How to handle excess filament with dry box?  

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Posted by: @lnjustin

How’s the best way that you deal with the excess leftover filament that’s unloaded from the mini after printing? There’s a lot unloaded so would be a waste to dump it.  My dry box setup will make it hard and tedious to respool the leftover. What’s a better way?

the best I’ve come up with so far is having extra tubing that I shove the leftover filament in (perhaps with the magnet to magnet PtFE connection on Printables.com). 

Can you post a picture of your setup? It's hard to envision why you can't just turn the spool by hand and wind up the filament. I dry the filament but don't have a dry box on the printer, so it is out in the open while printing. I'm in a dry climate so a few hours to a day out in the open doesn't allow it to absorb much moisture. I just throw it back into the dryer before the next print session.

I have to cut off the end of the unloaded filament anyway, as it usually has a string attached and some extruder marks. Some gets wasted.

Regards,

Mark

RE: How to handle excess filament with dry box?

I do not have the mini, but I store infrequently-used spools in one of three dryboxes I made from home storage tubs and el-cheapo humidity gauges.

I use those dry-pack silica gel things and dry them overnight in the air fryer when the humidity starts creeping up.

RE: How to handle excess filament with dry box?

excess leftover filament that’s unloaded from the mini after printing

Not sure why your setup seems to create so much leftover filament. I usually just rewind the spool manually a bit.