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Z-Temp Products => Materials Compatibility => Topic started by: nrobb on January 11, 2018, 05:39:46 AM

Title: PTFE or all metal HE with Colorfab Copperfill
Post by: nrobb on January 11, 2018, 05:39:46 AM

I am looking into printing with Colorfab Copperfill. The colorfab site suggests using an all metal hot end due to the increased friction of the filament, while the Z-Temp site says the all metal hot end should not be used for PLA. Which hot end would be best. Thanks

Title: Re: PTFE or all metal HE with Colorfab Copperfill
Post by: Julia Truchsess on February 01, 2018, 11:47:40 PM

I never had any luck with any colorFabb PLA/PHA material with the Zortrax v2 hot end, so I doubt it will work with the all-metal ZT-HE, although I haven't tried it. It just has too much expansion in my experience. I'd go with the PTFE, and use as low a temperature as possible.