Super-Brittle ABS

[Jeffg1 2]

I recently opened a ~6 month old reel of Pearl Gold ABS and found it to be brittle.  So brittle that any bending whatsoever caused it to snap.  Think dry spaghetti out of the box.  Needless to say trying to print it caused several problems, it was cracking as it went through the feeder and the print quality was pretty horrible. 

 

Has anyone else seen this kind of behavior on ABS? 

 

Thanks

Jeff

[M0nkey 0]

I know this thread is old, but I Just ran into this issue myself.  Any ideas folks?

[Smithy 1,146]

1 hour ago, M0nkey said:

Any ideas folks?

If it is old and/or of low quality, buy a new one, there is no other solution, sorry!

 

 

[Belezeebub 9]

I ran into that issue with PVA that I ran through the filament dryer from Matterhackers, I ended up tossing it away it was TOO dry kept breaking in the feed tube

 

Edited February 23, 2020 by Belezeebub

[Belezeebub 9]

Check out this video of some very bad filament I got once

 

Its my video on my channel so I have permission to repost it.