Amazon Basics PLA 3D Printer Filament, 1.75mm, Dark Gray, 1 kg Spool

I'm not that far in to the spool but so far I've experienced three clogs/jams. I've increased the temp just in case the first couple issues were just matters that it wasn't flowing smoothly enough. But today I've encountered a third clog/jam. All I had to do was completely back out the filament from the extruder and found that it jammed before getting to the hot end, perhaps the thickness was way off and jammed which then let the extruder grind it. At this point I don't plan on buying another spool and will switch back to what I've relied on for well over two dozen spools and at this point I don't remember why I decided to try Amazon Basics.

I have a VERY tightly calibrated printer, and usually tweak a lot of settings a minute amount from roll to roll. This filament seems to have a wide range of consistency. Horizontal expansion, temperature, flow rates, etc all require no tweaking from any other PLA I've used, regardless of their settings. This stuff just prints.... CONSISTENT. I picked this up stupid cheap, and will definitely buy more... Even at full price

I bought this because a friend of mine asked me to print a lot of stuff out for some board games he had, so I bought this cuz I needed it in a pinch and I usually trust amazon for there amazon basics stuff, but right away I could tell there was quality control issues. The "vacuum sealed bag" was so loose I thought it somehow how got pierced in shipping. before I could even open the bag I could see the filament windings were all over the place. I immediately took it out of the bag and put it on my 3d printer (Ender 3 Pro) and started to load it up. the first 20 revolutions of filament were extremely loose, which I had never seem more then 1-2 loose before. I did a quick test print of a cable tie base and everything printed just fine, so I started one of the bigger jobs ( 0.6 Nozzle 50mm/s) and let it go. the filament worked just fine for a couple hours but then it got caught and it made my printer go haywire because it was trying to extrude the filament but the filament was twisted on the spool. so it snapped, which sucked, but I was able to untangle the filament and I restarted the job. this time it printed fine. so I started the next job and it got stuck again, but it was able to free it self, but it caused a massive layer shift which ruined the print. I through that print out and started again and this time it finished no problem. I thought bad windings were a thing of the past, because I've bought plenty of cheap filament in the past and have had no problems with them even when my friends thought I was crazy. I will probably never buy amazon filament again, unless something changes.

I came across this filament at a great deal so I figured I'll try it, after I printed my first piece with this I went back to order more cause it came out so nice. Definitely ordering more when back in stock and on sale.

this product does have good strength after the product has been extruded, however, when exposed to atmospheric conditions this product will break if left out exposed to atmospheric conditions potentially causing your print to fail due to running out.

This is the first time using this type of filament. I ended up with a clogged feed tube and nozzle. had to order a heat head unit.

My Tevo Tornado has always been my workhorse, but since I began printing with this filament it has been a nightmare. It kept clogging up the machine. I think I'll pass on this filament from now on.

I've used several a couple different colors of Amazon Basics PLA, but this Dark Gray does not print sloped faces well. I've seen that lowering the nozzle temperature can improve this, so I tried printing at 200C, 195C, and 190C. No change. Then I did a test print using a different brand of PLA, and the exact same part printed perfectly. See photo for examples. The parts shown are upside-down on the table; so the face you're seeing is actually the bottom of the part (against the print bed). The 45-degree angled faces are where I encountered issues. The black part is how it *should* look.If your part does not contain overhangs or sloped faces, this plastic should work just fine. However I would advise you to purchase a better brand for parts containing anything like that.

Despite a hot bed 65-75C I would still get it coming off the bed. It also needed 205-210C extrusion. I don't get this problem with other brand PLA. It was my first roll experience in 3D printing so I thought it was meant to be this hard. I should have tried the free sample from creality first and I would have known it was the filament that was to blame. I often now have my bed at 50C and extrude at 195C for PLA

Beware the exact same stuff is in Amazon for two different prices. The search does not bring up the lower cost option.

So far this filament has given Good results.Good Adhesion to the Glass plate. bed,

Stuff just flows, gives a great finish, can't really fault it

Great product, just what I wanted and at a good price.