Taulman Bridge Filament

[Capt. John]

Thanks for your input and wisdom. I will go back to the stock drive when I start printing with bridge.

[Capt. John]

Bridge comes in 1 lb. spools with a very small axle hole, don't fit the spindle on the M2.

Printed OK with settings used for Pet+, warped big time with 70 bed temp.

Layer adhesion was good. Very soft material compared to ABS, PET+ and PLA.

[sprior]

Yes the spool is smaller - I replaced my stock spool holder with this one: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:150416

I printed something today in it, but close to the end it jammed in the extruder drive, messed up the print.

Bridge is softer for sure than PLA or ABS, but it's also tough stuff.

[Capt. John]

Thanks sprior, will print that spool holder out if I ever getting the warping on the bed glitch fixed.
Was at 70 bed, going to 95-100 bed next time I muster up the gumption to print.

My present filament of choice is PET+ with Jedi Master 3d print specialist jimc's settings.

[Capt. John]

Round 2 with Bridge:

Would not go thru the nylon feed tube after a foot in, filament diameter is all over the place.
Rigged up a feed system going over a knob to get the filament to loop above the extruder piece.

Printed with a bed temp of 100. 10 minutes in, once the supports broke loose off the glass build bed
with heavy part warp that curled up like a taco.

Used a raft hoping this would keep the bridge down to the glass with hairspray.
Print temp was 250 and seen some cooked dark pieces, looked like burn thru.
Had cooling fan set to off.

Will try round 3 after a day or 2, but for now, this stuff is looking like a return for my money back.
I'm not much beyond the rookie stage in 3D printing and my limited skill sets says this filament
is way too touchy for me.

Better yet, I can send it to print guru jimc and see what he does with it.

[sprior]

Run, don't walk, to the nearest office supply store and pick up Elmers disappearing purple washable glue stick. I haven't had much luck with hair spray in general and the glue stick is easier to apply anyway (no overspray). The bowden tube that fixed it for me was thishttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00C45 ... UTF8&psc=1, but it's currently listed as unavailable (but has a 5 star rating so that's a lost opportunity for them).

[sprior]

And BTW, V3B temp of 245, bed 110.

[Capt. John]

Many thanks, help here is excellent

Will try the Elmers, which I've yet to use.

Aquanet did the job until I met Mr. Bridge.

[sprior]

In this case I'm just a few weeks ahead of you.

[Capt. John]

Living in the deep boonies, easier to order off Amazon, then drive a bunch of miles to an office supply store.

Here's what I bought:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0033U ... UTF8&psc=1