Candy Apple Metallic Red HTPLA

Metallic Red PLA Filament

$5.00 USD

HTGL170-CAR

It seemed untouchable, always turning pink, but we finally have a formulation good enough to share!  Think hot rods and ruby slippers, this red is going to knock your socks off!!!!  Words can't describe... 

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CANDY APPLE RED METALLIC PLA!!! Need I say more?!?!

Created from our highest quality, translucent HTPLA v2, this stuff is red and sparkly!

Candy Apple Red Metallic PLA prints with the ease of standard PLA with standard hardware and temperatures, but make fun, mesmerizing prints that stand out. Celebrate good times by 3d printing metallic red PLA ornaments, toys, and treasures. If you want to make a print more fun, just add glitter. Glitter Flake Red PLA has little risk of clogging or wearing your nozzle, and it won't make a glittery mess, but beware, printing with metallic glitter PLA is sure to be addictive! Glitter particles are relatively small but have some orientation effects, giving top/bottom surfaces more shine than sidewall, so have some fun playing with orientation to see how the result changes!

Heat Treating

Like our other HTPLAs, Glitter Flake Metallic Red PLA filament can be "Heat Treated" to increase crystallinity for "Higher Temperature" resistance compared to amorphous PLA, ABS, and co-polyesters like PETG! Glitter Flake HTPLA prints translucent, but turns opaque when heat treated (or crystallized). With a more crystalline structure, heat treated HTPLA parts can hold form to near melting, though temperatures where the material is practically useful vary greatly depending on geometry and load conditions!

For this improved performance, your prints should be baked in an oven until you see a change from translucent pink to opaque pink with reduced gloss. This visual change indicates the improved performance! We've seen the change take place in 5-10 minutes on thin walled parts but can take an hour or more. We've had good luck in a quality, at home convection oven at 110C (225F). Parts will get very "floppy" before becoming more firm, so please leave supports on your parts or support them and bake them on a flat, non-radiating surface (like glass, ceramic, or composite).

Printing

In our experience, good results were achieved using standard PLA parameters ranging from 195-225C nozzle with standard build surface preparation (blue tape, glue stick, or BuildTak). No heated bed required but up to 60C is okay. Beware, if the bed temperature is too high, your part base could actually heat treat while printing, increasing warping and decreasing adhesion. Some shrinkage will occur in the heat treating process, so dimension critical parts may need to be scaled appropriately (as much as 2.5% in our experience).

  • No abrasive fillers so expect normal wear with standard nozzles.
  • Available in 1.75mm diameter on a 500g diameter recyclable cardboard spool
  • Usable on most PLA-compatible printers, such as Lulzbot, Makerbot, FlashForge, Dremel, Ultimaker, Printrbot, and more!


Customer Reviews
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A Protopasta, Filament by Protoplant Customer
TR
10/23/2023
Thomas R.
United States United States
I recommend this product

Metallic Red

Worked well to print scale model of Japanese rail bridge, Japanese railroads like painting structures like bridges in bright cheerful colors.

Protopasta, Filament by Protoplant Candy Apple Metallic Red HTPLA Review
12/28/2023

Protopasta, Filament by Protoplant

Wonderful!

AW
01/20/2023
Ann W.
United States United States

Red that Pops!

Another Great Color for Anything bright red with a pop! Christmas trees with battery votive candle - just shines!

03/06/2023

Protopasta, Filament by Protoplant

Fancy!

LM
01/20/2023
Lauren M.
United States United States

My favorite red

It’s great! The red is so eye catching.

03/06/2023

Protopasta, Filament by Protoplant

One of our favorite too! Enjoy!!!

MT
03/18/2022
Matt T.
United States United States

Multiple sample rolls

This is great filament, I haven't printed with the Candy Apple Red yet, but I have used the forest fantasy green. The color change speed on the Forest Fantasy is neat, and the finished result printed extremely well. The price is a little higher than what I am used to, but it is well worth it for the quality and the color combinations Proto Pasta uses in their filaments. It can't be easy to make some of the offered color change spools. The best part! Proto-Pasta is a local company!

JD
02/06/2022
Jeffrey D.
United States United States
I recommend this product

Candy Apple Metallic Red HTPLA

WISH IT WAS AVAILABLE IN LARGER SPOOLS!!!!!!

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