Keep Filament Dry While Printing! How to Make Cheap, Simple DIY 3D Printer Filament Spool Dry Box
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- Опубликовано: 14 апр 2021
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3D printer filament is hydroscopic, meaning that it will absorb moisture from the air. "Wet" filament can ruin your prints and lead to all kinds of problems! 😱
Here's how I built a single-spool dry box to help keep the filament dry even during printing! 👌
The container I used is sold as a pair (see links below), and I purchased a larger quantity of silica than I needed for this one project, but overall it cost me around $15 to make each dry box.
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🔺Komax Biokips container:
Komax website shopkomax.com/large-food-cook...
Amazon amzn.to/3g7USZy
🔺Silica beads (color indicating) amzn.to/3uQgnSq
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Great vid, but pls take this suggestion, turn down the music or speak louder, or both, the vid context is awesome, but the voice over and music, ahh being honest , something for you to work on, not trying to put your vid down just a big suggestion
Fully agree! Best of all, it’s easy to do!
Great video! I bought a larger container that has snap top lids from Lowes, put some weather foam sealer around the lid, and used the Bowden tube connectors. I can put two spools in the container at one time so I can have my TPU and Nylon available and ready to go without needing to open the container to do a filament change. I also extended my tube all the way to my extruder so the TPU or Nylon won't pickup any moisture on the way there.
Thanks! Good tips, too!
Thanks for this. It helped so much to link the proper box! Much appreciated
There are tons of stand alone spool holders out there you can print yourself. One of those inside a box like what was shown would be a lot simpler to do, keep the beads off of the spool, and would make FAR fewer holes in the box (less places for a leak to occur). The Bowden Tube would be the only hole in the box.
Those times when you forget you have a 3d printer, despite making something for said printer
This is great for setting up the first filament spool in a humid climate before one really knows much about 3D printing. I got a sealed plastic box from the supermarket, found a couple of nuts and bolts, some E6000 glue, cut a Berocca tube down to size, and with the two parts I had to order (PTFE tubing and adapter), it was done! There was enough room at the bottom to chuck in a handful of desiccant packets (dried in oven earlier), and we have RH 20%, printer is printing! Many thanks!
The music drowned you out. The video looked good but you need to lower the background music.
Great video, thanks for sharing this information with the community. I am definately going to try this project.😎⛏⛏🔥🔥
i like how there's a ton of resistance in the design so the filament doesn't just easily roll out causing slack.
Great video! How about adding a small hygrometer in the box?
Ok you have a 3d printer, why ain't you printing the parts like the spool holder and legs?
same reason you not drive to see your neighbor, as walking is more practical ;)
@@nullx8 Nah this is more like having a car in your garage and still walking 10 miles to work.
@@drtacos he said all the stuff he used was just stuff he had laying around
@@mr.inhale9852 When did he say this? The only time I heard him mention that was when he was talking about the screw he used. But he never says I built this only using stuff I had laying around, so there's no reason he couldn't use the 3d printer to print his parts. Not only that, it wouldn't be true if he said it as he bought the containers.
Recycling is good.
Tip: you could heat the silica beads to reactivate it after it turns transparent.
The thumbnail says $15, but the container alone is 20.
I think I was factoring the cost of each container, but they are sold in pairs.
look for "cerial boxes" .. for some reason they are shaped like cereal packaging, which most of the time looks like a filament box ;)
Ill assume that you used a PLA spool in the video to keep the filament that is actually hygroscopic somewhere dry :P
it's really hard to find the perfect size container 😹 still can't find one
I just found them on Amazon after watching this video?
Did you crack the plastic on the holes you drilled?
How do the beads work to dry the box when they are in a bag
bag has holes in it. he poked holes @ ruclips.net/video/Ua4nTMCmE1U/видео.html
I poked holes in the bag. The bag is just to keep the beads from spilling everywhere.
You put silica gel in an airtight bag? Ok you poked holes in it.. i was thinking wtf.
Could you make another one of these with a little less engineering
Definitely. Looking back, this was a terrible design.
@@RCwithAdam1 it’s not I love it but I’m not that handy lol
good stuff ... butt :O ... your dry box dont heating ...., BUT, if you put your new filament roll immediatly in, i presume your filamant dont catch the humidity of your house.
Great and terrible at the same time 😂 but idea is awsome 👍
Thanks. I realize now that I could do much better. 😕
@@RCwithAdam1 what are the things that you could have done better?
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Couldn't you just put a small fan next to your roll and aim it at it. I bet that would be the same result.
Seeing a Komax box being “destroyed” hurts my heart! Those boxes were/are awesome but unfortunately the original company does not exist anymore (only a China rip off).
the music in the video is way too loud
You're right. I didn't notice it when I edited it. I'll just make a better version soon/eventually. 👍
@@RCwithAdam1 ok nice, still cool video👍
20$ two containers??!!
Please cut the music while you are talking. It’s hard to understand.
Awesome until he put silica inside a plastic bag. wtf 🤣
Lol the plastic bag has tons of small holes!
why not 3d print a container?
It will waste a lot of resource.. and also buying plastic container is much cheaper and time efficient
The background music is bad and too loud