New Bambu Labs spool not locked closed properly

Hi everyone.

I had newly opened roll of BL PLA Tough in my AMS and after light use the 2 halves of the spool came apart and the filament unwound on the spool just enough that I couldn’t get the 2 halves back together again.

Ended up hand winding the almost full roll onto some old spools.

Moral of the story - check the 2 halves of a spool are locked together before printing, even if it’s a spool / roll supplied from Bambu. Their spools don’t seem to have the wee locking piece that is in the downloadable spool 3mf. I’ve printed a few off to fit on new rolls.

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Use the shims to prevent this.
https://makerworld.com/en/models/12683#profileId-240572

I did. Printed off a good few of the wee lock plates for all the stock spools I’ve purchased.