Bamboo and wooden filaments  

Re: Bamboo and wooden filaments

Hi,
I'm thinking to order with some bamboo or wooden PLA, so it could arrive with my new printer, especialy for toys for kids.
Any experience with them? How do they work with standard PLA presets?
Do they tear the extruder?
What is better bamboo, wood, or kork?

I've printed with three different wood filaments, they are pretty easy to print with, just standard PLA setting mostly, and the smell while printing is priceless!

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Looks nice 🙂 so what would you say which will be better? how was the bamboo?

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Not printed with bamboo or kork, I've just used regular woodfill, but different colors/brands.

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I tried Bamboofill and it was much more dificult to print than woodfill. Bamboofill caused many clogs in the extruder if not printed at the ideal speed and temperature.

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And can you please share your settings that worked and Slicer information? Does it require more o less, speed and heat?

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I am afraid I don't have them anymore. I remember that I had to lower temperature almost to the minimum that the extruder could handle, and then increase speed, in order to reduce how much heat the filament was getting in the hotend, because bamboo was burning and clogging. One handy thing of these "wood" filaments is that they change their colour depending on the hotend temperature, so you can compare your parts with the ones from their website, for example, to see if yours is darker (reduce temperature) or ligther (increase temperature). Best way of printing Bamboofill in my opinion is to send them an email asking the proper settings for a specific volumetric speed of plastic. Even then, you will have to do some testing yourself because each thermistor and hotend is different.