Welcome to another episode of Tinkerine experiments!
Today, we are going to print with marble filament.
We were given this filament for testing, so let’s find out whether or not it prints today,
and the wear and tear on the nozzle.
You can see these specks of black glitter or some stuff. I have no idea what it is
inside this marble filament.
I personally think these black specks of glitter will clog the hotend if you print with it.
I can also feel them when I run my fingers through the filament.
Before we start testing the material,
let’s measure our nozzle diameter with our extrude wizard.
Hmm, it actually not extruding. Let me try this one more time.
Oh!
It's extruding now.
The nozzle diameter right now is 0.43 mm, plus or minus 0.01mm.
So now let’s start off with the test print.
So far it's printing and it's sticking to the blue tape fine.
It doesn’t look like it's going to run into any problems.
Now let’s test the filament out with our gem print.
It’s sticking well just like the test print.
Although I must say I’m just not too sure how long would it keep printing with those black specks coming
out of the nozzle.
I actually expect it to start clogging soon for this long print.
Nevermind, it actually finished printing.
Let’s remove it and take a look at it.
I can't feel the little black specks anymore.
My personal opinion: it doesn't look like marble very much.
But it looks like a bit of white filament that is dirty,
with a lot of black specks in it.
I don’t see any skipping in the print.
Now let’s do the extrude wizard one more time,
and find out
the nozzle diameter.
The Nozzle diameter is 0.46 mm, plus or minus 0.01mm.
Well, there we have it. We tried printing with marble filament, and as we can see,
it does work, but I’m still kind of iffy about the black specks in the filament
since I’m actually not too sure what is in it or what it is.
I think I just got lucky with this print as it didn’t clog my hotend, but I still do believe it is
possible to clog your hotend with this filament.
As for the wear and tear on the nozzle, it's not as much as the bronze filament that we tried out earlier, but there
is a bit, which is potentially 0.02-0.03 mm,
after roughly 2 hours of printing.
This could also lead to an over extrusion.
So there are a couple of risks to using these exotic filament.
Hotend clogging, or over extrusion in the end.
That’s the end of our experiment today!
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