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<font face="Arial">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.<br>
<br>
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. <br>
<br>
MakerGeeks has some food safe PLA, but not a wide selection.
Tried to order some of their premium Raptor but...out of stock.<br>
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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).<br>
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<font face="Arial"><font face="Arial">I'm experimenting with PETG,
hopefully that stays around.<br>
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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.<br>
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Jerry Durand, Durand Interstellar, Inc.
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.interstellar.com">www.interstellar.com</a>
tel: +1 408 356-3886
@DurandInterstel
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