Thanks for downloading!
We'd love to hear from you if the print was successful.
Prusa Mk3 Uni-Feed Filament Roller
A filament roller with 608 bearings and POM rollers to ease the pain of side-feeding filament
3D printer parts and enhancements
Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike
Commercial use is not allowed, you must attribute the creator, you may remix this work and the remixed work should be made available under this license.
Attribution
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2727093
Description
Based on the filament runner from JLTX (though at this point it contains nothing from his original models) this filament routing system uses ubiquitous and cheap bearings and window rollers to smoothly route your filament.
If you're like me and your filament feeds from low and to the side, this may substantially improve your quality of life by removing feed-related issues on your printer. The filament is trapped smoothly between two rolling concave POM surfaces which themselves are free to rotate 360 degrees in the horizontal plane.
Furthermore, I've included some accessory mounts to "get you back" your hexagon holes, and maybe even put anything you might mount in them "on a swivel" as well.
NON-Printed parts:
2 608 bearings (zz or otherwise)
2 POM 608 Window Rollers (http://a.co/a2xqJzA or similar 30mm OD 10mm thick)
You might be able to get away with https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2356140 and https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2374756, but I have not tried this idea.
Materials and methods
Print in PLA with supports and a brim. Tolerances are VERY tight so make sure your printer is well dialed-in.
Documents
Edit in 3dslash
Issues
Issues are used to track todos, bugs or requests. To get started, you could create an issue.
