Thanks. I especially appreciate the links to the products.

uphill both ways!😁👌👍

I've found home depot buckets to be a great, and cheap, solution. The 2.5 gallon buckets hold 3 spools perfectly and are air tight. The 5 gallon ones hold upwards of 5 spools depending on the width of the spools. Personally I am a cheap bugger so I took it as a personal challenge to come up with a dryer by spending as little as possible using parts I already had sitting around. I used a 60x60mm silicone 12V heating pad I had in a parts box along with an old pentium 4 heatsink and fan and a 12V thermostat. The buckets I just pulled from the shed. They were already clean but a quick wipe down and they were good to go. Printed off a few parts and it's all mounted in the 5gallon bucket. The fan draws air over a calcium chloride desiccant in a tub at the top, and then down the centre tube and over the heatsink warming it up. The warm, dry air slowly goes upwards over the spools pulling moisture out of them and keeps cycling this way. Thermostat keeps the whole thing at around 42°C. I'm shocked at how well it works. I just leave a couple of spools in it for a day or so, pull them out and move into one of the smaller buckets ready to be used whenever I need them. The only downside is that I can't see inside the buckets to know just which filaments are in which bucket. I COULD label them but that would make sense. lol

Very helpful thank you!

I use that same gasket lidded tote. For desiccant I got a cup of Damprid. It's used to lower humidity in closets and small rooms, definitely overkill for a tote but it absorbs moisture fast, it's cheap and lasts a long time. I've had the same cup in my tote for 7 months and it's nowhere near used up. I stuck a spare reptile hygrometer in there and it reads 10% humidity, it may actually be lower because I think that meter reads a minimum of 10%.

It’s really great that you produce such useful content, thank you very much. Creality is also committed to providing a variety of solutions for users to store filament.

I've been doing storing of filaments ( all the types ) in e-sun branded filament vacuum bags for 2 years out of the 4.5 years I've done 3D printing, I have 2 Single spool Sun Lu S1 Filament Dryers which I use to dry for up to 16 hours due to the fact the PETG etc. need longer as the dryers only do up to 55 C where as PETG and other tough filaments like my Nylon need really 85 C to dry. So I do these filaments longer. I am hoping to get the new 4 spool advanced Sun Lu S4 Filament Dryer as it has better drying and a full details touch screen and goes up to 80 C. It is a bit pricey, But compared to the single version it works out better value as it hold 4 spools and can also be printed from. ( costs around £80 UK pounds. But it is out of stock I am not surprised at that price. The only thing is, I not seen any real help drying the filaments and storing them in the e-sun filament vacuum bags even though I put in big bags of desiccant gel? I still get problems with stringing and bad printing on and off. and we don't get year round humid hot weather here just for a short time in the last 2 years in summer! So no heavy moisture really. And the room the 4 printers I use are in stays at a roughly standard temperature and humidly so bit of a puzzle? Maybe when I saved up for the S4 and soon after my 1st enclosed core xy klipper printer, I may get better results.

New 3D printer owner here. Ender 3 V3 KE. One quick question: are the bags re-useable for many re-seals? Thanks for some really useful, no nonsense content! Hitting subscribe!

Decadent packs are only for special occasions 😋

Do you have a link to the dehydrator? Have been searching for a dry box that will be good for nylon but most on Amazon don’t go above 60c

I just want 20 AMS boxes to dry store all my filament and so I can automatically switch between 80 different filaments for my bambu X1C. Too much to ask? 🤔

do you have to dry play?