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Minimal Filament Buffer by Pecadis
by Thingiverse
Last crawled date: 5 years, 3 months ago
I was unsatisfied with the Filament Buffers here on Thingiverse because they seemed to be bulky, and too massive, so i designed my own with the inspiration of the Buffer of https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4013669. I re-designed the whole Buffer myself, so there are no compatible files between this and https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4013669
The Key features are:
it has hinges so you can bolt them to a surface and choose the appropriate filament without needing to hassle around because of limited space
It is compact, only the most necessary parts needs to be printed, the Bottom of the case is open and free to pushed out. That saves time to print.
all Files can be printed without any support and are already oriented in that way.
All Parts for one Filament Buffer can fit on one Buildplate (of a Prusa Mk3) so you don't need to wait for the rest of the parts to complete in order to have one Filament Buffer up and working.
I have embedded the Case in basically 2 variants:
one without any cutouts and markers
five with cutout and embossed numbers from 1-5
Use them as you want.
Needed additional Hardware
Screws to bolt the Anchors to a Plate (one for each Anchor)
608 Bearing (one per Slider)
Optional but recommended additional Hardware
M5 inserts (used the M5 Inserts from Ruthex) - 2 for each Slider
M5 Tube Fitting sockets (PC4-M5 in my case) - 2 for each Slider
Have fun.
The Key features are:
it has hinges so you can bolt them to a surface and choose the appropriate filament without needing to hassle around because of limited space
It is compact, only the most necessary parts needs to be printed, the Bottom of the case is open and free to pushed out. That saves time to print.
all Files can be printed without any support and are already oriented in that way.
All Parts for one Filament Buffer can fit on one Buildplate (of a Prusa Mk3) so you don't need to wait for the rest of the parts to complete in order to have one Filament Buffer up and working.
I have embedded the Case in basically 2 variants:
one without any cutouts and markers
five with cutout and embossed numbers from 1-5
Use them as you want.
Needed additional Hardware
Screws to bolt the Anchors to a Plate (one for each Anchor)
608 Bearing (one per Slider)
Optional but recommended additional Hardware
M5 inserts (used the M5 Inserts from Ruthex) - 2 for each Slider
M5 Tube Fitting sockets (PC4-M5 in my case) - 2 for each Slider
Have fun.