As someone who built your original dry box, this video has given me impetus to now move to the bags and dryer as well. Thank you Becky for all the great ideas.
I had a catch 22 situation. I need the humidity to keep my guitars happy, but my filament didn't like it. Ended up buying a weather tight container from Target and a Eva-dry E-333 Mini Dehumidifier from Amazon, to store my filament in. Also got one of those heater boxes from Creality. Happy days again.
I had great luck with the sunlu dryer. I think I paid £25 for it. In the first month it rescued a whole roll of Ziro PLA that showed up damp. I sent pics of prints before and after drying to Ziro just so that they knew they had to check their stock. Without me actually mentioning refunds they refunded the cost of the PLA and told me to keep it, so the dryer paid for itself in one go :)
You can pick up a set of vacuum bags and a hand pump for not very much money. It's marketed for people storing clothes but works great for filament. I also bought a bunch of reusable silica bags that are made of cotton, and you can microwave them to refresh them back when they have absorbed a lot of moisture. I toss one of the silica bags in the center of the spool after I put that in a vacuum bag, then pump out the air.
Hot tip: Weed paraphernalia webshops often carry large ziploc bags - like 12 by 15 inches, or more than enough for a spool of filament - in small quantities, so you don't have to buy a thousand of them. Dunno if shopping there will put you on any watchlists, though 😝
These are some awesome tips! I especially like the little basket you modeled for silica packets
Thanks so much! 😊
Aahhhh so helpful! I learned a lot. Also, love my Bambu cameo ☺
Yayy! And thanks for the travel pickups!
As someone who built your original dry box, this video has given me impetus to now move to the bags and dryer as well. Thank you Becky for all the great ideas.
Well now i know what i am printing today. The scraper and the folding crate!!! Thank you so much for your awesome videos.
Same here! Came for filament tips but found 2 prints I never thought of even searching for!
I had a catch 22 situation. I need the humidity to keep my guitars happy, but my filament didn't like it. Ended up buying a weather tight container from Target and a Eva-dry E-333 Mini Dehumidifier from Amazon, to store my filament in. Also got one of those heater boxes from Creality. Happy days again.
I’m going to print the desiccant dryer-outer that you uploaded to Printables (as soon as I print some spools 😅)
I use air tight water tight containers purchased from Target and I put the silica packs from different packages to absorb any residual moisture.
I had great luck with the sunlu dryer. I think I paid £25 for it. In the first month it rescued a whole roll of Ziro PLA that showed up damp. I sent pics of prints before and after drying to Ziro just so that they knew they had to check their stock. Without me actually mentioning refunds they refunded the cost of the PLA and told me to keep it, so the dryer paid for itself in one go :)
You can pick up a set of vacuum bags and a hand pump for not very much money. It's marketed for people storing clothes but works great for filament. I also bought a bunch of reusable silica bags that are made of cotton, and you can microwave them to refresh them back when they have absorbed a lot of moisture. I toss one of the silica bags in the center of the spool after I put that in a vacuum bag, then pump out the air.
So interesting. I love that there can be a second use for silica packs! I didn't know!
Excellent stuff, Becky - thanks for all you do!
Hot tip: Weed paraphernalia webshops often carry large ziploc bags - like 12 by 15 inches, or more than enough for a spool of filament - in small quantities, so you don't have to buy a thousand of them. Dunno if shopping there will put you on any watchlists, though 😝
use piece of duck tape to cover the beeper I have on ender 3 and cr 10 screens it cuts the DB by half to 2/3rds if i had to guess.
Oh look at you with nearly 100k subs. I remember when you were at fruit loop😉... Keep going young lady.
I did buy a vacuum sealer and a de-humidifier just for my filament - I am sad :D
Woot!
That 3D printer must've cost a pretty penny.
😃👍🏼👊🏼
Apparently the color changing silica gel is bad for you, poisonous or something
oh, so I SHOULD'T eat it?! 😆
Love this! I need to look at better ways to store my filament 🫣