Bambu Lab NinjaTek NinjaFlex Sapphire Blue TPU Filament - 2.85mm (2kg)
Bambu Lab ABS-GF is a glass fiber-reinforced ABS filament that offers enhanced strength, stiffness, and dimensional stability, making it ideal for both mechanical and decorative applications. It provides a fine matte finish and improved water resistance, ensuring durability for long-lasting prints.
Key Features:
- Enhanced strength
- Fine matte finish
- Dimensional stability
- Water resistance
- RFID for Intelligent Printing
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Bambu Lab ABS-GF
High-Performance Glass Fiber-Reinforced Filament
Bambu Lab ABS-GF is a premium glass fiber-reinforced ABS filament designed to deliver superior mechanical properties and aesthetic appeal. Perfect for both functional mechanical parts and decorative items, this filament offers enhanced strength, stiffness, and a fine matte finish, ensuring your prints are both durable and visually appealing.
Key Features:
- Enhanced strength and stiffness
- Fine matte finish
- Greater dimensional stability
- Improved water resistance
- Ideal for load-bearing parts
Enhanced Strength and Stiffness
Bambu Lab ABS-GF offers superior strength and stiffness compared to regular ABS, making it ideal for applications that require load-bearing and bending-resistant components. This enhanced performance is due to the incorporation of glass fibers, which significantly improve the material's mechanical properties.
- Perfect for structural parts
- Reduces deformation under stress
- Ideal for mechanical assemblies
Greater Dimensional Stability
Bambu Lab ABS-GF provides exceptional dimensional stability, minimizing warping and deformation during the printing process. This feature makes it superior to regular ABS, especially for intricate designs and precise mechanical parts, as the glass fiber reinforcement ensures consistent and reliable print quality.
- Reduces warping during printing
- Ideal for complex geometries
- Ensures precise fit and function
Improved Water Resistance
Bambu Lab ABS-GF offers superior water resistance compared to regular ABS, making it ideal for applications exposed to moisture or humid environments. This enhanced property ensures that printed parts maintain their integrity and performance over time, even in challenging conditions.
- Resists moisture absorption
- Suitable for outdoor use
- Maintains strength in humid environments
Ideal for High-Stress Applications
Bambu Lab ABS-GF's fine matte finish not only enhances the visual appeal but also contributes to the structural integrity of printed parts. This finish reduces surface imperfections and stress concentrations compared to regular ABS, resulting in stronger, more reliable components that are both aesthetically pleasing and structurally sound.
- Reduces surface imperfections
- Enhances structural integrity
- Ideal for high-stress applications
Recommended Print Settings
| Drying Settings (Blast Drying Oven) | 80 °C, 8 h |
| Printing and Keeping Container's Humidity | < 20% RH (Sealed, with Desiccant) |
| Nozzle Temperature | 240 - 270 °C |
| Bed Temperature (with Glue) | 80 - 100 °C |
| Printing Speed | < 180 mm/s |
NOTE: it is highly recommended to dry this filament before using to get the best prints possible. Explore our filament drying solutions here.
Physical Properties
| Density | 1.08 g/cm³ |
| Vicat Softening Temperature | 103 °C |
| Heat Deflection Temperature | 99 °C |
| Melting Temperature | 202 °C |
| Melt Index | 7.56 ± 1.4 g/10 min |
Mechanical Properties
| Tensile Strength | 36 ± 3 MPa |
| Breaking Elongation Rate | 6.3% ± 1.2% |
| Bending Modulus | 2860 ± 130 MPa |
| Bending Strength | 68 ± 4 MPa |
| Impact Strength | 14.5 ± 1.5 kJ/m² |
Questions
The data sheet says the coefficient of thermal expansion is “ 0,1 10⁻⁴ / K”. If I assume the European convention for comma rather than decimal point I would read this as 0.1 x 10⁻⁴. Normally CTE is expressed in units of 10⁻⁶ meters/meter. Is the CTE of this material really half that of aluminum and 1/10 of that of most nylons, 10 x 10⁻⁶? As a liquid, it would have the CTE of regular nylon but as it cools, the glass puts the nylon into severe strain, probably why it is difficult to print. Clearly a bed temperature and heated environment will be critical, and cooling should be gradual and uniform. But really the amazing fact is that this CTE is less than 1/2 that of Aluminum, 23.6x10⁻⁶ and nearly that of Titanium, 9.7x10⁻⁶! The plot of CTE over temperature is a necessary component of the spec sheet. Does water absorption cause the printed parts to crack? Thanks!
For everyone talking this product down…Try HARDER!!!! It’s by far my favorite material and the finish is insane ONCE you figure it out lol..you will see a nice glitter finish and 0 layer lines…I went through rolls with of this stuff until I got it…TRY HARDER…I promise it’ll be worth it in the end…I print on a modded ender 3 with or w/o an enclosure sometimes, I’ve successfully printed “big” entire build volume models …trust me I was pissed AF for a long time until I figured it out lol…
Using a stock Ender 3 Pro. What additional upgrades would be necessary to maximize print quality for NylonG?
how well can the white nylonG transmit light? As in, Will it allow me to illuminate the print with a light source on the inside? trying to avoid clear PETG and need a stiffer polymer, so despite the vulnerability to UV light, uncoated, this material was suggested to me
Does this filament need an enclosure to print properly?
The technical data sheet states a "linear mould shrinkage" of 0.3. 1) Does this mean 0.3%? 2) Does the Matter Control slicer software scale up my model by 0.3% in order to accommodate the shrinkage in the final print, or is this something I should account for manually? 3) Is there a recommended cooling / curing process for the NylonG material so that I know that after a certain amount of time, shrinkage is largely over?
Can you please explain what are the best practices to prevent white NylonG from getting yellowish after print?
does anyone know what the best support spacing is for top and bottom for z axis only?
Is there an approved annealing process for this filament? No matter how much magigoo i use chamber temp, i get minor warping (parts i'm printing take 24 hrs +). I would like to relieve the internal stresses to hopefully straighten my parts out.
Is this a pa6, 66, 12 or something different?
The data sheet says the tensile strength is 95 MPa using ISO 527. Other manufacturers publish 3 strength values: xy, yz, xz. as a 3D printed structure is non-isotropic. (Meaning the material strength properties are different in each direction). The weakest direction, I suppose, is the direction that tests layer adhesion. Can you give me a better idea of how the material was tested? Were printed test samples used or molded samples, etc...
Can a Ender 3 with Micro Swiss hotend and extruder print Nylon G with stock thermistor and heat canister?
We print straight out of our let it start dehydrating for about an hour or two at 75 c max setting I just set the time for 12 hours and after an hour or two we start our printers and we feed directly into our enclosed printers on garolite with magigoo pa and hardened nozzle all metal hotend and just let it print
First print we did was perfect at 260c bed at 75c. I’m using a carbon fiber print bed and magigoo PA adhesive. I am using an extremely modified Ender6 with a slice engineering mosquito magnum with a Bondtech DDX extruder. Seems to me the extruder is as important as any other settings as your Esteps must be perfect. My only dislike is the orange is not as bright as it shows in samples. Amazing filament.
How much does the spool weigh for .5kg/1.75 ?
You appear to no longer carry Dupont Zytel. How does this compare, especially with settings?
This filament have the same warping problem like Nylon X ??
I am trying to print apart using black NylonG. I have made 3 attempts so far and each time The part warps and one of the corners comes loose from the bed. With each attempt I make it further into the print but end up with the same result. I’m using a CR10s pro with no part cooling fan with printer in an enclosure and an internal temp of 35c inside enclosure. First attempt: Glass bed, @ 60c, nozzle 260c, NANO polymer adhesive from VisionMiner, printed with a brim and used recommended feeds recommended from MatterHackers. Second try: same as before but 80c on bed Third try: 90c bed temp, 25% feed rate on first layer, 50% second then 100% for remainder. I have used about 375g of material thus far. I am using 100% infill for this part which I’m share doesn’t help. Any recommendations?
I have never printed with nylon so, I am learning about it. Why do you need to dry it? Is it because it has a lot of moisture in it from the factory or do you have to do this every time?
Can the glass fibers fall out during printing or when you touch it like with Colorfabb XT-CF20, I'm really scared of breathing in or getting glass fiber splinters with this. The only hazard i see is a burn hazard on the safety data sheet.
Went through almost 2 spoils of nylon G now . I have a flashforge creator pro upgraded with all metal hot end and it still isn’t hot enough for good later adhesion . I printed at 40mm/s at 280c and had a decent print but layer adhesion just wasn’t there completely . At least for my Glock frame that is, it seems like you should really be printing this material at 280 plus to get the most out of this material , I even had it sit in the oven for 24 hours at 180c . It is somewhat strong but my PLA plus blows it out of the water as far as strength goes. Do you think I should print with an ender 3 to get better later adhesion since those can go to 300c ?
Is the 3kg weight the amount of material on the spool? What's the length?
Can this be printed safely in a standard office with standard ventilation?
I bought the printdry filament drying system, what would be the best temp to dry this at and for how long?
What is the percentage of glass fiber in the nylon?
I’d like to know this as well. I’ve purchased a reel, and if I had to guess based on other glass reinforced filaments I’ve tried, this stuff seems like around 10-15% at most. The filament is just too flexible for it to contain any more than that. In comparison, polymaker has a PA6 gf filament with 25% fiber content and it will barely bend at all without snapping.