OMG Bryan, timing is everything LOL. Just this past weekend, I was re-spooling some Jessie PLA by hand onto a Bambu spool, thinking to myself; "there must be a better way". This is genius and I will be making this for sure 1000%!!! I don't want to rip my AMS apart to do that mod that is going around to use larger spools. I'd rather make this device. AWESOME. Thank you for your perfect timing and your always easy-to-watch videos. You truly inspire me to do better!

Something like this could be made modular to include a filament splicer so you could sequentially combine several partial spools into one!!!😁👍🏻

Another big advantage is the ability to buy large bulk style spools and then fill up smaller spools. The bulkier spools obviously don’t fit in the AMS or other similar systems and can be less than ideal to use in a lot of situations when not using a confined dry box or materials box. You can just buy a 5kg spool, fill up a 1 kg sized spool, cut the length and then refill the same spool when you run out of filament

On the carriage that moves the fillament tube left to right, you have that gear that switchea directions. It regularly poppet up for me, so I modified the PTFE tube holder with more clearance, and drilled a hole into the shaft. M3 screw with a washer and now its good 👍 if it does miss a gear i can simply loosen the screw and ajust the mechanism

That looks way more useful than benchies and CHEP cubes. I occasionally end up with small spools with really small center holes that don't seem to fit on anything. I have no idea how they show up or where they come from, I just look in my dry box and there they are. This would be a nice way to get those mysterious little spools of filament transferred onto something useful.

Thank you Brian I was trying to find something just like this for when I have used rolls of filament that I join together to wind them up onto a spool. I'm gonna print this tonight

i was taking apart a spool, found out my plastic spool was too big to fit in the cardboard, and then had my filament go everywhere. im building one of these to avoid this ever happening again.

I have a broken spool of PETG just sitting around because it's such pain to try and respool it, spool is broken in half. Maybe now I can actually respool and use it. Thanks Brian and Miklos.

Great video, I made one and one tip I have is that if you have an empty cardboard core from an empty Bambu spool, you can reuse that instead of removing the notch and drilling a hole in the spool. The cardboard center has little holes opposite the cut notch in the cardboard core..you simply put the tip of the filament in that and it holds

Now that is a handy tool to make. As someone who needs to respool filament when I only have 1 spool of a colour or type of filament, and I need to print multiple prints. I respool onto other spools so I can split it between my 5 printers. And I do it be hand..... Or the filament slipped out of my fingers and gets caught under other filament leading to a jam. So I re-spool it, by hand..... As I live in South Africa, skateboard bearings is not easy to get hold of. So I will improvise it.

Printed this the day Miklos released the final design, workd very well, Thanks Brian for showing this and thanks again to Miklos for the design

I really enjoy your videos. Both for the information (which has helped a ton) and your sense of humor.

Bryan, good stuff and so very useful. Thank you for letting the community know that this is out there.

I haven't had issues with cardboard spool dust in my AMS, but what I have been plagued by, specifically with the cheapo brand Elegoo, is their warped cardboard spools. The cardboard just doesn't hold up long-term, and loves to splay outwards and lean to one side across both sides.. I've been wanting to print a re-spooler for a while... I've tried the adapter route, of printing and snapping on plastic rim bands to the cardboard spools, and it's not really helped much.. Ran into some issues where, when the lid was closed, it'd cause a bind-up issue.. Pretty sure that's also where I picked up a mechanical failure in the rubber rollers on the front of the AMS as well. The rubber physically deformed and was essentially causing an outward bow.

Genius! I totally agree. What a beautiful design that is equally fun to use!

I've been eyeing this cute machine without any need for it, because, like you said, just look at those gears! Love the video :)

Very cool vid and print. Cant wait to print my own!!

That’s a great design.

It's so mcuh fun to watch how it works.

Man I wish I could just buy one of these, too bad about it’s license I’ll just have to plan a weekend to get this all put together looks like a good design 🎉

cool stuff on the shelf Bryan lol !! - ty

There's a motorized attachment for this spooler on printables also. Works great.

Thank you Bryan for the video and the link this is awesome You can probably join all your odd bits of filament and make spools up

This really grinds my gears

wow that is so cool BV3D

Brilliant! Thanks Bryan!

I like this because of the feed guide. It's my main complaint of many. It seems to only take a few minutes for a spool. Nice :) I *WISH* I'd kept more plastic rolls when empty... :(

Reusable spools seem a lot more eco friendly than cardboard spools. Recycling pollutes more than just trashing things does… On many fronts: From the processing, to the added trucks on the road, even the need for more receptacles, whereas, plastic, REUSABLE spools can last you “forever”. “Reduce, REUSE, recycle”. Reuse is superior!

I'd been looking for some way to use the plastic spools. This is helpful!

oh this is brilliant. i had to respool some filament a few weeks ago due to spool damage and this would've been so much better holy hell. Thanks for posting about it!

Thanks for this, I have loads of pla in cardboard spools I needed to transfer

i literally printed this last night. going to respool my atomic filament that i have to some bambu spools.

I stopped cutting my hair at the beginning of the pandemic, so now I feel like I'm tied with Bryan length-wise. Always waiting to see which one of us cracks first. As always, great video!

This insterests me becuase I have a bunch of almost empty spools that I could never use for a single print. Combining all of them into 1 by melting the ends together could be cool.

Nice bit of kit, I'm slicing the frame now for the sidewinder. fibered petg. That switching gear might get done on the SV06, (I have my sovol "diassemble/repair/upgrade/align/reflash cerification now ) in this sample of delrin I have. Nice vid Bryan, per normal. I wanted to thro in a couple other uses that had my interest piqued. Short ends of common rolls. we all have a bunch of the 100 gram left of fav color of fav filament. And we say we'll line em up and use the runout sensor...... But, before hitting print the equation...... save $3 of material~ lose a 8 hr print has that little voice saying dude,.. fresh roll, huh? so I got one of those $9 splicers, that, and the respooler, make sense to me. Also have an old plastic spool with a busted rim, and a bore bigger than the coarse thread hub centered holder. those rolls vaccum packed at 3 bar, ya set em down wrong and the cardboard caves in. this might give em use. Love the poly maker hack.....I use that stuff a good bit.

Excellent! Exactly what I needed!

I cannot get the filament guide, the one with the half gear to work properly. It goes one way, but will not return. I have tried several gear teeth positions, but nothing I try seems to work. Any suggestions?

Fun fact, for P1S and X1C users, move large base print to right side of build plate away from enclosure air blower. Also, don't reduce cooling fan, you'll need it for high quality bridge.

The irony of the community of plastic creators demanding that their supplier of plastic use less plastic 🤣🤣

is there solution to 'if a spool of filament comes off the roll'? I opened a refill pack of bambu lab filament and cant figure out how to get it untangled and back on a spool

This is great! Can be used for filament splicing, and one modular Part for an filament extruder. I have a lot of 608 bearings. I have gotten them from the 3 1/2 in. disc drives, been taking apart for metal recycling.

Nice to see you. this is a helpful item and i like to print things that help me in some way. Thanks.

downloaded the plans, but there are 4 towers, it only needs two to hold the spools, does it matter which two you use?

I don’t have the arms on my p1p but this is really neat. I also noticed the Jessie pla spools are a bit bigger because they don’t fit in my diy filament dryer containers.

I printed it, but i'm having trouble in that it's hanging around the ends for too long. I took a look at the troubleshooting video too, but it doesn't really help. I might try and reprint the gear and also put in some heat sets to see if that helps.

what about a drill replacement for the cranck?

Thanks for a great, useful video, Bryan. This is totally awesome.

Great video Bryan, this can be quite risky though. If we rewind the filament onto any other spool we will be forming the filament to a different curvature then it was originally manufactured with. Filament which was wound around the circumference of the spool is now going to be strained as it is tightly wrapped around the spool core. The strain over a prolonged period of time can cause creep failure and fracturing throughout the entire spool.

Add a motor and a runout sensor. 😜

What is that round light thingy that's right above your name in the background and where did it come from? Thanks for making great videos and for all the helpful information!

IMPORTANT TIP: Don't respool directly on bambu spools. Because then you'll wrap the outer part of the source spool to the inner part of the target spool resulting in the filament having way too much stress in them. It can cause mayor filament breaks. First spool onto a third spool, and then spool to the bambu spool.

Can I have the step file ? Great ideas 👍👍👍👍

Would have loved to see the video include slicing, settings etc.

I would find that really useful if it had a meter counter on it too, so I could measure my small part spools.

I assume this will work with any spool not just AMS??

Hey Brayan. I’m might want to upgrade my 3d printer and there’s so many options and I would like to know what you would recommend. I would like a fdm printer over a resin one. So far I kinda like the Flashforge Adventurer 4 and Ender 3 s1 pro. Are those good one, or any others that would be better? My current printer is an Ender 3 v2, so I have some experience Thank you

The winding would probably be more clean if you used something stiffer than the bowden tube since the bowden tube moves around so much during the winding process.

Thank you.

Is there a support needed frontje main construction or Is it all printed as it is?

It would have been nice to know the main part would not fit a 220 x220 bed

Every 3d print video I have watched today is sponsored by PCB Way... that company is really pumping their advertising to get market share. I wonder what they need to offer as sponsorship arrangements on channels to get onboard?

Bryan, what material should it be printed in ? Pla ? Petg ? By the way, love your channel and your video's. Keep it up !

Edit: PSA - Do NOT try fitting a Polymaker spool into a bambu spool, it will eventually slip down the side and ruin the entire spool of filament. I was considering making one of these spoolers to respool polymaker PLA, and you just happen to mention that it fits on a reusable spool :D Low and behold, it pretty much does, the cardboard core is a bit larger than the center though.

Prusament doesn't need filament clips because they have the best way of attaching filament built in. But they don't have the cheapest filament. So when I cheap out I could use this and get rid of all of mine filament clips.

I think you can use some drill for that, it would be easy

Does it work om 3kg spools

love ur shirt!

Could you share the STL or a link to the @-@ in the background?

purple ice and jessie neon green!!?? what brand?! please!!!

Already downloaded and in the process of printing one!❤

Having a hard time trying to understand the actual point of this. Ok yea transfer leftover filament to another spool, but are you mending the leftovers to each other?

The filament guide should move slower towards the end of the process though shouldn't?

What's the brand of that green filament?!

If you think that's great you should check out the motorized remix. It was made by a super genius 😂.

Add a motor and a filament runout sensor and let it run.

The hair is still glorious

I still say it's a design flaw of the AMS. But as for the winder, I do love it for it's sleekness. I may have to copy part of it when I eventually redo my own filament winder (which I did using a Kitchenaid Stand Mixer), and especially the pretty winding, as that was one thing I went "I'm not thinking about right now".

My understanding was that multicolor filament loses part of the effect when the color is no longer aligned on the spool, is that not the case? I have just been using a drill and a spool adapter, but getting an even tension and clean back and forth is kind of annoying. This looks like a lot of plastic but does solve the clean winding. Any suggestions on joining spool ends or remnants?

This is brilliant!

Respoolimg is dangerous. Filament has a natural curl and when respooling you spool a bigger curl diameter to a smaller diameter. As a result the filament on the target spool is unter constant stress, as unlike during manufacturing the filament is not warm. After some time you will experience broken filament sections on your spools.

People will see this and still think that it is possible for spools to come tangled or with knots from the factory.

That "eco friendly" cardboard spool no doubt ruined some animals habitat when that tree was cutdown, meanwhile that "evil plastic" bottle thrown out gave a new home to another. Id argue plastic is more eco friendly provided its recycled. And it doesnt even have to be as that plastic pool holder has a chance to be reused without any further energy input like recycling paper requires to make anything useful again.

Btw.. Nice shirt /)*

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The brains of some people amaze me. Print 2 lbs of PLA, but complain that the spool is plastic too, and want cardboard instead. Ya, that makes allot of sense. Lets cut down more trees.

Cardboard spools are the worst. 97% of them get damaged in delivery 🤬

Find it funny 3D printing people often overthink problems and could use a better understanding of simpler tools. I'm trying to convince somebody in the recreator community to build and all mechanical version of their bottle filament maker but they can't wrap their head around it. They think Clockwork mechanisms don't have any power and don't understand that it's just clocks that are built that way. They literally have infinite possibilities at their fingertips and their first thought is how can I wire an Arduino to my hand soap dispenser.

It needs to be spooled twice to prevent spiraling out. And it will suffer with every spooling.

Now that is a handy tool to make. As someone who needs to respool filament when I only have 1 spool of a colour or type of filament, and I need to print multiple prints. I respool onto other spools so I can split it between my 5 printers. And I do it be hand..... Or the filament slipped out of my fingers and gets caught under other filament leading to a jam. So I re-spool it, by hand..... As I live in South Africa, skateboard bearings is not easy to get hold of. So I will improvise it.

Respoolimg is dangerous. Filament has a natural curl and when respooling you spool a bigger curl diameter to a smaller diameter. As a result the filament on the target spool is unter constant stress, as unlike during manufacturing the filament is not warm. After some time you will experience broken filament sections on your spools.