Can you tune it out by bumping your extrusion multiplier? I've run 3 kg spools more or less exclusively for like 5 years now. They ride on ball bearings though. I do print the occasional 1 kg spool and don't have issues swapping back and forth.
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You'd probably have to keep tuning as the weight of the spool decreases.
Its more practical to print a spool holder with bearings for it. Thingyverse has some good ones
It's* more practical
They ride on ball bearings though.
This is the answer.
Yeah, I have some rings I printed that fit on the cardboard insert to help reduce friction, maybe something like this could also help reduce friction
Perhaps you can grease it up, or use (print) a mount with ball bearings. Or you have to stand there and feed it until the spool is done
Bearings are not expensive and I have tried hard to get printed ones to work it's not worth the effort IMO when you can just buy them.
I hadn’t even considered people would try to print ball bearings, lol. But yeah I definitely meant the quite cheap, actually functional ones you can buy or order.
You might try greasing the dowel.
So... KY? Astroglide?
PTFE super lube. Won't degrade and stink up the place. It's the same lube you put on linear bearings.
Lithium grease would probably be best for a serious answer, but Crisco would probably be ok too.
Bugger. Have you got a workaround? Or are you now an automated feeder for the next 2kg?
Use it to wind two 1kg spools.
You mentioned already having smaller spools, can just transfer some of it there. Best of both worlds, if a little tedious
One day filament will come with DRM so you can't print it backwards. Only a pirate would do that!
That's probably what I'll end up doing
I have my 3kg spools above the printer as well, not having your issue, I think the difference is I'm using a guide pulley on a skate bearing to direct the filament straight into the extruder.
Ig you think that's bad wait until you get multiple retractions going that the rocking motion of the 3kg Is probably going to be enough to pull the filament right out of the extruder.