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degroof
ABS Supplies?
April 23, 2008 01:50PM
Anyone have a good supplier for small quantities of ABS filament?
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VDX
Re: ABS Supplies?
April 23, 2008 03:08PM
Hi Steve,

... for testing with ABS you can reuse the housings of outweared flatbed-scanners or printers - they commonly are made from ABS.

Grind some of the plastic down to powder, then you can solve it to ABS-paste, remelt it to pure ABS-bricks or squeeze melted ABS through a tube for filament ...

Viktor
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Forrest Higgs
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April 23, 2008 03:56PM
To answer your question... New Image plastics. Zach has a supplier who will beat their prices, which aren't bad, iirc.
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degroof
Re: ABS Supplies?
May 20, 2008 11:05AM
brendanjerwin mentioned [forums.reprap.org] that McMaster has ABS welding rod. Sure enough, they have two colors in 1, 5, 10 and 15 lb coils. It's 1/8" diameter (3.175mm), which should be OK. I ordered a 1 lb coil (part # 7889A85) to see what it's like.
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Forrest Higgs
Re: ABS Supplies?
May 20, 2008 11:13AM
New Image offers it in proper 3 mm diameter.

[www.newimageplastic.com]
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Anonymous User
Re: ABS Supplies?
May 20, 2008 11:51AM
How big of a difference will that .175 mm make? I too only got the 1lb size from mcmaster, so I expect I'll need some more sooner than later.
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Forrest Higgs
Re: ABS Supplies?
May 20, 2008 12:25PM
It just depends on whether your extruder barrel was sized exactly for 3 mm or for something a little bigger. Mine won't handle 1/8", but then I make my barrels out of 5/32" hard copper tube stock which has almost precisely a 3 mm ID.

The Mk II polymer pump part of the extruder will eat 1/8" filament quite happily.
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Anonymous User
Re: ABS Supplies?
May 20, 2008 12:56PM
Ah. Well, I don't have any metric drill bits so my barrel is slightly bigger already. That would explain why it worked for me. smiling smiley
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degroof
Re: ABS Supplies?
May 20, 2008 04:42PM
I've drilled my barrels to 1/8" as well, so the McMaster stuff should work. I figured I'd try 1 lb first and, if that seemed to work well, scale up.
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degroof
Re: ABS Supplies?
May 23, 2008 12:49PM
The ABS showed up yesterday. It varies a bit but seems to be about 3.09mm. I haven't run it through the extruder yet. Maybe this weekend.
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ZachHoeken
Re: ABS Supplies?
May 27, 2008 05:48PM
i've ordered 100lbs of ABS and it will be up on the RRRF store in a couple days.
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nophead
Re: ABS Supplies?
May 27, 2008 06:22PM
Any chance of a better colour than off white?

[www.hydraraptor.blogspot.com]
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Forrest Higgs
Re: ABS Supplies?
May 27, 2008 06:39PM
You can order it in any colour you want from New Image. They're always disappointed when I get it in just the natural resin colour. confused smiley
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ErikDeBruijn
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May 28, 2008 09:24AM
> i've ordered 100lbs of ABS and it will be up on the RRRF store in a couple days.

Zach, be sure to blog it on RRRF, I'm monitoring that. I'll be ordering a.s.a.p. once you have it... (along with Arduino + arduino-based kits)

Regards,

Erik de Bruijn
[Ultimaker.com] - [blog.erikdebruijn.nl]
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ZachHoeken
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May 28, 2008 05:15PM
will do.

i didnt do color this time, but i can do color next time. reprap green?
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Anonymous User
Re: ABS Supplies?
May 28, 2008 07:37PM
And black please.
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ZachHoeken
Re: ABS Supplies?
May 29, 2008 03:47PM
abs is in stock: [store.rrrf.org]

i can try, but the RRRF is still in not-much-capital startup mode, so we may have to go through a few cycles of natural-green-black before i can stock all 3 at the same time. i'll talk to my supplier and see what i can do.
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Anonymous User
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May 29, 2008 04:36PM
Cool. and half the price per pound as mcmaster.
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ErikDeBruijn
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May 29, 2008 05:14PM
Hi Zach. Glad you have ABS. Guess it will be one popular material winking smiley

By the way: I'd love to have 1/3 Green, 1/3 White, 1/3 Black in the future. As long as it's about the same price/weight and fits in an international box leaving some room for kits/PCBs...

Regards,

Erik de Bruijn
[Ultimaker.com] - [blog.erikdebruijn.nl]
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