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  • elauso@feddit.deto3DPrinting@lemmy.worldDry your filament!
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    5 months ago

    I still don’t understand how those cheap filament dryers work: they fully enclose the spool and heat up the air for a few hours. But where does the moist air go? It’s still trapped in there with the filament. It makes no sense!

    I always leave the filament dryer a bit open so the warm air can escape, taking the moisture to a better place (far away from the filament)








  • Yeah those communities are wild. Before I bought my own printer I thought 3D printing is mostly fixing your printer and buying better parts and bed leveling and tuning etc.

    Wasn’t looking forward to it so I bought an off-the-shelf printer with minimal assembly from a “boring” Chinese brand - couldn’t be happier with it, it just prints without any hassle and I have no urge to switch firmwares or tinker with the printer itself instead of with the printed stuff. To each their own I guess.

    (Still plugged in a raspberry pi for octoprint and did some initial calibration for the filament of course …)