ABS 1.75mm, 1kg, 2.2lb Green Filament Printing Material Supply Spool for 3D Printer ABSGR

I bought this filament to make a gold statue for a costume, and wanted to use gold material rather than painting something else. It was just a few days before Halloween, so I expedited shipping. It arrived the next day as expected and was packaged well.The first thing I always do with filament is inspect it. Using my digital calipers, I found a lot of variation in diameters, ranging from about 1.61 up to 1.76, with some of those variations only a couple inches apart. I was pretty disappointed, since I needed this stuff for my costume. I ran a quick test print and it seemed to work out ok. I jumped right in and set it up to make the statue and let it run overnight. The next morning, I had a really nice completed model! I had used a relatively solid infill (30%) and had put another fan to blow on it which could have helped, but I was really impressed with the results. It seemed to adhere to my heated glass bed really well without much tweaking, and produced a surprisingly great print, even better than some of my recent other prints. The gold color was vivid and even had some glisten to it, which turned out nicer than expected. After working about 14 hours into the material and measuring it again, I was finding it closer to 1.74-1.78, which is much more reasonable. Overall I'm quite happy with this filament, and will keep it in mind for when I need more.

So far, so good for me, using it in an XYZ Davinci 1.0. As other reviewers have stated, it is very brittle, the reason for a 1-star loss. But as long as you situate the spool in a good location that prevents sharp bends while feeding, you should have no problems.Personally, the only breakage I've had was when I was first setting up my printer to take external filament, and this spool was the one I used when I did it. Since installing, I've printed about 140m from this spool so far and have not had a single break.Print quality is pretty good, with no major issues. I use ABS "juice" table primer (ABS + Acetone; 1mm:1ml) and have zero issues with lifting or shifting.Review update: I had shelved this filament for about a year as I had no need for clear and just this past week started using it again as I had a huge project come up. The first print I made came out great and then, as others have stated, everything fell apart. My extruder kept jamming mid print with that ominous "click click click." After several hours of troubleshooting with no results, I popped in a spool of a different brand/color and it printed like normal.I'm assuming this is diameter inconsistencies. I wasted a good bit of this roll, and now it seems that I'm just going to have to pitch it anyways since I can't use it without jamming. Such a shame, since I gave this a rather positive review upon my initial use of it.However, this roll was purchased in 2014, so it is possible they've corrected the issue by now.

Excellent product.Prints great at 190C Adheres well. Bridges exceptionally well. It looks like stained glass.Completed parts are remarkably strong and break clean when sheared (not like a bundle of strings).Tolerances are very tight 0.02mm variation in width in my product. 0.01mm out of round at most.I will be purchasing again.

The color is great and the final printout is strong. But the material is poorly extruded, it breaks for no reason inside the printer, and it has some bumps in the filament that will get it stuck and spoil your printout.

BuMat makes a high quality PLA filament. I purchased a white filament from prototype supply on amazon many months ago and that filament is not nearly as good as this is. I'm going to purchase the gray color next, I'm very happy with the results I'm getting with this brand. There is a difference, the white filament isn't as consistent as the white gets stringy in places. This black also gives off a very nice shine when its done, lines are more defined and overall this is a great product.

Currently printing at 245C. with the HBP set at 115C. At 230-240C. (Tried at 5C. increments) it really didn't want to stick to itself and had insufficient hold on a very clean HBP set at 110C. (Straight undoped Kapton)Update: Printed a couple of overly complex, undersized tests that yielded more support material than the tiny fragile objects. But they completed so I tried something larger (A goblet). Estimated 7 hours 10 minutes project ceased to build at about 5 hours. Stopped extruding thread. I thought clogged nozzle (Running the ABS at higher than advertised temperatures was producing occasional brown flecks). Turned out to be broken filament though. Trying again. (I thought that it might be the filament being brittle at first but it was not. Issue was mechanical at my end that caused fractures in the filament, not the product.)Second attempt on the goblet succeeded (See customer images.) It's not exactly white but wasn't quite as 'Clear' as I had hoped (I wasn't expecting glass.) but it was OK. It has more of a silvery sheen on the surface with some translucent properties. The customer images are reasonable examples of the results thus far.