20g Desiccant Container (50mm wide x 20mm high)

A small desiccant container that holds 20g of silica desiccant and prints in less than 35 minutes with Bambu Lab PETG HF. It has 1mm gaps in the walls and ends to contain small or broken desiccant beads. These are ideal for keeping the contents of any small container dry. E.g. vacuum bags, camera bags, scientific equipment containers, tool boxes, plastic boxes, glass jars etc.

Related models

• For a spool desiccant container for use in an AMS then this one is optimised for that: https://makerworld.com/en/models/786118 
• For a 50mm wide x 30mm high desiccant container that holds 30g of silica desiccant there's this: https://makerworld.com/en/models/1085215-30-x-50mm-30g-silica-bead-desiccant-container
• For a 40mm wide desiccant  container with options for heights of 20mm, 30mm and 40mm there's this: https://makerworld.com/en/models/2457846-40mm-diameter-silica-desiccant-container

Features:

• The screw thread and lid is optimised to print cleanly and provide a smooth, secure and reliable closure.
• Each layer of the perforated walls has 3 optimisations for speed:
  • Each layer requires only one filament retraction (for the change in layer height).
  • Each layer is a single wall (very strong due to the interlocking 3D design of the rings).
  • Every print movement is in a straight line.
• The perforated walls print cleanly due to their bridges being short straight lines that start and end on the extrusion below.
• The perforated walls maximise the amount of air that can get to the desiccant.

Filament recommendation

Any type of filament is fine, but if you use any type of PLA then you'll need to remove the silica beads from the container to dry them (to avoid heat distortion of the container). If you use PETG then you can dry the silica beads in the container at temperatures up to 65C.  ABS, ASA, PC, PA (and their variants) have even higher heat distortion temperatures, so you might want to consider using those if you want to dry the silica beads while still in the container.