Whose SunLu filament driers are these and may I use one or both for a print this weekend? Thanks!
Go for it! SunLu FilaDryer S1 - Asmbly Wiki
I believe the second one is owned by Nick. There is also a 2-spool dryer connected to Zephyrus.
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Asmbly owns three of those FilaDryers, one white, one gray, and one black. Feel free to use them any time and move them around as needed. The Sovol one by Zephyrus has a more powerful heater, but should stay near Zephyrus.
thanks guys. @JoeN let me borrow his new SunLu today so I replaced yours in the spot above resin-land, @flowmage helluva name btw.
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wait but why do I need to dry my filament 
once I open it, the awful humid polluted texas air will invade my filament, and I must dry it after some time?
/me searches on youtube
All plastics absorb water from the environment, some (e.g. Nylon) actually get stronger after doing so. But when you pass them through a hot hot-end the water can boil out while printing. This’ll start as just cloudiness but with too much water it’ll cause print failure.
PLA is pretty robust so you can probably get away with leaving it out. High performance and/or specialty filaments are going to need special care.
Drying is also pretty important if you are trying out heat-bending or thermoforming sheet plastics.
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Ryan summarized well. Once a filament has been sitting in a humid environment (like Texas right now), you probably want to dry it. Manufacturers generally provide guidelines for drying, for example if you go to the Print Settings on this page PolyFlex TPU it says:
Drying Settings: 65ËšC for 8h
So ideally, you’d run it through that cycle before you tried printing with it again. You can also print directly from some driers or dry boxes, rather than letting the spool just sit in the moist open air. I do this for particularly water-sensitive filaments, like water soluble support filament.
Asmbly has a bunch of dry boxes! If you take a roll of filament off of a printer because the member hasn’t picked up their print yet, please check to see if it is anything other than PLA. If it is, please put it in a dry box.
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