Not sure everyone needs a dryer. I thought I did and bought a few, you know, so I could dry all spools before putting them in the AMS but realized after a few weeks of printing, that it’s apparently dry enough here in Denver I can take a spool out of the packaging and run it as is with no drying…like every time. ~20-ish percent humidity in the house.
It’s so dry in Denver your snow evaporates!
The only time I use mine (in NM, where it's even drier than Denver) is when I'm doing nylon-based filament.
Ah ha, now the exaggerated ankle part makes sense.
I spent 10 weeks at Netflix Studios this past spring, dry is an understatement! By the time my nose stopped bleeding, the job was over and I flew back home to humidity central (North Carolina). I thought I was going to die for the first few weeks out there!
Most of the time I use PLA, but for something like a mechanics socket holder that might see a lot of use in the garage environment, PETG is probably a better choice although slightly more difficult to work with, No real need for ABS as far as I know for that sort of application, and you don't really have to worry about fumes much with PLA or PETG.
I'm 2yrs into my Ender 3 Max ownership and I've never dried a single inch of filament. You can do a lot with PLA and filaments that don't require drying. I also spent the first year using my gen1 core-i5 build from 2010 without any real heartburn (mobo gave up last spring)
I can't say I've ever dried my PETG, although I only open a spool at a time.
I've found that PLA on the roll eventually gets brittle with moisture, even when stored in a Tupperware-ish dry box. It made me buy a little Sunlu dryer, which works excellently.
I've noticed some brittleness as well after 3-4 months as well, but it only seemed to effect the ~6inches closest to the extruder (filament snapped right at the entrance). After cutting the end off the rest of the spool seemed to print finr. Good to know it might be moisture related.
After pulling and it kept cracking on multiple rolls for maybe 10 feet each, that's when I decided on the dryer. Here in the hinterlands we have bouts of stupid humidity pretty much year round. My lungs have been so thankful for these few weeks of sub-freezing weather.
I have so many gridfinity items bookmarked for printing...I am going to need more filament!Nothing fun here unless organizing tooling is fun…X1C has been printing almost non-stop for a few weeks now. Just bins…
Gridfinity?Nothing fun here unless organizing tooling is fun…X1C has been printing almost non-stop for a few weeks now. Just bins…
Check Youtube. Started as a makers tool organizer and has grown.
IIID Max PLA+. Print color looks a little more satin in finish than what I expected but I like it. Almost no print failures so far too.
It’s nuts. Once you get into Gridfinity, you kinda can’t stop. That said, most of the organizers I’ve printed don’t fit tools/stuff the way I’d like so I think utopia is being able to make your own….which is my next adventure.
Yes!
