Did you read above where it was figured out that it only gets brittle where it is straightened? Try taking a meter of filament and straighten half of it on a table with tape and wait 8 hours. Does the curled part stay flexible and the straight part become brittle?
Already tried something similar, but not for 8 hours - it just breaks on the same spot (360°) of the spool so I guess that´s where the silica was... strange...
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I am having the exact same issue, and I'm on my 6th returned spool from UM support, all bad so far. This is a summary of what everyone has been saying: 1. PLA off the roll seems fine, I can usually p
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Guys,
I usually store my spare filaments and also all the samples I got in a lock&lock container with a big bag (0,5kg) of Silica gel.
Nevertheless I found the snapping issue also on this "correctly" stored filaments right in the container e.g. at natural, white or yellow PLA samples from Colorfabb (app. 1 year old).
From my point of view it looks that the part of the filament which got in touch with the silica bag got tried out and got brittle too... What do you think about it?
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Did you read above where it was figured out that it only gets brittle where it is straightened? Try taking a meter of filament and straighten half of it on a table with tape and wait 8 hours. Does the curled part stay flexible and the straight part become brittle?
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