What is Carbon Fiber Nylon Filament and Should You 3D Print It - Pt. 1

all right guys today we're talking about one of our favorite materials here at vision miner carbon fiber nylon [Music] okay so first off what is nylon think zip ties polyamide pa it's almost everywhere you look nylons worn by women or bandits velcro zip ties ropes nuts bolts washers circuit board hardware a ton of other places you never even knew it was it's been around for years now 3d printing uses the same awesome material but often with chopped carbon fibers embedded into the polymer this adds to the rigidity of the material and the strength to weight ratio and they create a lot more stiffness and they also make the part slightly lighter it increases dimensional accuracy while you're printing meaning it's going to come off the plate exactly where you wanted it because the fibers are holding the polymer in place so there's less curling and warping at the edges and stress points of the part and this also makes it much easier to print especially if you don't have a heated chamber there are also continuous fiber machines often pretty continuous carbon fiber toe throughout an entire part but these are different systems and they're much more expensive and much more limited on material options and i'm talking about the systems currently offered by desktop metal and markforged they do come at a heavy premium with their own benefits but today we'll be talking about the polymers on open material systems like the funmat ht or the aeon m2 or the sam ht or whatever you may have so carbon fiber nylon is well suited for structural parts functional prototypes or even custom production parts low volume runs for the most part arguably the biggest area we see it use is jigs fixtures and tooling machine shops that are constantly making tooling out of you know solid aluminum and fixtures for cnc machines laser cutting and other manufacturing processes when they can 3d print cf nylon instead it often results in parts made weeks faster and at a much lower cost than pure aluminum stock so often we see the continuous fiber from marked force or their onyx material which is a carbon fiber nylon blend just like ours except we actually have data showing that the 3dx tech brand is significantly stronger than the markforged not only that but it's much cheaper much much cheaper the only real difference is you'll have to print it yourself and you don't have their awesome software to make it perfect every time but it will look just as good so let's go over some general pros and cons let's talk about the bad first you will want a hardened steel or better nozzles because it's super abrasive it's basically like sandpaper on the inside of the nozzle the filament can get brittle over time especially if you're drying it too much and you can sometimes see a lot more oozing than with other materials because it's super hygroscopic meaning it absorbs a lot of moisture very quickly just from the air on that point it is very hygroscopic so it needs to be kept dry especially before processing or melting it now some of the pros are it's pretty easy to print especially considering the amount of strength you get it's super lightweight has a really good strength of weight ratio and stiffness and it's got excellent dimensional stability meaning your parts will be accurate straight out of the printer and that's a huge point because there's a lot of a lot of other materials have coefficients of thermal expansion that warp your part out of place like abs is going to shrink or expand two percent you have to calculate for that generally cf nylon is pretty good and with the carbon fiber in there it stays pretty accurate so let's talk more about this it's easy to print but what does that really mean most common printers are able to print it most like prusas higher end flash forge ultimakers even ender 3s for 200 bucks can run this material you basically just need a printer that can do 120 celsius on the bed and 260 or more on the nozzle a heated chamber will help a lot with especially with bigger parts but it's not required next it is super strong some blends at 25 carbon fill are literally comparable to aluminum they're actually calling it black aluminum so check out this part it's actually a break handle for a bike right uh now we've got the 10 to 13 percent carbon fiber and i'm going to give it a bend i can bend it but barely just a little bit now i'm going to go over to our 25 carbon infill a high temperature nylon part and i can't bend it at all i mean i can bend that you can see that this thing is just just crazy you should see people's reactions when i give it to them blends from markforge have strength to weight ratios higher than 6061 t6 aluminum in some cases and it's about 24 times stronger and 27 times stiffer than abs the ascentium htn stuff i just showed you has super high strength very solvent resistance and it's also really easy to print it's literally designed as an aluminum replacement and it prints excellent on all the machines we offer on our store so next reason frankly it just looks cool it's got this awesome matte black finish and it kind of almost looks like a metallic sheen from the reflections of the carbon and it really really hides the layer lines meaning you can print faster with bigger layers and you will still have a great looking part this means more production more parts in less time lastly this stuff works great with no support material just using nylon as its own support or using soluble sports like pva aquasis 120 or other materials that have been coming out on the market recently those are the biggest reasons we love carbon fiber nylon do you love carbon fiber nylon do you use this stuff let us know how you use it in the comments below what's your favorite part about this stuff or if you've got any questions you haven't used it yet and you wonder what you're going to come up against leave a comment down below and we'll try to answer it in a future video or right there in the comments we try to be really good about that thanks for watching have a positive day i'll see you on the next video

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Length: 6min 46sec (406 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 08 2020