I love the Polymaker Storage container but not 100% in like with the dryer portion. To make the PolyMaker storage containers truly awesome and functional would be to make a manifold that attaches to multiple Polycontainers, all of which are plumbed to a central heating/drying device. I hope there’s a Maker/Builder out there with more motivation than I, because I’d like to see it made. Super helpful video as always. Thanks!
I found a used air fryer with a dehydration setting for $10. Big enough drying area for a 1 kg roll. Seems to work great so far. Ive dried TPU, ABS, PETG, PLA and PA with excellent results.
I got my food dehydrator even a bit cheaper and I opened it up and added an extra tunable resistor on the connection to the thermistor which allows tuning the temperature and actually pushing it up a bit higher than the 70C that's normally the max. Do keep it reasonable though, so that nothing starts melting. Add a separate cheap temperature and hygrometer to it (make sure the display of that unit isn't in the heat, as it will just fail) to keep an eye on temperature and humidity.
A filament reel cardboard box with a few vent holes and a side cut out to make an open bottom on a 3D printer bed makes a good FREE filament drier for people who want to dry a reel of filament overnight and print with it in the morning. I print a lot of TPU which is very hygroscopic. I need to print as the filament is drying. I've thought about a wall mounted dry box above the printer with a filament feed hole drilled in the bottom so it feeds down directly into the extruder (no reverse Bowden tube adding drag to elongate flexible filament), but what I think I really need to make is a 12" tall drying column mounted to the top of the printer so the filament is dried just as it enters the printer by a small blower pushing heated air up the column.
Just the video I didn't want to see just after receiving my poly maker drier, oh well, it'll work for me I hope, but will probably invest in one of the others going forward
I really hope you don't take this latest "opinion" of mine as gospel when making filament drier decisions. The Polymaker Polydryer works, it does dry filament, and it does a better job at storing dry filament, keeping it dry while stored, than any other option I have presented. For me personally and my typical printing workflow, other than some really exotic engineering stuff, the rest of what I print is typically full rolls, so the added value/convenience of sealed storage is not a deciding factor for me. I just counted, I still have 12 of the storage boxes and 3 dryer bases, all of which are going nowhere.
I will stick to the polydryer boxs while using a dedicated drier. I find their boxes do maintain the filament pretty well, and do not need to be plugged in and running while printing from them. I do keep a single polymaker drier around to refresh a drybox if I am printing with one and find its starting to get a little wet. But I always dry my filament in a dedicated drier before they go into the polydry boxes for storage.
Oh boy this is going to ruffle some feathers. 😂 Hey! Anyone wanna ask why the internal temp test wasn’t done by any of the dozens of content creators who deeply, emphatically and enthusiastically endorsed this drier when it came out? I love polymaker but not enough to spend hundreds of dollars on a drier ecosystem that doesn’t work. I sent mine back immediately.
I am one that endorsed the Polydryer when it came out, included a link to that video in this video and I did check temperatures in multiple locations inside the box. This is the first time I actually ran a thermocoupler down into the output of the drier itself and measured its output. Don't get me wrong, it's a good system, the boxes themselves are well designed, seal VERY well and work great to print from. Being able to pop the covers off the bottom and set it on the drier is an added feature. It is a good solution for a lot of different filaments, it is not however the solution I will chose when it is my money I am deciding with.
Thanks for the comparison, much appreciated. I'm still fully team food dehydrator. I have a cabinet style magic mill and it's been excellent. It's quiet as well; the fan sounds like a box fan on low. I also have the polymake polydryer and love it for TPU. It lives on a shelf above my A1 mini with a couple of the boxes that I store my TPU. I just swap the active TPU spool to the dryer when I want to print with it and feed from above while drying. But the food dehydrator handles the bulk of the drying.
Almost every roll of PLA, PETG, ABS, ASA and TPU go through my old school dehydrator before being used. Like I said, somewhere between 200 and 400 (maybe a lot more) rolls have run through mine and other than being noisy, it does what I need, dries filament.
I run my filament in the dryer on low for 45 min before every print session, it has worked flawlessly but it's cheap and easy too. Not near as nice as one of these fancy apparatus.
getting into 3d printing but like where i live , a dryer like that is useless, if pla absorbs like ive read. big waste of money. ace from anycubic is the only true drier out there. on a good day with dehumidifier i may get it down to 74 percent humidity. lucky to match temp. in humid southeast. once you take them out it starts absorbing moisture.
Anycubic ACE is not a filament drier, it's a MMU system for multi-color printing. Aside from the old school Dehydrator in my video and my lab oven, the other 3 driers I reviewed can be used to print from while drying. I'm not sure how these compare to a MMU system though as this video does not have anything to do with MMU systems.
@@EDGEOF3D its advertised as a drier and has settings and it gets warm inside, im a noob but it gets hot in there, if its not they need to be sued for false advert
Glad to see you making video's again Scott. Good stuff.
I love the Polymaker Storage container but not 100% in like with the dryer portion.
To make the PolyMaker storage containers truly awesome and functional would be to make a manifold that attaches to multiple Polycontainers, all of which are plumbed to a central heating/drying device.
I hope there’s a Maker/Builder out there with more motivation than I, because I’d like to see it made.
Super helpful video as always. Thanks!
I found a used air fryer with a dehydration setting for $10. Big enough drying area for a 1 kg roll. Seems to work great so far. Ive dried TPU, ABS, PETG, PLA and PA with excellent results.
Great to see you creating content again.
Would like to see a review of the new Sunlu E2 releasing on Jan 8th.
If I ever get one, I'll test it. Unfortunately, I'm not purchasing one just for testing so it may be a while before I end up with one.
Got the Polyphemus on sale about a year ago and love it so far. Bit pricey, but good buy when on sale.
I got my food dehydrator even a bit cheaper and I opened it up and added an extra tunable resistor on the connection to the thermistor which allows tuning the temperature and actually pushing it up a bit higher than the 70C that's normally the max. Do keep it reasonable though, so that nothing starts melting. Add a separate cheap temperature and hygrometer to it (make sure the display of that unit isn't in the heat, as it will just fail) to keep an eye on temperature and humidity.
A filament reel cardboard box with a few vent holes and a side cut out to make an open bottom on a 3D printer bed makes a good FREE filament drier for people who want to dry a reel of filament overnight and print with it in the morning.
I print a lot of TPU which is very hygroscopic. I need to print as the filament is drying. I've thought about a wall mounted dry box above the printer with a filament feed hole drilled in the bottom so it feeds down directly into the extruder (no reverse Bowden tube adding drag to elongate flexible filament), but what I think I really need to make is a 12" tall drying column mounted to the top of the printer so the filament is dried just as it enters the printer by a small blower pushing heated air up the column.
I'm running a Thordsen3D Inline Filament drier on one of my printers, works good to dry filament as its printing.
Just the video I didn't want to see just after receiving my poly maker drier, oh well, it'll work for me I hope, but will probably invest in one of the others going forward
I really hope you don't take this latest "opinion" of mine as gospel when making filament drier decisions. The Polymaker Polydryer works, it does dry filament, and it does a better job at storing dry filament, keeping it dry while stored, than any other option I have presented.
For me personally and my typical printing workflow, other than some really exotic engineering stuff, the rest of what I print is typically full rolls, so the added value/convenience of sealed storage is not a deciding factor for me. I just counted, I still have 12 of the storage boxes and 3 dryer bases, all of which are going nowhere.
I will stick to the polydryer boxs while using a dedicated drier. I find their boxes do maintain the filament pretty well, and do not need to be plugged in and running while printing from them.
I do keep a single polymaker drier around to refresh a drybox if I am printing with one and find its starting to get a little wet. But I always dry my filament in a dedicated drier before they go into the polydry boxes for storage.
Oh boy this is going to ruffle some feathers. 😂
Hey! Anyone wanna ask why the internal temp test wasn’t done by any of the dozens of content creators who deeply, emphatically and enthusiastically endorsed this drier when it came out?
I love polymaker but not enough to spend hundreds of dollars on a drier ecosystem that doesn’t work. I sent mine back immediately.
I am one that endorsed the Polydryer when it came out, included a link to that video in this video and I did check temperatures in multiple locations inside the box.
This is the first time I actually ran a thermocoupler down into the output of the drier itself and measured its output.
Don't get me wrong, it's a good system, the boxes themselves are well designed, seal VERY well and work great to print from. Being able to pop the covers off the bottom and set it on the drier is an added feature. It is a good solution for a lot of different filaments, it is not however the solution I will chose when it is my money I am deciding with.
@ I knew it wasn’t doing what needed immediately after drying my first roll.
Thanks for the comparison, much appreciated.
I'm still fully team food dehydrator. I have a cabinet style magic mill and it's been excellent. It's quiet as well; the fan sounds like a box fan on low.
I also have the polymake polydryer and love it for TPU. It lives on a shelf above my A1 mini with a couple of the boxes that I store my TPU. I just swap the active TPU spool to the dryer when I want to print with it and feed from above while drying.
But the food dehydrator handles the bulk of the drying.
Almost every roll of PLA, PETG, ABS, ASA and TPU go through my old school dehydrator before being used. Like I said, somewhere between 200 and 400 (maybe a lot more) rolls have run through mine and other than being noisy, it does what I need, dries filament.
The dual slot dryer I would buy is the reality space pi pro, pretty good dryer for the price I think I picked one up for like $68 on aliexpress
I cannot comment on the SpacePi, I've not had one.
@@EDGEOF3D its really good for the peice
The Polydryer wins for anyone with the Bambu AMS that builds the Python mod and enclosure.
I run my filament in the dryer on low for 45 min before every print session, it has worked flawlessly but it's cheap and easy too.
Not near as nice as one of these fancy apparatus.
getting into 3d printing but like where i live , a dryer like that is useless, if pla absorbs like ive read. big waste of money. ace from anycubic is the only true drier out there. on a good day with dehumidifier i may get it down to 74 percent humidity. lucky to match temp. in humid southeast. once you take them out it starts absorbing moisture.
Anycubic ACE is not a filament drier, it's a MMU system for multi-color printing.
Aside from the old school Dehydrator in my video and my lab oven, the other 3 driers I reviewed can be used to print from while drying. I'm not sure how these compare to a MMU system though as this video does not have anything to do with MMU systems.
@@EDGEOF3D its advertised as a drier and has settings and it gets warm inside, im a noob but it gets hot in there, if its not they need to be sued for false advert