Polymaker PolyLite Carbon Fiber PLA Filament 1.75mm 1kg - High Strength Carbon Fiber Reinforced 3D Printing Filament with Matte Finish for Functional Prototypes, Automotive Parts & Engineering Applications

A Pretty Good Plastic!.....Now this plastic pretty much surprised meId ran Polymaker before and its PC is a amazingly good even a Premium Product...PROs:Fair Price!.Easy to set up!With good prep it sticks to Glass Bed pretty good!.Makes a Good Part of Simple Types!.....CONs:Its Sensitive to temps so make sure yours are Right No!.Run Speed is also critical so if you are good at matching your heat an Run Speed fine!.....Frankly this particular filament is a good filament but i agree w an earlier reviewer in that it doesn'twork well on parts needing good detail.Yes i agree also that this Plastic tends to be a bit brittle, But its important to keep in mind that many of the better grade 'Hard Plastics' are brittle on the roll , Yet on the finished part after its been hearted up pretty good you will get a Solid Part!Personally I had 'Fair results' with this but its NOT a good material for my type of parts.But for Big and blocky items if you can keep your heat up this can definitely meet the need!.Only Thing i Had A Real Problem With:This Plastic is one of the newer types where they use, Or provide a 'Pressed' paper or Fibre Roll!.....Now understanding this is a new plus an Evolving Technology I try and keep an Open Mind as we are constantly learning and utilizing new and diferent means and methods!.As for me and my print set up this cardboard roll didnt work out very well.Now on my set up the typical drag and drop spool system didnt work very well O.K.So i quickly switched to a Roller Dollie which saved the day as instantly my parts were smoother.I stopped having clogs and jams as the plastic smoothly flowed into the machine.Plus i got the very big benefit of quicker run, And finish times as the machine and the extruder gears no longer have to struggle against the whole weight of a fresh roll!.But I learned an important lesson as i will 'Never Again' use a Cardboard Roll in my work as the secondaryissues are just too much to overcome.But to each his own I think it fair to state its a Mid Grade but Good Plastic for general level parts.Just watch your heat,run speed, And feed to your machine and this item can be very useful!.Kudos to the Seller:Kudos to Amazon.A Fair Product!!!!!IndianaEDThis is a really good PLA filament. I think I read additives like carbon fiber helps with warping and most of my prints did not warp, I was so scared of warping because I've had issues with it in the past but with this roll of filament prints came out great, there light be slight lifting at the corners though.Prints beautiful pieces and prints like butter. I love this stuff.Slightly worse layer adhesion than typical PLA. Prints just like any other PLA but with a slightly higher extruder temp.I like the material itself, I'd like Polymaker to publish the TDS for these new materials they're releasing :)I've tried printing this at a number of different temps and just cant get the layers to bond at all. The last thing I printed snapped in half when I tried removing it from the build plate, and that was at 100% infill. The finish look of this filament is nice and that's about the only thing to like about it.I printed a test print while I adjusted heat settings to 60 bed and 215 nozzle temps and it printed pretty good.So I thought awesome lets print something useful. Started a 17 hr print and kept on eye on it for the first few layers and then left it alone.Came back 17 hrs later and the print was complete but the first thing I noticed was dust everywhere on printer??? Turns out the cardboard roll disintegrates slightly while turning leaving dust size fibers floating in the air which get everywhere including sucked into your fans and motherboard fans. Eventually this will destroy your printer or cause fires and totally not worth it. Also it leaves stress lines in the print itself because the extruder struggles to spin the roll so this results in thinner overall nozzle width.In my opinion unless yo can figure out how to respool it without wrecking the filament do not attempt to use this it.Saving the "Environment" is good but catching my house fire isn't! How about putting a return deposit on plastic rolls like pop bottles, then having a return/recycle program in place?I have been a fan of Polymaker for a bit now and this product does not disappoint, its 8% CF in it and will print just like there PLA in everyway. Also has a really cool look to it. Its no idea for detailed prints by any means they have other stuff for that, but for high quality parts you need to make it will more then do the job.Don’t just look at our photos and hit the buy it now thinking this is amazing carbon fiber filament.We have been able to get really good results however it requires using a very high end filament dryer for several days and even then the results vary from spool to spool. Good bang for the dollar if you can get it printing properly.