Ah righto.
Anyway it’s printing a part just fine right now anyway. It’s in a sealed room so no breeze over it.
That’s good to know, I haven’t tried my spool of it yet but I was wondering if I’d have to heat up the chamber or not. I read on reddit that printing PPA and PPS in cold (<30C) ambient temps drastically reduces the strength vs 60C or more, but it was just people on reddit saying it, no evidence was provided.
For anyone on a Mac (unsure about Windows), the default list of filament choices appears to scroll from left to right, what you may not notice is there is a hidden row below the list, you have to scroll that horizontal list up a bit and sone ‘hidden’ choices become visible.
Here’s a small section of the part, I can’t show it all as it’s part of a project we’re working on.
Came out rather nice, I’m very happy with it. The part is quite stiff for the thickness of that section which is one of the properties we’re after.
I might look at quickly making a suitably large cardboard box to stick over the A1 for the overnight prints to help it stay warm.
Many thanks for the help fellows!
I can’t start a new thread yet (too junior) so I’ll add to this one.
Yes the A1 can print the Bambu PPA-CF and quite nicely. The only fault I’ve really noticed is that the layer adhesion isn’t as good as you’d expect.
I built a cheap & nasty enclosure for the A1 and it does seem to help. I run a filament dryer box in the enclosure with the temperature set to 60° to help heat it all up.
And as you can see the prints can come out very nicely indeed. The mighty A1 punching above its weight!
