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crueby
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RE: 3s+ to 4 upgrade kits - has anyone’s shipped yet?

My order, from 4/3, with black power supply, has now changed from 'New' to 'In Progress' - hoping thats a good sign of movement on it. Still wish that Prusa would give more info and actually be able to answer questions rather than 'we dont know'.

Posted : 19/09/2023 12:20 pm
Stephen Winnall
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RE: 3s+ to 4 upgrade kits - has anyone’s shipped yet?

I ordered my upgrade kit on the 4th February. It has finally arrived today.

First thoughts: Those of you who are still waiting can spend the time usefully printing out the printable parts. I think that's going to take a week if you only have one printer and go to bed every now and then.

Posted : 19/09/2023 3:39 pm
molson309
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FWIW I ordered 4/3 and my order status is still "new". 

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Posted : 20/09/2023 4:18 pm
cwbullet
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RE: 3s+ to 4 upgrade kits - has anyone’s shipped yet?

I ordered on 3/31 and I would not focus on when others reportedly ordered.  There are so many factors that can delay or speed up an order.  My order still registers as paid and new.  

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Posted : 20/09/2023 4:31 pm
ssill2
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RE: 3s+ to 4 upgrade kits - has anyone’s shipped yet?

I was 4/1 and got the two kits last Thursday.   You'd definitely want to print the parts in advance.   Though there is such a thing as too early to print lol.   I printed all mine shortly after ordering, and they were R1 parts.  Of course, There were R2 parts released in the mean time.  It'll take a few days for sure.  And in my case I'm printing them in Lime Green ABS so my hours are limited to when I can have the window open and the ventilation in the enclosure hooked up to outside.  For me this meant quite a few more batches so I could do 2 and 3 hour blocks of time and not 20h worth of printing.   I should be able to start the first upgrade maybe tomorrow or this weekend.

I sure wish I understood why some folks are delayed and some aren't.

Posted by: @stephen-winnall

I ordered my upgrade kit on the 4th February. It has finally arrived today.

First thoughts: Those of you who are still waiting can spend the time usefully printing out the printable parts. I think that's going to take a week if you only have one printer and go to bed every now and then.

 

Posted : 20/09/2023 8:29 pm
KOEKI
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RE: 3s+ to 4 upgrade kits - has anyone’s shipped yet?

I ordered on April 10th and so far no change in the status

Posted : 21/09/2023 6:32 am
crueby
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RE: 3s+ to 4 upgrade kits - has anyone’s shipped yet?

My mk4 upgrade kit, ordered 4/3, just shipped!  Finally! 

Posted : 21/09/2023 2:42 pm
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ssill2
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RE: 3s+ to 4 upgrade kits - has anyone’s shipped yet?

Hopefully you got all the parts printed.  just checked through all the parts again and I found two that I hadn't printed.   I'm printing for two upgrade kits.   Last batch SHOULD be done tomorrow morning so I can start an actual upgrade of one of the printers this weekend.

Doing any fun color or material?   The kit comes with black and orange prusament petg , but I wanted something brighter like the Pastel green Hatchbox ABS I'm printing stuff in lol

Posted by: @crueby

My mk4 upgrade kit, ordered 4/3, just shipped!  Finally! 

 

Posted : 22/09/2023 12:30 am
crueby
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Posted by: @ssill2

Hopefully you got all the parts printed.  just checked through all the parts again and I found two that I hadn't printed.   I'm printing for two upgrade kits.   Last batch SHOULD be done tomorrow morning so I can start an actual upgrade of one of the printers this weekend.

Doing any fun color or material?   The kit comes with black and orange prusament petg , but I wanted something brighter like the Pastel green Hatchbox ABS I'm printing stuff in lol

Posted by: @crueby

My mk4 upgrade kit, ordered 4/3, just shipped!  Finally! 

 

 

I don't have any petg or abs, just pla, so it will just be the boring colors it comes with!

Posted : 22/09/2023 1:03 am
ssill2
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RE: 3s+ to 4 upgrade kits - has anyone’s shipped yet?

Well that should make it easy, you should be able to use the pre-sliced gcode then.  Though I'm not sure why the presliced files use gyroid instead of the recommended grid infill lol.

Good luck!  My last set of parts is printing right now.

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Posted by: @ssill2

Hopefully you got all the parts printed.  just checked through all the parts again and I found two that I hadn't printed.   I'm printing for two upgrade kits.   Last batch SHOULD be done tomorrow morning so I can start an actual upgrade of one of the printers this weekend.

Doing any fun color or material?   The kit comes with black and orange prusament petg , but I wanted something brighter like the Pastel green Hatchbox ABS I'm printing stuff in lol

Posted by: @crueby

My mk4 upgrade kit, ordered 4/3, just shipped!  Finally! 

 

 

I don't have any petg or abs, just pla, so it will just be the boring colors it comes with!

 

Posted : 22/09/2023 10:28 am
ssill2
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RE: 3s+ to 4 upgrade kits - has anyone’s shipped yet?

Alright, two printer upgrades worth of parts!   Tomorrow I start upgrading one of them.

Posted : 22/09/2023 9:56 pm
James Kirk
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RE: 3s+ to 4 upgrade kits - has anyone’s shipped yet?

Nice color. 😀 

Posted : 23/09/2023 12:54 pm
ssill2
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RE: 3s+ to 4 upgrade kits - has anyone’s shipped yet?

yes I could have probably made things easier on myself and just printed in the black and orange that came with the kits lol   but I saw someone had done their mini in this color ages ago on reddit and I really liked it too lol

Just having some coffee before I start disassembling the first printer.  I think I'm going to start with the MMU one and take the MMU off and convert the printer back to a standard printer.   I can always switch it back later if I'm feeling adventurous lol   Not sure though,  with the 5 extruder fully assembled XL on the way(at some point soon) I may not have a need to go back to mmu.

I have the assembly instructions pulled up and I'm ready lol

Posted by: @james-kirk

Nice color. 😀 

 

Posted : 23/09/2023 1:03 pm
ssill2
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RE: 3s+ to 4 upgrade kits - has anyone’s shipped yet?

No turning back now lol  So far so good.  MMU getting excised during this process lol

 

Posted : 23/09/2023 2:56 pm
ssill2
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RE: 3s+ to 4 upgrade kits - has anyone’s shipped yet?

damn, upon further inspection of the y rods I found some grooves.  I also found some very slight ones on the x rods as well.  oh well, guess I'm going to order a set of x and y rods.  I'll order two sets, preemptively for the second printer I haven't done the upgrade to yet.

Posted : 23/09/2023 3:17 pm
ssill2
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RE: 3s+ to 4 upgrade kits - has anyone’s shipped yet?

going to do replacement 8mm bearings too.   Might as well if I'm doing the rods.

Posted : 23/09/2023 3:22 pm
Sean Lamm
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RE: 3s+ to 4 upgrade kits - has anyone’s shipped yet?

I ordered 4/26. This has been extremely disappointing to me. The support team handling the shipping has been horrible, ZERO help. I had just finished assembling my printer when I saw the announcement for the new one and their support felt like I was being sold a lemon used car. I have not even printed anything (new to 3D printer world) so printing all the required parts will be interesting as a start to 3D printing in general.

So far, Prusa the company has been a huge disappointment. I hope than when I am past this and have the upgrade printer it will be a far better experience.

Saving grace, looks like the user community is really awesome!

Posted : 24/09/2023 12:13 pm
crueby
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RE: 3s+ to 4 upgrade kits - has anyone’s shipped yet?

While printing the parts for the upgrade and looking through the instructions, thought occured to me - what use could all the replaced parts from the MK3 version be used for? Seems like all that electronics/stepper-motors/etc ought to be able to build something. Small robots to go bring in the mail, something!

Posted : 26/09/2023 8:57 pm
James Kirk
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I was thinking about the same.

So I orderd an Aluminium frame(bear) and a heatbed+carriage and I will build a mk3 with bearframe.

 

Posted by: @crueby

While printing the parts for the upgrade and looking through the instructions, thought occured to me - what use could all the replaced parts from the MK3 version be used for? Seems like all that electronics/stepper-motors/etc ought to be able to build something. Small robots to go bring in the mail, something!

 

Posted : 27/09/2023 5:47 am
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jokerit
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RE: 3s+ to 4 upgrade kits - has anyone’s shipped yet?

Lucky boys, my order from 3/30 still only "new". I hope my order will come sooner  then new year.....

Posted : 27/09/2023 9:49 am
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