Anyone have empty filament cartridges and willing to help me out?

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Anyone have empty filament cartridges and willing to help me out?

Originally shared by Whosa whatsis

I’m thinking about designs for an open-standard reusable filament cartridge, and I’d like to see how the proprietary commercial cartridges work. Does anyone have empty cartridges from one of these machines that they don’t need? I’d be happy to pay for shipping.

I already have a cartridge from a Dimension printer (thanks @Joseph_Chiu ), but I’d like to check out some others like the Cube and the various Stratasys machines. I would especially like to be able to take apart a cartridge from a Mojo printer, as it seems to be closest to what I’m considering.

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@Whosa_whatsis you might have a tough time getting one from a cube owner. I think that they give a refund or credit when you turn in your used cartridge don’t they? If I can get one off of the guys that I know I’ll let you know.

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I saw that Stratasys Mojo is targeted as desktop printer. Prints in ABS but what are the main differences to a RepRAp for example?

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I have about 7 empty spools.

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We have a Fortus 250mc, but it uses the same material cartridge as some of the Dimension machines. I can get you a Mojo one when the current one is empty, it may take a few weeks. I’ve been saving the hot end assembly off them. We also have a 400mc getting installed this summer. If there are no deposits or refunds on those cartridges, I can probably get you one of them.

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@Jeremy_Marvin awesome, thanks.

@John_Ecker_GeoDroidJ you mean cartridges from some commercial machine, or just empty spools for reprap filament? I probably have over 100 of the latter, though at some point I might want to take a survey of the ID, OD and width of spools from various suppliers.

@Norbert_Rovira It’s essentially the same technology, there are just some interesting differences in implementation that I want to take a closer look at.