Unspoooled filament from refill

Bambu Lab P1 Series Troubleshooting
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Hello all. Hope you can help.

Bought refills for the first time and popped the into the filament holder.

Then for some reason filament was being stuck inside the AMS, when I went to look, this is what i found.

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I was able to manually feed the filament in and the issue was that because there was a crevice in the middle of the spool it kept getting stuck. and also because it was too wide I could not push the filament back into make it skinny enough to click the spoolholder back together.

So this is where we are now…

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Any suggestions?!!

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I’ve been down this road before when a spool I printed let go.

What I did was to print a drill mounted spool holder

I ran a broom stick through the loops of the separated spool and respooled on to a good spool. It takes a little time but the filament can be saved if you are patient.

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I suspect that you did what I did with one of my early refills, I did NOT LOCK the spool halves together. They separated and turned into a bound up mess!

Fortunately, I did not panic, kept the spool more or less together and rewound it on to a proper spool and twist.

Now you have two tasks, should you choose to accept them.

  1. Carefully, and quite manually, per @JonRaymond 's advice, rewind that mess on to a proper spool.
  2. Learn to tighten the spool halves, when you add a refill, until they solidly CLICK closed, thereby making the spool solid for the crazy back and forth that the AMS will perform.
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Fantastic thanks. I will give this a try. I have the drill (cordless screwdriver!) but not sure of operation at the moment. Any videos of the operation? Does the fitting simply go inside the cardboard or the locked spoolholder?

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Thanks mate. Yes I do suspect that is what has occured.

But I will try the suggested fix. Wish us luck!!

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Yep, spool was not closed completely.
Been there. Don’t worry, there is a solution as other users told you.
I designed a Bambu Lab specific winder for use with a drill to solve my problem.
The very first model I uploaded.

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Hey mate. Thanks for the reply. I will give this a go. In terms of operation though I hook all this up and then do you run the filament back through a PTFE tube or anything to go back onto the spool? As you can see from the above picture there are sections of this where its maybe become tangled will this become an issue? I thought if it goes through a PTFE tube it might work out some of the tangles?

I also thought about cutting the filament into sections and just cut out the tangled bits but will see.

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I run the filament back through a paper towel in my fingers so there is some tension and to spread the filament uniformly in the spool.
And yes, you will have to sort out some tangles there.

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