Vertical spool holder for all spool sizes by Plasticpat

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

Low friction vertical spool holder for Anet A8 3D Printer.
This spool holder uses the top part from: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1027730
Which I customized so that my biggest size filament spool now also fits. The maximum size spool inner diameter is now 60 mm.
The bracket I designed fits to a frame thickness of 8 mm. It slides tight on the 3D printer frame and stays perfect in position. I used the existing M8 threaded rod which comes with the Anet A8 3D printer.
Two inliner bearings (d=22 mm) were used to assure a low friction. One on the top for turning and the bottom one to stabilize it.
I uploaded also a pivot bearing and a washer. Those you can use instead of the inliner bearings.
You need a filament guide, which most people have allready anyway.
On the picture you see my old spool holder which will be dismantled, now I have such a low friction, easy to change spool holder :-)
I printed the parts in the way they show up in the STL files.
No supports needed.
Infill 40%.