Giant spool of filament

I was in a local recycling/upcycling store today and picked up this massive spool of yellow plastic filament for £5. Wine glass shown for scale in the image.

It's abs by the smell of it when I burnt a small piece and is 1.7mm diameter. I have never seen anything this size before it must be 10kgs at least.

Does anyone know what it have been intended for, it doesn't look like it was meant for the small scale 3d printing industry?

Will see if it prints later I'll have to wind some onto a normal size spool it needs a clean up too.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/10/2015 03:12PM by DjDemonD.

... prior to 3D-printing plastic filament spools were used for plastic welding ... but beside "small scale 3d printing industry" there are some bigger industrial grade printers too

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This is what I've read on line is it suitable to print with?

... try it ...

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I will.

How consistent is the diameter on it?

Quick search on the part number gathered the MSDS sheet.

They make shakesphere fishing line as well as weed whacker string. This could be a bulk raw product for processing. This a nylon filament.

Thanks for the data sheet, nice low melting point 200-215 deg C.

Tried printing with this, prints okay with a bed temp at 90 and extruder at 210. The warping is very bad even a 2cm calibration cube printed on a raft with a wide brim showed some layer delamination mid way up the part from warping. So it can be printed with but doesn't seem to be ideal for it. I presume commercially available nylon filament for 3d printing is a different polymer or contains some modifiers to reduce warping. Oh well back to the ABS and PLA. Thanks for the advice and information.