What's your go-to "Bang for your Buck" filament brand? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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As I'm graduating college in a few weeks, I'll be losing access to my university's free printers and filament. I'm going to build up a home lab with a couple printers where I can make goofy little mechanical projects as well as some components for my cars and stuff.

Who's your go-to for PLA and ABS/ASA filaments? Those will be my primary print jobs in any serious volume. I know our college's club has had hella problems with random chinese brand filaments not printing consistently but I also don't want to spend $30+ per kg for something like Prusament.

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[-] brightandshinyobject@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

I have been using tangledfilament.com for my PLA and it's been great. Their goal is to get to $10/kg for US manufactured filament and then expand to PETG.

[-] johnb48@mastodon.online 3 points 5 months ago

@brightandshinyobject

Do you remember what the shipping charge was?

@empireOfLove2

[-] brightandshinyobject@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Free shipping right now.

[-] johnb48@mastodon.online 2 points 5 months ago

@brightandshinyobject

Thanks!

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

Oooh, tangled. Thanks for reminding me about them. Having all US produced product is a nice plus and if they can keep it that cheap domestically, I'd happily buy it for all my bulk printing that doesn't care about color. $15/kg is about as good as it gets these days.

[-] brightandshinyobject@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

The just had another price drop to $15/kg and their road map is going well.

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Clickable link: https://www.tangledfilament.com/

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