AMOLEN PLA 3D Printer Filament, PLA Filament 1.75mm Silk Black Shiny Red Gold Filament, 3D Printing Filament 1KG/2.2lb

Good buy
Great filament, looks good, prints well. Fair price. Used the entire spool with zero issues. Will buy again. The shipping was timely and the spool was packaged well. Great buy

Good value for sample materials
I bought this sample pack to test out AMOLEN’s products. I’ve printed a few parts with each sample spool. I used the same bed temperature for each spool, 65C initial layer, 60C for the rest of the print. Winding was good except for the marble, and that was only for some outer windings.Silk Copper: This was my most successful of the four sample materials. I printed a temperature tower, small keychain for my wife and a T-Rex skull. I used a print temperature of 200C for the keychain and skull. Adhesion was great and the parts came off with small amount of effort after the bed cooled. I printed at 0.12mm layer thickness for the skull and it looks amazing! I used 0.2mm layer height for the keychain and tower and they’re both smooth with no defects. You’ll see some stringing in the temp tower and skull, this might be remedied with some print settings.Silk Gold: This was by far my most difficult material. I tried printing at 200C with 0.3mm nozzle but after about 30 layers it would clog up. I switched to a 0.4mm nozzle and it lasted a little longer. I ended up printing a temp tower after trying IronMan four times. I made some adjustments and semi-successfully printed Iron Man the fifth time. He was still really stringy and the detail wasn’t that great, this could be due to scaling it too small. I ended up using a print temp of 215C. This filament was pretty brittle compared to the other three and snapped on me once while switching it out.Marble-like: I didn’t have too many issues with this material. I printed a test cube and Minas Tirith (a city from Lord of The Rings) at 200C and it behaved well, but there was quite a bit of stringing on the city that I had to clean up. Otherwise, the part looks great! The spool was wound pretty bad for the outer windings and bound up a bit as the city printed. The inner windings look better though.Glow in the dark: This was the most fun to print with so far. I printed Zero from Nightmare Before Christmas for my daughter. The nose and collar were printed from orange and red PLA. I printed the glow in the dark at 200C and it was REALLY stringy. I super glued the parts together (Gorilla Glue brand) and they stick together great. The material glows really well, especially if it gets direct sunlight.

Tangled Spool
I got this spool in 2022. First time I tried to use it, I had problems with layer adhesion and extruding. Tried all sorts of temps (including the recommended ones listed right there on the spool) I have a flash forge adventure 3. For the life of me I could not get it to adhere properly to the print bed and anything remotely salvageable looked terrible. Not good for any sort of detail work / anything “complicated”Second time I used it, it clogged so horribly I had to replace the printer head on my printer because I could not clear the clog at all. (Trust me, I tried everything) and I also had to replace the tube & coupling that fed the filament into the printer head. This clog was so bad I had to disassemble the feed assembly as well. Had it not been for the ease of getting flash forge parts from there site and how easy it is to pull the printer appart, it would have killed my printer irreparably. I tossed it in a bag with oxygen absorbers and promptly ignored it, and basically dubbed it the cursed spool.I’ve learned a lot since that point and decided to touch the cursed spool again. I decided to print off a very simple print that many other of my “difficult” filaments from other manufacturers seemed to do really well with. I recognize that “silky” filaments are notorious to be difficult but I have others from different manufacturers and *never* had a problem like this one.I DID NOT REALIZE THE ENTIRE SPOOL WAS A KNOTTED TANGLED MESS. I regret not returning this when I had initially got it, but that was primarily due to my inexperience at the time. It was among some of the first filaments I had gotten and didn’t know better. I some how managed to get a print out of it (it’s a split color, so the first 15 layers of the print are in an entirely different filament) and you can see how deep that tangle of filament ran on the spool.Then I looked deeper into the roll. You can literally see it runs throughout the entire roll how tangled the whole thing is.

Heute habe ich mal das Glow in the Dark PLA 1,75 von Amolen getestet . Da ich noch nie so ein PLA gedruckt habe wollte ich das auch mal versuchen. Hatte jetzt schon so einige PLAs der Firma Amolen und war bisher immer begeistert.▂ ▃ ▄ Verpackung ▄ ▃ ▂Das Glow in the Dark (grün und blau) PLA kam in der heutzutage üblichen Verpackung.Kleiner Karton mit beiden Rollen drin – diese waren Vakuumiert und es war ein Flyer mit allen PLAs dabei und deren Temperaturen▂ ▃ ▄ Durchmesser / Qualität ▄ ▃ ▂Wichtig bei bei Filament ist immer der Durchmesser auf mehreren Metern. Große Abweichungen abseits von den 1.75mm beeinträchtigen das Druckergebnis. Deshalb wird das Filament von mir immer auf 10 Meter alle 25cm mit einem Messschieber getestet. Bei diesem PLA habe ich auf diese länge eine max. Abweichung von 0.03 gehabt was ok ist.Gewickelt ist das PLA sehr gut – hatte ich auch schon öfters meine Probleme aber hier keine Spur!▂ ▃ ▄ Setup ▄ ▃ ▂Ich habe einen Anet A8 mit Bowden Setup.(E3D Hotend)Ich drucke auf Glas mit einer Bed Temp von 54C. Nach einem TempTower Druck habe ich mich für 190C Nozzle Temp entschieden, weniger ist hier mehr um stringing etc zu vermeiden (Angegeben sind 190-220)▂ ▃ ▄ Fazit ▄ ▃ ▂Ich teste gerne neues Filament und das Glow in the Dark PLA von Amolen ist wirklich klasse. Die Rollen sehen beide eher weiß aus und je nach Sonnen/Licht aufladung leuchten sie dann im dunkeln blau oder grün- richtig cool. Zusätzlich dachte ich durch das Leuchtmittel stinkt es extrem giftig beim drucken – hat es aber nicht und Amolen wirbt auch mit „natürlichen“ Zutaten für das PLA. Preislich sehr attraktiv (2 Rollen ~50€) und die Qualität lässt wenig Wünsche offen.Ich bin sehr überzeugt von dem Filament. Nach mehreren Testdrucken und einer Wunderschönen Figur für die Kinder (ein Kürbis der leuchtet) bin ich voll und ganz zufrieden. Die Leuchtkraft ist klasse und es macht wirklich spaß damit Halloween oder andere Dinge zu druckenBei zu hohen Temperaturen gibt es blobs und stringing also so niedrig wie möglich ansetzen (bei mir hat 190 gereicht)Haftung auf dem Bed ist sehr gut bei oben genanntem Setup. Bläschen oder dergleichen habe ich keine außer bei einem Test mit hoher Temp.Ich bin überzeugt und spreche aufgrund des Preises eine – klare Kaufempfehlung aus

I can pull string by string layer by layer (not only the first layer). I’ve tried to decrease the speed, higher and lower temp doesn’t change a thing. I’ve tried value inside the range for this filament. I’ve also tried to dry it, doesn’t change a thing. The first layer seems fine at first but it can be riped apart. This is the only brand that I have that does that. Won’t buy anything from AMOLEN anymore.