3D Printer ABS Plastic Filament 1.75mm Diameter 1kg - New colours! - CLEARANCE!

This quality ABS printer filament is ideal from your 3D printing needs and suitable for both professional and domestic tasks. 

All our printer filament comes vacuum sealed which ensures no moisture or outside foreign particles have touched or landed on the filament. This means it's as fresh as it can be. 

Our stock is also kept in a temperature controlled air-tight environment within our warehouse to ensure that no damp or sub-zero temperatures (in winter) can affect the filament stock. 

We have a wide range of bright colours that produce tough and durable prints. 

ABS - Its strength, flexibility, machinability, and higher temperature resistance make it often a preferred plastic for engineers, and professional applications. The hot plastic smell deter some as does the plastics petroleum based origin. The additional requirement of a heated print bed means there are some printers simply incapable of printing ABS with any reliability. 

ABS as a polymer can take many forms and can be engineered to have many properties. In general, it is a strong plastic with mild flexibility (compared to PLA). Natural ABS before colorants have been added is a soft milky beige. The flexibility of ABS makes creating interlocking pieces or pin connected pieces easier to work with. It is easily sanded and machined. Notably, ABS is soluble in Acetone allowing one to weld parts together with a drop or two, or smooth and create high gloss by brushing or dipping full pieces in Acetone. Compared to PLA, it is much easier to recycle ABS. 

There are many materials that are being explored for 3D printing, however you will find that the two dominant plastics are ABS and PLA. Both are known as thermoplastics; that is they become soft and pliable when heated and return to a solid when cooled. This process can be repeated again and again. Their ability to melt and be processed again is what makes them so prevalent in society and is why most of the plastics you interact with on a daily basis are thermoplastics. 

While there are many thermoplastics, very few of them are currently used for 3D Printing. For a material to prove viable for 3D Printing, it has to pass three different tests; initial extrusion into Plastic Filament, second extrusion and trace-binding during the 3D Printing process, then finally end use application. 



Strength: 

ABS is a rather strong plastic if printed at sufficient temps to get a great layer bond. 

ABS has a decent amount of flex to it and it tends to bend rather than snap when put under pressure. 

When to use it: 

Objects that might be dropped, put in hot environments or used in a rough manner are perfect uses for ABS. Think of knife handles, car phone mounts, phone cases, toys, wedding rings (mine is black ABS). In short it’s very good for most objects. 

Printing: 

Due to the nature of the plastic, ABS tends to be very easy to print with from a hot-end point of view – as in it’ll extrude beautifully from most hot-ends without fear of jamming or clogging. However it’s a little more difficult to deal with once it has been extruded, since it loves to shrink as it cools. The shrinkage can cause issues with the part lifting from the bed, or the layers cracking or splitting as the height of the object increases. For this reason it’s an absolute must to print ABS on a heated bed, and preferably within an enclosed-case printer. At the very least, print in a room that’s not too cold and one that is without drafts which might accelerate the cooling and therefore the shrinkage. 

ABS can be printed very quickly and is very forgiving of large and/or rapid retraction settings, it resists stringing so very little retraction is usually necessary. 

Environment: 

As a biodegradable material it is much better for the environment, especially compared to petrochemical-based alternatives (such as ABS). It will also biodegrade in an active compost heap. 

Key Features: 

• Non-toxic 
• Recyclable 
• Smooth surface finish 
• Resistant to corrosion and abrasion 
• Print temprature range: 180-230 ℃ 
• Filament diameter: 1.75mm± 0.1mm / 3mm 
• 1kg Weight

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