Post #3047777
2025-12-30 20:54 UTC
@3dprinting@techhub.social Luckily, Polymaker have a useful filament property comparison tool: https://app.polymaker.com/
What's most interesting here is that for their nylon range (CF, GF and neither), they show filament properties both when dry _and_ when wet. Given that my workshop is a goddamned swamp, anything I printed out of any nylon that lived there would get water-logged fast. Thus, I compared the 'wet' values to Polymax PC.
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@koz@chaos.social 2025-12-30 20:55
@3dprinting@techhub.social Now, this is the fun part: When wet, nylons, CF, GF or none, from Polymaker, are _weaker_ than Polymax PC! This genuinely surprised me, as I had always been led to believe that if you wanted strength above all else, nylons were the way to go. However, this only seems to apply (at least for Polymaker's nylons) when they're dry. In some cases, the difference is _enormous_: 50% dropoff or more. That saved me a tonne of time and money! 3/?