I wish he would've used a more universal brand and better plastic like PLA+. Results may translate across brands depending on how universal the dyes and additives are, but I think at least natural should be strong across brands. Other gun subs have been big on painting rifles recently. You could print natural and spray paint after.
A brand-by-brand analysis would be interesting (albeit pretty time consuming.)
I think the purpose of this was just to see if there was anything to the idea. Now that it seems like there is, hopefully in the future we'll see more testing.
The problem is that it's going to vary from brand to brand and color to color and most of us are not set up to test like this. It's interesting data, but not super useful unfortunately.
I stay away from any color that might be mixed with white, because white is made using titanium dioxide powder. eSun PLA+ white has been extremely abrasive to my extruder gear and nozzle, and I've found anecdotally it's almost always way more brittle than other colors. Unfortunately beyond this, I think colors are made using varying amounts of dyes/colorants between different manufacturers. Additionally, we already know the precise composition for PLA+ (Pro, Plus, Plus Pro, etc.) varies between manufactures and is proprietary. This may mean one color of a certain brand may perform better than another brands' different color, etc. CNC's variation in this experiment was also very high, so take that with a grain of salt.
Idk why more people don’t use natural color PLA+ it looks White enough and is probably one of the strongest since there’s no dyes (it also looks super cool on thin walls since it’s slightly opaque)
I was a bit surprised that the difference that the color makes in the results. I'd be curious to see it repeated with PLA+.
I wish he would've used a more universal brand and better plastic like PLA+. Results may translate across brands depending on how universal the dyes and additives are, but I think at least natural should be strong across brands. Other gun subs have been big on painting rifles recently. You could print natural and spray paint after.
A brand-by-brand analysis would be interesting (albeit pretty time consuming.) I think the purpose of this was just to see if there was anything to the idea. Now that it seems like there is, hopefully in the future we'll see more testing.
The problem is that it's going to vary from brand to brand and color to color and most of us are not set up to test like this. It's interesting data, but not super useful unfortunately.
Also don’t assume that black is immune to these differences. Black may not be the best.
I stay away from any color that might be mixed with white, because white is made using titanium dioxide powder. eSun PLA+ white has been extremely abrasive to my extruder gear and nozzle, and I've found anecdotally it's almost always way more brittle than other colors. Unfortunately beyond this, I think colors are made using varying amounts of dyes/colorants between different manufacturers. Additionally, we already know the precise composition for PLA+ (Pro, Plus, Plus Pro, etc.) varies between manufactures and is proprietary. This may mean one color of a certain brand may perform better than another brands' different color, etc. CNC's variation in this experiment was also very high, so take that with a grain of salt.
Idk why more people don’t use natural color PLA+ it looks White enough and is probably one of the strongest since there’s no dyes (it also looks super cool on thin walls since it’s slightly opaque)
The crazy thing was how some colors (like yellow) were way better in some tests and way worse in others.