I Tested PPA-CF Filament and It's INSANELY Strong!
Clough42
I finally got around to trying the new Bambu Lab PPA-CF filament. This stuff is wild! The tensile strength is so high I had to reinforce my tester and make smaller samples to be able to break them at all.
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Raw Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
00:00 Intro
00:25 What is PPA-CF?
02:04 The Tensile Testing Rig
03:47 Calibrating with PETG-HF
05:28 Printing test specimens
07:26 Initial testing (undried)
09:23 Drying (consumer vs. industrial)
11:57 Annealing
13:05 Improving the layer adhesion
14:44 Raising the chamber temperature
16:11 Turning off the fans (duh)
16:56 Conclusions
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