Prusa i3 Mk3 Roller Spool Holder

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This is Remix of the excellent universal spool roller unit & stand by DWONH. See the original thing for assembly diagram. It uses 608zz bearings, no bolts and nuts are required to assemble. Rollers are 120mm long which should be sufficient for most 1kg filament spools. I was unhappy with the supplied spool holder on the new Original Prusa i3 Mk3 printer. Although a large improvement on the Mk2 version I still found it flimsy and would "bounce" the roll of filament producing movement in the Z axis frame. I took DWONH's superb universal spool roller unit and redesigned it to incorporate the wide Prusa i3 Mk3 frame mounts as used on their new spool holder. This is a strong well fitting mount that snaps on the the frame with a little effort and holds strongly. I also designed a matching filament guide, with a removable guide hoop which is split for those of us who always forget to insert our filament through the hoop before loading it!