Engineering resins

[cliffyk]

I bought a kilo of this stuff:



$59 on Amazon

Claims to have an elongation-at-break of 120%--mixed it up 50/50 with that cheap LAFVIN gray "ABS-like" ($34 per kilo) crap and he first prints seem to be just as tough and resilient as the Siraya Tenacious/LAFVIN 50/50 mix, but a bit more hard perhaps--good and strong though. I think the pigments in the cheap crap may behave as a reinforcing filler in the more flexible resins. I have been toying with the idea of mixing micro-chopped fiberglas and.or glass beads with resin to form an aggregate and perhaps reinforce the final product--may not have to do that if these 50/50 blends continue to show promise.

Time for them to discontinue it...