Excelvan filament UK group buy idea...

MechaBits

Re: Excelvan filament UK group buy idea...
January 24, 2017 06:05PM

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Good to know but call me a cheapskate but £20 a roll is probably my limit(maybe £30 for something a little more exotic), paying double the Excelvan price might make me buy more metal parts...Just as I was getting the hang of it...the revolution sabotaged.

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DjDemonD

Re: Excelvan filament UK group buy idea...
January 24, 2017 06:33PM

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Yeah I'm with you on that, its a kg of ABS - the wholesale price for granules is £0.65/kg. I know its harder to make it into filament and put it on a spool etc... but still I think there must be a sub-£20/roll decent filament out there.

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DjDemonD

Re: Excelvan filament UK group buy idea...
January 26, 2017 07:08PM

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So just got the black Premium ABS from 3dfilaprint, prints and handles like Excelvan, slightly darker pigment, so it looks blacker, and therefore slightly smellier (if thats possible). But £20/roll give or take. One bonus it seems to craze less easily when trimming off a brim etc..

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DjDemonD

Re: Excelvan filament UK group buy idea...
March 03, 2017 04:57PM

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[www.3dexfilament.co.uk]

Are doing ABS 1kg 1.75mm for £10.99.
No idea if its any good. I bought some of their copper PLA and it was quite nice stuff.

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DjDemonD

Re: Excelvan filament UK group buy idea...
March 14, 2017 11:17AM

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Technology outlet are having a clearance sale on filament:

This was their email I received today:

FILL YOUR BOOTS!

Spreadsheet of stock available

We Have Over 1000 spools of mainly wanhao premium 3D printer filament
1KG spools from just 8.95 inc VAT

All the filaments are on an excel spreadsheet click on the link above to download the file, select what filament you want, save it and send the excel file back as an attachment to Sales@technologyoutlet.co.uk we will then send a link to pay and ship to you UPS free of charge..
There is limited stocks of these and are sold on a first come first served basis, when they are gone they are gone.

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slippyr4

Re: Excelvan filament UK group buy idea...
March 15, 2017 03:09PM

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So what's the best budget PLA at the moment? I like primavalue but a) it's not that cheap (compared to excelvan) and b) it's quite limited in colours.

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MechaBits

Re: Excelvan filament UK group buy idea...
March 15, 2017 06:16PM

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Spreadshite(hammond)...i hate them...do they have any black or grey left DJ?
Anyone tried this [www.imakr.com]
funny they call it floreon as excelvan also used that name for the mic's

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DjDemonD

Re: Excelvan filament UK group buy idea...
March 15, 2017 06:57PM

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43 rolls of 1kg 1.75mm abs in grey
No black

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MechaBits

Re: Excelvan filament UK group buy idea...
March 15, 2017 07:56PM

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cheers, nowt there for me to PLAy with sad smiley

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DjDemonD

Re: Excelvan filament UK group buy idea...
March 16, 2017 06:54AM

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Right now I'm being bombarded with filament for £10/roll from various UK suppliers so I guess market forces at work, the glut of excelvan had dried up but others are filling this niche with their budget filament options. Good to know capitalism still works. Curious also to know why the big warehouse couldn't get more 1.75mm excelvan filament since it sold well, they struggled with 3mm clearly.

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slippyr4

Re: Excelvan filament UK group buy idea...
March 16, 2017 07:34AM

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Quote
DjDemonD
Right now I'm being bombarded with filament for £10/roll from various UK suppliers so I guess market forces at work, the glut of excelvan had dried up but others are filling this niche with their budget filament options.

The nice thing about excelvan was that it was pretty good, and it was branded. if you buy something with no brand you just don't know what you're getting.

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DjDemonD

Re: Excelvan filament UK group buy idea...
March 16, 2017 09:56AM

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True and I can so no reason why they would stop making it, if it sells so well. However spending £10 to try out a no name brand of filament is not a big risk, I've tried 4-5 since and haven't found one that prints badly.

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jinx

Re: Excelvan filament UK group buy idea...
March 21, 2017 12:10PM

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further into the rabbit hole!!.. if I can master PLA it bring down the cost of a 1 kg £7.80 there about. "wallet can live with that".

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DjDemonD

Re: Excelvan filament UK group buy idea...
March 21, 2017 12:30PM

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Are you buying a filament extruder then? Exciting.

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jinx

Re: Excelvan filament UK group buy idea...
March 21, 2017 12:42PM

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yea the V2 was too tempting pass over ,just need a brit supply of virgin pellets to feed it now. Got an Ebay supply of PLA from lithuania of all places, 5 kg for £24 +postage

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DjDemonD

Re: Excelvan filament UK group buy idea...
December 03, 2017 02:33PM

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[www.alibaba.com]

Just thought I'd post this, no idea if this is any good, or if it will even arrive but its ABS 1kg for $5-8/reel and only 2 reels min order.

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DjDemonD

Re: Excelvan filament UK group buy idea...
March 06, 2018 04:55PM

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Looks like out beloved Excelvan filament, I wonder if it is?

[www.alibaba.com]

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MechaBits

Re: Excelvan filament UK group buy idea...
March 06, 2018 05:13PM

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Wow look at that price per kilo, i'm currently spending £18, prints ok, but dont think it's as nice a finish as the excelvan, I think i've seen some good prints from Sunlu.

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