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Any Research on New Materials (self.general)

submitted 2 months ago by Cowboy to c/general

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Hi all,

Long time community member here. Very sad to recently find out about the massive loss of information from the banning of fosscad, but before this I was trying to do some research and am hoping to get some information here if anyone has it on some of the newer filaments that I have seen recently and if any are worth picking up. I am just polishing off the last of my PAHT-CF and Polymaker nylon-GF spools, which have been incredible for my projects, and I've seen that polymaker has been releasing a lot of new filaments under the fiberon line and rebranding old ones. Are there any of these that are worth checking out and has anyone been done any up to date experimentation with some of these newer blends?

Thanks all, RIP r/fosscad

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[–] GreenWhiskey 4 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Ive been using ppa-cf and its been awesome

Not crazy expensive either

[–] sir_obitus 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Any experience with PET-CF?

[–] GreenWhiskey 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Petcf is a good filament… it prints beautiful and is very rigid

However it gets outclassed by other filaments in certain properties.

If you can print petcf, then you can print pa-cf and pa-gf which have much better layer adhesion

Both pla and pa have better impact resistance

So for a frame or other load bearing part, others do better. If creep is a big concern, then it may be a good option

Mags are a good use of petcf for example

[–] sir_obitus 2 points 2 months ago

I think for less load bearing parts it is better and the price is decent as well

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