Half-Kilo Spool Holder - for Monoprice Select Mini by ottaross

Last crawled date: 3 years, 1 month ago

The Monoprice Select Mini is a cheap yet quite capable 3D printer, with terrible manufacturing quality control :). Seriously, many people who buy it have probs with manufacturing errors. Mine had crimp connector without a conductor in it, and display has artifacts right from the start. Others report quickly-failing power supplies.
But with the very low price ($200-ish) and the excellent print quality (once tuned) it's hard to argue with it. It's most suitable for those with some electronics career experience. (The unit is manufactured and sold under other names too.)
The spool holder for your filament, while it fits a 1kg spool okay, doesn't fit the half-kilo spool I bought recently.
So this is a holder that will slip over the existing one, and support your half-kilo spool.
There are two little tabs on the metal spool holder that need to be bent out of the way. Caution though, those tabs keep the big spool away from the housing. Ensure you use a spacer when you're using your 1kg spool to keep it from snagging the unit housing. I find there is enough 'sag' to the metal holder than the spool stays away from the unit anyway, but just-sayin'.