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Why am I having so much trouble drying filament? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I’ve got an esun dryer box, it seems to be working ok (it gets hot, fan works, it stays on for several hours) but I don’t seem to be able to get it to actually successfully dry my filament.

I’ve got a roll of PETG that’s been out for a while, had problems when printing (popping, lots of stringing, and it keeps crashing when bridging), I figured it’s just wet, but even after 8 hours of drying it’s no better.

So I just need to dry it for longer? Am I doing something wrong?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

I saw a TikTok the other day of someone explaining that the filament dryers really aren't all that great at getting it dry. Ultimately he explained that food dehydrators are the way to go.