MakerFarm 12" Pegasus Spoolholder with bearings by nicolaas

Last crawled date: 3 years, 1 month ago

This is a spool holder for the Makerfarm Pegasus 12" printer. This design has integrated bearings for the spool to ride on.
Version 1.2 is the latest version, I am technically still experimenting with it. The bearings are just barely above the plane of the spool. The older versions had the bearings riding higher, they worked, but it did not meet my ideas for what I wanted to build.
In the current release you will need 4 608zz bearings, 128 mm (5 inches) of 8 mm (or 5/16") threaded rod, 3 8 mm (5/16") nuts. I doubled up the nut on the back of the mount and tightened the front nut.
Here's a timelapse of it printing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujYHYi-3-NU
There is a very hacky openSCAD file that I used for design. I did everything in a simple manner, but it probably only makes sense to me, until I look at it and try to figure out what I was doing... You can hack away, though.
Thanks,
Nicolaas