Jig to Wind Sindoh 3DWOX Filament Spool

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We replaced our Makerbots with Sindoh printers and have a lot of Makerbot filament left. The Sindohs have been good so far, and one feature is the ability to use open source filament. Winding by hand gets old quick, so we designed a jig to hold the empty spool on a drill. The center post was a later innovation to "ram rod" the jig out of the spool, as it's a rather tight fit. We printed one of the many spool holders elsewhere on Thingiverse to hold the Makerbot filament. The process works well. One hand holds the drill to wind, and the other hand guides the filament from the source material (which has a tendency to wind quickly and unspool with the momentum.