IKEA Container SAMLA Spool Holder / Storage

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As I watched the video from Thomas Sanladerer, I fell in love with his idea of a filament storage system that doubles as a spool holder so much that I decided to build my own version based on an IKEA container called SAMLA. You can find the original video from Thomas here: https://youtu.be/OY5n9q-wS7k and his website here: https://goo.gl/UU7dnV To attach both spool holders to the inside of the container, I used contact cement (https://goo.gl/7FtFvY). The mounting helper was a huge help in keeping them at the same height. As an axis, I used DN50 pipes like this (https://goo.gl/2rWFvj). My pipe had 50.25mm of thickness, slightly more than 50mm, but it worked perfectly for rigid ink PLA, ASA 1kg spools and PLA from Das Filament's 0.8kg spools. For Prusa filament spools, I had to sand away a tiny bit from the pipe, but now it works too. To feed the filament to the printer, I used pneumatic connectors (https://goo.gl/HSrQXJ) and PTFE pipes (https://goo.gl/ddFPgf). The connectors and pipes should have an inner diameter of 2mm and an outer diameter of 4mm. To keep everything dry, I added Silica Gel granules (https://goo.gl/ddB1sd). To seal the container, I used rubber seals for windows like this https://goo.gl/g6DkH3. With my clamps, it seals well enough from my use case. You can find related things and parts here: IKEA box SAMLA cover clamps: https://goo.gl/j8uJJW KEA box SAMLA Spool holder spacer: https://goo.gl/F7ovvC PTFE tube caps with filament catch: https://goo.gl/3aACiP PTFE tube organizer: https://goo.gl/y79yYS PTFE tube mount (replacement for pneumatic connectors): https://goo.gl/CwrBrV Update: I added a link to Silica gel. 2018/08/05 Update: PTFE tube mount added.