Quote Originally Posted by Merijeek View Post
Actually, I'm not looking for storage, I'm looking for feeding-without-contortion, which I find is my biggest complaint with the unit. Threading the spool holders on is a pain in the ass and the filament seems to do a fairly extreme bend to get into the feeder tube.
If a dry box is not something you want to get into, there are a couple of other things that may help:

First, have you tried making and using one of the filament guide assemblies that are available for the QiDi? They do include a sort of "funnel" arrangement at the filament entry which can make threading the filament go more smoothly. Here is one that I initially used: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1463485

Secondly, you mention "a fairly extreme bend" in the filament path. The filament should always be fed from the bottom of each roll into the space between the two rolls, never from the top of the roll. This gives the filament the maximum distance to line up with the feed tube path. Depending upon your filament manufacturer, the filament roll may require some spindle size adapters or other spacers depending upon its size and orientation on the QiDi's spindles. There are an unlimited number of approaches to solving these size differentials. Here is a highly adaptable one that I have used the "scad" version of quite often: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:735213

Third, the QiDi currently ships with a set of metal filament spindles. Again, there are a number of ways they can be used; and this may also depend upon your selected filament manufacturer's roll dimensions. My current solution includes the addition of a few spacers between the rear plate of the QiDi body and the spindle cylinder. Some adjustment / shifting of the filament spindle's threaded rod position may be required in order to install these spacers. Here are the spacers that I use for that application: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1530944

Lastly, I leave the two filament spindle assemblies affixed to the QiDi printer body, and solely remove / re-attach the small conical retainer when replacing the filament roll. I find that task is significantly easier than blindly hunting for the mounting hole on the back of the printer with the filament roll weighing things down.

I hope these suggestions are of some help and I do apologize if these were approaches you were already aware of or had previously adopted / rejected.