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Summer Filament Storage: How to Protect Your Spools From Heat and Humidity in 2026 - guides
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Summer Filament Storage: How to Protect Your Spools From Heat and Humidity in 2026

Summer is the hardest season for your filament shelf. Heat softens spools, humidity ruins prints, and most hobbyists do not realize how fast both happen until they get a hissing nozzle or a deformed roll. Here is a practical summer playbook covering where to store filament, how to dry it, and what to stop doing right now.

|8 min read
Josh Holtzclaw
Food-Safe 3D Printing Filament in 2026: What Bambu's Pure PLA Actually Changes (and What It Doesn't) - guides
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Food-Safe 3D Printing Filament in 2026: What Bambu's Pure PLA Actually Changes (and What It Doesn't)

Bambu Lab's Pure PLA brought real food-contact certification to mainstream filament, but the spool is only half the story. Here is what 'food safe' actually means for a 3D printed part, what Pure PLA does differently, and the limits that apply to anything you print for food contact.

|7 min read
Josh Holtzclaw