Until now I thought drying filament wasn't that important
Left: I opened a sealed roll of a filament purchased in 2018 and I printed that rose
Right: I dried that filament in the creality dryer overnight and sent the print again
This pic was taken on 10th April. After drying the filament I put it back in storage and I forgot about it until it exploded today
I live in southern AZ where it is super dry. I never thought I needed a filament dryer. I got one anyways and it turns out I did need one. My print are so much better now. Would recommend.
What's your ambient humidity like? I'm up in CO and the ambient humidity for a lot of the year is less than 20% and haven't felt like I need a driver yet, except maybe for new PETG
It's crazy easy too. You can get a decent size plasric tote with weatherproof gasket for about $15-20, and a few packs of reusable dessicant packs will.run another $10-15.
For about $30 all in you can keep 6-8 rolls of filament below 10%RH full time with zero hassle.
That's a good way to keep filament dry, but it takes a very long time to remove moisture from filament that way. It's a lot faster to use a dryer/dehydrator before putting it in the dry box.
Thats true, and a good point.
But as long as you go straight from the original packaging to your dry box, you shouldn't have to worry much about it ever getting wet to begin with.
Aren't silica beads $5 or so a pound? How much do you use?
I'm sorry... Why is nobody talking about the explosion?
They posted about the explosion prior to this one.
May I ask if you live in an acknowledged high-humidity area?
I just recently bought a dryer. When I first got my printer, I was printing pretty constantly and didn't really have an issue with wet filament. But these days I've slowed down my printing frequency a lot, and I've definitely noticed that the print quality gets worse the longer I've had the roll unsealed.
Just wait until you dial in your smoothing post-proc, etc. methods! Have a blast; your results're lookin' great, keep it up! 🤩🖖🏽
I live in an area that routinely has 70% humidity. My prints are consistently stringy, and I know it is because of the wet filament. I use an A1 Mini with AMS. Is there a solution, or am I doomed to stringy prints?
Maybe an enclosure with inlet and outlet fans, and either a window AC unit or a dehumidifier dedicated to your printing room? I definitely recommend watching this video before investing in a dehumidifier, a lot of helpful information about how humidity works: https://youtu.be/j_QfX0SYCE8
Yep I have made the same.mistake. The difference is that mine was not.printing at all. Thought the printer was shit or broken, then I dryed the filament. Works perfectly