What plastic materials can I print?

[curious aardvark]

well noise is relative.

I've got 6 machines - all different, all making different types and volumes of noise.
One sounds like r2d2 - which I like.

Only one has silent steppers - and I frequently find myself looking at it to make sure it's still working - it's that quiet.

But until I got it, I really didn't notice how noisy the others were.

As a general rule the fans make more noise that the steppers. And when the steppers do make noise - it really does sound like R2D2.

Plus the sv01 is a standard i3 - so were you to get skr 1.4 turbo with some 2209 or 08 stepper drivers - it would only cost you about £40, and there are a lot of users on the facebook group who have done similiar. So you can probbaly get a ready made up firmware as well.

IAs long as you don't have to configure the marlin firmware (a true nightmare) and can just download ready made bin files - it's a doddle :-)

UPDATE: Okay, like everything else this bloody semi conductor shortage has hit the motherboard makers as well.
What would have cost £50 this time last year: skr 1.4 turbo, 3.5 inch touch screen and 4x tmc 2209 stepper drivers.
Is now pushing £120.

My advice - put up with the noise until prices become a bit more normal. Assuming they ever do.

I don't know what board sovol are using - but you might just be able to change the steppers over. And to be honest all you really need to change are the x & y axis drivers. Extruders make almost no noise and the z axis isn't exactly running fast or often.

As far as material goes.
The best and easiest to use flexible tpu I've used recently is this stuff: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Love it !

As a general rule red and orange filament is the easiest to use and the least temperamental.
White is also very good.
I bought three rolls of different colour tpu from amazon - all the same brand. And they've all been good - but the red is the best to use and requires the least fiddling with settings to get good clean prints from it.
Hell I've even got it printing up to 40mm/s - which is pretty fast for tpu. .

I'm one of those people who don't easily register colours - it's just not that important to me.
To the question: what's your favourite colour ? - I genuinely have no answer. I don't like pink and pastel colours - but other than that, don't really care :-)
The coloured things I've been making recently - aren't for my own use.

So I'll be getting some more of that red tpu. Got some biggish brackets to print in the near future.

The trickiest tpu I've used recently is Amazon basics - 'greyey silvery'. I needed that actual colour to blend in with aluminium - but I wouldn't recommend it if you didn't absolutely need that particular colour.

Stick with the red :-)

Hands down the best budget pla around is from aldi: balco pla.
About £14 a kilo, currently sold out.
My mate always gets me some for my birthday and christmas :-)

Other than that I've been using this stuff: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3D-Printe...r=533430111358
It was £14 a roll a few months back.

Basically I tend to go for whatever the cheapest -delivered from a uk based warehouse - chinese pla I can find on ebay is.

If you want samples of different materials then check these guys out: https://globalfsd.com/

And if you want some easy to print spools for your samples - try these: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2597201

And if you want to try out flexible filament samples - try these: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:484241