26 Reply by techbuilder2175

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Re: Any tricks to wrapping filament with a drill?

elmoret wrote:

Here's a video on the second technique. If you want a video on the first technique, I can upload that too.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/on08qc3drnjm4 … M.mov?dl=0


Thanks Tim!
Super simple I'll give it a try once I'm done extruding.

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Re: Any tricks to wrapping filament with a drill?

Your second technique worked out great buddy!
Quality of the filament is superb!

Thanks again for your help

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Re: Any tricks to wrapping filament with a drill?

Excellent. In the video I stopped the drill when I wrapped with the other hand for clarity's sake, but in practice I do both at the same time.

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