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PA - Polyamide

Polyamide or Nylon as a brand name are common in everyday house hold items like garments, shells for power tools and automotive parts. Polyamide filaments are typically used for housings for various components or for its tolerance to withstand thermal loads with minor deflection. Corresponding to its use in injection molding Polyamide filaments are often found with additives such as glass fibers or carbon fiber, these additives enable Polyamide filaments to print easier then their unfilled counterparts and filled filaments tend to handle higher loads then their unfilled counterparts.

Advantages

  • Chemically resistant.
  • Abrasion resistant.
  • Impact resistant.
  • Stable at a wide range of temperatures.

Disadvantages

  • Tricky to print.
  • Absorbs moisture quickly.
  • Creeps easily.
  • Needs post processing prior to use(water immersion).

Variants

Does the guidance on additives apply?

Annealing

Delete if it doesn't need annealing?

Baseline Printing Recommendations

These numbers are provided as a baseline, and need adjustment and calibration for your specific printer/filament/color combination.

Variant Hotend Temperature Heatbed Temperature Chamber Temperature Optimistic Usable Temperature Drying Temperature
PA6 270 110 65 70 80-90
PA12 ? ? ? ? ?
PA66 ? ? ? ? ?

Other notes

PA is really tricky.

filaments/pa.1738079012.txt.gz · Last modified: 2025/01/28 15:43 by megacookiez