Minimum Height Rostock Max Filament Spool Holder

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SeeMeCNC's Rostock Max is a great printer. It's huge, prints with awesome quality, and can handle just about everything. there's only one problem: it's very, very tall. Compounding the issue, the filament spool holder makes it a foot taller:

This project is for a minimum height filament spool holder for the Rostock Max. It bolts onto one of the top panels of the Rostock, keeping the filament right next to the extruder, but below the maximum height of the printer itself.

Designed in OpenSCAD, can be printed on the Rostock itself, and uses hardware that can be picked up at any home depot or lowes.

The printed part bolts right on to the Rostock. The mod is entirely reversible.

Files

Filament holder.gcode

G-code to print the filament holder on a Rostock Max. Generated with Cura, to be used with PLA filament. Since this print is for a specific printer, it only makes sense to provide the G-code for this project.

gcode - 11.73 MB - 03/31/2016 at 21:32

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Filament holder.stl

Standard Tesselated Geometry - 214.64 kB - 03/31/2016 at 16:00

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Filament holder.scad

scad - 2.58 kB - 03/31/2016 at 16:00

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Components

1 × plastic yes, one plastic

2 × 1/4-20 threaded rod 18" long

2 × 6-32 nut

4 × no. 8 washer

2 × 6-32 x 1" Machine screw

Project Logs

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It holds stupidly large spools!
Benchoff • 05/06/2016 at 19:04 • 0 comments

For a project, I picked up a 3.5kg spool of filament from Atomic Filament. It's 12" in diameter, 3.75" thick, and completely fits in the spool holder. Neat.
The only issue I see for this is having the spool tip the machine over. It doesn't seem like that will work, but I wouldn't put a 5kg spool on this spool holder.
Assembly and Installation
Benchoff • 03/31/2016 at 21:30 • 0 comments

The print is finished and it works. We're going to do a pictorial here with this one.
Step One. Take the screws out of the top panel of the Rostock.
Step Two. Take the top off.
Step Three. Take off the top side panel above the extruder. Remove the two screws in this panel.
Step four. Bolt the filament holder print to the panel with the screw, two washers, and nut.
Step five. Reassemble everything. You're done.

OpenSCAD design

Benchoff • 03/29/2016 at 19:51 • 0 comments

module slot()
{
  union(){
      hull(){  
          translate([-10.1,0,-0.1])
            cylinder(h=5.2, d=5);
          translate([10.1,0,-0.1])
            cylinder(h=5.2, d=5);
          }
      hull(){    
          translate([10.1,0,5])
            cylinder(h=5.1, d=18);
          translate([-10.1,0,5])
            cylinder(h=5.1, d=18);
        }
    }
}

module base(){
    difference(){
        hull(){
            translate([96.8, 26, 0]) 
                cylinder(h=10, d=5);

            translate([-96.8, 26, 0]) 
                cylinder(h=10, d=5);
                
            translate([96.8, -26, 0]) 
                cylinder(h=10, d=5);
                
            translate([-96.8, -26, 0]) 
                cylinder(h=10, d=5);
            
        }
        
        translate([95,0,0])
            slot();
        translate([-95,0,0])
            slot();
        
        translate([65,5,-5])
        cylinder(d=20, h=15);
        translate([-65,5,-5])
        cylinder(d=20, h=15);
    }
}

module arm(){
    difference(){
        union(){
            hull(){
            translate([0,22,0])
                cylinder(d=10, h=20);
            translate([0,-22,0])
                cylinder(d=10, h=20);
            
            translate([170,146,0])
                cylinder(d=10, h=20);
            translate([170,170,0])
                cylinder(d=10, h=20);
            }
            
            hull(){
                translate([170,146,0])
                    cylinder(d=10, h=20);
                translate([170,170,0])
                    cylinder(d=10, h=20);
                
                translate([180,146,0])
                    cylinder(d=10, h=20);
                translate([180,160,0])
                    cylinder(d=10, h=20);
           
                translate([200,130,0])
                    cylinder(d=10, h=20);    
            }
        }
    
    translate([167,115,0])
        cylinder(d=50,h=25);
        
    rotate([-43,90,0])
        translate([-10,5,-15])
            cylinder(d=10, h=270);
        
    }
}


module complete(){
    difference(){
      union(){
       translate([75,-1,5])
        rotate([0,-90,0])
            arm();

        translate([-55,-1,5])
            rotate([0,-90,0])
                arm();

        base(); 
        
      }
    translate([65,-10,-10])
        rotate([-43,0,0])
        cylinder(d=18, h=35);
      
    translate([-65,-10,-10])
        rotate([-43,0,0])
        cylinder(d=18, h=35);
      
  }
     
}

complete();

Press F6, and you get this:

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Discussions

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Benchoff wrote 03/31/2016 at 16:05

Yeah, but that puts the filament on the floor, two feet away from the extruder. I can *already* do that with a few lazy suzans I bought the other day.

This thing puts the spool right next to the extruder.

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zakqwy wrote 03/30/2016 at 13:07

This will become highly relevant to me when I finally assemble my Rostock Max.

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Minimum Height Rostock Max Filament Spool Holder

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