We have been asked by customers just like you, how do we store our 3D filaments once they have been dried with our PrintDry filament dryer. Good question!
Since you have taken the time to dry your filaments with our filament dryer it only makes sense to now store them in a way that not only will protect them but keep them as dry as possible so that when you go to use them next time, they will be ready to go and not need to be dried again.
Like most printing labs we tried a variety of different means of keeping our dried filaments protected. We used large zip lock bags, and those work, but we found with everyday use,
they developed small rips most time near the zipper, or the person did not close the bag correctly and the moisturized air seeped back into the bag and then the filament.
So we tried large plastic storage containers to keep more than one spool of filament in at a time. Now this seemed to work, but with our busy printing lab, we found that we were opening and closing the storage containers often to either return one spool for storage or getting another one out for a print job.
We soon discovered that only after a few opening and closing of the lid, the moisturized air in our printing lab had invaded the container and now was the same humidity as the air outside the storage container.
So, faced with an issue, PrintDry designed a airtight sealed storage container that held just one spool. It was made with a see-though plastic, so you did not have to open the container to see what inside, or how much was left on the spool.
We even designed them so that when the containers were not being used, they neatly stored inside each other and took up very little storage space.
We introduced these storage containers on a Kickstarter online promotional campaign and we amazed by the response we received. In less that the first 24 hours of our campaign going online, we met our set goal and by the end of the campaign we had 476 backers and raised just shy of $60,000 USD in pre-order sales.
We proudly sell our containers online on our website of www.printdry.com or on Amazon.com, search for PrintDry.
For those of you who are considered our International customers, please see the list of our authorized re-sellers and distributors across the globe on our website.