dont do that.. they are critical to the function of the material station.
The side fins have your spool detection
and the bottom trays have additional parts of the feeder systems attached to them.
Remove dividers in Material-Station
If non-Ultimaker brand materials are being used (i.e. no NFC chip), do these dividers serve any function?
prevent spools rubbing.. and also keep the spools on the rolling wheels.. if they dont fully stay on the rollers or are rubbing together they wont re-spool correctly..
removing dividers only will increase issues with the material station.. its not as simple as "this is in the way can i move it out of the way"
I would recommend you print yourself a spool winder, I can recommend this one from thingiverse as I use it myself regularly: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3918099
There is also an attachment to use a drill for even faster respooling. With this setup it takes less than a minute to respool filament onto a spool that fits into the material station.
From what I’ve seen inside the MS I would not try to remove the dividers. If I’m right (haven’t investigated that exact thing tho) it seemed like the sensors inside the dividers are connected via thin flex cables that can easily be damaged if they aren’t disconnected and carefully removed. Also I’d suspect the MS throws an error with the sensor disconnected (like the base S5 if you don’t connect the NFC module).
Additionally by just removing the divider you most likely won’t gain enough space anyways. So I’d say respooling the material would be the best option.
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I have the same question. Any feedback on this? Thanks.
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