[SML] filament shortage?

[Jacob Blumberg]

I do lots of 3D printing. I have a couple of Questions:
1. Why does your PLA have to be food safe?
2. What is your geographic region?
3. What are you looking to spend per KG?
4. What Printers are you using?
5. For the quantity you go through have you considered making it yourself?

Jacob

On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 2:29 PM Jerry Durand via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> Don't know if it's just because of the materials I use or if it's a wider
> problem, but I keep running into out of stock issues getting the somewhat
> special 3D printer filament we use.  I'm not using as much as before when a
> spool would last me a day or two, but still need to keep the printers fed.
>
> The first thing that seems to have disappeared is INGEO PLA, that's the
> food contact safe stuff.  I was buying wholesale from Polymaker until they
> went out of stock months back and haven't recovered, other vendors seem to
> have the same issue.
>
> MakerGeeks has some food safe PLA, but not a wide selection.  Tried to
> order some of their premium Raptor but...out of stock.
>
> I am also now using more and more polycarbonate for other projects,
> but...  Polymaker went out of stock so I switched to eSun.  Now they're out
> of stock but I think I found a couple of spools at a distributor (for more
> money).
>
> I'm experimenting with PETG, hopefully that stays around.
>
> Of course a big problem is having to tune the machines to each new brand
> of filament.  So far I haven't gotten our two older machines to print
> MakerGeek PLA while the third newer machine has no problem.
>
> --
> Jerry Durand, Durand Interstellar, Inc.www.interstellar.com
> tel: +1 408 356-3886
> @DurandInterstel
>
>
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