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I bought a dryer but I have too many filaments to keep them all in it. Once you’ve dried it, how long do they stay better in the open air before they go bad again?

Ha. My second printer is a DD ender 3 pro, I made a little clasp that holds cotton wool and clips around the filament so it cleans it as it goes into the head. It’s surprising how much dirt ends up in the wool. Anyway if it snaps overnight the clasp yeets off in a random direction and is waiting for me on the print bed in the morning. As my octoprint doesn’t have great night vision it being missing is the only way I can tell the filament has snapped. 🙂

I have a bunch of 6yo pla, not kept well, I’m slowly getting through. It loads and prints fine but snaps in the pipe overnight after the print finishes and everything cools. I’m planning on just unloading it after every print.

I hear ya. My e3pro was starting to act up so I decided to finally upgrade to a Snapmaker U1, which is great. But once I didn’t have to worry about getting stuck not printing I went back and did a complete overhaul of the e3, Btt skr board (2nd hand) new build plate, direct drive conversion etc. now it’s working better than ever. Somewhere Long the line the old girl started under extruding by like 50%+ I don’t know how it was even working!

I do amazing prints on the U1 but I’m having more fun with the ender.

I don’t mean to criticise but if you can add anything more (like the other 200w space) I suggest you should. 👍

Did you mean to say 4000w? 400w isn’t enough for all that equipment.

1. Entropy is a law of our universe. All data wants to be lost given a long enough timeline and without attention.

2. Divide your data into what you can’t do without and what you may not care about losing.

3. Take a backup out of your hands, make it as automatic as possible.

4. I sync to encrypted folders on Google drive then use msp360 cloud to automatically copy everything in that drive to another cheap cloud storage that is client side encrypted.

For the protection it gives me, it’s cheap.