Comment on What Relative Humidity do you keep for your PLA and how do you achieve that.
GhostlyPixel@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I live in a really dry climate, so I don’t really notice issues unless I have a spool out on the printer for months, and even then dust is more of an issue than humidity.
To be safe, I bought a storage bin with a gasket on the lid that I store all of my other spools in, and that has seemed to work great.
ShadowRam@fedia.io 3 months ago
Yeah.. I've been printing now for 11 years..
I've submerged PLA in water overnight and then printed it to prove humidity has no effect on PLA.
PLA doesn't give a shit about humidity and never has. All the early days of 3D Printing that used Nylon needed drying out.
Even early days PLA getting brittle was about strain fatigue on the filament and nothing to do with humidity. But modern day PLA these days doesn't suffer from those old school issues anymore.
Dust will cause more issues than humidity.
callcc@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s interesting. I’ve never noticed issues either but then again I usually keep the spools in sealed abgs with silica