The Most Advanced Filaments You Can Print: Every Single Filament Part II

Which filament is the toughest? Fastest? Most flammable? I collected and tested 'em all, so set your hot end to 400 and buckle up.

Thanks to Matterhackers for providing rare filaments for this series!

Part 3: Every Special-Purpose Filament - Coming Soon
Part 4: The World's Weirdest Filaments - Coming Soon
Part 5: FILAMENTS OF THE FUTURE! - Coming Soon

=== The Filaments ===

===The Timeline===
0:00 Intro
0:51 Shilling for E3D-Senpai
1:35 PEEK
3:24 CF-PEEK
5:36 PEKK
7:06 PSU
8:42 PPSU
10:02 PPS
10:51 PEI
12:35 HTPET+
13:51 CPE-HT
14:52 Tough PC
15:50 PLA X3
17:04 Alfapro
18:03 GF30-PP
19:53 PP2320
21:16 CF-ABS
22:23 CF-PETG
23:47 PA12+GF15
25:13 PCTPE
26:28 PVDF
28:23 The Filament That Shall Not Be Named
31:27 What's Next?
31:36 Partner Credits
32:33 Silly, Silly Patreon Credits

Assets:
Interference SFX: Partners in Rhyme
Kids "soldering" stock footage: Mikhail Nilov
Angle grinder stock footage: Anastasia Shuraeva

[Enderbro]

"your boss is probably setting you up and should join a union" got me fucking dying. The delivery was perfect XD

[larungoscope]

Hey Zack, HAZMAT tech/ToxMedic here. So in case you weren’t already scared of HF (as produced by PVDF) it gets so much worse than attacking your bones. The thing that scares us most about it is that it can attack your hearts ability to conduct electrical impulses.

[SwervingLemon]

Your rapid-fire patter and stealth-joking are easily appreciable. Keep up the good work!

[BillPickle]

The company I work for does laser-sintered carbon filled PEKK and it is such a finnicky material, but the things it's good at, it's basically the best at. Unreal chemical resistance, no offgassing, tensile strength on par with aluminum.. the stuff's amazing.

[craigbossard]

I can’t get enough of the void star labs.

Suggestion: maybe make your own calibration model. Like the chep cube, but more epic. That way, we content consumers can notice your influence exerting it’s force on the community like the sometimes stiff and sometimes soft pp you have shared with us.

[CraftComputing]

I really appreciate the Trials and Tribbleations you went through for this video.

[alexanderkbailey]

I can't believe how much work went into this 30 minute video. Thank you so much for all the free content!

[ite]

Zack I hope you realize you are now in a verry good position to make several top 5 videos about the best filament for every type of job. (Best for beginners, toughness, ease of printing, etc...) It would probably be great for weeks when you want to work on an extra long project, cause you seem to already have all the video you need other than the talking head and you actually have experience with all these filaments! plus I really want to hear your opinions 😃

[ManaPowerPoints]

“The PP you love, but stiffer”
Got me rolling, love it.

[trowabarton]

"You pay for this experience... in money" Love the humor while I'm learning things. Another great video Zack!

[RichardBronosky]

24:18 All the AvE fans know how common glass filled nylon is. Scratch with a razor, listen for the crunches. You can even guess the percentage from the crunch frequency when you've heard it enough.

[stevenbarber]

Gosh dang, are your videos great. I was wondering if you were ever planning on compiling all your data in something like an easy-to-read spreadsheet. Maybe something that included price, basic properties, printing tips, applications, and a short description. Thank you and have a great day!

[ytecd]

From personal experience, Igus I150 actually prints fairly easy on a basic 3d printer. We ran a wear test comparing it to pla and after the pla was almost worn down the I150 barely lost it's layer lines. If you still feel up to trying Igus materials I would try that.

[amaurylaunay]

Thanks you for you service, Zack. If I have to endure 10 minutes of Poly-propylene jokes to discover even one of those interesting filaments, it's worth it.

[xxxxx]

The real MVP of this series is vision miners nano stuff. Seriously the bed bed adhesive money can buy. I bought a bottle back when 3DPN did a video on them like 4 years ago and havent stopped using it since even though I mostly print in PLA.

[BeefIngot]

God Damnit, I know this series is supposed to tell you what filament to use but I really hope there is a summary video where he plops 6 filament on a table for each type of printer and says use these (with a chefs kiss)

one set for a typical ender, one for your prusa or hemeras out there with direct drive and all metal and one for people who think cars and chips are the same price.

[kaedkay]

Hey! Great Video! I have recently been using the Polymaker PA6-GF, it is a glass fiber nylon, and it is possibly the easiest to print polymer i have ever seen, and it is so hard and strong that i couldn't break it with a hammer. Worth a review, because of the incredible strength while maintaining rigidity without stiffness. I genuinely have yet to break it.

[CorvidianSystems]

You have literally saved me a ton of research i needed to do for work, all while being exponentially funnier and more entertaining than anything i would have come across... you were made for this, my dude 🤘

[simontilstedhansen]

This is amazing! The amount of knowledge and the way it's presented is just out of this world, seriously.

This could be an official filament guide for engineers.

[lunchbox]

I'm impressed, so much information in such a (relatively) small package. Great work!