Awesome Flexible 3D Prints - How to Print Flexible Filament

PLA filament is great you seem use it all the time I've made decorations of working water pumped a servo gripper and tools it's great for several reasons it's inexpensive you can print with very high speeds no warping and it's non-toxic however it does have its downsides by being very brutal sometimes you just want something a little bit more tough and flexible like this bumper for my radio-controlled car or vibration dampening for 3d printer in today's video we'll take a look at two flexible filaments the Isan elastic and the Tollman pc TPE [Music] the Eason elastic was vacuum-sealed and once the plastic wrapping was out of the way I wanted to see how elastic it really was and it sure was elastic [Music] the nylon not so much you can see the difference in stiffness though the nylon is significantly more flexible than the ordinary PLA [Music] both down at the 8th and the temple tarantula will be printing the Isan elastic so I grabbed an empty spool and rolled it up I heated up the nozzle to 220 degrees and pushed the filament so I could see it coming out the other end as always my first test print is the famous bench boat and we are testing two things can these awesome super ship printers even print with flexible filament we are also looking if there is a difference between the direct drive of the annotate and the Bowden extruder of the turbo tarantula [Music] almost immediately I could see the tarantula faced a common problem of yamming caused by the filament flexing inside the extruder assembly after a couple of minutes it clearly wasn't printing at all so I stopped the Tavor tarantula and focused on the annotate [Music] even though it was very slow it did successfully print the Benjy with no modifications at all and this is what the flexible filament is capable of you can bend it but it will always return to its original shape unlike PLA the chatters flexible filament will simply absorb the shocks all right let's go back to the tarantula how do we stop the filament from flexing inside the extruder this is a very common problem that has been addressed already I was able to find an extruder clamp with tighter tolerances on Thingiverse this quick and cheap modification ended up working beautifully so now even the tarantula can print with the flexible filament so what can you actually do that is useful well how about these vibration dampening Isolators that can be used to reduce the noise level of your printer you have the annotate on left and the tarantula on the right I think is safe to say that the tarantula performed slightly better regarding print quality besides vibration dampening you can use this material to make protective casings for your action cameras [Music] a protective iphone case [Music] or even customizable bracelets that we used to wear back in the days but sometimes you need something a little bit more tough and that's when we use the PC TPE nylon filament I sketched up a bumper for one of my radio-controlled cars and printed it out it came out slightly warped but good enough for it to be tested it's significantly less flexible than the Isan elastic but still way more flexible than the PLA [Music] [Music] it is indeed very tough and doesn't break like PLA would I feel like there's a whole new world of 3d printing that opens up with these kind of filaments I got from a Swedish 3d print supplier here in Sweden and yes I know a lot of people have been asking where I'm from in the comment section and I am in fact from Sweden I will leave all the links in the description below as well as a coupon code for the Abbott a printer let me know in the comments below what you have done with these flexible filaments see you next time bye

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Length: 5min 14sec (314 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 20 2017