My P1P is on its way to me, and I am looking for suitable filament which is easily and quickly available in Germany.
Which brands for PLA and PETG can you recommend for BambuLab (besides Bambulab )? I still have a roll of PETG from Giantarm here - will that do for now to start with?
And of course I’ll start printing more parts for the printer What should I use for this? PLA or rather more heat resistant PETG?
Havent tried it on a Bambu Lab printer yet, but in the past I was very happy with PLA and PETG from DasFilament.
If I remember correctly they posted on their Facebook that they are even using a P1P to finetune Profiles for their Filament. Guess you can get these from them.
I had good experience with Prusament PLA and PETG. It can also be printed quite fast, I ended up at 17mm³/s for PLA and 22mm³/s with PETG. Dimensional accuracy and spooling are perfect.
I also started testing eSun PLA+ and ABS+, both filaments seem to give good results.
I’m using Devil Design PLA with Generic PLA profil. Works perfect. Fast prints and good quality.
In Germany you can get it here: https://shop.bohrers.de/filament/pla/
As for PLA, I like Geeetech which has constantly been available during the two years I’vs been 3D printing. They have a store with more than reasonable prices. Using their standard PLA, not the new high-speed variant. Regarding PETG, I’ve been switching from Geeetech to Sunlu. Both filaments perform fine on the P1P.
Parts for the printer – whatever might get warm, should be printed using a heat-resistant material. PETG performs quite fine (although not yet tested as P1P mod parts). Various Geeetech PETG parts have successfully passed last summer inside my car right behind the windshield without showing any problems or deformations at all
Sunlu or esun, don’t let you screw from their websites it’s a little complicated with different coupons or deals. I ordered yesterday about 10kg from esun and a little bit from sunlu inkl. the s2 dryer on the end I got a -30% off. Ended much cheaper then amazon. All orders to Austria over their EU warehouses
I want to add one thing to this discussion.
I’m using Prusament for quite some time with great success and never had any problems. Prusa states a size tolerance of ±0,02mm in diameter in contrast to the usual ±0,05mm.
While this seems not to be much, a size increase of 0,02mm changes the flow by 2,3%, a size change of 0,05mm increases the flow by 5,8%.
Since we are all trying to dial in the flow as good as possible, a variation of more than 5% is really a lot. This is a reason why I still like to use Prusament, even if it is a little more expensive. Especially for parts which shold look good.
I have no affiliation with Prusa, this is just based on my experience.
Anyway, I have 1kg of DevilDesign PETG on order to see how it performs. I never used it before so I’m really curious.