Reloading filament on a 3D printer is hardly anyone’s favorite task, but it’s even worse when you’re trying to shove stiff filament down a long and winding Bowden tube. Enter the …
  • Carighan Maconar@piefed.worldEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Very limited use case of course (long-tube bowden style feed mechanisms aren’t that common any more) but damn is it cool for that case!

    • Badabinski@kbin.earth
      2·
      7 days ago

      I’ve got a Prusa XL and this is love at first sight for me. My printer is direct drive, but the filament feed tubes are SO long to accommodate the bed size.

      • MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 days ago

        same here with my direct drive setup - these long feed tubes are such a pain to manually feed, i’ve spent waay too much time fighting with filament that gets stuck halfway through the tube.

    • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 days ago

      Link, because this is not what I think of when I hear filament buffer. This uses a motor to feed filament and it’s a tool so you can use it on lots of machines with reverse Bowden tubes.

      • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 days ago

        I just found this on AliExpress: $11.25 | Mellow LLL Filament Buffer For 3D Printers - Automatic Filament Feeding, Break Detection, Improve Print Quality For Voron Vzbot https://a.aliexpress.com/_mtdTiwv

        Literally use one just like this to feed filament to the extruder - has feed and retract buttons and can also double as a filament runout switch as well