Hey just wanted to say thank you for these videos, was really trying to decide on what cf filaments to try and the Bambu descriptions don’t really give solid comparisons. Excited to see your comparison video!
My friend was going to buy a set of replacement brake levers for his motorcycle and a set was £120, I showed him the finish of PLA CF and he wanted them printed in CF so we went for the PA6 CF I also made him some enclosures for the dials and they look awesome
@@michaelcolourboss2885 pa6-cf (nylon) is probably strong enough, if they break it's not really the material's fault. Although I don't know about the uv resistance of nylon.
How is it that you cant get PET by itself but you do get it in PET-CF. Does the carbon fiber prevent the carbon fiber keep the PET in amorphous form (prevent from crystalizing) ?
BASF sells regular PET, but especially the thermal characteristics seem to be like PETG, which anecdotally is easier to print. So there is no real upside to regular PET?
Hey there, I have always been interested in printing with PETG with my X1 but always ran into clogs and exessive gunking of the filment aroiund the nozzle. I came across both of your PETG and PET G carbon fiber videos today and I noticed that you mentioned the prints look pretty good. They look pretty bad actually, I see layer adhesion issues and the print doesnt look smooth at all for a CF filled fialment. Have you experimented printing without glue on a pei sheet before?
I’m trying to print with pet-cf on x1 carbon. Prints flawlessly for the first 1/3-2/3 then layers looks squished and kinda…. Mushrooms for lack of better description. Any recommendations on ways to fix it?
Cool video. I just subscribed. :-) I have a bambu lab x1 carbon with out the AMS. I have been using the cool plate with PLA. I want to use the engineering plate on the other side of the build plate for PETG. Do I remove the sticker on the cool plate and then just start using the engineering plate. I didn't see any video on how to use the engineering plate on your video listing. Maybe you can make a video on how to use the engineering plate.
Hey Len, I've been printing Bambu PETG-CF with the Bambu x1C for some time now but I don't understand this filament. My nozzle always gets full of filament on the exterior. It just gathers up during printing for some reason. Bambu presets, says to print with 250-255 degrees, but then the nozzle oozes filament out (i've tried drying for 12-18 hours, no difference). I manually set to 240, but it still oozes out at the nozzle at stand-by a little bit. Much better than at higher degrees though. Problem is, even at 240, my nozzle still gets full of gunk on the exterior. I tried exchanging the 0.4 nozzle to a 0.6 nozzle, but still no difference. Same thing happens. What could be wrong??
@@lendizzle77 can I test the retraction somehow, without having to print something? Seems like an unecessarily long process and that it should work with the bambu presets out of the box. Why else have the presets :/ My issue is the same with PLA. At 220 the filament also oozes out at idle.
There is a retraction test and you might want to run the pressure advance test in Orca Slicer. I have a little bit that comes out too especially when it is moving before printing and a little comes out. Every once in a while it causes me a problem, otherwise I just leave it. If it is affecting prints, do the calibrations, if it is not, try not to obsess over it.
That print-quality is atrocious? I have never used their cf-PET but I have used azurefilms cf-PET and I've had just leagues better print quality. Maybe their filaments aren't just very good?
@@lendizzle77 i used a 0.6mm nozzle and it was brand new from the package 🥴. I didn't use AMS as advised also. It was so much blobbing too. I dried it for 12 hours at 55°. Maybe it needs more drying
I just started printing pet-cf. I have a .4 hardened nozzle, dried the spool for 14 hours 70* (highest my dryer goes). I have no enclosure, and printed with fans off. Worked well so far. Very strong.
