How to switch Elegoo Cardboard Spool to Bambu Lab's reusable spool. 

Agree with you. Elegoo has been my go to for PLA.

Awesome, thank you!

Thanks, I appreciate it!

Thank you!

I had issues with it in my AMS lite as the inner part of the spool started cracking from being inserted too many times. It was not holding anymore and would fall out. And in the regular AMS, I had one that was crooked and used the printed rail covers and still came off. So Now I just don't even deal with it.

I've believe so. I've only used their PLA, PLA+ and PLA Matte. But from the looks of it, all their spools look similar.

@@CarlexDIY can confirm worked with my ASA

Really? That be nice if they made it a little sturdier.

I've been able to switch Elegoo, Polymaker, and Overture carboard spools to the reusable spool without a problem. There might be others but I haven't used or confirmed if they work.

Sadly Sunlu/Jayo spools do not work.

That sucks. Thanka for the info.

@@CarlexDIY Of course it sucks, but you just need another reusable spool, not a bambulab one. The core of Jayo spools has a few mm less inner diameter, so the bambulab spools do not fit inside. The Prusa spools use a bigger cardbox core, so they do not fit either. But as we obviously have a 3d printer, we could always design our own reusable spool ;-) One point: On my Prusa mk3/mk4 the filament runout sensor is inside the printhead. There is a problem with unloading the filament, if it had run out, if the filament has a kink at the end. In your video you actually removed the kink while transfering the spool. That solves this problem with mk3/mk4 as a nice side effect...

Yes. I will make a quick video showing the Matte finish. Ayi lo pongo mas tarde.

You can tuck the end piece in the little slot in the cardboard and lock it between the spool when you close it. Not too much or it could get stuck and AMS won't be able to break it free. So far I haven't had any issues leaving it free and it actually just rolls of easier when not tucked in. The AMS doesn't struggle to break it loose. But I can see how it might be an issue if there is only a little amount left and tries to rewind it.

@@CarlexDIY ok, thank you, i didn't expect it to hold so well

Well said.

Not a design flaw; the AMS is designed to work primarily with bambu filament. Bambu's own filament has an RFID tag that the AMS reads that automatically inputs the color and type. It's only an aggravation if you have to do it for every roll of filament. And cardboard spools will work with the AMS, you just have to make sure to clean out any cardboard dust in the AMS that comes off the rolls from use. Other brands of filament with plastic spools work fine as long as they're not too wide.

you can use cardboard spools in the AMS however Bambu says there can be cardboard particals created from the spool rotating/slowly breaking which can cause the machine to breakdown. I usually clean the AMS before a spool change though

It's not really an aggravation for me. It takes me less than 1 minute to switch out the spools to reusable and I don't have to worry about bent cardboard rails or extra dust cleaning. I have seen that someone made a printable modified AMS replacements that's supposed to help with this and allows for wider spools, but I don't have a need for it.

Bambu has a LOT of design flaws with their printers. I unknowingly bought 2 Bambus because of all the hype....Worst mistake purchase i have ever made

@@anthonylong5870 What flaws? And which printers? I have two A1s and two A1 minis and both have been reliable workhorses. I realize no printer is perfect, but bambu does most things right when it comes to their printers. They wouldn't have the following they do if they had creality reliability...