LayBrick sandstone like filament, my experiences.

[Flateric]

Well thought I would jot down my personal experiences with the new LayBrick filament.

First thing....It's expensive, cost is easily double that of ABS or PLA from quality sources such as Seeme or Ultimachine. Mine was 52 euro for a total of 1/2 kg.

Second thing of note.....It's brittle, like really brittle. PLA is brittle as well but compared to this PLA is flexible. I am not even sure that an ezstruder would be able to extrude this filament without snapping it when pressing against the hobbed ring. I have had to ease the spring way way back on my Greg's extruder to keep it from snapping while feeding. I compare it very much to being just like trying to feed dried pasta noodles through your extruder.

It also extrudes at a very low temp and when you do so it has a very smooth feel, to me it feels very much like velum or drafting paper. But with weight to it.

Retains heat for a very long time, they recommend leaving it on your unheated bed for up to 2 hours after print has finished. Although I seem to have good luck removing it much soon. It is also still slightly flexible when even slightly warm.

Aftering the filament is printed it seems to be far less brittle and objects can be handled fairly normally. The surface of the printed object does indeed feel very stone like. Or similar to hard plaster.

I'll update further as I get more observations to post.

[Flateric]

Goil

Has one bad layer as you can see, but I was lucky enough to catch it and re-feed the broken filament during the print.

[626Pilot]

That looks really neat. What else have you done with it?

[barry99705]

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Has one bad layer as you can see, but I was lucky enough to catch it and re-feed the broken filament during the print.

Just call it "sandstone", and no one will comment on the line.

[Flateric]

It's the perfect filament for gargoilies and the like.

I have to re-state once again how damn brittle it is though.

This alone makes it a super huge PITA to work with. It your effectors accel is too high it will break inside the bowden tube.

Very much like dried pasta noodles if you tried them.

[626Pilot]

Did you get it from these guys? http://www.makergeeks.com/prsa.html