Upcycle for Esun Cardboard Spool -Organiser maintenance station Vase + Normal

It’s empty! Now what?

Your eSun cardboard spool is empty? ♻ Turn it into a compact storage station for your 3D printer!

This design consists of a top and bottom cover plus compartments for tools and spare parts.

All parts except the top and bottom covers are printed in vase mode, making it fast, lightweight and material-efficient.

Parts and Optional Parts

Main Parts

• Top cover

• Bottom cover

• 4x Compartments (drawers)

Optional Parts

• Cups

A lot of small cylinders (cups), round or moon-shaped that fit the cut outs on the top cover

• 4x Tubes

These sit inside the compartments and act as an axis.

The organizer works without them, but it will be slightly wobbly. The tubes make everything more stable.

Cups (for the cut-out pattern in the top cover) Optional – print as needed.

• 2 x Half Cylinders (Center)

These fit together in the center of the spool.

Important: Print both or none. One alone will not stay upright.

2 x Pins (optional) 

They hold the compartments in position if you want to rotate the organizer without the drawers shifting.

Print Instructions

⚠ First check if the covers fit your printer’s build plate.

The covers have a diameter of 208 mm.

You may need to remove the skirt to make them fit on smaller beds. 

Covers

• Nozzle: 0.2 mm

• Material: PLA

• Printed in normal mode 

Compartments (Drawers)

• Printed in vase mode

• Print the file 4 times

• 2 of them must be mirrored

The provided .3MF file already contains the correct vase mode settings, including:

• Line width: 0.8 (default extrusion width - advanced )

• Bottom layers: 5

(Feel free to adjust if needed for your printer.)

Cups

• Printed in vase mode

• Optional – print as many as needed

• Vase mode settings are included in the 3MF file 

Assembly Instructions

1. Place the bottom cover onto the spool first (on a flat surface).

2. Insert one tube into each compartment (if using them).
   The tubes serve as the rotation axis.

3. Position the compartments between the spool sides and close them into place.

Place the top cover on last.

Insert the pins:

• Through the spool holes

• Through the tubes

The compartments will also stay in place without the tubes, but they may feel slightly wobbly.