I needed some desiccant containers to put a bit more weight on my half empty spools in the AMS. You can find different designs for those containers on makerworld but they all use a lot of filament for such a small part. So I designed my own. My container can be printed in 72 minutes and weights only 25g. And it holds up to 90g desiccant.

The container can directly be used for all spools that have a inner diamenter of 52 - 56mm. I tested it with Bambu, Elegoo, eSun, Kingroon and Eryone.
For spools with a diamenter of 72 - 75mm I added an adapter. This can be used for Sunlu, Jayo and Geeetech.

Print preparation:
Make sure that your print bed is clean and grease-free and use a quality brand filament. If the print result is too brittle try drying your filament. Wet filament can be fragile.

Print settings:
Printing is not difficult but you have to follow my settings.

0) Use a 0.4mm nozzle
1) Set the layer height to 0.2mm
2) Use vase mode (activate spiral vase under process/others in the slicer)
3) Set the line width for outer walls to 0.6mm.
4) Set bottom shell layers to 10.
5) Reduce the outer wall speed to 160mm/s.
These settings are recommended to print a thick & stable wall in vase mode.

During the print you might hear a rattleing sound for the first ten layers. The reason is that in vase-mode there is no print head lift during rectration. This is not an issue - it does not harm your printer and it has no influence on the print result. It is just unwanted noise.

The adapters should be printed with the 0.2mm Standard settings. Two walls, three bottoms, five tops and 12% cubic infill are enough. And turn on support, it is needed.

Of course all settings are included in my 3mf file.

Assembly:

Assembly is quite self-explanatory. Fill the bottom half with desiccant and screw the lid on top. Now insert the filled bottom half into the center hole of your spool and secure it with the top half. For large center holes (like on Sunlu spools) use the adapter.

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Disclaimer:
This work by blecheimer is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. The shown model must not be used commercially.
Copying this model to other 3D printing websites is not allowed without my permission.