Never had a pre-tangled spool. Tangles happen if someone lets go of the end.
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nesc@lemmy.cafe 1 month ago
Buy a spool that isn’t tangled, it will only bring frustration and anger, it’s never just one knot in my experience.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 month ago
finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Some cheaper brands have poor QC to save on cost, so spools will occasionally have some tangles in it.
B0rax@feddit.org 1 month ago
Please explain to me how the manufacturer could tangle the spool. Both ends are fixed. I literally can not imagine how it could be the manufacturers fault.
finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Honestly idk. It’s happened to me before, but not in the last several years. I know it wasn’t my fault because the tangles were deep in the spool and only uncovered late in a print, so it’s unlikely to have been caused by user error during handling or filament loading.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The last uncleanly-wound spool I had was in 2018. I haven’t paid more than €25 per kg ever, usually €15-20.
nesc@lemmy.cafe 1 month ago
I mostly buy petg that costs less than 8-9 euros per kilo. It happens sometimes.
stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Tangled spools are a user caused issue 99.9% of the time. About the only way a spool could be tangled out of the box is if the manufacturer had to manually rewind it and they screwed up.
nesc@lemmy.cafe 1 month ago
True, but sometimes it happens.