I have tried e-Sun wood filled 1.75mm filament in my P1S and get very stringy parts. There are fine fibers all over the parts and I cannot seem to reduce this by modifying temperature, retraction speed, printing speed etc. Does anyone else have experience with this material? I have two spools of this that I would like to be able to use.
The colorFabb wood filled filament seems to work well without these problems and I have just ordered more. Using the same colorFabb settings for the e-Sun wood does not work.
Did you manually calibrate the filament profile?
I experimented with a sample spool of wood filament and had to do a lot of calibration before I could get it to print well. Unfortunately I deleted that profile because it demonstrated to me that here was no really good use-case for me for wood filament. In particular, I was looking to see if I could stain it like real wood and that is not the case. I was also underwhelmed with the appearance. To me it looked more like Matte wood-colored filament not true wood.
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You CANNOT keep wood filament from stringing.
Nothing to add. I’ve printed a bit and no matter what it will always string.
Pro-Tip: If you want to print with wood get the appropriate color brown and tell people it’s wood filament. Almost no difference.
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I haven’t had e-Sun Wood yet. Sunlu Wood Low Temp. and that was pretty good. Here I only had to print at the lower temperature limit (185-188°C) and only printed figures, so everything was very slow. There I noticed that it tends to print more poorly with prolonged use. The usual: Threads, fuzz, poor printing results in general. Must therefore be dried before printing or sometimes in between. It may also simply take longer to dry than you think. However, I have achieved the best results with small figures using this wood filament.
The last wood filament I had was from Creality and iSANMATE, where I also had to reduce the flow from 0.98 to 0.89 - 0.92. And I also had to dry the print temperature well down to 200°C (I didn’t try any lower) despite this.
I did manually calibrate the filament and could not remove the stringing. I did not do an exhaustive experimental design to determine which parameter was having the most effect but when I switched to colorFabb wood filament the problem did not occur.
Thanks for the information. I have had the best success with colorFabb wood filament. I am not drying my filaments at the moment but I guess that is something I should try. I am in Boston MA and the humidity has been fairly high. Today for example (Oct 3) it is at 80% outside.