PrintDry Filament Dryer

I received this last weekend so we will see how well it works long term. In the short term it has made a great difference in my prints. I did look at some of the cheaper alternatives that several people have come up with. In the end I decided I didn't want to hack up a food dehydrator or cobble something together. Baking filament in the oven is an alternative but my wife does not want the possibility of it out gassing into the oven and getting into the food. I must admit I agree with her on that one.Anyways, while I have been diligent in keeping my filament in a vacuum bag with desiccant inside, I still ended up with waterlogged filament. As soon as I received my PrintDry, I loaded it up with two spools of PLA and set them to cooking for about 5 hours at 45C. Once they were dry I used the PrintDry as a spool and fed the filament out to my printer. This servers two purposes, one I don't have to free up more bench space for a separate print spool and the PrintDry. And two I can keep the PrintDry on while printing. The two spool holders inside the unit provide a low friction feed for the printer. I was able to recover both reels of PLA as well as recharging the desiccant pack I had lying around. The unit also came with several desiccant packs and some filament clips. All in all, I'm happy with it. I'll post updates as I use it more.

I was able to lower my extruder temp down to 175c for Polylactic Acid after using this and my layers are much more uniform. Supports break away so easy now. I live in a very humid environment and I never realised how much moisture was affecting my print. Now I put my spool in the print dry as soon as I break the vacuum seal and print away. If you have a spool that's been exposed to the environment for a while I recommend drying it in the print dry over night as it takes a long time to dehydrate a full spool. Only thing I dont like about it is I think I got a returned unit. Looks like someone took a dremel to the two mounting holes in the metal plate, but it still functions fine. If the element or fan ever goes bad you can just buy a regular dehydrator for a third of the price because this is just their normal dehydrator with a special made enclosure.

Yes, it's basically a food dehydrator rigged up to be a filament dryer/dispenser. But really, it saved me quite a lot of time trying to find parts to cobble together to do this myself. I read reviews here about the parts not fitting together or being sturdy, so I was a bit hesitant when i bought this. However, mine is just fine. All the parts fit perfectly together, and it's been working to keep my filament dry as i print for a couple of weeks now. I've got a dual-extruder printer, so the ability to have both spools in the dryer and feed straight into my printer is wonderful.I tend to have very long prints, so I'm actually glad that the dryer doesn't have a timed off. Once my filament is dry, I keep it running at a low temperature throughout the print, as we live in a very humid spot and even the exposure during the length of the print was causing problems.Now my prints are the best they've ever been. I'm very thrilled with this machine.

Well, it works. It does what it is suppose to do. I like the fact it is really built to replace the spool holder and you just print from it while it runs keeping everything as dry as possible. If you live in a humid environment like I do, it solves so many issues that you never realized were due to wet plastic that you will be in denial. Grind through, breakage, bad surface quality, clogging, bad layer adhesion, splitting, not bonding to the build platform. I could go on but I will spare you. I am surprised there are not more competitors in this space though. My complaints really stem from the poor manufacturing quality. The unit isn't very robust. I would describe it as "fragile" and it probably would not survive if I were to knock it off the table by mistake. I certainly hope it holds up to the usage I intend to put it through. I will certainly revisit this as the unit ages and we know more about how well built it really is.

This dryer has worked well, and dries filament. It is a bit clunky with the various parts, and getting the filament into the dryer, but the important thing is that it works well, which it does. It has made a major difference to my print quality.

So far I've dried two rolls of film and have noticed a difference in the performance and quality of the film being extruded. It does the job and seems to do it well. The only reason I'm not giving it 5 stars is because it doesn't have a timer on the unit. Would be nice to set the machine and walk away knowing it will shut off when the time is up. Something to think about for the company if they haven't already.

Before I bought this I bought the eSUN filament dryer because it was half the cost and seemed to be purpose built. Big mistake. It was severely underpowered. I had to put my filament in a cardboard box place it on my heated build plate instead (it works well) but obviously I cant print while doing that and the heated build plate is very power hungry.This product actually works. The plastic pieces don't fit tightly together, but that is by design since the dryer needs to vent. So far I have successfully restored some rolls of PVA filament that were totally waterlogged.

Works great! Comes faster than the 3 to 4 weeks it says. The only thing is I wish it could get a bit hotter, then it could anneal prints as well. It gets hot enough to anneal some but not most materials. Especially with the layering process of 3d printing annealing can greatly increase strength and durability. Looks like I still have to steal the kitchen oven when I can!

Works fine, not particularly poorly made. Main complaint is that the bottom deck gets significantly warmer than the top deck, which makes me hesitant to buy more spool feeders for it.

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