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Topic: Oven baking old ABS

I was having some trouble with good prints.  I could also hear some crackling when extruding.  The picture below is extrusion before and after 2hrs of baking at 170F.

http://virtualvector.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ScreenHunter_07-Sep.-14-16.21.jpg

You can see it made a significant change in the quality of what is coming out of the nozzle and what a little bit of moisture can do sad

SD2, glass bed, MK5 setup with E3D lite extruder
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Re: Oven baking old ABS

nice catch..