Originally shared by Harry Rabin Baked a moisture-damaged roll of Bridge at 90C for

Originally shared by Harry Rabin

Baked a moisture-damaged roll of Bridge at 90C for 90 mins, and found this when I was done. Oh well! At least the filament is dry!

If you have an airtight box, a fresh batch of 4A molecular sieve desiccant (about $30 from ebay) will get the relative humidity of a relatively large volume down to <5% RH, which will dry out almost anything, albeit very slowly given there’s no heat.

You can the re-use the desiccant by baking the crap out of it

Yes, indeed, an investment that can last a lifetime. To be honest, though, I’ve had trouble restoring molecular sieve back to it’s original effectiveness. Brand new sieves can take RH down to 2%. I haven’t yet been able to regenerate sieves to that level in my oven, they seem to max out at 4% RH. I saw some guy use a microwave in a lab video on YouTube, I need to try that.

@James_Kao It might be worth trying blown hot air (that’s how the industrial driers I saw worked)

Been there, done that. :slight_smile:

Mine was worse, the roll was standing on its circumference, the shelf bars melted the rim and pressed against the filament. New definition of Fused Filament…

I have a spool that looks the exact same…