Makerbot Replicator Mini+ (plus) Spool Holder and Filament Guide by dirkvranckaert

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

The spools that fit the Makerbot Replicator Mini + (plus) are small and sometimes you want to hook up the machine to larger spools, but unfortunately these won't fit in the machine. This spool holder solves that for you with an easy clip to stick on the back of your Makerbot.
There are three spool holder designs:
Compatible with all spools but the spools do not greatly fit because they are sitting loose...
Compatible with all spools, also wider spools up to an 80mm width. Still they are sitting loose...
A 50 millimetre design for spools with a 50 mm hole just to fit better. Together with this design comes a pin with which the spool can be tightened on the spool holder. Two pin holes for spools with a total thickness of 70 and 80 mm are foreseen! For smaller spools you should be able to drill a 4mm hole in the spool holder.
And two filament guide designs:
When using the loose-spool-holder, it's smaller and there is still plenty of room to attach the normal filament guide.
However when using the 5mm spool holder the attachment clip of the spool holder is too big to be able to use the normal filament guide (the actual guide block needs to sit right next to the spool), so that's why I've designed a high filament guide as well that you can attach and takes in the filament not besides the spool but on top of the spool.
This all started a remake of the Makerbot Replicator Mini (no plus) Spool Holder: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:751182