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Topic: da Vinci Jr. filament spool chip insert assembly.... Where to find?

Hello all...  Really enjoying my new da Vinci Jr. printer, but all what a pain it is to change printing spools, because only having one insert chip assembly.  Which means once has to disassemble / reassemble this insert for each spool change!   Does anyone know where to buy extra spool inserts, thus allowing easy spool changes?

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Re: da Vinci Jr. filament spool chip insert assembly.... Where to find?

Hmmmm no designs online so you can print a couple???

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Re: da Vinci Jr. filament spool chip insert assembly.... Where to find?

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:949471

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Re: da Vinci Jr. filament spool chip insert assembly.... Where to find?

Fantastic!

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Re: da Vinci Jr. filament spool chip insert assembly.... Where to find?

Thanks for the link!  I should have looked there first...

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Re: da Vinci Jr. filament spool chip insert assembly.... Where to find?

That would be my design! I made it because of the exact reason you mentioned. I didn't want to have to change the spool holder every time I wanted to change colors.

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Re: da Vinci Jr. filament spool chip insert assembly.... Where to find?

Cool...  I just printed you model, and I see that the circuit board holder part is positioned 180 degree from the manufacture's part.  Will this effect how the chip is read?   What software program did you used to make your model?

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Re: da Vinci Jr. filament spool chip insert assembly.... Where to find?

I printed the model and have no issue at all.

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Re: da Vinci Jr. filament spool chip insert assembly.... Where to find?

Makes no difference in my printer.

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Re: da Vinci Jr. filament spool chip insert assembly.... Where to find?

I made the model using Tinkercad, it's a web-based program that is very simple to use and free.

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Re: da Vinci Jr. filament spool chip insert assembly.... Where to find?

HyruleJedi86 wrote:

That would be my design! I made it because of the exact reason you mentioned. I didn't want to have to change the spool holder every time I wanted to change colors.

Thank you for making this.  I haven't had a chance to make any yet but I have about 6 rolls of filament so if I can get my printer working again I'm definitely making a bunch of these.