adiwan (adiwan)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-23 12:55:56 UTC

adiwan

I remember why I don't 3D-print with PLA anymore. Currently I'm using up all my ancient (4-5 years old) opened spools. I'm printing a ton of dividers for my alphabetically and card type ordered Magic The Gathering cards because all my opened spools are in a way colored that somewhat match the card colors. I began it with green as it was a very unpleasant toxic green, then red, and now I'm at blue and yellow. The quality between all of them vary extremely. One spool is clogging all the time where as others print fine. Even then it's more or less a gamble. Currently I had to reduce the flow rate by 7% at one spool because of the pressure and swelling in the hotend. The spools are old but even when I had new spools I was very dissatisfied. Usually I print with PETG and it is more forgiving and consistent in my experience.