Clever trick to Un tangle a spool

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• mechanismatic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I do this probably once a day at my makerspace. Sometimes it is the manufacturer’s fault and sometimes it’s just that the roll has gotten a tangle while being moved from machine to machine or machine to rack.

  I don’t put my finger on the tangle, but usually the tangle isn’t obvious in the spool so you can’t even if you wanted to.

  It’s really just a matter of spinning the filament around the roll enough to get some slack, then you pull it over the side and sort it out. Usually the fix involves pushing the filament around the spool to unbind it.

  This is another one of those issues that you typically detect by hearing an abnormal sound since you’re not watching every print all the time across multiple printers.

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• nesc@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Buy a spool that isn’t tangled, it will only bring frustration and anger, it’s never just one knot in my experience.

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  • stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • nesc@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      True, but sometimes it happens.

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  • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Never had a pre-tangled spool. Tangles happen if someone lets go of the end.

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    • finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Some cheaper brands have poor QC to save on cost, so spools will occasionally have some tangles in it.

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• Bluewing@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes, this does work. I do this if I have a tangle in a spool. I don’t even stop printing most of the time because it’s quick and easy to do.

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