Geoffs Simple Spool Restraint
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Summary Geoffs_Simple_Spool_Restraint.scad A simple design in openSCAD prevents Filament from spilling over the Spool's side - it's very annoying and happens when I have a very full (or loosely wound) Spool of 1.75mm filament. The weight that prevents the spilling over can be anything, I used a scrap piece of Nylon (approx 10mm x 20mm x 300mm), but anything slightly slippery could work. Shapes.scad is available at http://svn.clifford.at/openscad/trunk/libraries/shapes.scad This design relies on the Solidoodle Spool Holder Mk2 by gsterley, but can be easily modified in openSCAD for many similar spool holders. I thought of complicated kludges with springs and elastic, but settled on gravity as being much simpler - it hardly ever fails.
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