Features
Very high copper-filling of 80%
Real copper look, heavyweight, and “cold” copper metal feel
Approximately 300% heavier than PLA
Compatible with full metal, PEEK, and PFTE hotends
Compatible with direct drive and Bowden style extruders
Compatible with ≥ 0.4mm hardened nozzles with retraction settings enabled
Easy to post-process
MetalFil can be brushed, sanded, polished, waxed, coated and patina post-processed
 
Applications
Aesthetics, design, and art
Figurines and miniatures
 
General printing guidelines *
Spool Weight: 0.75kg
Nozzle size: ≥ 0.4mm
Layer height: ≥ 0.2mm
Print temp:  ± 215 - 235° C *
Fan speed: 50-100%
Heat bed: ± 0 - 60° C
Enclosure needed: No
Experience level：Beginner
 
*)Above displayed settings are meant as guidance to find your optimal print settings. These ranges in settings should work for most printers, but please do feel free to experiment outside these ranges if you think it is suitable for your printer. There are a lot of different type of printers, hot-ends and printer offsets that it is extremely difficult to give an overall one-size-fits-all setting.
*) If blobs/lumps form around the nozzle then your print temperature is too high.
 
Post processing MetalFil - Ancient Bronze/Classic Copper
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.
Waxing and coating
After every above-mentioned post-processing measure, you can always wax or coat your printed object to get an incredible shine effect.
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.
Nozzle cleaning
When printing with filled/composite filaments it is recommended to clean your nozzle immediately after printing by feeding 15-20cm PLA filament through your nozzle.This will make sure that any potential fillers are flown out of your nozzle.It is even better to use glow in the dark PLA as the extremely hard phosphorous particles are much more likely to scrape out residual waste from your nozzle.