New Efficency: Tangled Wonk

So as you all know we are continuously working to decrease the cost of good quality filament to $10 per KG.

Here is our latest.

When running a production process sometimes things go wrong. A spool can be wound crooked, when transtioning from white to black you have varying gray. All of this material is printable but is less than desirable. Like a weird shaped apple. You can still eat it. But it looks off.

Generally this material would be run through our large print farms. But that adds additional labor before the spool is reprocessed. The best thing to do to save cost is to sell the wonky item. So we are going to do that.

Introducing Tangled Wonk. This is filament that is out of spec for minor cosmetic reasons but is still printable. We will be releasing it as is comes available.

Examples of Angled Wonk:

1. Spooled a bit crooked

2. Spooled with a bit too much material (Cup Overfloweth type thing)

3. Transition Colors (The gray between white and black)

4. Slightly underspooled (950grams rather than 1KG. Never more than 50G)

Example of Transision Spool of 3D Printer Filament by Tangled Wonk

3D Printer Filament Spools that are part of the Transition from Black to Clear

This material might require some special handling. But it will all be printable.

We will never include

1. Filament with bad diameters.

2. Blobs on the filament

3. Transistion between materials (From PLA to PETG. That would jam your machine)

Angled Wonk will also be shipped on reused spools when possible. And it will cost less than regular materials.

There is not a lot of material that falls into this category so it will come and go. But we will make it available as it goes by. That way you can get some good material to just print functional parts or parts to be painted and we can continue to make our operation more efficent to drive down the cost of regular filament.

Thanks everyone for helping with the Tangled Mission of driving the cost of filament down to $10 per KG.