MatterHackers NylonX Carbon Fiber PA12 Filament - 1.75mm (0.5kg)
NylonX is an engineering grade nylon filament which is blended with chopped carbon fibers (approximately 20% by weight), creating a high-strength filament capable of printing tough, shatter-resistant, functional parts.
- Engineering grade PA12 nylon filament
- Prints tough, shatter-resistant, functional parts
- High-strength filament capable of replacing many CNC parts
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Create Functional, Beautiful Ready-To-Use Parts
NylonX is the perfect material for any level maker who is ready to transition into something outside the commonly used PLA and ABS. Don't let printing nylon intimidate you - this material is designed to provide strength, durability, and ease of use. If you are already printing with nylon, give NylonX a try - it will soon be your new favorite!
Start Your Adventure with NylonX
The best part of NylonX is that the carbon fiber adds stability and rigidity, so parts are much less likely to warp than with standard nylon. This means that printing with NylonX is actually easier than printing with traditional nylon while providing parts that are durable and stiff from the carbon fiber. Additionally, less warping means you can enjoy more accurate printed parts with fewer failed prints.
Create functional, durable, shatter-resistant prints with NylonX.
Tough Jobs Demand the Toughest Filament
NylonX is an engineering grade nylon filament which is blended with chopped carbon fibers (approximately 20% by weight), creating a high-strength filament capable of printing tough, shatter-resistant, functional parts.
NylonX is the perfect blend of strength and durability; If you are already printing with nylon it's time to upgrade. NylonX components print with a fantastic matte finish that requires no post-processing. The high precision of this filament makes it a potential replacement for aluminum using 3D printing instead of CNC milling. NylonX is the simple answer for anyone in need of robust, high-quality prints.
NylonX creates ready-to-use functional parts with micro-carbon reinforced nylon.
High-Performance Print to Production
With a unique matte-black finish, that comes out smooth and silky, NylonX all but eliminates post-processing. Finished prints can immediately be moved to production with no sanding, polishing, scraping, or pesky acetone vapor baths. Lessen the time it takes to get parts to production, and eliminate the waste of leftover filament with the print-and-go ease of NylonX.
Get outstanding strength and rigidity from carbon-fiber infused NylonX.
What Can You Create with NylonX?
With the physical properties of NylonX, the options for 3D printing your favorite projects are unlimited. Use to print:
- RC Cars
- Drone Parts
- Sports Accessories
- Gears
- Fittings for Home Furnishings
- Artistic 3D Prints
- and many more!
For rigid parts that can stand up to extreme sports, NylonX can handle any job.
Printing Recommendations
Like all nylons, NylonX must be kept dry! If it does not remain packaged with desiccant, it will readily absorb moisture from the air; this will lead to degraded print quality and wasted filament. You can dry it out by using a PrintDry Filament Drying System for more precise dehydration for all filament types.
For more information about printing with NylonX, read our How To Succeed with NylonX article.
Technical Specifications
- Nominal Diameter: 1.75mm ± 0.02mm
- Print temperature: 250-265°C
- Print speed: 25mm/s - 35mm/s
- Bed temperature: 60-65°C for Garolite, 80°C for Glass with glue stick
- Spool Dimensions: 7.88" OD x 2.12" ID x 2" Height
- PA12 Nylon
- Nozzle: Stainless Steel or other hardened nozzle types
- Download the Technical Data Sheet
- Download the Material Safety Data Sheet
Disclaimer: It is recommended to handle this product using Nitrile or similar gloves and a mask to protect against the short fibers that may shed from the filament and potentially pierce the skin.
Questions
This isn't a question, but MatterHackers doesn't offer any kind of feedback system, so here you go. This material is incredibly prone to warping! It's worse than abs, and more like polycarbonate. This is exacerbated by the fact the manufacturer recommends printing with 100% infill. Buyer beware, if your part won't print GREAT in abs, then don't even try this stuff. I'm happy with it otherwise, just thought they didn't put a strong enough warning on here.
If I used a water soluble support that I removed yourself before sending it in, would that work? Would the green state survive that? If I used ABS, could I use acetone to remove/lossen it?
What is the length or volume of filament included. I've always hated this whole buying by weight and with a filament that is 80% Stainless Steel, this spool being 3KG means nothing to me about how much I can print.
How much shrinkage should we expect post-production?
Can you use this material on the New Bambu Lab X-1 Carbon
hi, as i work as a jeweler and have access to sintering equipment is there a lower cost to buy the material without the sintering ticket or is it $465 either way?
Do you recommend printing at 100% infill?
Is there a secondary filament the has the same printing properties Ultrafuse 316L that can be used as scaffolding during printing process with a printer like the bambu labs p1s and the ams system?
What is the build volume on this material? How large of an object can I make?
What is the Thermal Conductivity of the material (W/m-K)?
If I choose to do the debinding and sintering myself. What will be the vapor production that escapes the part during heating? Is there anything that is not allowed to be released into the atmosphere?
Does it have limited manufacturing dimensions? Does it mean that large size parts, for example 300 x 300 mm, can be produced with it?
Should any holes/vacant areas in our parts be decreased in size by 19.82% (x and y) and 26.1% (z)? Would this end up with hole/space expanding to the originally desired size as material is removed?
Will this product (BASF Ultrafuse 316L Metal 3D Printing Filament) work with BCN3D Sigma R19 printer?
For 3D printers printing at an angle (e.g. 35-45 deg), should part shrinkage / adjustment be based upon the orientation of the final part in its intended form or the print direction?
Will this be available in less exotic materials? Regular old mild steel would sure be nice. A36, 1018...something with properties similar to that.
Is the final sintered product chemical free when exposed to heats below 1000f?
If I use this to make small gun parts or a pistol barrel will they deny my sintering ticket and treat me like a racist white male?
Can i use soluble support with this filament?
Will Matterhackers be offering BASF Ultrafuse 17-4 PH in the future?
Is the material weldable in its finished state?
What is the weight of the plastic spool that holes the filament?
I know a 0.6mm steel nozzle is optimal but would a 0.4mm nozzle work. How would using an 0.4mm nozzle affect prints?
I have a makerbot method printer, equpped with a labs extruder for third party materials, if paired with makerbot engineers consultation, would it bepossible to print this material succesfully in this printer?
1. If I print this material with a Pulse, would it be best to use an enclosure? 2. Can it print usable threads or would it be best to tap the holes after sintering?
Will the final product be able to hold pressure? Around 50 psi
the description says The filament contains 80percent metal and 20percent polymer. am i right? and i wonder by the meaning 80 percent and 20percent ... is this by mass or volume?
List of compatible printers? Or is it any Printer with a hardened nozzle, +100C Bed and +-230C Head, any other minimum requirements?
Hi, Could I print a metal, mold insert 100x100x30mm to be inserted into a standard injection mold. This core & cavity would need to meet tolerances of less than 0.1mm. Wouls you have any material strenght data of a 3D printed part. Please email me back, info@proplastics.ie
I have a tube furnace capable of sintering stainless powder. Is there a way to schedule a consult to determine what works to keep burned off plastic from fouling my vacuum system?
Can I use my Makerbot Replicator to print this material?
What would a good heated chamber temp be ?
How comparable in strength is this part compared to a machined part using 316l
Ultrafuse 316L yields a part that is between 96 and 100% dense (when removing the part infill as a variable) - The remaining pores are very small and uniformly distributed. Since they are virtually spherical, these pores are not responsible for crack initiation.
Mechanical properties approach that of machined (raw or cast material) but that depends heavily on design, print quality (including infill and warping) as well as the sintering processes itself (something that must be considered when designing for this material).
Approximate (not published) mechanical properties are:
Yield Strength of 180 MPa
Tensile strength approximately 500 MPa
Elongation of 50%, but that depends on the hardness after sintering (can vary, but averages at 120 HV10)
Sintered parts will always have poor fatigue response compared to cast parts. dgaylord has responded to this question saying that spherical pores are not responsible for crack initiation, but this is incorrect. It would be correct to say that spherical pores induce lower stress intensity than oblong pores, but they still concentrate stress. A part that is not 100% dense will NEVER have equivalent strength to a fully dense part, especially in fatigue (cyclic stress).
Furthermore, the grain structure of this material is likely to be very different from cast or drawn stock. The sintering process can create ultra-fine grain structure which creates incredibly hard, abrasion-resistant parts - but you sacrifice ductility and toughness. Abrasion-resistance sounds great, but with a rough surface finish, that benefit is essentially negated. Note that it is possible that the sintering facilities heat-treat the parts after processing, which could greatly affect the actual grain structure of delivered parts.
Regardless, unless you're designing parts that are approaching the safety factor limits for the material, a home gamer will never notice these issues.
Source: Materials Science PhD student
This is correct - a sintered part will differ from a part machined from stock, but in many cases/applications, the differences will be insignificant.
We have a universal testing machine and will be performing tensile and flexural tests (ASTM E8 & E855) on sintered 316L parts soon.