Welcome to another episode of Tinkerine experiment!
Today, we are going to be printing with another
exotic filament; silk filament.
We were given this filament for testing so
let’s find out whether or not it works.
Today we will look at  whether or not it prints and
the wear and tear on the nozzle.
We can see that the silk filament has a kinda
of gloss to it and more silky looking than
our regular PLA.
It also a lot more flexible and
stretchy than the regular filament.
It’s taking me ages to break this small part off.
Before we start testing the material.
Let’s measure our nozzle diameter with our
extrude wizard.
Oh! It looks like the nozzle diameter is right now at 0.45mm.
Now let’s start off with a test print.
So far it is adhering to the blue tape. I don't see any problem with it.
It's printing like normal PLA. It doesn't look like it is going to run into any problems anytime soon.
The test print finished with no problems so now let's print with our gem print and see if any problems rises up
with a longer print.
Hm, it’s sticking well just like the test print.
I don't see any problems with it and It doesn’t look like there is going to be
any clogging or anything that's going to happen to the print anytime soon.
It's finished! Now let’s take it off and take a look at it.
It 
pops off the bed relatively easy.
Now a closer look to it.
I don’t
see any imperfections on either prints.
They both look pretty good.
Also it looks like it retained that same gloss even after
printing.
I thought it would be a bit different after it goes through the nozzle and being heated up.
But I guess not. The two print looks pretty nice.
Now let’s do the extrude wizard once again and we will check the diameter.
For some reason the nozzle diameter is 0.47-0.48mm right now. I'm not too sure what they have
inside this filament. But just to be sure, I would say just to be sure I would say there’s
a + or - 0.01mm from our caliper.
Well, there we have it, we tried printing
with silk filament and as we can see
it does work and the product that came
out looking pretty nice.
There’s not much of a wear and tear on the
nozzle like the bronze filament that we tried earlier but there
is just a bit, which is 0.02-0.03 mm.
But this little bit could also lead to over extrusion in the long run.
That’s the end of our experiment today!
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