Best metallic filaments for 3d printing? NOT TINMORRY - PURE GARBAGE

TINMORRY FILAMENT REVIEW IN 2 WORDS: PURE GARBAGE

With starting www.fruitweapons.com and while dreaming up the Bananakin Skywalker - a banana light sword - we thought it would be cool to add a metallic finish and so we tried a bunch of metallic filaments.

I did some searching and i fell for a video from Tinmorry which showed some really cool metallic weapons they made.. perfect for what I need right?

Wrong.

I bought 3 filaments, downloaded the PETG filament profile from Tinmorry.net for the bambu a1. with such promise, and then I hit print...

“Printing with Tinmorry is like rolling the dice at a casino - you just pray you get something decent but every time, the house wins and you lose all your money.”

Stringy disaster after stringy disaster. Printing with Tinmorry is like rolling the dice - you just pray you get something decent but usually the house wins and you lose all your money.

String I can handle - and I’m willing to adjust settings to fix, but after getting a giant petg blob of death on my nozzle... that’s it. That’s when I decide “I don’t work for Tinmorry to fix their settings" - I want a refund.”

Of course panicked, tried to fix... my 3d printer brings my family so much joy...

After hours of trying to clean up this massive blob, I got the blob off and simply decided that that chance of losing the machine was not worth testing this filament.

I bought 3 metallic petg filaments from tinmorry.. $85 ish... so naturally I tried to arrange a refund where I'd send the filaments back barely touched..

this is where it goes to sh!t for me

First they adamantly demand photos of what happened. ok, no problem, I provide.

Then the gaslighting began "looks like your nozzle malfunctioned, we cant refund you."

Sorry, what? Hundreds of great prints and 1 blob - caused by your filament faulty settings - dont tell me what you think from a photo and deny me like that.

After pleading, they say "ok send the filaments, we will try them and if they're defective we will give you a refund...” - are they stupid? For a valid test, so many parameters need to align ...

1) same machine

2) same environment

3) same exact settings

After some time, the sales rep Lucy switches up on me and says ok return the filaments and we'll process the refund.

Great I’m thinking.

Then she switches back, saying “send back so we can test and if determined faulty you get a refund..”

Which is it Tinmorry? Refund with test or refund without test?

At this point, I’m starting to feel very weary about this. If I send back the filaments and there's no problem according to them, I lose the $85 AND the filaments..

In the end, I told them I would share the story so here I am.

I imagine some people out there had good experiences - I doubt it.

By the inconsiderate way they heard me, immediately gaslit me saying it’s my machine, trying to get the filaments back to test and keep - they suck.

DON’T GIVE $1 TO TINMORRY - IF YOUR 3D PRINTER BREAKS, IT’S NOT WORTH IT.

This is a Public Service Announcement.