Protopasta cameo! On the way home I ordered some Repkord, it really is beautiful in person, And some Quantum PLA-that filament is just wonderful. I had way too much fun organizing all your filament!
Hi Courtney and Joel, Great to see our product in your filament storage! The Facilan™ C8 filament is a modified PLA compounded with Polycaprolactone and natural fillers. From the packaging I can see that the product has to be one first batches we produced of that material, so if you need any new filament just hit us up. Greetings 3D4Makers people
That NT spool is from nefilatek from canada who produce PETG from recycled plastic. It print at a slightly higher temp but works greats, you must print your masterspool but the refill is compact and leave you with only a "centerspool" as waste.
Aw, thank you so much! This was just too much fun to film and to see all the great filaments Joel had, which was far more than we had time to talk about!
Dude, Fluo yellow is an amazing filament for it's UV response. Shine a cheap Autozone near-UV pen on it and watch it glow! My desk printer has v-slot covers printed from that stuff, a direct drive bracket and my raspberry pi case as well. Incredibly resilient stuff, the raspberry pi case was at one point bolted to a monitor which I carried around on the job installing security systems. Not a single chip or scratch on it after a year of that. Very jealous of the collection. Currently down to 200g of PETG and a nearly full spool of TPU. The PETG is really making me miss the PLA, stuff should be sent back to hell where it belongs.
Have you tried making filament from Plastic bottles? not from pellets or shredded material, but from plastic bottles that have been cut into long strips and fed thru an extruder. Bet that would be an interesting vid
There's truly never enough time to print all the things one wants to print with all the cool filament spools one owns.... Loved the discussion of storing the hoodie and pants on a chair, hanging up shirts, and sticking all the smaller bits in a drawer. I have the same setup here as well. It's the best way to thrive in our beautiful Northwest weather. What a fun Alex@Protopasta ending!
First to like yay!!! So surprising on such a popular channel ! I have to say I’m def missing fan mail friday! But have been so enjoying all the great content you’ve been putting out my good UA-cam friends Joel, Shawn, and David!
I have so many small almost gone rolls. It would be awesome to do a video or someone come up with a way to splice all them and rewind them. Then just make something different colors
The Mosaic Palette would be a great idea for that. It would be nice to have a tool that spliced ends together though. I have something that does the splice manually, but it,s hard to work with and I haven’t had a lot of success with it.
Too much filament problem? I’ll get hate over this perspective but.....You should donate a few rolls each quarter to YOUNG, aspiring, “underprivileged” makers. It’s doubtful that you’ll burn through all that material. There’s probably plenty of young fans that would be stoked just to burn up your partials (especially rare or discontinued string) and post their creations to a gallery.
We need smellovision to be invented!! I need a whiff of that chocolate pla !! Some of those need to be put in a special area with a lock and key! Precious rare filaments
If you still have a pallete 2 pro why not take your almost empty spools and feed it into the pallete 2 with the endless spool function? You would be able to condense and eliminate alot of clutter that way.
@@jaroot2 I don't want a pallet. Well at least not to actively feed printer.Just the splice feature in a small non computerized tool to quickly put together the last bits of spools.
I saw something on Amazon. Little device that sort of solder them together. I didn't catch the name because I wasn't interested. But, just letting you know there is something out there
I’ve tried a couple of “manual” joining setups. None worked real well. The palette will splice without sending it through the printer but you have to reel it up as you go or it becomes a big mess. Lol.
I did this for some time but the filament regularly broke apart at the points where the different types were fused together. Now I use leftovers up on big prints by manually stopping and switching spools.
Modern PLA really isn't as sensitive to humidity as the constant fearmongering we see about it would have you think. Other filaments, sure, but PLA's actually pretty robust.
What I do to keep my filament organised is I keep the filament in the box and have the label facing toward me so then it’s organised I can see what material and colour it is.
Courtney is a very good addition to your show. Thank you. Bring her back just for the great fun. There's more in that little lady we'd all like to see/hear/experience.
Quick fix; Send me anything that is open and you haven't used in more than a month. LOL I MIGHT have a full roll of filament if I put all my tail ends on one roll.
Lol, omg I'm having flash backs to talks with my wife with how in the world she finds any of the filament of ours she uses and the chaos of how its organized. I havent broken down (yet) to pull everything out and re-org all our filament
12 days of 3d printing Christmas 12 spools of filament 11 brass nozzles 10 feet of aluminum extrusion 9 REP RAP parts 8 lead screws 7 premium hot ends 6 Prusa MINIs 5 removable build plates 4 tension belts 3 printing axis's 2 spool holders and the one and only 3d Printing Nerd! what do you think?
I would have put all of the filament in vacuum sealed bags to help prevent moister intrusion. Of course you will still have to dry the filament before printing but it will be a for a lot lesser time. Also a good vacuum bag sealer & bags are relatively inexpensive when buy bags in bulk which you seam to need. And some bags are resealable.
So I mean, what was the final sort order?! We saw by color, but was it by color and type? Color and brand? We must know!!!! Courtney, save us! I have a closet that needs your expertise! Lol
We ended up putting all the PLA, PETG and ABS together, each sorted by color. His samples all went into one section and then there were some spools of additional types that got sorted into one area with sub-types together within that section. He had a lot of Protopasta that also went into one cubby, which apparently is now going to have more in it, what with Alex arriving after we finished!
That masterspool definitely looks like some CF filament to me. Look at it under a microscope to verify. The way it yields before breaking leads me to think of CF nylon but IDK
Can my filament problem be solved? Yes, by printing more. Print constantly! Print things for other people when not printing for yourself. Print things for Christmas this year. Print things for Christmas next year! I wish I had too much filament. It gets spendy when you don't have companies sending it to you for free.
Could someone fill me in on this? Is moisture an issue? Recently started printing - have quite a few spools - And I’m storing open one I’m not using with the little desiccant packers inside big ziplock bags. Do I not need to do that?
Yes, all filament can be ruined by humidity. I use a gasket sealed large box for storage (mini dehumidifier inside) with a few hours in a full size food dehydrator if it starts printing badly.
It sucks that you get so much free stuff you have a storage problem or dont recall where you got them. Why dont you donate it or give it to users who cant afford to have so many colors. Doesn't that stuff have a shelf life? It's all probably bad by now.
Protopasta cameo! On the way home I ordered some Repkord, it really is beautiful in person, And some Quantum PLA-that filament is just wonderful. I had way too much fun organizing all your filament!
Nice job, Courtney.
It was so much fun watching you and Joel interacting! I still can't believe how bad his storage was :D
@@Setral I'm just glad I was able to get there in time. Things were getting out of hand-he was about to run out of space for more filament!
Hi Courtney and Joel, Great to see our product in your filament storage! The Facilan™ C8 filament is a modified PLA compounded with Polycaprolactone and natural fillers. From the packaging I can see that the product has to be one first batches we produced of that material, so if you need any new filament just hit us up. Greetings 3D4Makers people
That NT spool is from nefilatek from canada who produce PETG from recycled plastic. It print at a slightly higher temp but works greats, you must print your masterspool but the refill is compact and leave you with only a "centerspool" as waste.
There we go, that's right!
Oo, they have some nice HIPS colors too. Thanks for the info!
FLUO YELLOW needs to be a max sized PAC-MAN
Dan's smelly plastic! It's cellulose based too, really wish it became a thing.
That’s right that is the name!
Amateur musician here: "Cacophony" is the opposite of "symphony".
I totally butchered that word!
The ending! 😋 "Ooo, space! I'll just leave this here".
That was my favorite part of the video!
Yellow glow sticks. I would totally print glow sticks with that fluorescent yellow, even if it doesn't fluoresce.
That’s a really neat idea, I wonder if there's a model out there somewhere
This whole video is fantastic! I'm laughing out loud at Alex at the end 😂
That was definitely my favorite part of the video!
The very next day: "Now, where is that one specific roll I needed?"
hahah that's true :)
EPIC- Courtney trolls Joel for 14 min. strait! LOL
Strait?
Actual filament stories, more filament to check out from Joel’s collection. I absolutely love Courtney’s instagram. Thank you guys for this episode. 👍
Aw, thank you so much! This was just too much fun to film and to see all the great filaments Joel had, which was far more than we had time to talk about!
Dude, Fluo yellow is an amazing filament for it's UV response. Shine a cheap Autozone near-UV pen on it and watch it glow! My desk printer has v-slot covers printed from that stuff, a direct drive bracket and my raspberry pi case as well. Incredibly resilient stuff, the raspberry pi case was at one point bolted to a monitor which I carried around on the job installing security systems. Not a single chip or scratch on it after a year of that.
Very jealous of the collection. Currently down to 200g of PETG and a nearly full spool of TPU. The PETG is really making me miss the PLA, stuff should be sent back to hell where it belongs.
3:40 When I see how this storage is organized, I want to go in an re-organize it properly... But it certainly looks better then the start!
Have you tried making filament from Plastic bottles? not from pellets or shredded material, but from plastic bottles that have been cut into long strips and fed thru an extruder.
Bet that would be an interesting vid
That would be really exciting to see! I heard someone was making filament from plastic bottles, I’d love to find some and try it out!
I LOVE Courtney’s Voice and personality!!!! Please please please collaborate with her again!!!!
Same, dude. I hope we do more together in the future.
There's truly never enough time to print all the things one wants to print with all the cool filament spools one owns....
Loved the discussion of storing the hoodie and pants on a chair, hanging up shirts, and sticking all the smaller bits in a drawer. I have the same setup here as well. It's the best way to thrive in our beautiful Northwest weather.
What a fun Alex@Protopasta ending!
That ending tho 😂
First to like yay!!! So surprising on such a popular channel ! I have to say I’m def missing fan mail friday! But have been so enjoying all the great content you’ve been putting out my good UA-cam friends Joel, Shawn, and David!
im about 5 minutes in, and i really hope he puts those nearly empty rolls through the palette to make into transition rolls
I could do that with a few of my spools too, what a great idea!
@@MeKnownAsI i vaguely remember joel showing himself doing it a few years ago on the original palette
I have so many small almost gone rolls. It would be awesome to do a video or someone come up with a way to splice all them and rewind them. Then just make something different colors
The Mosaic Palette would be a great idea for that. It would be nice to have a tool that spliced ends together though. I have something that does the splice manually, but it,s hard to work with and I haven’t had a lot of success with it.
Joel, your storage looks way better now, but not as good as Courtney's 😎
..and Alex is definitely "helping" 😅
That's true, I don't know if ANY will have an organized filament solution as good as Courtney's!
Alex coming in at the end was too perfect!
Too much filament problem? I’ll get hate over this perspective but.....You should donate a few rolls each quarter to YOUNG, aspiring, “underprivileged” makers. It’s doubtful that you’ll burn through all that material. There’s probably plenty of young fans that would be stoked just to burn up your partials (especially rare or discontinued string) and post their creations to a gallery.
Courtney's honesty is refreshing.
Agreed.
One word...Perfect! ;-)
xD The Protopasta Drop was awesome :D
Who's starting the betting pool on when it will be back to "normal" for Joel?
Oh that won’t take long hahahaha.
@@3DPrintingNerd Then I'll take the January 1 square. :)
It's "cacophony", not cacaphony. Just saying. :P
Cacaphony sounds like what you'd get with a quartet of flatulists.
I need her to come organize my filament disaster. Great ep!
A thought for the "fluo" yellow filament... 3D print a giant hairy tennis ball with it.
We need smellovision to be invented!! I need a whiff of that chocolate pla !! Some of those need to be put in a special area with a lock and key! Precious rare filaments
I totally agree!
Funny thing is I was just organizing my maker box samples
Wish I had just half of all that filament lol
The first step is always admitting you have a problem..........but I don't think bringing in Courtney the "Filament Enabler" was a smart move there!
I am a terrible enabler when it comes to collecting filament, especially to myself!
Print reusable spool dividers to wind small amounts onto a single spool.
I need someone like that to pass by my house and randomly drop off filament.
Courtney is rad, dude.
@@3DPrintingNerd I think he meant Alex. :}
I miss Ben at Hawk3D ... he is now streaming gaming and cooking on Twitch.
I miss him as well, he was a fun part of the 3dp community!
Printing Milk Dudes with chocolate scented filament could be a bad idea -- someone might eat them.
Meanwhile I look at my well organized collection of 3 PLA spools and 2 bottles of UV Resin.
That chocolate filament is also the only fully biodegradable PLA. I hope it makes a comeback.
Whoa really?
I'd love to see it resurrected too!
Hey Joel, 3DJake has these „quantum“ filaments too, I believe they have 4 different color changing spool’s in their sale
If you still have a pallete 2 pro why not take your almost empty spools and feed it into the pallete 2 with the endless spool function? You would be able to condense and eliminate alot of clutter that way.
I've done that before, but I need to find a good way to auto wind it. THAT is the challenge.
@@3DPrintingNerd then it's probably a great time to design and print an autowinder! Probably a fun project.
We need a machine just to make splices for almost empty rolls. Be nice to be able to put em all together and use
Palette
@@jaroot2 I don't want a pallet. Well at least not to actively feed printer.Just the splice feature in a small non computerized tool to quickly put together the last bits of spools.
I saw something on Amazon. Little device that sort of solder them together. I didn't catch the name because I wasn't interested. But, just letting you know there is something out there
I’ve tried a couple of “manual” joining setups. None worked real well. The palette will splice without sending it through the printer but you have to reel it up as you go or it becomes a big mess. Lol.
I did this for some time but the filament regularly broke apart at the points where the different types were fused together.
Now I use leftovers up on big prints by manually stopping and switching spools.
Interesting that you store them all in open air, especially since you are in a high humidity region.
Modern PLA really isn't as sensitive to humidity as the constant fearmongering we see about it would have you think. Other filaments, sure, but PLA's actually pretty robust.
What I do to keep my filament organised is I keep the filament in the box and have the label facing toward me so then it’s organised I can see what material and colour it is.
Courtney is a very good addition to your show. Thank you. Bring her back just for the great fun. There's more in that little lady we'd all like to see/hear/experience.
Ohhh, great timing! I've been considering my storage options lately!!!
Quick fix; Send me anything that is open and you haven't used in more than a month. LOL
I MIGHT have a full roll of filament if I put all my tail ends on one roll.
Woah woah woah.. Alex.. where’s mine..?
This is just wonderful :D
Lol, omg I'm having flash backs to talks with my wife with how in the world she finds any of the filament of ours she uses and the chaos of how its organized. I havent broken down (yet) to pull everything out and re-org all our filament
I think you need a soap box for guests.
That would certainly help heh
12 days of 3d printing Christmas
12 spools of filament
11 brass nozzles
10 feet of aluminum extrusion
9 REP RAP parts
8 lead screws
7 premium hot ends
6 Prusa MINIs
5 removable build plates
4 tension belts
3 printing axis's
2 spool holders
and the one and only 3d Printing Nerd!
what do you think?
that was by far the COOLEST dragon i have ever seen! i need to get a printer asap so i can print that model lol
Do you know where I can get the stl file for the dragon?
Oh, I like Courtney! She can stay! :)
Aww, thank you! Joel had me laughing the entire time!
I would have put all of the filament in vacuum sealed bags to help prevent moister intrusion. Of course you will still have to dry the filament before printing but it will be a for a lot lesser time. Also a good vacuum bag sealer & bags are relatively inexpensive when buy bags in bulk which you seam to need. And some bags are resealable.
What about all the stuff you print? What do you do with it all?
Hello.. if I want PLA bellets.. from where I can get it and the price please 🥺
ending was awesome!!!
That was the best part of the video!
the last bit was good haha
with the asta flu yellow you can print a speedo :D
7:25 ...that banana that is also a ruler, but scale it up by, like, 0.5% just to mess with people.
Every time someone mentions or brings out that chocolate smelling filament I get so mad it didn't get funded. I would've bought some, hands down.
Me too, me three! I wonder if he would consider running the Kickstarter again, because sign me up!
Great video, loved it. I think you should print a big Banana with the bright yellow. 🍌🍌🍌
The NT is Nefilatek from Montreal. It's probably recycled PETG or HIPS
Lol that looks like my wood storage in my shop.
All my filament would be wreaked sitting out like that 🤨, where I live in Australia it's already 70% humidity at 7am.
I donated my partial rolls to a school, a library was interested too.... : )
She removed everything from the shelf, and then left it...
So I mean, what was the final sort order?! We saw by color, but was it by color and type? Color and brand? We must know!!!! Courtney, save us! I have a closet that needs your expertise! Lol
We ended up putting all the PLA, PETG and ABS together, each sorted by color. His samples all went into one section and then there were some spools of additional types that got sorted into one area with sub-types together within that section. He had a lot of Protopasta that also went into one cubby, which apparently is now going to have more in it, what with Alex arriving after we finished!
@@FilamentStories thank you!!!
1:21 This is exactly what I remember as a kid when my mom would come to clean my room.
14:35 Now I know why the edges of my new ProtoPasta spools are always just a little bit flat.
That masterspool definitely looks like some CF filament to me. Look at it under a microscope to verify. The way it yields before breaking leads me to think of CF nylon but IDK
watter hackers should step it even further and make filament divided with 4 colours lol
Can my filament problem be solved? Yes, by printing more. Print constantly! Print things for other people when not printing for yourself. Print things for Christmas this year. Print things for Christmas next year! I wish I had too much filament. It gets spendy when you don't have companies sending it to you for free.
According to the MSDS for Faclian, it's 60-70% PLA by weight. What the other 30-40% is made up of is not disclosed there. So it's a modified PLA.
Now help Nerys with his 700 rolls...!
ahhhhhh I need filament :) How can you have that much?
Where can I get my hands on the Rocktapus
It’s on Thangs I think?
@@3DPrintingNerd thanks
So, one would pronounce PLA as letters, ABS as letters, ASA as letters.. but Petg?
should print a traffic cone with the fluo yellow
With the yellow filament print minions and bananas!
Hi Joel! How do you go about brittle ("old") PLA filaments? Its hard to print with as it keep on breaking.
I don’t usually have any issues with brittle PLA. When I do have some, I unroll some and then snip it and try again.
What a lovely lady!
I didn’t know who Courtney was. So I was hoping she was his wife (idk if he has one) and she would say “I have a solution, throw it away”
Flu yellow filament….looks like “ glass yellow” from inland filament. Maybe use it to make a stain glass design to hang up in the shop.
Yellow dragon
A traffic cone with that yellow!
Link to that awesome segmented dragon???
You could donate a bunch of it along with some of your unused fleet of free printers to a local library
IDK why she's so angry 😡
Print a banana with the word AMC to the moon written on it. Then donate it to Citadel
TO THE MOON!
That yelow one made me wonder if anyone has made a glow in the dar one. They probably have =)
Yes, it exists from Chinese manufacturers. Unfortunately the glow effect is way too weak and lasts for less than a minute.
Print a giant minion with the yellow filament
Could someone fill me in on this? Is moisture an issue? Recently started printing - have quite a few spools -
And I’m storing open one I’m not using with the little desiccant packers inside big ziplock bags. Do I not need to do that?
Yes, all filament can be ruined by humidity. I use a gasket sealed large box for storage (mini dehumidifier inside) with a few hours in a full size food dehydrator if it starts printing badly.
Search YT for filament dryer, or dry box
lol I hope someone put in filament without my notice . finish too fast.
Never heard of her before this, but she is cool. I like her. She's funny. Will check out her stuff next
She is super cool
It sucks that you get so much free stuff you have a storage problem or dont recall where you got them. Why dont you donate it or give it to users who cant afford to have so many colors. Doesn't that stuff have a shelf life? It's all probably bad by now.
Too many fillament be like:
Oh no my wallet can't hold all my 100$ bills
Nice vid again!
print a jumbo highlighter!
that's a fun idea