Filament Spool Roller Stand

Here is my first contribution. I wanted a way to support the spool that was easy to change spools, offered little resistance to rolling, and was cheap to build. I used almost an entire ten-foot piece of 3/4" schedule 40 PVC, four elbows, four roller-blade bearings (I had those lying around), four 5/16 bolts, washers, and nylon locknuts.

I printed two of the spool guides, because I didn't want the spool walking along the pipe and possibly falling off. I printed four of the pipe-to-bearings, used a c-clamp to press the bearings into them. I printed two of the pipe-to-rollers, and bolted the bearings to them using 5/16 inch socket head cap bolts, washers, and nylock nuts. Then I pressed the back side of the bearing fitting into the PVC that goes across the top, and pressed the pipe-to-roller pieces into the vertically-oriented piece of PVC pipe.

The front printer brace goes over the pipe, and under the front of the printer base, to hold the whole system in place, together with the