Has anyone had any success in drying older Onyx filament for the MarkForged?
Also, has anyone tried annealing their Onyx or other Nylon - CF filament.
We also have a Bambu that we print Polymaker nylon-cf parts. Bambu and Polymaker recommends annealing prints with this filament but I don’t know if it is worth it. I was thinking about purchasing an air fryer for this purchase.
Are the annealed prints stronger? More adhesion between layers?
Thanks so much.
Yeah I would say generally from the load testing I’ve done on some matterhackers Cf-nylon it helps quite a bit. Nylon parts have a tendency to warp so by annealing it reduces the warp and relaxes the filament a little bit. Annealing does help with your shear strength along layer lines as well which can help depending on where the part is getting force applied.
We used an oven style food dehydrator to dry filament. Pulled the ambient down to ~12-16 % humidity. Same oven to anneal the parts post print.
Last year we used the Stryke Force swerve. So mostly PA6-CF printed parts. The only parts we broke where because of build errors. (poor gap control on a bearing).