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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I opened the box just one week ago
Was it in an air-tight bag in that box?
Moonrise2473@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
They used heat shrink packaging, which doesn’t look very airtight
roofuskit@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Even the thick plastic bags are semi permeable. Eventually every sealed filament will soak up moisture.
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Heat shrink packaging is typical and should be fine. Strange.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.