I’m curious… How is everyone managing feeding filament to their printers?
With a planetary geared extruder it isn’t difficult, if you just sat the roll on a ziploc bag that would be low enough friction to not cause any problems. A simple stand or hangar (there are dozens of printable models on thingiverse and youmagine) should do fine.
I use a little homemade wooden rack to hold the spool. Vise grips serve to keep the spool from falling off.
http://snip.ly/3e6u - This is for a Printrbot+ but if you have 12mm rods poking up, it ought to work or be adaptable. Really great because it takes up no extra space on the workspace and has a direct line to the extruder so really hard to tangle unless it is tangled on the spool.
The infill on the part with the holes for the rods should be thick or you may want to bind them with some CA glue or something as they have a tendency to split when you apply lateral force. A wrap of gorilla tape helps with that too.
I bought a 4.00 lazy Susan at target for my spooled material. Works perfectly.
I designed and printed some spool holders and downloaded and printed a filament guide. Works great and never jams or tangles except when at the end of the spool (filament gets full of kinks and becomes likely to tangle).
I use a Bondtech bowden extruder. And here are my spool holders. https://www.youmagine.com/designs/spool-holders
Spool holder on top of the printer, into a direct-drive with 50:1 PG motor. 3mm filament.
Piece of rod somewhere above the printer. I used the holders with ball bearings that a reel is supposed to sit on, but every company I’ve bought from seems to use a bleeping different width, so I gave up.
A spool of cds acting as a lazy Susan, above the printer, the cds allow the filament spool to turn freely.
@Camerin_hahn
Ooh, sweet. I just borrowed that idea to make a spool for some unspooled filament that kept tangling itself.