papalonian,

I’ve never really had issues with wet filament. I primarily print in PLA, and while it’s a pretty hot button debate, I lean towards the evidence of PLA not being effected by moisture. A user here ran an experiment and posted the results of leaving a spool of filament in a bucket of water for 24 hours and the running a print with it still in the bucket, I think they just put a sponge in front of the filament guide to get rid of the water droplets but it printed exactly the same before and after the soak. Ever since I saw that, I haven’t bothered with bagging or drying any of my PLA outside of printing with it inside the enclosure (where humidity drops to single digit percentages during prints).

Of course, mileage will vary from user to printer to filament. But in my experience, with filament from a handful of major suppliers ranging from a few weeks to around a year old, as long as it’s not snapping when I try to move it, it’ll print fine.

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