Blue PLA Filament Spool Winder for Dremel 3D Printer

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This is a spool winder bit designed to interface with the Dremel Idea Builder blue PLA filament spools and a power drill. It may also work with the Flashforge Dreamer and the Flashforge Inventor. My intention was to be able to transfer filament from generic spools onto my empty Dremel brand filament spools in order to be able to house more exotic filament types (not available from Dremel) directly inside my 3D printer. Although the resulting part was a perfect fit and I was able to rapidly transfer filament as I had originally intended, I quickly realized that the tension applied onto the filament during the transfer process was too excessive and the transferred filament began to breakdown after a few days. I believe that transferring filament is an art and I have since decided to not bother with internal filament spools anymore.