Nope, did that setup upon running the mod and i do verify and replace the mesh weekly when revising everything and cleaning up
I have an update to my experience with the FlashForge AD5M printer.
The only other printer I had ever used was a Makerbot we had at school. It had just the most basic parameter settings for printing. I was shocked and a little overwhelmed by all the settings that are available in Orca. So when I started having trouble with my prints I was unsure of the cause. I’m very thankful to everyone who gave me input to try to figure out what was causing the bad prints.
When I finally decided to change filament spools and saw that my prints were coming out good, it made me think about the difference between the 2 filaments. I went to the FlashForge site and looks at the specs for both. They were identical. Then I remembered @DougJoseph saying that the clicking I heard could be from “the spool is tangled and bound up”.
That made me think that it might be the fiberboard spool having too much friction. So I designed an insert for the spool.
IT WORKED!
I was able to print all day yesterday without any issues!
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Glad you came with with an easy solution. I was not a fan of the original stock spool holder, as I saw issues where spools would catch on it. Was much happier after switching to one of the printed replacement solutions that have strips of PTFE tube in them for the spool to ride on. This is a nice one:
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Man, this is incredibly stupid. Good I have a Prusa. 
(At 5x the price… 
.)
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excellent! enjoy.
just remember even with filaments of the same brand color/type you can have small differences-tolerance.
quality control isn’t there for a lot of them specially those El-cheapo brands out there
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Can this spool holder be used without an enclosure? If not, which one would you recommend?
It would take some remix because it’s made for an enclosure. It’s compatible with three different flavors of enclosure: the original DIY enclosure touted by Flashforge, my Minimal Enclosure that’s a remix of the original, and my Retrofit that combines the top from the Minimal with the lowers of the original.
I’d highly recommend my Minimal remix. Easy, fast, less plastic, keeps the touchscreen on the metal frame.
PS: all three mentioned here are for a kit from Flashforge that has plexiglass panels etc
Is there just part of your Minimal I can print that the spool holder would fit? Unless I print more exotic materials, not sure that I’ll want to fully enclose it with plexiglass panels. I think it would annoy me more than benefit me.
The enclosure nneds: petg prints, the plexy glass and some pla parts. No fancy filament needed
I meant I wasn’t planning on printing an enclosure unless I wanted to use fancy filament.