yes good afternoon youtube so this is my 3d printer filament storage box back here
that i've been using this is a sterilite airtight uh storage container it has the six
latches there's one on each end and then two on each side
and as you can see in the bottom there i've got a wireless thermometer humidity sensor in the bottom
reading 27c and 20 humidity is what that container seems to keep the filament at so around 20 percent
even though the current humidity here is about 49 it's much drier inside there
it's been working okay except i've got a rather tight space here this is up in my attic
just hard to get to if i change filaments i've got to open up the container and then i only have i
have one spool holder for those size spools that you can see in there just a freestanding thing on
a block of wood you're kind of in a cramped area and it's just not really easy to get to in there
so i wanted to make something a little better so i found this filament dry box setup these sort of
brackets that hold a rod that you put in on each end and you run a rod between the two ends and
then it uses some of these guys on the side these are filament feed throughs so you can see there's
a little hole there and i think i have room for at least four rolls of filament on the rod and
then i'm gonna put these four guys down the side there and that way i can have up to four filament
spools loaded up and ready to go and then all i need to do is move the teflon guide tube from one
roll to the next whichever spool i want to pull filament off of and that should be a little easier
and then the thing i want to do up here yeah so there's the back of the printer where my filament
goes in and that's a teflon tube four millimeter od two millimeter id feeds the filament in
and teflon is really hard to grab so i have a problem it keeps trying to pull through there i've
put some glue on there and some tape and a clamp and that just doesn't work all that well and
i'd also like to get a filament filter so i have one of these guys i 3d printed a little filament
filter you put a little bit of sponge inside there and a little bit of oil on the sponge and you run
the filament through there and that cleans off the dust and dirt so what i was thinking is i'll
recess this filament filter into the wood down about like that so on the end there and then i
will uh put one of these guide tubes on the back there to uh stop the tubing getting pulled in
because that's one of the problems there's enough friction with the filament through the tube
that it pulls the tube into the printer so that way i figure this will stop the tube
from going in and then i'll have the filter kind of buried inside the wood there and then
the filament will just go under the top of the cover here and down to the extruder so i think
that's going to work a lot better and it'll be a lot easier than to change filament because i'll
just be able to pull this tube out here it'll be loose up at this end and then i can just speed the
filament through the tube and shove it through the filter up in the back and i think that's going to
make it a lot easier to change filaments and the other change i want to do is i want to put these
feed throughs up high instead of down low just so i cut down on the the amount of
bending that goes on with that guide tube because i want to try to get the friction
down because there's quite a bit of friction on the filament even though that is a teflon tube but
every bend adds friction so i figure if i can come off of the top here instead of off of the bottom
i'll get a much better uh feed and i think that should work quite well for
me so i need to pull this out of the attic get it downstairs where it can work on it
so i'll be putting these guys on the end this will be on the inside so i have to figure out how high
to mount these so i'll put put one of these on each end there'll be a rod connecting the two and
we'll just mark and drill everything get it all laid out and i'll show you what that looks like