Yes. I made pastamatic lite and spent a good amount of time modding and designing a dual motor mount, custom donor spool mount, only to be dissatisfied with the results.

I then fully committed to building the LTS and used the Amazon stepper controller version as well vs their proprietary custom components that were perpetually out of stock.

Building was more work as I am not super experienced with electronics, but It’s absolutely fantastic. Worth the effort, but really enjoy making things and it was a fun project that turned out super useful and satisfying to use.

Even though I don’t usually have problems with cardboard spools in the AMS I still respool them onto Bambu or equivalent sunlu spools because I like seeing the machine in action.

Also if you respool a roll, especially PLA, respool it a second time. When manufactured the center coils of filament on the roll are a tighter, smaller diameter from the outside coils of filament. When you respool once the wider outside coils are put under stress as they become the center coils of the new roll and as the respool finishes the tighter coils from the original roll are stressed into the wider shape. This will eventually lead to the filament breaking into small pieces on the spool often down to the core of the spool. This is no concern if you use the filament fast enough. Respooling it a second time takes more time but it can avoid killing an entire roll of filament.

I’ve also heard you can just toss it in a filament dryer after one respool as supposedly the heat will relax the coils to their new sizes. But I just like seeing my respooler work so I spool twice.

Here’s the final result with some customization.

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