Horizontal vs vertical spool… That is the question…
Anyone better than the other regarding those nasty spools that have a twist in the filament at some point during a print ?
Ive always kept mine vertical, never ran into a twist midway though. Recently I’ve been using “Inland” brand PLA from microcenter, been really nice so far.
@Andre_Courchesne1 whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer twisting of filament and require a guide, Or take vertical the lack of moment arm.
Sorry could not help myself.
I’ve ran both, horizontal always have me some issues binding or overly unspooling. Verticals for me FTW.
Build a hybrid with the spool on a 45 degree angle. That way you can suffer from all of the bad points of both methods and possibly a few new problems too.
@Joe_Morrison yeah a spool holder that would be able to move 360 degree…
@Brandon_Satterfield Oh boy I tought for moment that my mind had a kernel panic reading your first line LOL
Thanks for the feedback. I’m running vertical also, but have has a few spools with twists that make the extruder stepper buck…
An added twist mid roll could simply be a quality control defect. Depending on how the spool if filled, if they splice mid roll that could introduce such a twist.
^ many used to do this in the earlier days when quality control was much worse, that’s why a lot of the older spool holder designs on Thingiverse were made to have filament loaded onto them manually. It took time, but it worked.
I think vertical is going to be less trouble in the long run.