Dry vs Moist TPU in 3D Printing
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My #TPU took on some moisture and my #ditto #3dprint really showed it. So I had a go at drying it out and I’m super pleased with the results.
I used a DIY solution, but if you want to look into filaments dryers, Amazon’s got ‘em (affiliate): amzn.to/408KPqY
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It’s amazing how community oriented 3D printing is, I can’t believe you found the mods for that exact dehydrator!
@printmeister
Жыл бұрын
I know right?! It’s so awesome!!
@leonardopaulsen2116
Жыл бұрын
The 3d printing community is probably one of the best out there
@beurownboss1554
Жыл бұрын
I’m stoked bc I have the same exact dehydrator too. I actually make a lot off jerky with mine tho lol but def planning on drying out some tpu with that adaptor
@JimmyLucas-ev1hp
10 ай бұрын
if you become apart of the community keep it that way!
@cybyrd9615
10 ай бұрын
Yea it's not always that easy
I use that same dehydrator for making jerky. Looks like I have a project to try out
@thereinthetrees_5626
Жыл бұрын
Wouldn’t recommend using it for jerky again afterwards
@CloudNey
8 ай бұрын
@@thereinthetrees_5626correct. These filaments are not food safe
The ditto of normal person agains the ditto of a smoker
I’ve been 3D printing for a year and so far my favorite thing about 3D printing is the community. This reminds me, I need to order TPU during Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales. I haven’t tried it yet and have a Sunlu dryer spool now that I used to recondition some of my early filaments before I learned about dry boxes.
I honestly thought for a hot second the ditto was a scrub daddy 💀
I recently found an open, five year old spool of PLA and surprisingly it printed perfectly.
@Raykay1294
12 күн бұрын
That spool has never seen daylight 💀
😂 When I buy filament, I use one color until I'm done using that color. Those other packages just stay closed. I'm gonna skip that whole process.😅
@joelambert-beauregard4285
5 ай бұрын
Don't be so sure, factory seals are not perfect. Sealed filament has often absorbed moisture, either in the bag, or before packaging.
What are the chances that I was looking at KZread shorts and this video popped up at the same time as my daughter picking out a print to make on makers world and the one she picked was a ditto?
Thats pretty solid evidence. Im still gonna pretend leaving my filament out is fine, but youre right lol
lol the wet ditto genuinely looks depressed
Pretty cool! I have a similar dehydrator that I made a Paper Adaptor for to fit my Filament with a good seal (although it needs some adjustment for ease of use). And I used it for TPU, but I noticed that even just after a few hours, I noticed a difference in my stringing test! I would love to have a way to store the filament without getting wet, and to be able to use it while it's in storage without getting wet. Cool video! Thank your for sharing,
Thanks for showing this, I had heard about moisture being an issue, but never saw a comparison like this before. 👍
my mom used to have that exact dehydrator, we used to pick apples from the tree in our backyard, core them and cut them into circular slices using a special spinning tool thingy, add cinnamon and make apple chips out of them, those things are so fucking good and i want to make them again now
@printmeister
8 ай бұрын
Send some my way when you do! 😋
WhattheFUNKYCOLDMEDINA You squished that thing, and I was *not* prepared.
I like the fact that his voice sound moist after he used the dehydrator
Squishy! ❤ I use the same dehydrator for making jerky all the time. 😅 I'm going to buy a filament dehydrator soon. I'm also going to store my filament in food saver bags, cuz I never use that thing. 😅
I wonder if I'm the only one that likes how the first ditto looks. Add a cool texture.
makes me wonder if someone would be willing to make a filament dehydrator that clicks onto the 3d printer so it can always stay dehydrated
@printmeister
Жыл бұрын
I don't know of an exact model, but I have seen stand-alone filament dehydrators that also act as a spool holder and feed directly into the printer.
@JessicaFEREM
Жыл бұрын
@@printmeister I could imagine someone could make an attachment for a dehydrator that would have a hole for filament to go through. It would have to be vertical tho...
@elias.jung04
7 ай бұрын
@@JessicaFEREMWhy does it have to be vertical? I have a 5kg spool holder, and my stand for it holds horizontally. Works just as well.
@charmio
7 ай бұрын
You don't actually want that. Dehydrators have openings for airflow. What you really want is a dehydrator AND a box with 3a molecular sieves inside with a hole drilled in the lid.
@dillpickle7633
2 ай бұрын
You can use the filament box and poke 4-6 holes with a screwdriver.
I store dry, i print out of filament dehydrators, and if needed i have a higher temp food dehydrator. Store dry, print dry, keep dry. It seriously helps, especially for petg.
"I used the filament to fix the filament"
I use a vacuum box. Warm spool and vacuum drues instantly.
And it's a shiny Ditto as well
You can use your print bed as a make shift heater
This is the juice right here 😁
I use a storage box with self adhesive draft stop foam and $2 room dehumidifier thingy and seems to work just fine to keep my filament dry it seems to work fine for a total cost of about $15 but the dehumidifier does need to be replaced occasionally
Here's a tip: for best results with TPU filament, you should feed the TPU directly from the dryer, to the nozzle
@SonicKiwi123
7 ай бұрын
This is an absolute must for using Nylon/PA6/PA12 unless your print isn't going to take longer than a half hour or so. It just absorbs so just water so quickly
I feel sorry I didn't hear "Ditto" but the motorized other one :'D great hack btw
wow wtf that must be a popular dehydrator, i love when you find stuff like an adapter for your shit haha to make a 50 dollar item free hahaha amazing
From experience dry tpu is a must for printing
Oh you can make squishy stuff with a 3d printer! *Cough* I may... Um... May buy one now... For... Reasons
That's the darker shade of a shiny ditto, also known as a shitto
i still want a filament dryer and a portable printer head
me watching the video: 😐 "And he is nice and smooth and squishy" Me: 😯😯😯🤯🤯😁😁😁😁😁😁😍😍😍😍😍🥳🥳
I just cut the webbed racks out of a handful of trays.
Sunlu is now 35 $ 2024 model.
This video made me feel attacked
I use my dehydrator to dry magic mushrooms
Well this is great. I feel a little stupid for not having thought of that since I make jerky with a dehydrator and also 3d print. 😬
@printmeister
2 ай бұрын
That’s ok. Yah probably don’t want to use the dehydrator for food after sticking filament in there anyway
hey nice video man, on what temp erature are u dehydrating?
Use your 3d printer hot bed, put your roll on it set to 60c . Use the carton package of your roll to cover itpoen few smal hole on the carton, wait 30 min it should ne good.
I wonder if they'll ever have a filament that gets fuzzy in a controlled way to hide layer lines without the pitting the waterlogged stuff does
@ThePacmandevil
Жыл бұрын
foaming filament already exists, it's based on temp rather than moisture though
@samonsthewise
Жыл бұрын
Besides the mentioned foaming filaments, modern slicers also have a fuzzy skin option that does exactly what you are describing.
Does a ziplock bag with one of the dehydrator packets that come with the roll work? I’ve been having issues with blobs and zits I’m thinking it might be the cause
Next time make the Z seam in the back
Then there's me with TPU wet out of the box, drying for six hours in dedicated filament dryer and still looking worse than YOUR BEFORE PRINT
@printmeister
10 ай бұрын
That sounds frustrating 😱
@peter9011
8 ай бұрын
I’ve been printing a decent bit out of tpu I’ve found brand makes a massive difference, I usually buy the cheapest filaments but with tpu I pretty much buy the most expensive, it’s £25 for half a kg of the stuff I get usually and since I’ve spent the bit extra I get perfect prints (after drying ofc)
I found if I can’t dry the tpu If I print at a really high temperature (300°C) then it comes out just fine. Not ideal but if I’m in a hurry it also lets me print at 200mm/s with mediocre quality
Can I have the cad file for this
the firs one is like please killlllll meeeeeeeerr
What are the chances that someone used the exact food dehydrater
Hey, do you have a link to the Ditto by any chance ?
You can also put it in microwave
A pretty big difference apparently
D I T T O
Just wondering does tpu make any bad fumes when printing because my parents are worried about me printing with it
😂it's been 2 years I have my pla and it does not move ...
Idk, kinda liked tge imperfections.
Dude, clean that fan.
Did you get the model from cults3d??
Can you dehydrate pla?
I have my filament sitting around for over 3 years in my office and the prints still turn out perfectly, so how much time does it take until it gets bad?
@printmeister
7 ай бұрын
Depends on the filament. TPU picks up water much quicker than most others. There’s a pretty good debate on whether or not drying is even necessary on pla.
This is absurd how many things you need for 3d printing
@printmeister
7 ай бұрын
There are a lot of things 😬. You could probably skip the filament dryer if you don’t print in TPU or just use it all shortly after opening it.
Where can I find the file for the ditto print? I’ve been searching for forever to make a Christmas gift for my little brother but I can’t seem to find it.
@printmeister
6 ай бұрын
Right here: www.thingiverse.com/thing:1932974
@McMayoMemes
6 ай бұрын
@@printmeister thank you so much!
So I don’t need an enclosure for TPU printing eyes😮?
@printmeister
7 ай бұрын
Not in my experience. Though I haven’t done a lot of printing with tpu
Wait what how does plastic absorb moisture
Is this a publicly available model?
Hii What side are you getting these models from?
@printmeister
7 ай бұрын
I usually search on thangs.com. If I can’t find what I’m looking for I search on Cults3D next.
Did you try putting it in rice.
Where is the dido
😲
Files???
Thats a shiny ditto btw😏
@printmeister
8 ай бұрын
Love it! Didn’t even think of that!!!
What temperature did you use on the dehydrator?
@printmeister
9 ай бұрын
I think 46c for this. It’s been a while though
Now let’s align that z-seam so my OCD can calm down
I've been meaning to make a dry print box for ages, it's cheaper and just as easy as a food dehydrator, and it lets you print straight from the box. All you need is some rollers to put the spool on, a reptile terrarium heating pad for the bottom, and some sharkbite fittings for your bowden tubing and you can pretty much seal off everything right up to the extruder. To make it even better, add a fan at the bottom to suck in air from below the box, and a little flap at the top (just kept closed by gravity) so that you have positive pressure and some airflow, and it'll dry filament in a few minutes.
Isn’t ditto canonically a mistake so shouldn’t it have holes and imperfections in it?
oyasumi onii-chan
Correction; boiling.
Do fleshlight
Why do you kinda sound like goku
home made jerkey is the way
Make me a yellow Banana
53rd
lol mass click😂
Stop printing stuff that has no use
@aidyfrog1347
6 ай бұрын
“Stop having fun!!!!!!” - you
I think if you printed the ditto in pink like it should’ve been, then the water in the it would actually make it look pretty cool
Hygrometer
I’ve used 4 year old pla that just sat in my basement and never had issues likes the first ditto… I think that might be settings related
@printmeister
Жыл бұрын
This is TPU though. It reacts differently to moisture than PLA
@hgeyer99
Жыл бұрын
@@printmeister I somehow did not notice that!!!
Not a very good ditto… should be an exact copy
@printmeister
8 ай бұрын
He’s working on it 😆
Minecraft
Who here hates tpu for it's inability to print well or at all?
@No-ub5ju
6 ай бұрын
turns out nobody is as stupid as you
Please yellow banana
@Weirdomanification
9 ай бұрын
🍌
Second print is no okay at all. Only in comparison to the first. A lot of small blobs and dots. TPU must be dried for about 8 hours at 70-80C. Then, with the right hotend temperature you could make great print.