Wall Mounted Filament Rack and Dispenser by boulwarek

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

A remix of https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1047639
Changes and improvements
Shortened up the wall brackets and carriages. My spools would not fit in the original without rubbing. Also, my ANET A8 print bed is not large enough to print the original wall brackets.
Added a center bracket as I noticed some sagging when fully loaded.
Added bottom guides in the bearing slots to keep them from falling through when trying to install the carriages.
Created a filament guide as I wanted to be able to feed from all spools without moving them to a single carriage. (Note: this filament guide will work with the original design)
Created clip on name tags to label the type of filament. (Remixed this clip to make the tags: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:30738)
What you will need:
Qty 2: 5/16" Steel Rod (I used 3ft lengths)
Qty 4: 608ZZ bearings (Per Carriage) - 32 for 8 carriages.
Qty 4: M3 Nuts (Per Carriage) - 32 for 8 carriages
Qty 3: M3x16 Bolts (Per Carriage) - 24 for 8 carriages
Qty 1: M3x20 Bolts (Per Carriage) - 8 for 8 carriages
The longer bolt is for the spot where the filament guide is mounted. You could use longer bolts for any of these as they will not interfere with anything.
I also added 4 of these handy rod end clamps as the caps that came with the original did nothing to prevent the rods from sliding around. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1243969
You will need an additional 4 M3 nuts and 4 M3x8 bolts for these.
P.S. If you are looking for a similar design with much less printing time involved, be sure to check out https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:557090 I was too far into this build when I found that one, but it would also not allow me to have my filament guides installed the way I or be mounted directly to the wall.