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Filament Cleaner (Both 1.75mm and 2.85mm versions)

1.4K downloads · 5 years ago · Keep dust and debris out of your hotend with this filament cleaner. I have some very old filament

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Keep dust and debris out of your hotend with this filament cleaner.

I have some very old filament that has quite a bit of dust on it that I want to avoid getting into my printer. I designed this simple print which will allow you to insert a sponge into the canister and then push your filament through. Doing so should really help make sure the only thing going into your printer is the intended filament.

Went through a few revisions and am very happy with the end result. There are two versions with one for 1.75mm and one for 2.85mm filament.

I printed at .2 layer heights in PLA and the threads worked very well.

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Cap 100%
Body is 20%, but I would do it again at 60%.
Use a little white lithium grease on the threads.

Community Makes (1)

Discussions

lion77184 years ago

I screwed the cap on down to the last few mm, and it gave way. I don't remember if I used 10 or 20 as infill. Going to re-print just the cap at 100%. EDIT: That worked.

jcampbell44855 years ago

Thank you.

michaelchien2145 years ago

Cap is too large, will not screw into the body.

KixMan5 years ago

I rinted the 1.75 version and I cannot screw in the cap into the body. I printed the cap at 98.5 % scale and still no luck. Maybe @matas is right. I also opened the STEP file in Fusion360 but it is working very slow. Every modification take ages to complete. Other files work fine in F360. I will try to print the 2.8 version to see if the threads are OK.

matas5 years ago

Thread on the cap for 1.75mm is 1mm oversized, and doesn't work properly for NPT 1/4 which is internal thread

jbrande5 years ago

tried but too tight i will try with horizontal expansion

Modbot5 years ago

It should download them as a zip file so you can unzip and then just choose the size you want :). Unless you are referring to the .step file. Since I modeled them in the same Fusion project I did not see a way to export them separately.