Faberdashery Spool Remix Hack

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I received a loose coil of filament from Proto Pasta thinking that I could just lay it on the spool holder of my printer. I was wrong! That lead to a desperate search for a solution. I found the Faberdashery Spool by FablabMoebius and the remix by tschaboo. I started with the remix because it promised to use much less filament. I printed the two sides and three forks but when I tried to put the spool together I found that the inside diameter of my coil was much smaller than required based on the dimensions of the forks... I didn't want to take the time for a reimplementation so I took the fork STL files to Tinkercad and cut out some material. The arms of the fork are also very long (too long for my printer) so I chopped part of them off as well. It was a quick and dirty job and that's what I got. It turns out that I had cut too much out of the internal dimensions of the fork but I didn't want to take the time and filament to modify my changes in Tinkercad and reprint all three. Instead I created a simple spacer to fit on each fork. In the end it worked, mostly. I should have cut the arms even a bit shorter so the spool would spin properly on my existing spool holder but I was in a hurry to print with the filament. Bottom line is that this is a hack job but might be a flexible design for me going forward as I receive loose coils with different internal diameters.