have “Eco” PLA at 13€/kg

Show threadbluewingMay 14, 2024

For PLA and PETG, I like MatterHacker, though I have been buying some Voxel PLA lately and that’s been pretty good stuff too. Voxel does run sales that get the price down to $15/$16US a kilo.

For ABS/ASA, I’m still using a the same kilo of Zyltech ABS I bought 5 or 6 years ago. And I still haven’t used 200g yet. I did dig it out this weekend to print a couple dozen custom cable clips for my boat with it though.