How quick is quick? I have a heated dry box, so all new filament gets at least a 24 hour spa treatment. If I know it’s wet, it lives in it until color indicating silica gel no longer changes, then another day for good measure.
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Moonrise2473@feddit.it 11 months agoI bought it before COVID but I opened the box just one week ago. It was wet (lots of stringing) but after a quick drying session it printed ok (photos coming soon). Then I put it back in my IKEA dry box
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
roofuskit@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You didn’t dry it enough. You only dried the outside, the inside was still wet and brittle. Once you used up the dry stuff it broke.
Ulrich@feddit.org 11 months ago
Was it in an air-tight bag in that box?
Moonrise2473@feddit.it 11 months ago
They used heat shrink packaging, which doesn’t look very airtight
Ulrich@feddit.org 11 months ago
Heat shrink packaging is typical and should be fine. Strange.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Even the thick plastic bags are semi permeable. Eventually every sealed filament will soak up moisture.