Mhm. Looking at those prices, maybe I should skip rejuvenation and just sell my soaked dessiccant…
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I have the A1 with AMS lite, so no sealed AMS for me. I WAS getting in a lazy habit of leaving spools on the AMS for days or weeks when I wasn’t even printing. Now I bake them at least for an hour before putting them back in my storage bins. I also keep PLA in one bin and PTEG in the other. Mostly for my own organization, but maybe that’s helpful, who knows.
Also I’m acronym-challenged, what was that BVOH acronym you mentioned?
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Thanks for keeping me alert on the baking settings… I’m referencing the bambu lab recommendations for their filaments, and was surprised at how long and how warm they recommend drying/baking for.
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For reference here’s the wiki page I’ve been referencing:
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You mean BVOH? That is a water soluble support material. Very much usable like PVA. Due to (bad) past experiences with PVA in pre-Bambu times, I never bothered with PVA in the AMS but ran a number of complex prints with very well dried BVOH from the AMS. Works like a dream. But it does appear to be more hygroscopic than my dessiccant
I haven’t used it in ages now though as a kind soul posted about dissimilar material support interfaces (PETG for PLA) sometime late last year. Haven’t looked back since 
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Ahh… Just looked it up after I asked. I have half a roll of PVA that I used only a couple times but I’m not printing anything detailed or engineered enough to need anything more than basic supports.
I also tend to avoid multi-filament printing as it seems to waste more in filament changes than it used to print! I need to learn that process better and see if there’s something I’m not doing right.
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Only practice makes perfect
There’s also the possibility to make something useful out of the poop. Have a browse through Making better use of Flush-into object in Bambu Studio
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Wow! Thanks, I love this!
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Was looking back up and missed this point by Eno. Moisture can be a subtle demon and sometimes conditions can be different enough just from one side of a print to the other that one side can show issues and the other not.
There seems to be degrees to all this stuff and small differences can mean seeing issues or not. I think this is under-appreciated. You can go from good prints to issues pretty easy if you are close to the threshold - for all sorts of reasons.
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Thanks again. I marked your comment as “the solution” about keeping humidity as low as possible for best results. I’ve now baked a roll of Bambu Lab Translucent PETG for 8 hours at 70C in my SUNLU S2 and the humidity sensor showed it at 19%. Now I’m 60% through a print of some self-watering pitcher plants and they look FAR more consistent on the layers, with zero stringing.
Based on the comments I’m seeing in the forums, there’s lots of discussion about cleaning the build plates (important), but far less discussion about baking your filaments (equally if not MORE important).
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