How To: Dehydrate 3d printer filament
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- I show you how to use a food dehydrator to dry wet 3d printer filament and prevent stringing.
Have you ever 3d printed a nearly perfect part only to have it ruined by oozing and stringing? Oozing in general can have many causes. If you trust your slicer settings and you suddenly ran into issues it might be worth trying to dry your filament.
Food Dehydrator I used to dry my filament:
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I dried the filament for 12 hours at 140F for PLA. Higher temp materials (ABS/Nylon/etc) could be dried at 160F for shorter periods of time.
You many want to build a dry box or just be sure to store your filament in sealed containers if you live in an area with high humidity.
Keep your 3d printing Filament dry with rechargeable desiccant:
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Here is a quick fix using a heat gun to melt away the ooze quickly and easily. It is practically magic...
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Pyramid for Retraction test:
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Another great flick.. I went and bought the Creality Dry Box 2.0, I don't have the space for the big ole food dehydrator... I'm using it now for some wet filament. luz yo videos, Haas man.
Good information. That's much better than using a real oven. Thanks for sharing.
Just built one of these last night using this exact unit. OMG it is LOUD!!! Wasn’t sure how long and at what temp to do it for. Nice thing was I could fit 3 rolls of 1kg spools in it at a time. Did PLA for 2 hours at 160F. Immediately pulled them out, put them with a desiccant pack into those “space bags” and used the vac to suck out all the air. Easy way to store filament for long term.
160f might be a touch high for PLA let me know how it works out. I keep mine in the basement or garage when it's drying to keep noise down.
I modified my unused dehydrator the same way and have used it in the past with some success. Thank you for the temperature settings. I was running it a bit too hot for PLA and my filament, while it printed good, would stick to itself. I'll try the lower 140° next. Thanks again!
Glad I could help!
You can also just use aluminum foil to make the walls and then instead of throwing out the trays and filling up the land fill, sell them as a set on ebay for a couple bucks so they get used.
You think I threw away the trays...I saved them for a future project. I'll reuse them somehow. They could be a grate for a fan or a filter holder or a tray or.....? Aluminum foil could work but would use a ton of aluminum foil to build a 3-4" high spacer.
I ended up hollowing out one of each type of tray. I have Makergear, hatchbox and e-sun filaments and the spools are fatter than what you showed in the video. It's a little loud but I've got PLA in there now. Will post on results.
Also, has anyone used this to reuse silica gel packs?
Good idea I was going to get one of those electric turkey oven but this seems better
It's late so this is probably a silly question but how does this work? Is it just a heater or does it actually remove the moisture? How does it remove the moisture? Where does the moisture go?
+Nerys it heats the air to 160F (at least that's what I use for Nylon, 140F for PLA) which heats the plastic as well. It also has a fan that blows the heated air across the chamber and the spool of plastic. 160F air can hold more moisture than ambient so it absorb moisture from the filament and carries it away in the stream of air away from the spool in essence "drying" it.
ahhhh ok that actually does make sense. make the air hungrier than the plastic and the moisture will leave and get blow away with the air. OK duh. should have realized that.
its just a huge hot air blower taking air from under neath make it hot and blow it out at the top.
What a good idea.
+Jai Stanley Thanks.
think that you could you make this into a drybox for nylon and turn it on when you want to print?
+Robert Grassi yes you could. There are models on thingiverse to make a pass though for the filament. You attach the pass through to a larger "Tupperware" type container and flip it upside down on the dehydrator. I'm not sure if the design or container works with this specific dehydrator though.
Does it matter which tray you cut? You cut the one with handles. Can I cut the other type of tray?
Or instead of destroying a dehydrator you could by an Excalibur and use it to dry filament and also to dehydrate stuff. :)
But seriously, thanks for the info. I have 9 spools that are not usable currently.
Did he really say "a hundred and forty degrees f" instead of Fahrenheit?
so Dehydrate, then airtight store and use, after use place in the airtight ? or Dehydrate, airtight store and repeat ?
Depends on the filament and how well it was stored/shipped to you. Nylons I almost always dehydrate before printing for a bit if I can, then put them in airtight container to print from and store in airtight container with dessicant until next use. ABS and PLA I only dehydrate if I see a loss in print quality and I store after printing airtight with dessicant.
Is there a way to do this just by placing your filament on a heated bed and closing the chamber of your 3d printer?
+3D Printwiz I suppose that could work. You would want airflow as well to allow the moisture to be carried away and not just sitting inside the enclosure.
Thanks for the reply bro. Tested it on an old PLA filament, and it worked beautifully, but one problem is that my printer stops preheating after an hour without activity. Do you know how to stop that, I use Flashforge Creator Pro.
KLZE BABY! that mx-6 looks exactly like mine did before having to let it go i'm so sad now.. you even got the JDM lights on there, I wonder if you got the 13lb 16x8 rx-7 wheels on it :P
+Jack Sadek Actually it's a 1993 MX5 Miata...with a 1996 BP 1.8l engine and a Flyin Miata turbo system. I will be releasing a video this week on it with some of my 3d printed parts featured. MX6 are cool too. I'm definitely a Mazda fan. Thanks for the comment and Happy New Year!
Wow I thought for sure it was a mx6 lol, the front end looks identical in this video, here is a picture of what my car looked like , the only different is this picture does not have the JDM lights and mine did, my lights looked exactly like yours
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Yeah I agree mazda is one hell of a car company, sadly had to get rid of my rx8 last year but I will be getting the new rx-7 or rx-9 that will come out, ZOOM ZOOM!
Isn't new filament only $20? Guess if you have more than 3 rolls you need to save this makes sense.
Nylon requires drying almost everytime before you print with it, even stored relatively well. It also costs more like $50-80 a kilogram. And I have dozens of rolls of filament in all types. It's pretty wasteful throwing out each roll that I left on printer a little too long in open air.
TPE/TPU is almost as bad too.
Thanks!
Why not print a new part for the dehydrator and nor ruining the existing ones? Isn't that the whole idea of 3d printing? :) Just wondering... otherwise great idea!
+Zhivko Gorchev I thought about it. The replacement part is bigger than any of my printers print beds. So it wouod have been several very long prints that needed assembly. At that point the side snips and a little trimming seemed like a good idea. Also replacement trays are $8 on Amazon :)
Zhivko Gorchev the filament would cost more than a replacement trays so it doesn't make any sense to use the 3D printer to make them
Not everything should be 3d printed.
No one says "F"
He says it so damn casually
Not sure where I picked that up I honestly never noticed it. Maybe it's the years of thermodynamics and data acquisition. Who has time to say "Fahrenheit"...
I thought they smelled bad on the ......................................................................outside.
Isn't 'Jai Stanley' the guy that gave you the idea to do this??! No credit to him, or did I just completely miss the boat on this. He even comments on this video 'Good idea!' And you replied with "Thanks!"... Did I misconstrue this?? Just curious. Like the videos though.
+jds232323 good call. +jaistanley was the one to give me the inspiration to cut the racks out. I had been looking for dehydrators when I made the other video and his comment was very timely. I should have given him more credit but didn't realize until now that was where the inspiration came from. I am on many forms of social media and involved in several 3d printing communities so it can get tricky remembering where I saw something. I will try and make sure to make extra effort to keep track of and cite the sources of inspiration.