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<p>From the UCC Facebook group, regarding 3D printer stuff - <br>
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class="UFICommentBody"><span>I want to throw out one
other possibility, and one other solution idea.</span><br>
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<span>Obviously, right now, we aren't storing our PLA
in the greatest way. So we can't control for temp
and humidity changes from morning to day to night
right now (we should totes get a Rubbermaid storage
bin with an open bag of desiccant or something
though).</span><br>
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<span>But one other thing is, this isn't a completely
uncommon issue. While proper storage of filament is
blamed a lot in the forums, one other issue to
consider is that when a specific fragment length is
out of the spool there is a lot of tension on it as
it has the memory of being wrapped in the spool, so
the tension on that straight bit is much higher.</span><br>
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<span>its fine when its moving, but other people also
report (especially for cheaper PLA) , that they can
do an 8 hour print fine, but when they leave the
machine idle and come back 2 days later, its always
snapped clean at the spindle....</span><br>
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<span>NOW, this might not be the case, especially if
you have video footage of a hooded figure cutting
the filament... but I thought I would bring it up...
I started researching it after our chat last week...</span><br>
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<span>one temporary solution (until we get a good
storage box for the filament, which i feel is the
best solution, we should do a bunnings run), could
be to just add to our SOP that after you are done
with the printer, if you are the last user, like you
know for sure no one is using it right after you,
you could remove the filiment from the extruder
clamp and put it back on the spindle... this could
save PLA that gets wasted on the breaks...</span><br>
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<span>just a thought....</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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