What do you do when you need to run “air spooled” filament? Fit it to a tension spool directly and hope for the best, set it on a lazy-susan and horizontally feed it or re-wind it to another open spool?
Threw together a PVC pipe air spool holder. Got a deal on non-cored filament but it was being a pain to feed so I modded someone else’s design to correctly fit a 3/4" PVC holder. Cost me <5$ for all the PVC parts and I 3D printed the new spindle core. Works well but I still hate non-spooled filament deliveries…
No link to it, I just work a retail job, Jaycar Electronics, an electronics components and supply store. Some of the reels for the higher diameter cable have a great enough diameter to hold plastic filament without having to persuade it too much. The internal diameter was a little narrow, but I just remixed a spoolholder on Thingiverse for myself and the problem is solved. If you have a local electronics dealer, just ask them if you can have a couple of empty cable spools when they’re done with them.
Keep your old reels from finished spools. I have only finished one spool so far (keep buying too much variety in colour, so have heaps of spools). Went through the laborious task of winding my 618 onto it. Much better now.
