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Step 11.43 — Fit the spool holder arm

Step 44 of 67 · Chapter 11 — Skirts, panels, Clicky-Clack door, filtration

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Parts:

  • spool_holder ×1 · bin 11-spool
  • PTFE tube, the two 86 mm lengths · consumable
  • M5 roll-in T-nut ×1 · Fasteners, Tools & Misc box
  • M5×16 BHCS ×1 · Fasteners, Tools & Misc box

Do:

  1. Press the two 86 mm PTFE lengths into the grooves along the arm.
  2. Roll the M5 T-nut into the rear vertical extrusion at spool height, offer the arm up, and drive the M5×16 BHCS home.

check Check

Arm level and solid enough for a full 1 kg spool, both PTFE inserts seated, a spool spinning with light finger pressure without binding.

What you're looking at

The spool holder is the printed arm that carries a 1 kg filament spool on the rear of the machine. The two short PTFE offcuts pressed into its grooves are the bearing surface the spool turns on.

pause Good stopping point · ~15 min since the last one

Nevermore mounted in the chamber, cartridge attached, filter fan connected to the Ch 10 lead, bowden retainer and spool holder arm fitted. Its config is [fan_generic nevermore] on PF9 (11.41) — Ch 12 Step 12.32 already wrote it; confirm it against your Ch 12 notes or Checkpoint 12, not a live Mainsail: the machine stays unplugged until 13.3.

Source: Voron manual p.259 · Video: Part 9 @3:11:11