Todays work

[Gene Uselman]

I am making an 18" long filament sealed filament box that will have 6 different colors of filament. I made an earlier version and made my usually errors, so it is time to make V2. The inside measurement of the box [it has a sealing lid that clamps tightly and has a rechargeable dehydrator and meter] is 18.5" so this will allow me to change out filament rolls easily. I printed flat bottom 'pulleys' to slip over .25x.75" cheap ball bearings for the edges of the rolls of filament to ride in and lasercut various brks to hold a couple of .25" threaded rods wide enough apart so they will sit securely, the printed pieces needed a bit of cleaning up as it is hard to get both inner edges nice when printing fast. So I printed a jig to go in my ancient Sear Roebuck floor standing drill press [which is as close to a lathe as I am likely to get] the jig locates the pulley and a printed hand nut secures it well enough to clean things up with a hand file quite easily [easy is important to me]. The jig is sitting on a laser cut hand wheel used on a laminating machine for production- they get dropped and broken occasionally. The red spools are the two different common spool widths- so some adjustment is necessary.

So for all of you who are wondering what you can do with a 3D printer... a lot of things, limited by your imagination.

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Filament rollers 6.5.20.jpg

[Tim Mellor]

Looks good @Gene

Sometime ago I made this double spool holder for my Double Ender Pro cabinet/fridge. Doing it again I would redesign it with Laser Cut acrylic roller holders to save a heap of print time and do the rollers on the printer. The rollers have a small bearing in like yours too. Room up top for all my open spools too so it sort of does double duty as an often heated storage space.

[Gene Uselman]

TWO PRINTERS.... you are hardcore sonny!

[Tim Mellor]

Three actually There is a CR-10S that doesn't get used that often as the Enders with their smaller beds are less fuss and quicker to heat up. One of the Enders has a Flexion Pro Extruder fitted to it currently for TPU but I am thinking of swapping it out for a more current Geared Pancake style to save some weight.

The CR-10 lives in a wooden home with custom magnetic latching doors and knobs and now has a custom Electronics Box without the Power Supply inside which needs a revision now I know more.