MetalFil™ - Ancient Bronze is an incredible new metal-filled PLA-based filament with approximately 80% of gravimetric bronze filling. This incredible high filling with bronze powders enables every FDM 3D printer user to 3D print bronze objects which are almost indistinguishable from genuine bronze.
The extremely high bronze filling of MetalFil™ - Ancient Bronze has resulted in an incredibly heavy filament with a density of 3.4 g/cc. Unlike other metal-filled filaments MetalFil™ - Ancient Bronze can be printed on full metal, PEEK, and PFTE hotends and can perfectly be printed with 0.4mm nozzles. This makes MetalFil™ - Ancient Bronze basically perfectly suitable for all FDM 3D printers. You can even enable retraction settings on both direct drive extruders, as well as on Bowden style extruders, which is a truly unique feature for a metal-filled filament.
MetalFil™ - Ancient Bronze is a very easy to print material and ensures stable 3D printing results on basically all types of FDM 3D printers. This makes MetalFil™ - Ancient Bronze a perfectly suitable filament for beginners and intermediate 3D printing enthusiasts, whereas other metal-filled filaments are only suitable for experienced users.
Post processing MetalFil™ - Ancient Bronze
Brushing and/or sand grinding
Once
printed MetalFil™ - Ancient Bronze objects can very easily be brushed
with a brass brush or sanded with a fine grid sandpaper. By brushing
and/or sand grinding your printed object you will brush/shine up the
high concentration of bronze powders.
Build-in white polish feature
After
being brushed and/or sanded MetalFil™ - Ancient Bronze will reveal its
white polish feature. A very thin white layer/haze on your object will
now allow you to easily polish your 3D print into a beautiful bronze
object.
Professional polishing with a rotary tumbler
Post
processing a MetalFil™ - Ancient Bronze 3D printed object with a rotary
tumbler will make your FDM 3D printed object indistinguishable from
genuine bronze casted objects.
Patina post processing
You can
create several patina effects on MetalFil™ - Ancient Bronze printed
objects in just one day time. With an ammonia and soda treatment you can
for instance easily create a beautiful ancient blue weathering effect
on your bronze object.
After every above mentioned post-processing measure you can always wax or coat your printed object to get an incredible shine effect. Waxing can be done with products such as beeswax and for coating one can think about products such as XTC-3D.
Abrasiveness
Please be
aware that MetalFil™ filaments contain a very high concentration of
metal powders, which have an abrasive nature. In general these metal
powders will accelerate the nozzle-wear of brass nozzles, much faster
than unfilled filaments. We recommend to use nozzles from stainless
steel or other hardened alloys.
Product details
MetalFil™
- Ancient Bronze is available in various spooled weights and is wrapped
on a transparent ABS plastic spool. Our spooled MetalFil™ - Ancient
Bronze filaments are shrink-wrapped in plastic with a bag of silica
inside and come in a full colour printed cardboard box, which in turn is
also is shrink-wrapped in plastic. Please see below for more details
with respect to the weight and packaging of our spooled MetalFil™ -
Ancient Bronze 3D printer filaments:
Filament Net Weight ± 0.75 Kg
Spool Size (D x h) 200 mm x 55 mm
Spool Hub Diameter 52 mm
Carton Box Size (L x W x H) 200 mm x 200 mm x 60 mm
Packaged weight 1.25 Kg
1.75mm MetalFil - Ancient Bronze
- Product Code: FF-626-1
- Availability: 3-5 Days
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45.00€
- Ex Tax: 36.59€
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