Yes, I have received the 4 of 7 the U.K. got at launch, we still do not have the missing 3 launch colours or a date for their release.
I tried printing a flexible keychsin I designed and available here. It is a brilliantly simple but effective design (oats self on back).
It printed without issue. The design requires the strip be bent over and the two ends touch before a PLA cap is added and a keychain attached. The reason for the detailed description to point out the difference between the TPU 95A and the TPU for AMS. The 95A version bends easily, deforms and snaps back to the original shape. The TPU for AMS doesn’t really come back. It works well, but the noticeable stiffer composition means it if you bend it too much, it retains that new shape.
I printed one of my App icon coasters to see how well it works with multiple colours, stringing and if the edges between colours is sharp enough.
- Multiple colours within each layer - perfect
- String - doesn’t happen
- Edges are sharp - yes, perfect
Something you should note, it’s as fast as BL Basic PLA.
I then decided to push it, can it print my hugely popular Fidget Spinners and Gyros and do they work afterwards.
Something to note, my fidget models have extremely precise mechanics and the tolerances are very tight, the shapes require difficult angles, some close to 60° or more on complex curves. All designed to print without supports. I then have many different profiles to have them print in many patterns.
The two I printed, one Gyro and one spinner worked perfectly, no missed areas, all curves are smooth, all angles achieved. Did they spin. Yes they did, not as easily as PLA, but, that was never going to happen for obvious reasons, but, far better than I imagined they might.
I am very impressed with the filaments, I think this is a whole new filament category and should be considered as such.
It has many if the benefits of flexible but with the performance and ease of use of PLA.
It isn’t TPU 95A, but it is very flexible, how much depends on walls and infill, but, the ability to through it in the AMS, not care about it and just print as easily as you do with PLA is extremely impressive.
You may know I don’t hold back when I think something is bad, but, I am equally enthusiastic about things going well, this is one of those.
I recently bought all the PLA Sparkle and all of the PLA Galaxy, they are almost identical in colours and properties to each other. So much so I’m not sure both should exist.
The PLA for AMS however is a great product. I look forward to the final release of the missing launch colours.
I have ordered all 6 wood colours, I doubt I will be as impressed with them as they promised to include actual wood in the mix, but, there isn’t any information in the product pages or disclosures to say is it fibre or sawdust and the percentages.
In essence that will just be 6 new versions of brown.
Did neither of you see I did actually said it works really well, I wrote that after all the tests I did.