We are trying to find better ways to feed filament into our machines all the time. This is a student design that fits neatly into the upper corners of the Replicator 2. After the initial print, we found that there needs to be a little more iteration to make it perfect.
One of the problems we continue to have is that some of the filaments were would onto the spools quite poorly. The line crossed itself and if you left a print alone for too long the filament would get caught up on the spool and either pull out of the extruder or the line would simply snap off. We now have to use an empty spool to re-wind all of our filament properly before we can use it. We'll let you know how different filament manufacturers faired in our tests and ratings in the coming week. Students are in the process of testing several variables between different manufacturers products.
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