String Spool Holder

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This was designed with a few things in mind. First: Relatively minimal amount of material (to do this I opted to use string for a portion of the support between the two printed pieces). Second: Accessibility to individual spools (I wanted the ability to easily add or remove spools which were not in use without the need to displace more than one spool at a time). Third: A way to prevent spools that were not in use from unwinding everywhere. One additional consideration was the ability to store spools tightly packed together. I have 15 filament spools atm, stacked in 3-4 piles on the living-room floor of my apartment. A large portion of the goal of this design is to move them away from my floor... A Couple of Notes: I printed these pieces with a 50% fill and 2mm shell thickness (as well as a raft) which took about 4 hours a piece. The parts came out significantly sturdier than I was expecting. Additionally, I could not find my spool of kite string (I moved not that long ago probably related to filament being on floor) so the "string" I used is actually a thin-gauge decorative wire and a twisty-tie. Instructions Materials: 1x Spool Holder 1x Spool Support Kite String (or dental floss, fishing line, thin-gauge wire, etc) Assembly: Cut two pieces of string a little longer than the diameter of filament spool. Take one piece of string and thread it through one of the holes in the Spool Support then tie the two ends of the string together. Repeat step 2 with the other hole and other piece of string. Cut a third piece of string that is 3-4 inches long. Take third piece of string and thread it through one of the vertical holes in the Spool Holder, around desired support structure (dowel rod, clothes rod, towel rack, etc), then continue through the other vertical hole, tie the two ends of this string together (the grooves in the Spool Holder should face up). Insert Spool Support through center of filament spool. Hold the filament by the loops of string dangling from the Spool Support and loop them over the Spool Holder so that the string rests in the grooves of the Spool Holder. Finally, if desired, firmly shove end of filament into one of the horizontal holes in the Spool Holder to prevent spool from unwinding while allowing easy access to the tip of the filament. Admire