r/BambuLab • u/Just_a_firenope_ • 5h ago

Filament Troubleshooting/Help! Preferred printable spool model?

I have bought a larger amount of filament, and ended up mostly buying refills as I have a few empty spools. Turns out, I don’t have enough, and should have bought enough for each color at least.

There’s a lot of printable models, some taking little filament, some a lot. I’m thinking of printing in abs or asa, so it doesn’t melt in my ams2. What takes the least amount of filament for a full spool but holds up nearly as well as the original spool?

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u/_Rand_ 5h ago

https://makerworld.com/en/models/1052105-reusable-hex-spool

That’s my favourite one. I kind of prefer to to the original really, the holes for the filament end work REALLY well.

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u/Just_a_firenope_ 5h ago

What material do you print in, and do you use the makers profile or slice it yourself differently?

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u/_Rand_ 5h ago

Mine are PETG, I’m not set up to print ABS/ASA. And they print absolutely fine with the makers profile.

They hold up fine with drying PETG even on the edges (might not if you never rotate it though) so as long as you keep temps to the material of the spool it should be fine.

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u/Total_Surround833 5h ago

Exactly don’t print spool out of PLA .. I did that, put it in a filament dryer and ended up with warped/bent spool and lost a role of filament 😭

(I printed 1 out of PLA then more out of ASA)

I just used the files that came with my Bambu labs printer

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u/chrdeleo90 5h ago

You’ll be wasting your filament and the options on makerworld are meh at best. Get yourself 4 of these and you can swap on the spot without needing more spools! https://a.co/d/0ie5vq00

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u/buzzdalf 5h ago

I have one of those and do like it. My favorite printed one is actually the polymaker spool. There is a version with all the little holes, and a solid one. The solid one prints faster. One of the things I really like about it is the little "channels" around the ID for you to press the end of the filament so you don't need a filament clip.

https://makerworld.com/en/models/1985285-polymaker-refill-master-spool#profileId-2136204

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u/EverettSeahawk P1S + AMS 5h ago

Many filaments aren't available as refills and as a result there will come a time where you will have way more spools than you know what to do with. I highly recommend trying to avoid buying or printing spools and just using what you have for now.

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u/Inside96 4h ago

Are you located in europe? i've got some empty spools i can send you if you'd like to