PETG Recycled Filament 1.75mm, 3D Printer Consumables, 1kg Spool (2.2lbs), 100% Recycled Enviro PETG, Fit Most FDM Printer (Black)

Their orange recycled PETG works great but this black does not work at all even after 3 days in the dryer. Stringing, chunks and other misbehavior aboundEdit: Taulman saw my review, got in touch and sent me another roll, the new roll is printing beautifully. Bad batches can happen to any company, very few will rectify the situation with such speed and grace.

Thought I'd give this a try considering the price but I cannot recommend over other choices. I print almost exclusively recycled PETG and this is not the one you want. Like another review mentioned, my roll spent more than 2 days in the dryer and even then the results were barely acceptable, lots of voids in walls, very poor layer adhesion, parts are "gummy" compared to other filaments. I am not able to use this roll for my products, had to go back to my known good brands.However please do not think badly of all recycled PETG filaments! IC3D and Filamentive both have excellent recycled material, the slightly higher cost is worth the better quality!

4 1kg spools showed up and were not vacuum sealed. The spool hole is just a little smaller than ALL other major brands, including others with Cardboard spools. TAULMAN!!! Fix this!!! The filament lay on the spools is inconsistent. This item matters more than most realize. It seems to be less flexible than virgin PETG, I compared it to Atomic, Overture, ESUN that I had on hand. It also seemed to print a noticeably lower temperature for some reason. I also noticed a little bit of the bubling when just extruding a significant amount of material, indicating it had absorbed water due to the not sealed packaging. We print with E3D Hemera 1.2mm Hardened nozzle. All PETG, 1 to4kg per week average, for years. So we print quite a lot of filament. I dont write reviews very often, but I really wanted an American made, recycled material to make our products with. Fix all of these totally reasonable things, and TAULMAN, we will buy 100+kg per year. Also, please put it on 3.5 or 5kg spools.

Packaging was good. Moisture was around 18% when I opened but here in NH we run driers all day anyway so not a big deal. Bed adhesion is good even at only 50c with purple emlers. And prints good at 255c on my monoprice maker select v2. It is a little stringy but honestly is probably my retraction settings. Haha pictures of hydroponics tower, thumbtack picture frame and a GoPro mount for my Traxxas.

The filament is wound sloppy. The cardboard spool is flimsy. The worst part is that the filament isn't strong. I tried from 230F to 250F and the layers and lines don't bond together we'll. I've also tried over extruding it. Same thing. On top of that the filament is dirty and affects the print quality. I typically use eSun or Polymaker. I really wanted to like this as it's claimed made in USA and from recycled plastics. But until issues are addressed this is a pass.

The media could not be loaded. The filament came in a bag with desecant but it isn't vacuum sealed, I recommend you dry it because out of the box it is wet and bubbly, it is also dirty but that's easily cleanable with compressed air. The big problem is the storage modulus is awful, as you can see on the video it isn't elastic at all compared to other PETG.

I have this filament in red and black, the red is great, the reel is not damaged and the filament prints well. The black reel is all smashed up on the edges and failed a print because the extruder wasn't able to pull more filament when the reel got caught on a flat edge. The filament seemed to be printing fine before that.