Filament Splice Helper - splicer

This is a bench splicer or in situ splicer for Anet A8.

It is a rework of TrustFm's "Filament Splicer Joiner":
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:977156/#files
The head of the TrustFm's FSJ was used and placed in a C bracket. Make sure to have some M3 nuts and bolts.

The two photos above show the splice helper used on the bench with solvent welding and in situ at the printhead of an Anet A8 for heat welding.

Solvent welding with methylene chloride works, two minute set time and half hour minimum cure time. A bit fussy but it works. $9 gets you a quart of Jasco Premium Paint & Epoxy Remover at the hardware store, it's mostly MeCl2. Here's the MSDS:

http://www.jasco-help.com/uploads/documents/GJBP00203_SDS-4015.34E.pdf

Otherwise, for heat welding, I put aluminum foil on the tip of my soldering iron, set it to 650, and very carefully sculpt a weld. This is a lot faster than solvent welding. I say sculpt because the finished weld must not be wider than the filament and cann