I made custom 3D printing filament with my Logo inside!

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I wanted to find out if I could resize my old 3 mm filament into a modern 1.75 mm filament, which led me onto a journey of making custom multi-color filament with incredible details on the inside. This method also allowed me to create a sample of TPU-Core PLA filament that tremendously improved the impact properties of my printed samples, all made on rather in-expensive equipment. Let's find out more!
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00:00 Introduction
02:00 3 mm filament to 1.75 mm filament
05:50 WInFiDEL Sensor
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8:15 Using the WInFiDEL Sensor
9:14 Multi-Color Filament
12:50 My Logo in Filament
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@CNCKitchen Ай бұрын

*QUESTION:* Which material combinations would you like to see and why? Want to get your 3D prints to the next level already today? Check out our Heat Set Inserts and Tools at cnckitchen.store (Free shipping worldwide starting at €100).

@Some-nerd-who-tinkers Ай бұрын

Mix carbon fiber PETG with ninja flex TPU

@eskanderx1027 Ай бұрын

ABS + chocolate 😋

@Some-nerd-who-tinkers Ай бұрын

Fiber glass composite pla 😋😋😋

@RENATINHOBR99 Ай бұрын

maybe PLA with a core of water soluble support like polydissolve, maybe to do some really light weight prints, insted of solid lines you will get tubes of PLA

@lucasverocai1631 Ай бұрын

This process can indeed open a path to multimaterial filament such as continuous carbon/glass fiber core embedded (inside an easy to respool material at first, for test purposes), the non strech fiber mechanical properties might be a hassle to deal with though... PA6/12, PC, TPU or Nylon for high end continuous fiber embedded filament, but might be even trickier to process. Anyway, good luck if you try this. Great video as always !

@timseguine2 Ай бұрын

"Yo Dawg, I heard you like layer adhesion problems. So I put layers in your filament so you can have layer adhesion problems while you're having layer adhesion problems."

@ericwheelhouse4371 Ай бұрын

You are having adhesion problems with pla?

@timseguine2 Ай бұрын

@@ericwheelhouse4371 14:28

@djordjezivic2481 Ай бұрын

@@ericwheelhouse4371 never under estimate a bad printer (my 2018 wanhao duplicator i3)

@stevrgrs 16 күн бұрын

So basically you’re doing what candy makers have done for over 100 years :P 😂

@comethiburs2326 7 күн бұрын

@@stevrgrs candy makers dont make candy with two different plastics and different melting points. Stuffed candy is generally coated or injected, as for hard candy it's rarely if ever done with a mix of, let's say butter based caramel and hard candy, as the butter caramel would leak out of the strip before it hardens, ruining the pattern. Irony or not it's apple to oranges. he's right about temp differentials being a problem with multimaterial printing.

@mannycrafts Ай бұрын

Wow, this is insane. Mans maxed out his engineering level and just grinding sidequests now.

@Some-nerd-who-tinkers Ай бұрын

He’s completed the CNC part of his username and will soon begin the Kitchen stage. Edit: tbh he’s already cooking

@hyozanhades09 Ай бұрын

He is manufacturing a new reality for earth in his kitchen !!!

@ameliabuns4058 Ай бұрын

Lol

@drummerboymaddux Ай бұрын

😂😂

@brandonsaffell4100 Ай бұрын

If you think our man has reached his final form you underestimate him.

@dittot Ай бұрын

Roughly every year or so, someone makes a completely game-changing 3D printing video showcasing an inventive new way of doing things which could open up so many new possibilities. This is one of those.

@StarkRG Ай бұрын

And at least a third of those seem to be done by CNC Kitchen. How many of the things Stephan has showcased over the years have become standard practice?

@TD-er Ай бұрын

Yep I was wondering which 3D printer manufacturer is also watching this and thinking to add a filament-diameter scanner into the printhead to be able to automatically compensate for under/over extrusion during printing. Maybe this is even more important for flexible filaments to get a really consistent printing results?

@givemeanameman1 Ай бұрын

Its interesting, but its already being done... Continuous Carbon Fiber filaments for high strength parts for example. "fiber" filaments rarely have increased strength, because the fibers have to be chopped up so small that they don't do much. So Continuous Carbon Fiber filament and the like were invented to change this. The game changer is being able to make multifilament at home, even as a proof of concept.

@OldCurmudgeon3DP Ай бұрын

Hard candy is made in a similar fashion. All the design is created in a large (8-9" diameter) chunk then stretched into the final bite-size form. The pattern is retained through the stretching process same as with yours.

@EFLO3D Ай бұрын

Same with “millefiori” glass art.

@benjaminvdvyt Ай бұрын

This was the first thing that came to mind. Watching how candy is made, is extremely similar and follow the same principles.

@OG-ProfessorFarnsworth Ай бұрын

His old video about the PC core ABS he mentioned actually talks about the same thing. I believe the original researchers made large blanks with the desired pattern that they then had a machine to extrude into a filament. Exactly what you’re thinking! But requires specialized equipment. Assuming I’m remembering correctly! 😅

@wakafeek Ай бұрын

Beat me to it! I was about to say this is how they do designs in saltwater taffy too

@dooleve Ай бұрын

Funnily enough, this is mentioned in the subtitles at 13:58, but he doesn't say it out loud

@whatevernamegoeshere3644 Ай бұрын

I work maintenance in a cable factory. The first 5 minutes of the video were pretty much most accessories of an extruder re-invented lol. You should really look up Kabmak extruders to get some inspirations because there are things like vacuum attachments and straightening rollers that could be added even to your machines. You could also add a mechanical brake to the pay-off spool to add pre-tensioning and it would make the plastic more consistent as it would feed through straight. The rollers serve the same purpose, but for wobbly lines. Another important addition would be a hot air blower to pre-heat the filament so you couldn't have to run a volcano type nozzle or anything special. You would need a lot less forces on that filament if it went into the nozzle already at say 50C. As for what you could be adding to it? Oh boy! Make 3 separate filament pay-offs with U-shaped "shells" on 2 of them and one filler. You could just add nylon strings or fishing line to the center spool and print multiple times as much filament at once. Hell, add a caterpillar-type tensioner brake to it and you're gonna have time to change filament on the go without interruption if you find a way to weld them in between.

@jakeharms1386 Ай бұрын

Thank you so much. This is exactly what I wish every comment on KZfaq was like

@shawnalfaro6943 Ай бұрын

I agree with all of these suggestions! Preheating the filament is a great idea, even with something simple as a halogen light bulb. And the roller suggestion is also great!

@audioman81 Ай бұрын

Preheat the filament too was first thing I thought when he was struggling to pull it through too. Can't believe he didn't think of that when he was basically already doing that to stretch down in size to insert it.

@bastienx8 Ай бұрын

Just putting a hot air blower or halogen lamp at the entry is not very energy efficient, for a process that takes hours this is something to consider

@sementhrower420 Ай бұрын

Off topic, but I think you might be the right person to ask this, if you don't mind helping out a random internet stranger :D I'm working on creating coaxial nylon-nichrome wires where I want to embed a nichrome wire in the core of a nylon monofilament line. The ultimate goal is to achieve this with 0.1mm D nylon and 0.01mm D nichrome wire, but I'll first try to do it with larger D nylon. What Stephan built here is roughly what I am also planning on doing, and in addition also feeding the nichrome wire through the core of the nozzle. Do you think this would be workable and do you have any tips? Thanks in advance!

@ac281201 Ай бұрын

4:13 This phenomenon is actually a result of two combined effects: necking and strain hardening. When tension is applied to the nylon filament, it begins to undergo plastic deformation at its weaker points, leading to a reduction in diameter. At the same time, the nylon string strengthens in these areas of reduced thickness, which concentrates the strain on the thicker segments of the string. The combination of these effects causes the string to shrink to a new, constant diameter before ultimately breaking. Articles for more information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necking_(engineering) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_hardening

@miqo85 Ай бұрын

aka continuous necking

@hugofernandez8522 Ай бұрын

It's kind of right but not quite, the effect is due to the majority of the chains in the polimer getting aligned and because all the chains are in the same orientation they become stronger

@hugofernandez8522 Ай бұрын

In amorfous materials like polymers you don't have strain hardening like in metallic materials

@ac281201 Ай бұрын

@@hugofernandez8522 Yes, you are correct, in the case of polymers this effect is the result of chain alignment and not crystal shifts like in metals, but still, this effect is called strain hardening (or work hardening) in both cases

@louisvaught2495 Ай бұрын

As others have mentioned, this is not work hardening, it's chain alignment. No, they are not the same thing. Work hardening is a crystallographic behavior (polymers do have crystal structure) while chain alignment is just generally the idea that you can do things to the material that cause the long molecules to be oriented in roughly the same direction. Chain alignment doesn't require work-hardening because polymers are viscous and have huge molecules. Things like melt-spinning can also cause higher chain alignment. Chain alignment also doesn't have to interact with the crystal structure of the plastic, and happens even in amorphous materials. It's just about the average direction the polymer chains are oriented.

@lescarneiro Ай бұрын

This TPU core experiment is just GENIUS! That's why I love your channel, you do science with your experiments, not just funny things for likes and subs

@danilolattaro Ай бұрын

Absolutely genius!

@zackj997 Ай бұрын

Why a solid core instead of the TPU and PLA emulsified together? People already use silk PLA for flexibility in certain applications since it already has TPU in it.

@rich1051414 Ай бұрын

@@zackj997 The solid core unmixed turns it into a composite. When you have two materials with different properties together, their strengths can add together in ways that wouldn't if they were thoroughly mixed. In this case, the flexibility of the TPU functions like dampening rebar, preventing fracture propagation while preserving the stiffness that PLA offers.

@ronnetgrazer362 Ай бұрын

@@zackj997 Really? Most of my silk prints seem more brittle, not less. I'm a sucker for off-brand budget filament deals so that might be a factor.

@kbee225 Ай бұрын

It sounds genius if you know very little polymer science. PU and PLA are not chemically similar so they form what we call non-compatible blends. These blends are basically those that cause boundary layer separation because the two materials are not chemically bonding with each other, this forms a weak material that is worse in most aspects than the homopolymers themself. This is why when making polymers blends with dissimilar materials we use compatibilizers to act as a glue and bind both the materials together.

@XVRickXV Ай бұрын

You could think of the TPU as muscle and the PLA as bone and have them switch places. The tpu absorbing more impact on the outside and the PLA receiving less shock because of being shielded by the flexible TPU the same way that flesh protects bones most of the time. Awesome experiment!

@lickytime9683 Ай бұрын

The outside of the filament would also be bending more than the core, so having the outside made of tpu must be beneficial too

@tomallo99 Ай бұрын

That's insane, really, creathing a visible logo INSIDE of a filament spool, with hardware that's DIY and accessible to a hobbyist? Man, you just keep on delivering bangers, your ingenuity is amazing

@cfeigel Ай бұрын

The WInFiDEL sensor lets you measure filament diameter. Now you can implement a PID loop to automatically figure out the proper temperature at a given speed. If you want faster production, turn up the speed and the PID should correct for the change.

@AndrewAHayes Ай бұрын

This is why I love this channel, most of the other channels I used to watch are either all doing Voron builds or reviewing the same printer that's been done a hundred times already. This channel is unique!

@kylebuffington7673 Ай бұрын

So many new ideas continue to pop up in 3D printing. Non-planar printing, arc overhangs, and now you are showing off multi-material filaments. Ten years from now, 3D printing is going to be absolutely off the charts.

@loganluckless372 Ай бұрын

I work at a company called Hills inc. where we do cross section logo fibers and other wild multi extrusion projects. Cross section logo fibers like that are used a decent amount in industry by basically making a dot matrix on the core of each fiber and routing the colored polymer to it's place in the matrix.

@janbeck8269 Ай бұрын

How about filaments with an embedded cf or Kevlar strand. Is that done?

@lukesmith9059 Ай бұрын

I would love to see more videos on metamaterials! If the stiffness of the tpu-pla is close to normal pla it would truly be the king of all printing materials for parts that don't need high temperature resistance.

@SamChaneyProductions Ай бұрын

This is one of the coolest advancements in consumer 3D printing tech I've seen in a long time. What a great innovation. Even as a mechanical engineer I'm a little surprised how well you got this to work with such a simple setup, especially getting such disparate polymers into a single filament!

@MarcStollmeyer Ай бұрын

Embedding your logo in the filament is such a flex and extra way of tagging your prints as genuine.

@capslfern2555 Ай бұрын

I love that, watermarked 3D prints

@lucianoag999 Ай бұрын

Except that everyone can do it.

@not2unknown1 Ай бұрын

A PLA core with a water soluble PVA mantle could create interesting structures or grids when you print it and put it in water. Kind of like how aerogel is made, but bigger.

@ziocrielo6148 Ай бұрын

3d printed sponge lol

@paulpoleon8570 Ай бұрын

Aero light plastic for rc plane wings or something

@ericbuchner2982 Ай бұрын

Unfortunately with the constant cross-section shown in the video I don't think this would give useable results. The core never bonds to itself, so if you dissolved the outer layer the entire print would just fall apart. It might work if you could vary the cross-section so the core sticks out in places, but that would be much harder to get working.

@markswayne6326 Ай бұрын

If you printed it with stripes of PVA that are diagonal edge to edge but left solid PLA layers between, the PVA might be able to dissolve out while leaving behind a structure that wouldn’t come apart.

@skelliton_67 Ай бұрын

The nylon string reducing in diameter when tensile force is applied is called "necking". I got this definition from google, "In engineering and materials science, necking is a mode of tensile deformation where relatively large amounts of strain localize disproportionately in a small region of the material. The resulting prominent decrease in local cross-sectional area provides the basis for the name neck."

@JakeWitmer 10 күн бұрын

Can this be modeled in a bottom-up simulation?

@FTBT3D Ай бұрын

That TPU/PLA is so cool! what a great experiment

@Avets610 Ай бұрын

Always pushing the limits of 3d printing, great job. The watermark filament honestly blew my mind.

@peterkiss1204 Ай бұрын

I would drill that nozzle up to at least 1,8-1,9mm and pull the filament at above the breakpoint of the diameter/pulling force curve to achieve correct diameter and fuse the layers together properly. Also a loadcell controlled motor driver circuit would help keeping the pulling force constant.

@thomasleftwite Ай бұрын

You are a pioneer in expanding the possibilities for 3D printer users.

@elongatedmuskrat5170 Ай бұрын

This effect is called necking. It comes from the alignment of polymer chains. The modulus of elasticity of the material also greatly increases when necking occurs as the aligned chains creates higher crystallinity. This can also occur in multiple steps of necking down the diameter until the stress required to force the diameter down via aligning the chains further is greater than the yield stress of the filament at that point. PS: as a polymer engineering student, i love your videos.

@domkri9502 Ай бұрын

Every time you publish a Video it takes two days and your content is featured by all the 3D printing/ Maker Websites, this is amazing. Thanks for your R&D work and making it open to use for everyone Danke 🎉

@TurboSunShine Ай бұрын

Oh god i was so young back then... excellent technique! love the 4mm to 1.75 downsizing!

@arcrad Ай бұрын

Dude you are the GOAT of 3d printing experiments. Is there anyone else out there doing stuff as cool?

@umikaliprivate Ай бұрын

I dare you to print on a regular fdm 3D printer using solder. I mean it would be liquid af, but if you could cool it fast enough, this could be revolutionary.

@klazzera Ай бұрын

the phenomenon is yielding and chain alignment. when it stretches to the point that polymer chains are fully aligned, it reaches a higher modulus and strength and stops being the weak point so the thicker sections continue to stretch

@TheToelle Ай бұрын

A CNC-Kitchen Video 🎉 my Evening is saved.. Why my evening? Because each one of them teaches me enough to continue reading for hours… thank you!

@greenboy3d Ай бұрын

What a coincidence that we both made a video about mixing TPU with PLA at the same time hahaha 😅 But I was a bit faster 🙃

@Craftlngo Ай бұрын

Upvote for more awareness. Your idea to mount a corkscrew extruder on a 3D printer could be a real game changer!

@mr.shplorb662 Ай бұрын

Not to brag or anything

@csforesman Ай бұрын

Wow. So glad I saw this comment and went to check out your channel. As cool as the idea in this CNC kitchen video is (and no slight to Stefan, this really is a great idea), I think your pellet extruder has way more potential to revolutionize 3d printing. Amazing work.

@Nachtschicht1 Ай бұрын

I've recently seen your video about that and I think you deserve a lot more attention. What would you think about about combining your idea of direct printing from pellets with Stephan's filament-extruder and Thomas' thickness-sensor to regulate the speed of the extruder to match the amount of filament that the printer needs to build a printer which makes its own filament on the fly? That would solve the problems with the much heavier printhead and reduced printing-quality.

@greenboy3d Ай бұрын

I think this idea might work, there are also ideas like implementing a real-time pressure sensor or AI camera to measure the flow and to automatically adjust it in real time. The only thing that needs to be done is the research & development which is costly and since I have spent most of my savings on R&D for the extruder itself... For this reason I keep all these things in mind but for now focus on releasing the extruder so everyone can benefit from it... 🙂

@benrr101 Ай бұрын

This is pretty cool! It's basically the same process confectioners use to make candies with logos and stuff in them, although they start with blanks like 10" in diameter and stretch them down by hand. Still very cool that this technique applies to plastics, too

@CatMan36 13 күн бұрын

4:27 The phenomenon is based on the crystallization of thermoplastics. To summarize: when a thermoplastic is pulled apart, the polymer chains in it lie next to each other, making the thermoplastic stronger, as more intermolecular attractive forces can be formed. As a result the crystalline part of the thermoplastic isn‘t pulled apart, but the weaker non-stretched gets stretched. Have a look here: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallisation_(Polymer)

@sephrosemary Ай бұрын

Imagine finding a way to embed continious carbon fiber in a filament this way!

@UnCoolDad Ай бұрын

This exists already in the high end commercial printer world.

@olafschermann1592 Ай бұрын

Yeah, thats the way! And opensource it

@martinsmith2948 Ай бұрын

Babe wake up! CNC Kitchen just uploaded

@swissfreek Ай бұрын

Your videos are always amazingly thought-provoking. You come up with truly innovative concepts for investigation that no one (or very few) have talked about. I love it.

@evilratchet777 Ай бұрын

Extrusion process engineer here. The phenomenon where you can stretch hot plastic is known as "drawdown." That's also the name of the process you are using. The simple explanation is that this phenomenon occurs due to internal tensions pulling material from the "corners" of the part to fill in the middle, where the material is splitting under tension. It helps to visualize it as a continuous landslide from the hilltops into a valley that keeps growing longer. You can also get something known as "die swell" as plastic expands due to the pressure drop at the die openings. Die swell isn't really something we have to consider with 3d printers, but it should be considered if you are extruding filament with an Archimedes type extruder. As for your filament layer bonding problems, you may be able to solve that by preheating the filament before drawing it down. Also try over-extruding your print by 3-5%, this should help layer bondability. Also, tension is everything. Pre-tensioning will help both the bondability, and help keep the filament from rotating during drawdown. The more aligned and balanced the tension is on either side of the nozzle, the more consistent the final filament turns out. Good luck, and keep up the amazing videos! "Like everything else in life, 3d printing is just a primitive, degenerate form of extruding." -Bender

@startedtech Ай бұрын

If its ever sold that TPU/PLA combo should be named Wagyu beef!

@Dwonis Ай бұрын

Having a flexible core and a hard surface is what makes teeth so tough... so it could be called Wagyu Teeth! 😂

@Markfps Ай бұрын

What a crazy idea PLA + TPU core, amazing job man! This is surely a neat improvement for prints that will face a lot of physical stress

@ZeFoxii Ай бұрын

For the layer adhesion issues why not pull it twice once to get the diameter and then again at a higher speed and hotter temp just to make sure it fused together.

@jkachele Ай бұрын

Hexagons are the best-agons! CGP Grey Reference!!!

@DrakeTain Ай бұрын

Now that is neat.

@properprinting Ай бұрын

Man, this is genius! The most interesting use case I've seen for the Prusa XL and this really inspires!

@MrTree421 Ай бұрын

You have really outdone yourself with this video. The research you have done in this video is easily enough to write another master thesis. Outstanding!

@sleeptyper Ай бұрын

I have an idea. Make the filament have a clear core with transparent coloured shell, print a cool vase model on vase mode and find a way to send light thru the extruded filament. Maybe one of those 60mm LED pucks from eBay under the vase would do it. On the other hand, a black core with transparent shell could be very interesting as well.

@ouansungyidan Ай бұрын

Omg he made his own metamaterial at home. Kind of freaking out right now. That's a research gold mine.

@louisvaught2495 Ай бұрын

It's not particularly useful due to the high shear during production. That imparts unfavorable structure on the material.

@ouansungyidan Ай бұрын

@louisvaught2495 That's a great point, the production method can be improved. But the concept is still amazing. Hobbyist accessible metamaterials. That's still got me excited.

@louisvaught2495 Ай бұрын

@@ouansungyidan You can work a bit to remove the molecular alignment, but in general the process being used to *make* the structure is what limits the final properties. This particular process being so accessible and macro-scale means you don't have much molecular control over what's coming out. The part of the video where Stefan discusses having to keep the filament from getting too soft is a great indication that the process is really dependent on the molecular order of the polymer, rather than the process having any control over it.

@christianerhard8875 25 күн бұрын

The phenomenon is called (unofficially) spaghetti straightening. Where the crosslinked/entangled polymer chains are pulled straight (aligned). This is from tensile pulling and makes the polymer longer and tougher!

@YourComputerExpert Ай бұрын

4:05 The pulling force plays indeed a major role, in real filament factories they also have a measurement device at the end of the line which adjusts the pull speed to get the filament to the correct diameter.

@TheOneAndOnlySatan Ай бұрын

And again Stephan changed the 3D printing world again! What a legend!

@stevvieb Ай бұрын

You got 4 halfs, I got 4 quarters, :)

@supercurioTube Ай бұрын

This is absolutely amazing, I'm so impressed with what you came up with, so creative and well engineered at the same time. You ended on what you would try differently after exploring the reforming method and I can't wait for the next step.

@wruehl Ай бұрын

Love to watch you push the envelope in a meaningful way!

@ChrisHarmon1 Ай бұрын

The wilder the hair gets, the better the engineering?

@GinoTubaro Ай бұрын

Abs outside, pva or any other soluble material inside could be a crazy tubing situation worth to research!

@HerbanWarrior Ай бұрын

That twisted 2 color where the colors shift is pretty awesome, that effect with another color could be really cool

@TheSupertecnology Ай бұрын

This is very much how candy making works. They make the pattern really (like r e a l l y) big, and then strech it so that it gets substantially thinner, and the patterns remain. Candy makers can put entire figures within their pieces, and often make things like Marios, Disney characters and such.

@jan_harald Ай бұрын

I think one interesting way to use this, is with multi-extrusion/dual-nozzle printers, themselves, printing a multi-layer spool as the nozzles are fixed, extruding from both, would mean the base printed spool would already have a changing pattern when printed with, but also, it should probably help with metamaterials, as you can have each material as their own perfect temp, without letting the other material cool down, both the changing position, not being in perfectly straight layers, and having both of them be hot while laid down, should greatly decrease the risk of delaminating, imho

@jellevandergraaf9303 Ай бұрын

I believe the thinning phenomena that occurs when pulling polymers like TPU is called "necking"

@EXAPHI Ай бұрын

Keep innovating Stefan, you're one of the main drivers helping to push open source additive manufacturing towards the future

@fearlessmangoose3118 Ай бұрын

Amazing proof of concept. I love the macro shots in this video !

@allmightyloaf7134 Ай бұрын

4:20 the term for the thinning of the wire is called necking. Its an extremely common phenomenon when any material undergoes plastic deformation (permanent warping) through tensile stress.

@majorredbeard Ай бұрын

The amount of time that you put into these videos is truly astounding. Thank you so much for all of the dedication you have to 3D Printing!

@justintoleos Ай бұрын

wow. packed with so many amazing concepts. Thank you CNC Kitchen!

@willofthemaker Ай бұрын

Yoooooo this is amazing. So many possibilities! Can even make longer rolls by fusing multiple coils together by melting hem together. Then the resizer does it's magic to smooth out the joint

@Bob-qr9se Ай бұрын

Congrats on reaching the next level in 3D printing! Love your ingenuity ❤

@nickrudd2568 22 сағат бұрын

You have the patience of a saint my friend. Top experimenting, Keep it up Sir.

@deliziosetiefkuhlkost2463 Ай бұрын

Please do a dedicated video about the strength and toughness of some filament combinations. I am definitely interested in the mechanical properties and think that it could lead to some promising future filaments

@Alluvian567 Ай бұрын

This is so cool. So glad you did this, as I do not have the equipment, expertise, or time to do something like this. Amazing.

@richardblom9211 Ай бұрын

I work in an industry where we make plastic film. The way we get a different thickness with the same pressure from out extruders is to pull it at different speeds. If you could find a rudimentry way to force the large pieces in, you should be able to pull the final stock at higher speeds an making this more viable for larger projects.

@sapuseven Ай бұрын

I love the amount of innovation and experimentation in videos like this.

@nightcorelore5648 Ай бұрын

PLA with TPU core is something I would really like to play with. The strength test didn’t really surprise me, because that’s a genius design and it should probably be producible with the right tools (as semi proven here). People would definitely pay double for a full roll like that

@ezion67 Ай бұрын

Its always a good idea to look at prior art. The resizing you do is basically the same as getting metal wire to size using a pull plate. Going in steps, e.g. 3mm -> 2.5mm -> 2.0mm -> 1.7mm, would make the proces much easier and probably quicker.

@CookieCraftMedia Ай бұрын

This method of creating patterns in the cross section of filaments really reminds me of old school taffy candy shops, where they stretch the candy while preserving the pattern

@jeffharrison5265 Ай бұрын

That was super interesting! I think you're onto something here with the TUP/PLA. Hope you pursue this further and provide some updates. Thanks.

@CrassKitten124 Ай бұрын

Such a cool concept! I wonder if you could print the pulled TPU-core filament into a second 4mm blank, and then repeat the pulling process to get even smaller TPU fibers

@mattelder1971 Ай бұрын

I would love to try some of the TPU filled PLA to see how well it works in some unusual applications. It almost sounds like the ideal material for high impact prints.

@xankersmith9194 Ай бұрын

You should try putting the Winfidel sensor in the feedback loop of an automatic controller for detecting filament thickness. It could actually be accurate compared with the pulling-a-paper-clip-and-hoping method.

@ninjaman570 18 күн бұрын

For your machine that makes the filament, I think a nice solution would be to have a clip attached to a string, and a motor on the back end that can pull the material consistently. And then just have it set to stop pulling at a desired length, so it can save on wasted material

@spacedbro Ай бұрын

Legitimately amazing work as usual!!

@MrDivinePotato Ай бұрын

Very cool, that TPU core PLA is awesome

@schmiddy8433 Ай бұрын

I really hope companies start offering multi-material filaments affordably, that PC core ABS or TPU core PLA would be a game changer.

@Greg-J Ай бұрын

This is probably the most impactful 3d printing video of the year and and it's just chilling in our feeds.

@patrickradvanyi6390 Ай бұрын

The behavior of the material stretching and thinning out before breaking is called necking

@CaptainSlug Ай бұрын

Wait, if tricolor PLA were used through one of those experimental printers with a rotational axis extruder you could setup the slicer to change the rotational position of the extruder during printing in order to change and vary which color is visible on the outside of the print. This would actually allow you to print out those FEA models in full representative color. You would however have little or no control of the color output for dithering purposes beyond the available color gradient in the filament itself. Orientation would only allow you to control the portion of the filament that's shown on the outside of the part. So filament color blends with high contrast might allow for some in-model color variation without having to do any of the filament changes that a multi-material setup would otherwise need to perform to switch colors. Purge towers or other inbetween-material purge methods would no longer be required for switching colors. The major hurdles to the above would be setting up the slicer to understand how the rotation relates to the colors available, and more complicated from the hardware/firmware side would be the need to monitor the orientation of the filament color itself as it either enters or exits the extruder. It would be a very challenging but unique project.

@gustavoheck2378 Ай бұрын

I think you should try TPU with a core of PETG for printing airless basketballs. So the TPU would get the perfect layer adhesion, while the PETG would make it bounce

@richardjelinek5038 Ай бұрын

For high stiffness material, I think you should actually add nozzle rotation in your Pultrusion machine. That way you would not need to have TPU inside PLA, but could have them printed "side by side", yet after the extrusion process you'd end up with some kind of helix filament.

@capslfern2555 Ай бұрын

im going to try this, looks cool

@roygreen4220 Ай бұрын

The narrowing is called “necking”. And yes, the nozzle diameter IS related to the final filament diameter - it needs to be a bit bigger so it necks down to the correct diameter.

@frank-af Ай бұрын

I've found that abs and tpu bond very well, if you're wanting to continue experimenting with that. Something like the Phaetus 78D TPU inside some ABS or ASA might make for incredibly strong parts

@jonathan3518 Ай бұрын

4:28 Necking. When it draws to a smaller diameter it is called necking.

@Bbluenight Ай бұрын

mind blowing, very cool tests! keep up the good work and thank you for sharing :)

@hadinossanosam4459 Ай бұрын

This also gives the option to vary the cross-section along the filament, which is hard to do with other filament production methods. That would be useful for the PLA+TPU filament, where you could add some radial connections to the TPU core, so you get layer adhesion between the TPU cores as well as layer adhesion between the PLA shells (but without interrupting the PLA shell lengthwise like the patterns at 13:17 would)... this means you'd get more of the properties of both materials combining, because they'd act like two interleaved, but complete prints, instead of a PLA print with a bunch of TPU fibers inside (Well-designed shapes could also maybe help with the splitting problem while resizing? Would probably take a lot of trial and error to optimize though)

@Stefun8D Ай бұрын

regarding the diameter issue, you are correct in that is because you are pulling the soft filament. This "could" be mitigated by cooling it directly at the nozzle output but I would recommend changing to a push method just like the hot ends of ffd printers. Edit; I didnt realize you had a different machine in the hot end setup, good idea.

@falxonPSN Ай бұрын

This is quite possibly the coolest video you have ever made, and that's saying a lot! Wow!

@BakeBakePi Ай бұрын

Thats so cool! Great video!

@dgriff4000 Ай бұрын

Outstanding research. Bravo!

@waaksaam8525 Ай бұрын

you should try baking your multilayered print in an oven just below the melting point before extrusion. This could help enhance the bond between layers, which is especially important given the unique strain applied to the filament during extrusion. By melting the layers into each other, you can create a stronger, more cohesive bond that doesn't tear apart during extrusion or printing.

@russellpierce3987 29 күн бұрын

that's actually what the research he's referencing is meant for. the inner core is meant to keep the part from deforming with a higher melting point plastic, and the annealed finished part is very strong

@albynton 10 күн бұрын

This is kind of crazy. Great work!

@davidc352 Ай бұрын

@CNCKitchen The process, in which the filament get´s thinner and stretched is called hot, or cold drawing, depending if T > Tg. You're creating fibers in the material, which gets longer and thinner the more you stretch (up to a point)

@Milan22229 Ай бұрын

Pulling plasic is called Recken in german. It changes the properties of the plastic in some cases. It is quite common in plastic films you have a reckanlage (MDO) to thin the film down and give it some other properties too