Not Worth.
This stuff was driving me crazy. Almost always hanging up. I can't tell if it is plugging or getting too stiff to feed; I have to pull it to cut off the stripped section. I tried running it through the dehydrator for hours (and days). It did this when new as well. I never had to unclog the nozzle itself. I'm tossing the last quarter of the roll.
This is the 2.85mm filament, but I'm thinking it is the material. I'm running some MatterHacker tough PLA now, working perfectly. After all the changes and tuning I did chasing the GD PLA, the old printer is spewing filament as fast as it can melt it, literally.
I was getting extra melty spots, so I reconfigured my part cooling duct. I thought the GD filament might be getting heat creep, so I reconfigured the original extruder cooling deflector. I decided to go to a larger nozzle for present and future purposes, so I went to a E3D nozzle X in 0.5mm. Between the extra volume of filament and redirected air, the extruder temperature would fall behind when printing a large bridge layer. I had put a speed switch on the Noctua extruder fan for ABS, so I just run it on low now, and the temperature just keeps up at 220C on a fast travel. I don't think this will be a problem with my ninjaflex since I run it slowly at 240C.
I paid for more on the GD "engineering" PLA and got less.
This stuff was driving me crazy. Almost always hanging up. I can't tell if it is plugging or getting too stiff to feed; I have to pull it to cut off the stripped section. I tried running it through the dehydrator for hours (and days). It did this when new as well. I never had to unclog the nozzle itself. I'm tossing the last quarter of the roll.
This is the 2.85mm filament, but I'm thinking it is the material. I'm running some MatterHacker tough PLA now, working perfectly. After all the changes and tuning I did chasing the GD PLA, the old printer is spewing filament as fast as it can melt it, literally.
I was getting extra melty spots, so I reconfigured my part cooling duct. I thought the GD filament might be getting heat creep, so I reconfigured the original extruder cooling deflector. I decided to go to a larger nozzle for present and future purposes, so I went to a E3D nozzle X in 0.5mm. Between the extra volume of filament and redirected air, the extruder temperature would fall behind when printing a large bridge layer. I had put a speed switch on the Noctua extruder fan for ABS, so I just run it on low now, and the temperature just keeps up at 220C on a fast travel. I don't think this will be a problem with my ninjaflex since I run it slowly at 240C.
I paid for more on the GD "engineering" PLA and got less.
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