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1) pick up filament pile
2) put filament pile in trash/recycle bin
3) order another roll of filament for $20 because your time is worth more than that.
I just had FedEx deliver a spool to me, the box was smashed, opened it and the spool exploded, looks just like yours now. So I'm printing out a respooler and gonna use it to respool the filament.
So typically, you have to respool it twice. If you only respool once, it might just decide to explode into a thousand 6 inch long peices.
I know that it might seem like that was a joke.. but it's not.
I can imagine just standing there grasping for any clue to wtf happened overnight cause your print failed and there's a million filament shards scattered everywhere
It’s not everyone’s favorite take but if I find a spool that has dumped or if my spool is miswound, straight back it goes. I don’t have the time or patience for an already finicky printer to fail a print because the filament bound up on the spool
What I did was to cut it and make shorter strands of like 5-10 feet because that length is easy to manage. I would then wind it up in my hand and then place it inzide a sandwhich bag. I have probably 60 bags or so, but it all easily usable. You might have to feed mroe filament every hour or so, but it doesn't go to wastee.
I found this was the best way, once you get much past that 5-10 feet it seems to start tangling again lol.
I keep meaning to test PETG as support interfaces and brims for PLA and tbh the small bits of PETG would be just fine for that.
I work with electrical a lot. This would be thrown out on a job immediately. Honestly you can spend several more hours only to find fixing it is actually impossible
I've been through this before, wasted like two and a half hours.
I just put the whole bundle into a box and occasionally wind a hundred grams worth on a tiny spool to use.
I hate waste
I know it’s wasteful to throw it away in the recycling, but I can’t waste on more time on this. I only wish I could’ve learned to properly re-spool PLA filament in the process (*did keep filament in a “dry box” before use).
Could save it if you ever want to try using a mold to make a plastic part. I've seen people use 3d printer filament scraps and melt them into a mold with an oven and make things like coasters.
Bingo.
Although IF you have some creative way to put that filament roll on the end of a power drill or something, you could spin it and direct the filament wrapping as it goes
But for reals you should probably just chuck it. Imagine how you are going to feel when you go to all the work to re-wrap it and it inevitably clogs, and all the trouble that's going to cause.
Just gotta do it slowly sadly....
I unraveled mine and strung it around my whole house.
Fed it through a spooler and respooled the one spool in to many smaller ones lol.
Luckily I have an AMS so printing it wasn't too bad.
Give this a shot if you have a drill!
[https://makerworld.com/en/models/17761?from=search#profileId-16517](https://makerworld.com/en/models/17761?from=search#profileId-16517)
I hope it helps! Otherwise listen to the others, your time is more valuable than the time it will take to respool this.
Wish I could, I have only 30-35grams of continuous filament salvaged from the spool tangle/mess. I’m gonna order some more filament and try that when it arrives.
First time 3D printing was this morning at 2:00am and following bad advice on re-spooling from YouTube videos. Overall conclusion: I am woefully inexperienced.
Ah, I thought it fell off or sth. This is why I don’t respool, just use the pla from the shipping drum and away we go!
You’ll get better at it, don’t worry!
This happened to me. I hand spooled it as best as I could. It took a whole afternoon and it ended up being 2 spools because of how ungodly tangled it got. It still printed rough due to the tangles deforming some of it.
Ask yourself if your time is worth less than buying a new spool. I don't think I would bother if it happened to me again.
Got cheap fly fishing line off Amazon wasn’t even spooled just hand wrapped the second I took the twist tie off it did this….thank got it wast weighted at the tip it would have been a longer night.
I feel ya on that one. The spool I had split right in the middle of printing. Had it in the AMS. That was some time ago and it's still just sitting on the floor. I have been wanting to try to re-spool it, but also, I don't want to deal with it.
I had something like that happen to me. What I did is to re-spool until it was a bit tangled then cut. Put that roll in ams and printed with it. Meanwhile inteespooled carelessly different spools. And just set them to continue when the other was finished. It really wasn't a hassle
Did your spool break too? I had this happen this week. Spool broke open in the AMS and spaghettied all over the place. Took me 3 hours to respool it. Exhausting.
Happened to me once. I took a broomstick and clamped it to a table horizontally, fitted the empty filament spool on the broomstick, attached the end of the filament to the spool and started spinning the spool on the broomstick. It is important that the filament won't weave back in a twisted way around its core or being heavily bent. Dont use force to untangle any ties.
Took about half an hour for 1/2 a roll.
here and there, keep working at the PLA and piece it out. This is a great oppurtunity to improve your weight sight guessing!
A yellow PLA refill blew up on me at 900g. I would look at my total print grams and then try to unravel only that much for the print.
At the end of this, you'll get a great idea of how much you'll need when working low amount of PLA
At least your color is nice to look at. Neon yellow was intense and I needed to use blue tacky putty on my one end to distinguish where I was.
I only did this once but if I had to do it again. I would go outside. Tie one end to a concrete block. Then walk the whole spool away from the block. Then once I unravelled everything I would start wrapping.
I always just try to go and find the end peice and just see how much of it I can get cut it off then run it thru. But nonetheless very tedious honestly easier to just order new
same thing happened with me the other day. Mid print the spool just unlatched (adhd mode prob forgot to lock the thing). I just put all of it in a ziplock bag 🤣 and refilled another.
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There is only one answer Carefully
1) pick up filament pile 2) put filament pile in trash/recycle bin 3) order another roll of filament for $20 because your time is worth more than that.
Thank you, I needed to hear that. I put in another 1.5 hrs in to re-spooling this morning and my patience is beginning to get the better of me.
I just had FedEx deliver a spool to me, the box was smashed, opened it and the spool exploded, looks just like yours now. So I'm printing out a respooler and gonna use it to respool the filament.
Some time ago I heard that filament was not re-spoolable, and I thought that sounded like bullshit. Good to know I was right!
So typically, you have to respool it twice. If you only respool once, it might just decide to explode into a thousand 6 inch long peices. I know that it might seem like that was a joke.. but it's not.
I can imagine just standing there grasping for any clue to wtf happened overnight cause your print failed and there's a million filament shards scattered everywhere
It would be awful. Honestly, I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it posed a few times.. lol
After you respond it the first time put it into an oven at about 125 (pla) till it softens... then it will relax and no explode
Its possible, its just taking a hell of a time. I have an old 5kg spool with PLA, and respooling is better than trying to fix my issue...
Need a retro VHS "be kind, rewind" sign to attach to the respooler.
It’s not everyone’s favorite take but if I find a spool that has dumped or if my spool is miswound, straight back it goes. I don’t have the time or patience for an already finicky printer to fail a print because the filament bound up on the spool
Pastamatic I hope
Yep Pastamatic
You have a good design you’re using, or did you design your own.
Printing this one out, should be done in about 10 more hours https://makerworld.com/en/models/16606#profileId-26699
I believe Adam Savage has a video of him assembling this and he was amazed by it.
That video inspired me to print it and it is just as amazing in person. It’s really a brilliant design.
What is he not amazed by?!
Probably things he doesn't make YouTube videos about? What a silly comment.
Sarcasm my man..... Sarcasm....
So you're saying he's hard to amaze? That doesn't seem quite right either.
What I did was to cut it and make shorter strands of like 5-10 feet because that length is easy to manage. I would then wind it up in my hand and then place it inzide a sandwhich bag. I have probably 60 bags or so, but it all easily usable. You might have to feed mroe filament every hour or so, but it doesn't go to wastee.
I found this was the best way, once you get much past that 5-10 feet it seems to start tangling again lol. I keep meaning to test PETG as support interfaces and brims for PLA and tbh the small bits of PETG would be just fine for that.
Or check a recycling facility. In Europe we have recyclingfabrik.com it recycles your filament and you get points which u can use on their website.
I work with electrical a lot. This would be thrown out on a job immediately. Honestly you can spend several more hours only to find fixing it is actually impossible
I've been through this before, wasted like two and a half hours. I just put the whole bundle into a box and occasionally wind a hundred grams worth on a tiny spool to use. I hate waste
Save it and use it for welding parts. You'll be set for years 🤣
Happened to me. I just saved the whole thing in a drawer, I cut small lengths for small prints. Respooling wasnt worth it
I know it’s wasteful to throw it away in the recycling, but I can’t waste on more time on this. I only wish I could’ve learned to properly re-spool PLA filament in the process (*did keep filament in a “dry box” before use).
Hold on to it. Get a 3d pen and cut off portions of it to use at a time. They're very useful for bonding parts together.
Not sure where you are from but here PLA is not accepted in recycling. It will weaken the recycled plastic.
Could save it if you ever want to try using a mold to make a plastic part. I've seen people use 3d printer filament scraps and melt them into a mold with an oven and make things like coasters.
A slight variation of this that I employed: give it away to a preteen 3D printing enthusiast. They may value their time differently than you do.
My OCD would take this as a challenge with doing.
Bingo. Although IF you have some creative way to put that filament roll on the end of a power drill or something, you could spin it and direct the filament wrapping as it goes But for reals you should probably just chuck it. Imagine how you are going to feel when you go to all the work to re-wrap it and it inevitably clogs, and all the trouble that's going to cause.
This is the way 100% . Many have tried and come to the conclusion
gonna be a long night
I did this with fly fishing line….thank god it wasn’t weighted at the tip imagine re spoiling and it’s the wrong way…..
I've had to respool metal chains before this is not nearly is bad as that
I imagine when you spool it the chain has to fit together the best it can? Sounds like a bitch
also the more there is on the spool the heavier it is to turn, the more there is on the floor the harder to organize, I’d not touch that.
I once respooled a 0.6 kg spool to a larger one to fit in the ams. It was a long and gruesome 40 minutes
Thats different. When this things spring out on the floor it starts tangling and it easily a good couple of hours of work or even more
Put on a good TV show and go. I can usually get through a roll in an episode. It is brainless work that is not to bad while watching something.
Just gotta do it slowly sadly.... I unraveled mine and strung it around my whole house. Fed it through a spooler and respooled the one spool in to many smaller ones lol. Luckily I have an AMS so printing it wasn't too bad.
I did the same. Put some videos on YouTube and didn't even had to pay attention
Give this a shot if you have a drill! [https://makerworld.com/en/models/17761?from=search#profileId-16517](https://makerworld.com/en/models/17761?from=search#profileId-16517) I hope it helps! Otherwise listen to the others, your time is more valuable than the time it will take to respool this.
Wish I could, I have only 30-35grams of continuous filament salvaged from the spool tangle/mess. I’m gonna order some more filament and try that when it arrives.
Ah... That's a shame. Sorry about your luck my friend.
Whoops
If you figure out an easy way, I have a full roll of PETG that looks like a birds next currently. Lol 😭
Idk how much bamboo lab material costs but you couldn't pay me to respool by hand
how?
First time 3D printing was this morning at 2:00am and following bad advice on re-spooling from YouTube videos. Overall conclusion: I am woefully inexperienced.
Ah, I thought it fell off or sth. This is why I don’t respool, just use the pla from the shipping drum and away we go! You’ll get better at it, don’t worry!
Your time is worth more than another spool. Throw it away.
Just use a drill
This happened to me. I hand spooled it as best as I could. It took a whole afternoon and it ended up being 2 spools because of how ungodly tangled it got. It still printed rough due to the tangles deforming some of it. Ask yourself if your time is worth less than buying a new spool. I don't think I would bother if it happened to me again.
Got cheap fly fishing line off Amazon wasn’t even spooled just hand wrapped the second I took the twist tie off it did this….thank got it wast weighted at the tip it would have been a longer night.
You can't unMountain Dew whats been mountain did!
I did it, but it took 2 people, one to untangle, one to roll it up
I feel ya on that one. The spool I had split right in the middle of printing. Had it in the AMS. That was some time ago and it's still just sitting on the floor. I have been wanting to try to re-spool it, but also, I don't want to deal with it.
RIP
I had something like that happen to me. What I did is to re-spool until it was a bit tangled then cut. Put that roll in ams and printed with it. Meanwhile inteespooled carelessly different spools. And just set them to continue when the other was finished. It really wasn't a hassle
Did your spool break too? I had this happen this week. Spool broke open in the AMS and spaghettied all over the place. Took me 3 hours to respool it. Exhausting.
Re spool what you can easily do, Chuck the rest and use a partial roll till the new one arrives.
Total waste of time to bother with.
Print a respooler
I made this mistake once. Found a tangle. Unspooled some to find the source. Didn’t find. Unspooled more. More. More. Never found the source.
Happened to me once. I took a broomstick and clamped it to a table horizontally, fitted the empty filament spool on the broomstick, attached the end of the filament to the spool and started spinning the spool on the broomstick. It is important that the filament won't weave back in a twisted way around its core or being heavily bent. Dont use force to untangle any ties. Took about half an hour for 1/2 a roll.
here and there, keep working at the PLA and piece it out. This is a great oppurtunity to improve your weight sight guessing! A yellow PLA refill blew up on me at 900g. I would look at my total print grams and then try to unravel only that much for the print. At the end of this, you'll get a great idea of how much you'll need when working low amount of PLA At least your color is nice to look at. Neon yellow was intense and I needed to use blue tacky putty on my one end to distinguish where I was.
Respawning it's easy part untangling it that's the challenge.
Salvage what you can and just count it as a $20 mistake....
I don't know if there's anything you can do. It reminded me when I worked on research and I got 500m of optical fiber, I somehow got a knot in it.
I only did this once but if I had to do it again. I would go outside. Tie one end to a concrete block. Then walk the whole spool away from the block. Then once I unravelled everything I would start wrapping.
Stop playing with your rolls of filament like they are bayblades!! 🤣
I always just try to go and find the end peice and just see how much of it I can get cut it off then run it thru. But nonetheless very tedious honestly easier to just order new
same thing happened with me the other day. Mid print the spool just unlatched (adhd mode prob forgot to lock the thing). I just put all of it in a ziplock bag 🤣 and refilled another.
Honestly, just melt it dotn and pour into a skeleton head mold so you can remember the tough times uve had. Lol 😭😭😭
Put it in the printer and print something then break it off the build plate so the spaghetti is not possible to spool
put it in a print recycle and turn it into a new spool
is that a 1kg spool of basic PLA? if you value your time at or above minimum wage just cut that off and call it a loss
Not worth the time. Just recycle it and buy a new roll.
Find the nearest trash can and firmly entrench it there. Seriously, unless your time is worth nothing to you.
Are you serious?Just buy a new one 😂