3D Printing: Can aged PLA be refurbished? (3 Solutions!!)
Channel: Roel Van de Paar
Date: 2019-06-29

3D Printing: Can aged PLA be refurbished?


The Question: Inspired by another question and due to the fact that some of my filament will
face the same problem when I will use them again, I wanted to know if there are
proven recipies to get rid of water that has ben incorporated to PLA filament
from humidity? One knows the filament had too much exposure to humidity when
hearing tiny puffs during extrusion and/or more brittle prints.
I know about suggestions to heat the water out of the filament at a temperature
well below the glass transition temperature, but can someone provide first hand
knowledge or even evidence?

Solutions: Please watch the whole video to see all solutions, in order of how many people found them helpful

== This solution helped 5 people ==
Storing PLAs in plastic zip locks along with Silica Gel helps with extraction
of water from PLAs. If you don't have silica gel, grains of rice can be other
work around for serving the purpose.

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