{"id":199,"date":"2026-01-16T14:12:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T14:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki2\/?p=199"},"modified":"2026-07-28T12:04:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T11:04:21","slug":"3d-printing-filament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/3d-printing\/fdm-fff\/199\/3d-printing-filament\/","title":{"rendered":"3D Printing Filament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Refilling printers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Use the material which is stored on the shelves in the Print Hive to refill the printers. If the material has run out for a particular colour, take an entire stack of 5 rolls from the overflow cupboard in the Electronics &amp; Craft area to the Print Hive to replenish the stores. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bambu Lab Printers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Bambu Lab printers use Bambu PLA filament in 1kg, 1.75mm diameter rolls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Bambu Lab filament has an RFID tag inside which allows the printer to automatically detect the filament that is being inserted into the AMS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bambu Lab filament is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.additive-x.com\/shop\/brands\/bambu-labs\/bambu-lab-filament.html\">bought from Additive-X<\/a>, a University approved supplier. Sometimes the <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.store.bambulab.com\/collections\/bambu-lab-3d-printer-filament\">Bambu Lab shop<\/a> has a sale, in which case it is worth placing a credit card order with them as the savings can be considerable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We keep the following colours in stock as standard:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Black<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>White<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Yellow<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Orange<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Red<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cyan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mistletoe Green<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Grey<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Blue-Grey<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Beige<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chocolate Brown<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We also stock non-standard materials which can be loaded into the &#8220;weird materials printer&#8221;. These include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>PETG<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Aero-PLA in white<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ASA in white<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ABS in white and black<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Polycarbonate in white<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Refilling printers Use the material which is stored on the shelves in the Print Hive to refill the printers. If the material has run out for a particular colour, take an entire stack of 5 rolls from the overflow cupboard in the Electronics &amp; Craft area to the Print Hive to replenish the stores. Bambu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[69,24,70,71,72,73,29],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fdm-fff","tag-3d-printing","tag-bambu-lab","tag-filament","tag-material","tag-plastic","tag-suppliers","tag-ultimaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}