We have been asked by customers just like you, how do we store our 3D filaments once they have been dried with our PrintDry filament dryer. Good question!
Since you have taken the time to dry your filaments with our filament dryer it only makes sense to now store them in a way that not only will protect them but keep them as dry as possible so that when you go to use them next time, they will be ready to go and not need to be dried again.
Like most printing labs we tried a variety of different means of keeping our dried filaments protected. We used large zip lock bags, and those work, but we found with everyday use,
they developed small rips most time near the zipper, or the person did not close the bag correctly and the moisturized air seeped back into the bag and then the filament.
So we tried large plastic storage containers to keep more than one spool of filament in at a time. Now this seemed to work, but with our busy printing lab, we found that we were opening and closing the storage containers often to either return one spool for storage or getting another one out for a print job.
We soon discovered that only after a few opening and closing of the lid, the moisturized air in our printing lab had invaded the container and now was the same humidity as the air outside the storage container.
So, faced with an issue, PrintDry designed a airtight sealed storage container that held just one spool. It was made with a see-though plastic, so you did not have to open the container to see what inside, or how much was left on the spool.
We even designed them so that when the containers were not being used, they neatly stored inside each other and took up very little storage space.
We introduced these storage containers on a Kickstarter online promotional campaign and we amazed by the response we received. In less that the first 24 hours of our campaign going online, we met our set goal and by the end of the campaign we had 476 backers and raised just shy of $60,000 USD in pre-order sales.
We proudly sell our containers online on our website of www.printdry.com or on Amazon.com, search for PrintDry.
For those of you who are considered our International customers, please see the list of our authorized re-sellers and distributors across the globe on our website.
Welcome to the world of 3D printing. With any project you complete there are always challenges that need to be addressed and solved. For the 3D printing communities out there, we heard time after time, that they were experiencing failed prints and could not figure out why.
PrintDry was developed out of solution that we were experiencing in house with our own 3D printing of foot orthotics and AFO’s (ankle foot orthotics). Our company called OLTFootcare (www.oltfoot.com) creates these items using a nylon blend of filament, and anyone who has worked with nylon filament before, already understands the issue of having moisture absorbed by the filament.
Our owner re-designed a common house hold kitchen appliance, making the compartments deeper to accept a 1KG spool of 3D printing filament and the opportunity to feed the dried filament directly from the spool to the 3D printer. He even added in a ball bearing top feeder to keep the spool spinning off filament as the printer needs it. He added a second chamber on top so that one of filament dryer can feed to two different printers at once.
We released it to the public in an online Kickstarter campaign in 2016 and the 3D printing community responded with a very supportive 310 backers and just shy of $42,000 USD in pre-order sales.
To this date our filament dryer is sold globally and is our best-selling product. Anyone who lives in a humid climate or has experience sizzling or popcorn spurting of the printing filament can benefit from our filament dryer. We have kept the design simple and work hard to keep the price point low so that every 3D printer out there can afford to own one.
Every type of printing filament can retain moisture from the air around it, and our filament dryer is easy to use, and quite affordable. So, if you are experiencing failed prints and cannot figure out why, it may be because your printing filament has moisture inside of it. Our PrintDry filament dryer can help solve this issue for you.
It can be found on our website, along with all our other PrintDry accessories at www.printdry.com, or also on Amazon.com, search for Print Dry.
