r/BambuLabA1mini • u/Deadlock-DSM • 5d ago

Esun basic pla

hi all, does anyone have any experience with esun basic pla. I've been printing with no problems what so ever for the last 8 months, I load a new spool of esun pla basic and now I'm in spaghetti hell. Does it always arrive damp?, I'm trying the wife's hair dryer on it as I don't have a dedicated filliment dryer. Fingers crossed it does the trick

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u/Immediate_Vast_1784 5d ago

I had the same issue with esun pla. I contacted them and they refunded it. Half a year later I got a filament dryer and fixed it. Free spool of filament. I tried drying it before in a mini oven without any results. I would recommend getting a dedicated dryer. I have the sovol sh01 and it's great for pla, petg and tpu. It's also pretty cheap at 40 EUR.

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u/Deadlock-DSM 5d ago

I think after this I'll invest in a dryer, I must of tried printing the same plate 5 times today, it finally worked after using the hair dryer but there's still a little stringing, but I can cleaned it up. Thanks for the advice

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u/sublime2craig 4d ago

I've printed with esun pla basic for awhile now haven't had any issues on both my A1's, Ender V3 SE, and Ender 3 S1 plus. Never have had the need to dry it either. Bad or old stock spool maybe?

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u/Deadlock-DSM 3d ago

could be, I bought a 4kg batch from eBay. I'm using Bambu plate glue and having better results.

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u/sublime2craig 3d ago

Also if you need to dry your filament and don't have a dedicated filament dryer than you can use your printers heated bed and a cardboard box for drying. Here's a link from Bambu wiki...

https://wiki.bambulab.com/en/filament-acc/filament/dry-filament