On 27/02/2017 14:09, T i m wrote:
On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 04:21:42 -0800 (PST), Adam Aglionby
wrote:

On Sunday, February 26, 2017 at 1:43:16 PM UTC, T i m wrote:
On Sun, 26 Feb 2017 02:26:40 -0800 (PST), Adam Aglionby
wrote:


Whilst I understand they can ... and we have a roll of ABS on
the shelf, we haven only ever used PLA so far.

http://shop.3dfilaprint.com/

Bookmarked (although we generally buy off eBay).

TBH buy anywhere with best price ;-)

Ah, ok. I mentioned that because I know some people go to a
particular supplier because they have had issues elsewhere. For
example, we had one roll of (admittedly cheap) PLA filament that
would snap off at the extruder if left overnight and another where
the thickness was pretty inconsistent (affecting the effective
deposition rates).

Filaprint is reasonable for price,

Ok.

just used as an example of range of materials.

Understood. We have resisted trying other materials as we wanted to
learn to walk before we tried to run and even ABS (the second main
choice for material it seems) requires better thermal control during
the printing process.

I have been printing in ABS.
You need a heated bed if you expect it to stick.
You need a heated chamber if you don't want it to warp.

For the model stuff I print the heated bed is enough and it does warm
the enclosed CTC.


We don't even have a fan on the extruder or bed and seem to be able
to print ok, not sure you could get away with that on my other
materials (but would be nice of you could). ;-)

You don't want a fan on ABS, I found that PLA was almost a molten blob
without a fan. It remained squishy for ages.