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Wire spool

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Wire spool for storing your wires in a clean way and easy to use. With spring preventing wire from getting loose.

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Wire spool for storing your wires in a clean way and easy to use. With spring preventing wire from getting loose (within some wire cross-section boundaries).

General properties

All is "snap in" design - no glue needed.

No supports.

Assembly

  • Just press two halves of spool together.
  • Press spring into outer shell
    • push the the edge of spring snap in mechanism into pocket
    • start pulling shell open and press shell together with spring snap in mechanism, it should pop in
  • Load some wire (insert wire end into hole and start winding in the other direction)
    • push the wire end into hole located in the one half of the spool
  • bend the wire to that hole edges bit into wire insulation
  • Push spool into outer shell

Design was done in FreeCAD. Source file is attached. Feel free to adjust it to your needs!

This design heavily relies on your printer tuning in matter of tolerances.

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