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Sexy Spool Stand [SSS]

Look at all the sexiness here! These curves - ooooh sexy! These threaded rods - oooooooh sexy!
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updated June 20, 2019

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Look at all the sexiness here!
These curves - ooooh sexy!
These threaded rods - oooooooh sexy!
This knurling on the rods - ooooooooooh aaaah sexy!

I've designed this as an experiment but it turned out really well so here it is out in the public :)

The spool rolls on 4x 608 bearings with bearing guides constraining the movement.

Threaded rods make it easy to adjust the spread out of the stand sides. In my enclosure I've used double-sided tape on one side of the stand to keep it in place but still have the ability to move the other side with the screws. The rods use a turnbuckle rule to adjust the spread out of the stand base sides - one end of the rod has a right-hand thread while the other is left-handed, the same rule applies to the base - each hole has a different direction thread.

The 85 mm rods are for spools up to 75 mm wide (most that I have fit on them), 105 mm are for spools up to 95 mm wide (e.g. Prusa-Plasty Mladec spools).

For one stand you need:
2x Base-inner
2x Base-outer
2x Rod of chosen length
4x Bearing-guide
4x 608 bearing (not included within the files lol)

Assembly instructions:

  1. Press the guides on the bearings
  2. Press the bearings on the outer piece of the base
  3. Press the inner piece of the base to the already-assembled outer piece
  4. Repeat for the other side of the stand
  5. Place one assembled side of the stand on the table with the outer piece facing down.
  6. Insert the rods, check if they screw in. If not, rotate them upside-down (they have two different-directed threads)
  7. Place the other assembled side of the stand on the rods
  8. Push the upper side down while rotating the rods towards them (two sides of the stand are brought together by rotating the rods to the inside - one to the left, the other to the right)
    Printing tips below.

Print instructions

Printer Brand: Prusa
Printer: i3 MK2S
Rafts: No
Supports: No
Resolution: 0,2
Infill: 0-75%

Notes:

You can use 0% infill for the rods + 3 perimeters andprint them vertically butDO USE BRIM for the rods. I've been printing with 30 outlines + 3 layers of the brim and they were holding just fine. Also, make sure you print the knurled section slow due to vibrations it revokes (30 mm/s was fine for me).

The base pieces I've printed with 75% infill + 3 perimeters to get enough strength to hold the spool.

0,2 mm resolution should be fine enough to make the threads work well.

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