#Creality dryer box

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mild gulch
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I got a Creality dryer box 2.0 for my CR-10. It works well as far as drying the filament is concerned. But the feed hole for the filament is located up near the top of the box, on the curved part. So when I print directly from the box, the filament doesn't slide freely through the hole until the print gets to a sufficiently high layer. It ends up pulling the box into the printer or forcing the lid open. I've taken to putting something heavy on the lid to keep it shut, and I also printed a bracket to keep it from pushing against the printer, but the bracket doesn't always work, and sometimes I get underextrusion because the filament isn't moving freely. I thought about somehow raising the printer or lowering the box, but I just have the table that it's on and I'm not sure how I would do that without getting a new table. I'm not sure I have room for another table, and at any rate that seems like overkill for fixing a design flaw in the dryer box.

Any advice or suggestions?

teal mortarBOT
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AI Help

It sounds like you're dealing with some challenges related to the positioning of the filament feed hole on your Creality dryer box. Here are a couple of potential solutions you could consider:

  1. Filament Spool Holder: Instead of printing directly from the box, you could attach a filament spool holder to your printer. This way, the filament would smoothly feed from the spool holder into the printer without any interference from the box. There are many different filament spool holder designs available, some even specifically designed for Creality printers.

  2. Create a Custom Filament Guide: Another option is to 3D print a custom filament guide that directs the filament from the box's feed hole to the printer. This guide would ensure that the filament follows a smooth path and doesn't put pressure on the box or interfere with the printer. There are various filament guide designs available on 3D printing platforms like Thingiverse that you can adapt to your specific needs.

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WARNING: This response is AI generated and may contain errors.
mild gulch
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The AI response has a few problems. The first option it lists defeats the purpose of having a dryer box that you can print directly from - the whole point being that it keeps the filament dry while printing. The second option would require a specialized filament guide made specifically for the combination of a CR-10 and a Creality dryer box 2.0. I guess I could design one, but good grief, I may as well print a dryer box. lol

celest hatch
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Care to illustrate the problem with a photo?

teal mortarBOT
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mild gulch
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If you look at the feed hole in the top of the box, you can see that the filament is pulling really hard aganst the edge of the feed hole. You can also see that it's pulling at a sharp angle. This is during a print that has only 87 layers, 0.2mm layer height. The black thing in the middle is the bracket I mentioned.

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worldly cipher
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I would try running the filament over the holder that mounts to the top and into the extruder

celest hatch
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Get a lenght of ptfe tube and two pneumatic fittings

mild gulch
worldly cipher
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No, it would look like this

worldly cipher
mild gulch
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I must have a different version of the CR-10, the extruder on mine takes the filament from the side instead of the top. It also doesn't have any way to mount the filament holder on top. It does give me an idea though.

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I think mine is an older printer because it doesn't show up in the product search any more. It's a CR-10 v2 and I bought it a year or two ago.