If you don’t have a fancy-schmancy printer that tracks filament usage and warns you if you don’t have enough filament left on the currently-loaded spool to complete the print, this is how you know. You can even double-check while it’s printing, like I do in this video.

This is why you should always keep a kitchen scale and one empty spool of all the filament brands you use.

Low tech but useful. I figured I’d share.

  • dhork@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    But if you know how much filament you have, it takes all the fun out of playing Filament Chicken…

    • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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      2 months ago

      How much weight difference do you see? Do you simply wait for the weight to stop changing?
      Good thinking. I didn’t think about that.

      • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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        2 months ago

        I just check it every hour or two and stop drying when it stops getting lighter. I usually see an 8-10g drop after drying a new 1kg spool of PETG.

  • Thavron@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    I’m sorry but is this really a tip? To find out how much filament you have, you weigh it? Who’d have thought.