And more strangely, does it suddenly go bad?
I printed this pair of glasses with a roll of ugly bright green PLA I use to print prototypes or silly things with - because, well, it's ugly - at the last minute to go to a party where the idea is to not look too serious.
But it took me three tries: the nose bridge readily broke off the first print without even trying very hard, and one hinge split in the middle before I could even drive a pin through it. I was really careful with this third print and I managed to complete the assembly and leave to go to the venue.
But it's really weird: this roll of PLA had been in the printer's room for at least 2 years, I and others have printed a million things with it without any problems as recently as last week - including multiple iterations of these glasses - and today the prints feel "dry", or less "waxy" that other PLA parts when I file them smooth, and they're really brittle.
Also, it's winter and here up north, it gets really dry in the winter - like 15% humidity - so I'm pretty sure the material is quite dry.
What gives? Any idea?
Hopefully I experience the same thing, just ordered the Creality Dryer because I've been having print issues with PLA as well, though my problem might also be a clogged nozzle since the problem started after trying some PETG prints...
Clogged nozzles suck. I can usually tell on those because the print quality goes to shit in the middle of a print.