Cleaning a Filabot EX2 or EX6 Extruder
EX2

Cleaning a Filabot EX2 or EX6 Extruder

In the filament extrusion process, there is a fundamental step that is crucial to get right before you consider any variables or parameters, and that step is ensuring that you have a clean extruder...
Live demonstration of MDPH2 at the upcoming Fabtech show in Chicago!
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Live demonstration of MDPH2 at the upcoming Fabtech show in Chicago!

We are incredibly excited to have one of our sister company's extruders in a live demonstration at the upcoming Fabtech show in Chicago! The Massive Dimension MDPH2 Pellet Head Extruder will be mou...
New Product Announcement: Fumex Fume Extractor FA1-E
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New Product Announcement: Fumex Fume Extractor FA1-E

We are pleased to announce we’ve partnered with Fumex to provide air filtration systems specifically engineered with extrusion in mind. We are always thinking of ways to make it easier for our cust...
Announcing the Filabot Metal Spool
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Announcing the Filabot Metal Spool

Drying your polymer prior to printing is critical to achieving the best results. Most plastics absorb water, including the ambient moisture present in the air. If this moisture is not removed throu...
Experiment: Superworms & Styrofoam
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Experiment: Superworms & Styrofoam

Filabot was born from the recognition that our planet was facing a critical problem in the form of an ever-increasing and already staggering amount of plastic waste. The entire Filabot product line...
Casting Part II : Investment Casting from 3D Printed Wax
EX2

Casting Part II : Investment Casting from 3D Printed Wax

This is the follow-up to a two-part blog installment, the first part of which was shared last week. If you didn’t catch the first post, you might want to go here  and read from the beginning! Where...
Casting Part I : Printing with Wax
EX2

Casting Part I : Printing with Wax

Working within the umbrella of additive manufacturing offers the unique opportunity to utilize the technology you have created as a tool to aid further development and support new products. Perhaps...
Wood Fill PLA Pellets Tolerances Compared: Material Extrusion Report
EX6

Wood Fill PLA Pellets Tolerances Compared: Material Extrusion Report

Here is one for all you additive addicts out there! Wood and plastic are often placed conceptually as antithetical materials due to their contrasting qualities- endlessly variable vs.. homogeneous ...
Printing with Coffee Part II
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Printing with Coffee Part II

After diving into the research on compounding PLA with spent coffee grounds accomplished at Washington State and assisted by our Filabot EX2, our brains were buzzing with the idea of making some of...