Cereal Box Stand Mount

Recently, I'd been battling some humidity issues (living in the US Midwest has its perks, lol) and so I've been moving to using airtight cereal boxes as dry boxes, like many others. I found a dry box design by VALRC that I really liked and so I bought the stuff to make them.

The first problem I rant into is that his design pulls the filament out toward the bottom of the cereal box and so that mean either A LOT of PTFE strung everywhere, printing a lot of pieces to attach to my printer for routing the filament to the extruder, or I figured out a way to move the box closer to my sensor.

The second problem was my lack of table space. If I put the dry box on the table and then routed all the tubing everywhere, I was finding that I was taking up a lot of space that I didn't have.

So I decided that I needed a way to put the dry box closer to the top of my machine. After countless hours of searching for something similar, I didn't find anyting that fit exactly what I wanted. My first iteration was to try and replace the spool holder mount completely, but I didn't like that I lost the use of the spool holder in the event I wanted to use a new filament for a one off print that wasn't already in a dry box.

So I came up with this quick swap option. I took the design of the spool holder connector, measured out the base of my dry box and went to work.

This fits exactly what I needed, leaves enough room for the filament to be pulled out of the dry box (after modding) and has a curved surface to prevent potential snags/scraping of the filament on a corner.

I printed it with PETG, but you might also be able to get by with PLA, but I would maybe use PLA+ at a minimum for strength.

It prints flat on the bottom with only minimal supports under the mounting gear.

I hope you enjoy!