What's your go-to "Bang for your Buck" filament brand?

As I'm graduating college in a few weeks, I'll be losing access to my university's free printers and filament. I'm going to build up a home lab with a couple printers where I can make goofy little mechanical projects as well as some components for my cars and stuff.

Who's your go-to for PLA and ABS/ASA filaments? Those will be my primary print jobs in any serious volume. I know our college's club has had hella problems with random chinese brand filaments not printing consistently but I also don't want to spend $30+ per kg for something like Prusament.

IMALlama ,

I've printed a decent amount of PETG from both Push Plastic and Atomic Filament. Both have been very solid/reliable, but I would probably give an edge to Atomic as far as quality. Their PETG has never let me down. On the ASA front, I've run around 9 kg of Polymaker ASA through my Voron with another 1.5 of blue and white sitting on two different 3kg spools. I ran 2 kg of their ASA through my i3 clone printing prints for my Voron. I haven't had any problems with it, and it does occasionally go on sale for very attractive prices. I bought my last two spools on November 24th last year for $50.39 (for a 3 kg spool of blue) and $67.19 (for a 3 kg spool of white). Polymaker's ASA does require what seems like a very low extrusion multiplier (I'm currently at 0.893), but you can print the stuff blazing fast in terms of mm^3/s.

Now that I know that both Atomic Filament and Push Plastic offer ASA, I might give them a spin when I need a refill. I don't go through that much filament and don't mind spending a little extra $$ for something that could result in less headache. I also like supporting American companies/manufacturers where I can.

brightandshinyobject ,

I have been using tangledfilament.com for my PLA and it's been great. Their goal is to get to $10/kg for US manufactured filament and then expand to PETG.

johnb48 ,
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@brightandshinyobject

Do you remember what the shipping charge was?

@empireOfLove2

brightandshinyobject ,

Free shipping right now.

johnb48 ,
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@brightandshinyobject

Thanks!

empireOfLove2 OP ,
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Oooh, tangled. Thanks for reminding me about them. Having all US produced product is a nice plus and if they can keep it that cheap domestically, I'd happily buy it for all my bulk printing that doesn't care about color. $15/kg is about as good as it gets these days.

brightandshinyobject ,

The just had another price drop to $15/kg and their road map is going well.

qaz ,

Clickable link: https://www.tangledfilament.com/

qwertilliopasd ,
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In USA I usually get Printed solid's Jesse and 3D Printing Canada's Budget PLA. I also pick up a couple rolls of Inland any time I'm by my local Microcenter

Filament sourcing is pretty region specific. Where are you buying from?

IMALlama ,

TIL of Jesse, thanks for the link!

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