PrintDry Filament Dryer

What a difference it makes !!. My dry filament works perfectly now. I never thought it would make such a big difference to the quality of the print.

So far I've dried two rolls of film and have noticed a difference in the performance and quality of the film being extruded. It does the job and seems to do it well. The only reason I'm not giving it 5 stars is because it doesn't have a timer on the unit. Would be nice to set the machine and walk away knowing it will shut off when the time is up. Something to think about for the company if they haven't already.

Well, it works. It does what it is suppose to do. I like the fact it is really built to replace the spool holder and you just print from it while it runs keeping everything as dry as possible. If you live in a humid environment like I do, it solves so many issues that you never realized were due to wet plastic that you will be in denial. Grind through, breakage, bad surface quality, clogging, bad layer adhesion, splitting, not bonding to the build platform. I could go on but I will spare you. I am surprised there are not more competitors in this space though. My complaints really stem from the poor manufacturing quality. The unit isn't very robust. I would describe it as "fragile" and it probably would not survive if I were to knock it off the table by mistake. I certainly hope it holds up to the usage I intend to put it through. I will certainly revisit this as the unit ages and we know more about how well built it really is.

Filament can bind up easily and screw up a print. Can't get the double stack feature to work properly.

Yes, it's basically a food dehydrator rigged up to be a filament dryer/dispenser. But really, it saved me quite a lot of time trying to find parts to cobble together to do this myself. I read reviews here about the parts not fitting together or being sturdy, so I was a bit hesitant when i bought this. However, mine is just fine. All the parts fit perfectly together, and it's been working to keep my filament dry as i print for a couple of weeks now. I've got a dual-extruder printer, so the ability to have both spools in the dryer and feed straight into my printer is wonderful. I tend to have very long prints, so I'm actually glad that the dryer doesn't have a timed off. Once my filament is dry, I keep it running at a low temperature throughout the print, as we live in a very humid spot and even the exposure during the length of the print was causing problems. Now my prints are the best they've ever been. I'm very thrilled with this machine.

I received the new design with the "more durable but cloudier plastic" and the quality control is very lacking. Issue #1: The cylindrical trays do not fit on the base unit properly, they slide around and leave a gap between the tray and the base. This is visible in the display picture of the item, look at where the trays meet the base and you can see where the trays have slid off to the right because of poor tolerances or lack of testing. Issue #2: The 2nd filament feeder does not fit in the metal tray for the upper deck, the holes are too small for the mounting feet to fit into so good luck using the second feeder without first modifying the metal tray.

A lot of parts were included with no explanation of assembly or use. It works. But I only put Silica Gel packets in it so far for re-charging. It came without instructions of any kind, but seems to run ok.

Works great! Comes faster than the 3 to 4 weeks it says. The only thing is I wish it could get a bit hotter, then it could anneal prints as well. It gets hot enough to anneal some but not most materials. Especially with the layering process of 3d printing annealing can greatly increase strength and durability. Looks like I still have to steal the kitchen oven when I can!