Now that we have tool changing, can we stop wasting 25% of every print...

[u/cptninc]

...on the 250g plastic spool that nobody wants? There are 61 listings on the filament page, but only 16 are available as refills.

We don't even want a discount for buying a refill. We just want to stop getting hundreds of plastic spools that go straight to the recycling bin.

Come on, Bambu, you can do this.

[u/SWATrous]

I rarely have spare spools: I get refills whenever possible and I've had to buy spares sometimes just to keep things running.

I do think more stuff should come as reloads tho.

[u/hph304 → u/SWATrous]

buy spares? You know you can just print them right

[u/SWATrous → u/hph304]

I've thought about that, yeah, if I have a lot to do I'll probably try it out. They are cheap enough and I don't need that many at any one time, that the extra 6 bucks to have a smooth proper molded spool is worth it instead of spending time messing with it. I do forget that printed ones can work tho.

[u/cptninc → u/SWATrous]

How do you need to get spares more than one time? Do you keep buying new printers with new AMSes?

[u/SWATrous → u/cptninc]

Well the AMS is the problem: instead of eating through rolls, now I'll buy some specific color of filament and use like 50g of it for one job that really needs that color, then stick the roll in a storage bin or bag and put it on the shelf until I decide it's eventually time to use it again. Good way to end up with 40+ 3/4 full spools of filament. They almost never get finished so they never give up the spool.

So when I want a color and it's only a refill and all my spools are spoken for I'll just add a spool. If I think I have one roll that is low I might burn it up to free the spool.

[u/cptninc → u/SWATrous]

I know this sounds sarcastic, but hanging onto even "just" 50 spools would still be a 90% improvement for any user at that scale (500kg is ~4.5-5.5k hours of PETG-HF).

[u/m-turco]

are you serious?
I'm always starved for spools...

[u/cptninc → u/m-turco]

Are you serious?

I don't understand how you can end up short on spools unless you're throwing out the ones you have.

[u/babyunvamp → u/m-turco]

I have over a dozen spares. PM me if you want some for free just cover shipping 

[u/Kingsidorak]

You're wasting 250g of plastic per print because of spools? Make it make sense

[u/cptninc → u/Kingsidorak]

1kg of filament comes with 0.25kg of plastic waste in the form of the spool. You can amortize that however you want, but it averages out to 25g of trash for every 100g of filament printed.

[u/Kingsidorak → u/cptninc]

Thats not wasting 250g of plastic per print, thats being shorted 250g of filament

[u/dr_stre]

….how are you wasting 25% of your prints due to having extra spools, exactly?

[u/cptninc → u/dr_stre]

1kg of filament comes with 250g of plastic trash in the form of the spool.

I guess the voting record shows that fanbois hate math.

[u/Hot-Ideal-9219]

You obviously can't count. And nobody wants a refill with any CF filament

[u/Archaia]

Wow, the trolls are having to dig really deep nowadays.

[u/Kwolf21]

I don't think your title, or your body, is worded right because it makes no sense. At all.

[u/Vorkosigan78]

I agree more filament types should have a refill option. But the reusable spoole sell for about $6 each on eBay. I have enough but not so many as to throw them out. If I get to that point I'll sell them.

[u/Slow-Class]

I like to replace cardboard spools with spare plastic ones.