Welcome to another episode of Tinkerine experiments!
Today, we are going to printing with yet another exotic filament; wood filament.
We were given this filament for testing so let’s find out whether or not it works.
We’ll look into whether it prints today and the wear and tear on the nozzle.
We can see that the wood filament seems to be a bit more fragile than normal filament.
As it is relatively easier to just snap it apart.
The wood also has the same texture as the bronze filament we tried earlier.
Before we start testing the material.
Let’s measure our nozzle diameter with our extrude wizard.
Here we go.
The nozzle diameter is (0.28- 0.29) mm.
Now let’s start off with a test print.
So far it is adhering to the blue tape.
Doesn’t look like it is running into any problems with the adhesive.
Although we did notice that there is a lot of excess filament on the sides of
the print.
It definitely smells a bit like burning wood right now. But it smells good!
It’s done!
Let’s take a look at it.
So here we can see all the excess filament on the sides here.
This could be because our temperature is too hot.
We are printing at 220 degrees celsius.
So let's turn down temperature for next print. Other than that, the print turned out fairly well.
Now let’s print our gem print for the test.
It’s sticking well just like the test print.
For this print, we actually turned the temperature down to 200 degree celsius.
and it looks like it is coming out cleaner than the test print.
It doesn't look like the printer will be clogging anytime soon.
Well it’s finished!
Now let’s take a look at the print.
It pops off the bed relatively easy.
It’s also a lot cleaner than the test print and there’s no excess filament sticking out.
So we actually printed another gem as well with the wood filament.
In addition to the extra gem, we actually printed a total of 3.5 hours with the wood filament so now let’s take a look at the nozzle diameter.
We'll do the extrude wizard once again.
And this time, the nozzle diameter is (0.31 - 0.32) mm.
Well, there we have it, we tried printing with wood filament and as we can see it does
work and it comes out pretty nice.
There’s a bit of a wear and tear on the nozzle like the bronze filament, which is
roughly 0.02-0.03 mm.
This could lead to an over extrusion, if we print with it for a longer period of time as the diameter gets larger
So in the end, there is a chance for clogging and over extrusion from using these exotic filament.
I would advise to use at your own discretion.
That’s the end of our experiment today!
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