Polymaker Light Weight PLA Filament 1.75mm Black 0.8kg, Low Density PLA

The important bits: layer bonding and strength is incredible! very rigid and much lighter than PLA or PLA+ but heavier than foaming lightweight PLA. I am going to use this on all my future 3D printed planes! Now my long boring story :) Patience was the key with this filament! I have seen too many great reviews to think that there was an issue with the filament itself. I took the recommended approach of printing using PLA settings and increasing the retraction distance and speed to the settings recommended on polymakers website. My prints were completely unusable initially. I didn't have a lot of time after work to run calibration tests but I did what I could in my free time. I would change one setting and print a part, I didn't write anything down and I didn't keep track of my changes. The poor print quality was completely my fault for not taking the proper time to dial in the print settings. I even tried multiple slicers! I finally had a day off! no chores, no work... time to get this right :) I started with the basics, e-step calibration and PID tuning. Those were very close to perfect already so I knew that wasn't my issue. I started back with the defualt PLA settings and did a retraction test (two 10mm cubes spaced 40mm apart). I would do a print and take a picture, record the settings and results and then make only 1 change to 1 setting at a time until I got the setting dialed in. Then I would move to the next setting. Rinse and repeat until I got everything dialed in. About 10 hours later, a nearly perfect print with just the smallest amount of stringing! Don't do what I did and just get frustrated and start throwing different settings at this stuff! It took the perfect mix of speed, temp, retraction speed & distance as well as extra prime after retraction to get this stuff dialed in. A change to any one of those setting will throw off the print! Cura 5.10 Artillery Sidewinder X2 (love this printer!) Fulament magnetic flex PEI bed Temp 190 Bed temp 60 (I always run 60 for everything, just seems to work) Print speed 40mm/s Travel speed 250mm/s Retraction 3.5mm Retraction Speed 35mm/s Extra prime after retraction .36mm My issue was an extreme amount of stringing and oozing. I am printing a single walled print and it is important to have a strong Z seam. The loss of material during travel moves and layer changes made the Z seam very weak.

Works great highly recommend. I use it to make RC Planes. You have to play with it for a bit to get your settings right. What i did on my bamboo p1s I put it as regular PLA setting and it did great.

This stuff prints great. Just like regular PLA except with a little post cleanup required. However, it must be noted that if you’re trying to print RC planes, this is NOT the active foaming LW PLA that many RC planes are supposed to be printed out of. That being said, this pre foamed filament will likely still work, just a bit heavier and more expensive. Way easier to print though.

Must have a perfect level bed (it’s hard to get it to stick but once it’s dialed in I’ll go smooth) Clean bed with alcohol Temp -initial layer 210 -layer 215 Print slow!!! I print at 80% speed Best results if print one object at a time cuz it lives a lot of stringing

So this is my first time using this filament, I have used dozens of others in my print farm. I wanted to print a RC airplace and its doing a great job with a few issues. The settings I use worked on a couple of printers. Because it doesnt stick well onthe first layer I used 0.3mm first layers with a brim of at least 3mm. It get very stringy over 200C, in fact if its a small part you need to start at 190C and do the rest at 192C to get good layer bonding, and it does bond very well, but only with an extrusion multiplier of 1.15. I printed two of the same center wing parts, one in PLA+ and the other in this, the PLA weighed 18g and the LWPLA weighed 15g not a huge difference but enough. I also like the texture of the finished parts, it foams a little so you have a hard time seeing the print lines. One last thing, before printing the fillament is a little brittle, if your printer bends it around a small radius it will snap.

I bought this product initially thinking this was a foaming PLA. I ran into a lot of trouble trying to get it to perform. Once you understand that it’s not foaming it’s a nice product. It makes some lightweight parts at 100% extrusion rates.

So this is for the Wood PLA. It does not print like regular PLA, no matter what the advertising says. I've fiddled with it to get something decent but my default PLA settings, even for regular polymaker PLA, did NOT work for this. I have to print super slow and at a much lower temperature and I still get stringing. I'll probably order other Polymaker filament but I don't think I'll be getting this wood one again.

So far so good! It really does print with my standard PLA settings.

Les températures d'impression ne sont marquées que sur la boite : reportez les sur la bobine pour ne pas oublier. Le fil est '' rèche '', pas lisse avant impression. La bobine fait 800g pas 1kg, comme prévu.

I always buy from this seller because of the Great quality fast shipping and awesome customer service. Highly recommended

I didn't experience any issues LW stand for my DJI Mini 3 Pro

Polymaker LW filament is top-notch. I use it with a dryer, printing at 50 mm/s, 750 mm/s² acceleration, and 210°C. Taking it slow pays off—prints come out super clean with amazing detail and great adhesion.

I gave up trying to get a decent part using this filament. It adhered poorly to the bed, and had a lot of strings, worse than PETG. The surface finish was not nice; rough, not smooth. The parts came out under extruded so I had to increase flow rate, totally loosing any weight benefit of this pre-foamed filament. I have had such great experience with other filaments it doesn't make sense wasting time with this stuff.