Finally got around to moving my printer. I bought a cheap table from ikea $10 and laser cut a spool holder system for the back with 550mm 1in pvc. Needs to be painted but I love how it looks/works.
This is the franken-printrbot right?
@ThantiK yup! One of the 34 we are building at my school. Other ones not done yet but will be be same design
That’s a good table for $10. At Home Depot that just gets me the MDF for the surface, not even the 2x4’s for the frame.
And wouldn’t be complete without a canister of hairspray close by. Looks good!
FWIW, if you’re not burning through the filament quickly, you may want to keep it stored in a sealed container with some desiccant.
I used to be kind of skeptical of this as I’d been to shops that had all kinds of filament out in the open. But I did start seeing poor print quality over time so started storing in a sealed container. I was amazed at how much water was absorbed by the desiccant, and I’m in a low humidity environment.
@Tim_Sills I go through about a kilo a week with 3D hubs right now. I’m terrible with not taking care of my filament. I’ve never sealed it in a year and a quarter but I still have my very first roll and printed with it the other day. Seemed fine but you are right I need to store some. I just shoved some rolls on there to make sure it could take the force.
Do you have a direct drive or bowden, do you have issues with recoil with the filiment going over that distance
@Grady_Parker its a direct drive setup. I have had no issues with it. Haven’t run it a lot how it currently is but it isn’t that much different in terms of filament placement to how it was before. I used to have a spool holder under the back side of the table.
You may enjoy on dog those 12mm bar too loops to keep your filament path tidy 
Looks awesome. Good job!
Brook
Tip: These tables from IKEA (we have about four of them, EU version) are not rigid enough for the base of the printer (hollow, very light structure). You will face X/Y resonances after some time. At least mount some additional corner braces between legs and plate.
@Tinkering_On_Steroid my thought exactly
@Tinkering_On_Steroid not sure what you mean. Are you talking about counteracting sag?




