Yeah we just had that happen here, dug up old spools and they print pretty badly lol
Thorry84@feddit.nl 5 months ago
Agreed, large spools are too much if you want to play around with all the colors. I have a box of old filament, each spool in plastic with a dry packet and the whole box with a couple of bags of drying stuff and a good seal on the top. But after getting a spool out to use recently (spool about 2 year old) and it printed like shit. I tried putting it in a dryer, but it didn’t help. So I tried more of these spools and they almost all seem to have gone bad.
Such a shame, I should have bought smaller spools, but they are harder to get and often more expensive.
JetpackJackson@feddit.de 5 months ago
Damage@feddit.it 5 months ago
TBH old plastic printed badly when it was new as well, materials keep improving.
JetpackJackson@feddit.de 5 months ago
That’s true.
Damage@feddit.it 5 months ago
Last month I finally gave up and threw away a 10-year-old roll of PLA, there was no way to get it to print decently.
clif@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Same. I go through periods of printing a lot then getting busy and not touching it for months. I’ve noticed my PLA and PLA+ get really brittle as they age even when stored in a dry box and drying again before use.
I can usually get it to print but I have to be gentle with it.