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Filament is wound around a cardboard core and secured with straps. This allows the reuse of the spool sides, reducing waste.

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[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

To be fair, never had a problem with cardboard spools so far. But I also have a reusable spool from Sunlu I'm using for most of my "normal" filament where color doesn't matter.