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Re: humidity checker for pellets?

null@example.com (Weekend Avenger) — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 03:04:19 +0000

My apologies for not noticing that you had posted into the thread again.

I don't dry mine. Once it becomes summer here with the humidity issue that my area has, I will be forced to I'm sure.

At that point it will just be the oven on low heat (as low as my electric oven can go) and let them sit in that for 4 hours or so. As long as it's below the melting point of the ABS and above ambient the pellets will get "dryer". I'll just dump them into a glass baking pan for this purpose.

For my purposes, I have no real need to know if it's "dry enough"... However dry I can get it is when I'm going to run it through the extruder. It's not a great plan, but just running it out of the baggies it came in last summer was sufficient without drying the pellets.

Re: humidity checker for pellets?

null@example.com (redbarret) — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 21:01:26 +0000

Okay. How do you dry yours in a way that you don't have the need to check if it's dry enough in the end?

Re: humidity checker for pellets?

null@example.com (Weekend Avenger) — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 11:55:48 +0000

The only kind I've ever seen that I think "might" measure anything on pellets is the one they use for spot checking grain. But even for that use, ranges are normally 10%-30% which I'd think your pellets should be far below that.

I'd just dry them and then not worry about it myself.

humidity checker for pellets?

null@example.com (redbarret) — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 15:37:36 +0000

I know there's a "moisture meter" for checking moisture content in wood.
Can it or some other tool be used for checking the level of humidity in my pellets before feeding my Filastruder?