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Topic: Anyone making a "Heat Box" to store filament?

I had a vision today of making a heated box behind my Doodle with shelves and a pipe to feed my filament into the doodle.

Basically i would have several shelves to store spare filaments and have a station with a large spool and small spool holder to feed filament through a hole in the front.

The only reason I am thinking of doing this is I have some nylon on the way and I have heard of problems printing with moist nylon.

What do you think I should consider for the heating element?

I'll post a sketch up when I get time.

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Re: Anyone making a "Heat Box" to store filament?

Search for "golden rod" . I have a big Tupperware container that I keep my filament with the golden rod. it keeps it dry and might work for what you were thinking.

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Re: Anyone making a "Heat Box" to store filament?

That looks like it will work pretty good. I suppose I could just do my initial dry in the oven and store the filament in something like that.

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Re: Anyone making a "Heat Box" to store filament?

I have had plans for the last six months to get around making a little arduino controlled unit... They have a lot of humidity sensors that could turn the heaters on and off in the box depending on humidity. Then feeding the filament through a piece of styrofoam,  we could have it go direct to the solidoodle.  But it's always on the bottom of my task list hmm

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Re: Anyone making a "Heat Box" to store filament?

You might like something like this - http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:34300

It's a guide for running filament from a bunch of spools set up under the desk.

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Re: Anyone making a "Heat Box" to store filament?

I have a ton of space under the desk.... The gears are a turning.

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Re: Anyone making a "Heat Box" to store filament?

i have a 60w light bulb in a 52L plastic storage box with 2 kg of rice in the bottom and i still have moist filament damn living too close to Antarctica sucks.

the box stays at a constant 25 degrees C

do you think the dehumidifier rod would be up to that task? if so can you get them in 240v versions?

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Re: Anyone making a "Heat Box" to store filament?

This is intended for water soluble filament but you could probably incorporate it, or components of it.

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:72304