Huxley mini-spool
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| Description | an horizontal mini spool for the huxley
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It's an horizontal mini-spool, to store a small amount of filament right under your Huxley.
I wanted to put the spool under the Huxley to go further in my "carry-plug'n print" need of a portable reprap for short demo in street, conference, etc.
It appear smaller that I thought (thus the "mini spool"), but it works and can load 50-60m of 1,75mm filament. (as on the previous spool, just swap your spool holder when you want to change the filament)
How to install it
As on the picture, its a square of M8 threaded rods (directly screwed in the printed parts) which the Huxley is put on (I used some leftover from a Mendel build, previously used in another spool, approx. 2* ~300cm and 2* ~150cm)
Connected with 4 support-connector.
Don't forget to put the 4 support-foot on the short rods before (the intermediate hole in the foot serve also as a filament guide).
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Then you can snap the spindle whenever you what, and the spool on it.
(you can install the spindle at any time, and remove it later for spool swap)
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There is two version of the spool
- one is made of 4 parts to print on the Huxley
- and the other is in one piece to print on a Mendel
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Now that you have a splendid mini-spool built, just put the Huxley on it :)
Examples
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Videos :
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/watsdesign/6190068236/
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/watsdesign/6190088622/
R&D
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It's also possible to make it vertical with some zip-tie
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