OK Another spool holder?!?! Yeah, unfortunately. I had been using a bar across the top of my printer to hold my spools on my previous printer, but when I switched to a Taz and 3mm filament there was just too much tension in the raw filament and it would crack when loading and even worse, just crack spontaneously. So anyway, I wanted to bring the spool closer to the printer, orient it parallel to the path of the printhead, and allow for dual spools (I have a dual head but have not yet got to playing with it). So I tried KDarlings design liking the simplicity of the install. However, it took up too much real estate across the top of my printer that I had to move the Taz logo, and more importantly could not install two. Remix time. I modified his design to make it simpler, but I designed it to use bolts. Once I finished it, I realized that the friction fit and gravity kept it in place and it didn't really need bolts/nuts. The finished product met my design criteria, so I'm happy. Hopefully no more filament cracking and wasting. I did print a rod to go with it, but obviously you don't have to. Anything will do PVC, pipe, dowel, etc.

No

Yes

.2/.3

25%

Used .2 on the brackets and .3 on the tube. There is no easy way to print this. I printed it on its face, but whatever you do, Internal supports are required. This left me a rough surface, but it was not visible. I did print the tube vertically, so I used a brim for that.