Hi all, I am planning to graduate from PLA prints to PA6-CF. I was wondering what you people out there recommend for a filament dryer?

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    1 month ago

    My two cents.

    You can go a few different routes but what I recommend is getting either a budget dryer you think looks cool and an airfryer or getting a nice dryer and an air fryer. Either way, unless you can hit 90-100c, you are leaving performance/drying capacity on the table

    I started with a shitty Ebios dryer and found that it couldn’t dry PA so I added an airfryer and started putting my engineering filaments in cereal containers. Blast dry in the airfryer at 94c fro about 8h for PA, then print from a dry box.

    These days, I use a Creality SpacePi x4, but my airfryer is still my go-to any time I get a wet roll. It simply hits better temps and has way more airflow. The trick is that you need a unit that has a keep warm and/or dehydrate function so that you can hit low enough temps to not melt the filament but still be able to run the unit for hours on end.

    Best of all, you can often find them used for 10$