PLA-Basic Filament 1.75mm/ 1.0 kg Spool
Product Details
Make3DEasy PLA SimplePrint PLA Basic Filament 1.75mm/ 1.0 kg Spool
- Filament Diameter 1.75mm
- Printing filament optimized for main stream desktop FDM/FFF 3D printers.
- Basic PLA especially formulated and tested for our printers.
- Tighter specifications leading to better-than-ever prints.
- Colour Options : Clear,White,Black, Blue,Red,Purple,Green,Orange.
FACT ABOUT PLA
- PLA (Poly Lactic Acid) is an ideal 3D printing filament to use in 3D printers. It's a biodegradable polymer derived from 100% renewable resources. It’s even suitable for composts!.
- 1KG of PLA is about 100m long in 1.75mm form. That is about the volume of a 1.5 liter milk carton if printing a solid object. When printing a honeycomb object, it can be 10 times this volume or even 100 times if the object is totally hollow.
- A standard nozzle extrudes about 2.5 meters per minute.
- Coloured PLA is stronger and prints better than optically clear PLA.
- Clear PLA It is somewhat self-lubricating when in sliding contact with metal surfaces.
- Clear PLA is suitable for investment castings.
- PLA is the preferred 3D printing filament because of it’s stability and rapid performance as well as being anti-virulent and harmless.
- PLA actually smells quite pleasant during printing and produces no noxious fumes.
- PLA is considered safe with foodstuffs and has medical bio-neutral uses.
- Mechanically, PLA fuses together well when molten and will shatter rather than bend.
- PLA is widely considered a 'hard sounding acoustics plastic', whereas ABS is softer and more flexible.
- PLA vaporizes, leaving no char.
- PLA will not degrade but breaks down if you compost it.