Clever Mechanism Powers This All-Mechanical Filament Respooler
No matter how far down the 3D printing rabbit hole we descend, chances are pretty good that most of us won’t ever need to move filament from one spool to
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3D Printer Spool Roller Is Built For Giant Spools of Filament
Most 3D printers come with a pretty basic filament holder — often little more than a bar to hang the spool on. [Ivan Miranda]’s 3D printers run bigger spools than
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Make Your Own Color Gradient 3D Printing Filament
Color gradient filament is fun stuff to play with. It lets you make 3D prints that slowly fade from one color to another along the Z-axis. [David Gozzard] wanted to
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PET Bottles Diligently Turned Into Filament
While the price of 3D printers has come down quite a lot in the past few years, filament continues to be rather pricey especially for those doing a lot of
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3D Print Your Own Multi-Color Filament
Interested in experimenting with your own multi-color filament? [Turbo_SunShine] says to just print your own, and experiment away! Now, if you’re thinking that 3D printing some filament sounds inefficient at
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Recycling Plastic Into Filament
Plastic is a remarkable material in many ways. Cheap, durable, and versatile, it is responsible for a large percentage of the modern world we live in. As we all know,
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Filament Dry Box Design Goes Way Over the Top
There’s a fine line between simple feature creep and going over the top when it comes to project design. It’s hard to say exactly where that line is, but we’re
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Recycling Soda Bottles Into Filament To Print Smaller Soda Bottles
Thermoplastics are great, because you can melt them down and reform them into whatever you like. This is ably demonstrated by [The Q] by recycling old soda bottles into usable
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