Spool Holder with smoothrod

prusaprinters

<p>I got some trouble with my bearings on the X-axis and ended up with a damaged smooth rod.<br>Thanks to Prusa Printers I got a replacement, but when I had installed the new rod I had the old damaged 37mm smooth rod lying around.<br>So I thought about how I can give the rod a new purpose.<br>When I played around I noticed that 608ZZ fit exactly onto the rod I had the idea to upcycle the smooth rod to a spool holder.<br>Some iterations of trial and error I ended up with this spool holder.<br>I made it modular, so you can decide whether you want it to be for one or more spools. If you want it to have one continuous rod or multiple ones.<br>Although I made this spool holder to upcycle a damaged 37mm smooth rod (fits for a double spool holder) you can use any other 8mm rod if you don`t have a damaged smooth rod lying around.<br><br>What you need:</p><ul><li>The printed parts (depending how you want to be your spool holder to be)</li><li>Per Base:<ul><li>1x M3x10mm</li><li>1x M3 hex nut</li><li>1x PC4-M10 PTFE fitting</li></ul></li><li>Per Arm:<ul><li>2x 5x25mm wood screw with half rounded head</li></ul></li><li>Per filament mounting:<ul><li>2x 608ZZ Bearings</li></ul></li><li>The 8mm rod/rods</li></ul><p><br>The spool holder consists of a base with an attachment for a PTFE coupling, the arms that hold the rod and the mounts for the spools that will be put onto the rod.<br>You simply stick the arms onto the base in order to have an easy alignment when screwing it under a shelf for example. Then you put on the PTFE coupling attachment and fix it in place with a M3x10 screw and a M3 nut.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>