I print in recycled PP-GF (glass fiber polypropylene) reclaimed from fishing nets at work sometimes, and the tape trick only half works for me. It sticks to the tape just fine but the tape doesn’t stick to the glass bed… Based on this video, maybe we just need better tape! The PP-specfic MagiGoo barely helps at all. Also, one would think the glass fiber would make it warp less but it absolutely hasn’t lol.
Maybe on paper this stuff isn’t super toxic, but mine produces easily one of the worst chemical smells of any filament we’ve used, for some reason.
Anyway, once you do get it to print successfully, it really is totally indestructible. Try to find post-consumer recycled stuff though, as hard as that is to do.
Well unfortunately, since we live on a burning down planet, that’s not a factor that can be conscionably reconsidered…
On the other hand, we also work with post-consumer recycled PLA, PA-CF, HIPS, and PETg, and none of them seem to behave appreciably worse than their virgin counterparts.
I print in recycled PP-GF (glass fiber polypropylene) reclaimed from fishing nets at work sometimes, and the tape trick only half works for me. It sticks to the tape just fine but the tape doesn’t stick to the glass bed… Based on this video, maybe we just need better tape! The PP-specfic MagiGoo barely helps at all. Also, one would think the glass fiber would make it warp less but it absolutely hasn’t lol.
Maybe on paper this stuff isn’t super toxic, but mine produces easily one of the worst chemical smells of any filament we’ve used, for some reason.
Anyway, once you do get it to print successfully, it really is totally indestructible. Try to find post-consumer recycled stuff though, as hard as that is to do.
Or maybe you need worse tape.
Oh you’re not wrong lol, that’s true!
The recycling part is probably the cause of your problems. I would expect that virgin PP to behave differently.
Well unfortunately, since we live on a burning down planet, that’s not a factor that can be conscionably reconsidered…
On the other hand, we also work with post-consumer recycled PLA, PA-CF, HIPS, and PETg, and none of them seem to behave appreciably worse than their virgin counterparts.