Damaged Fan Case. Where can I get a replacement?
I ended up with a huge blob of PLA stuck to the bottom of Nextruder. While clearing it I damaged the fan case that sticks way down in front of the nozzle. The US supplier has almost no MK4S parts. The Prusa parts link gets a 404 (bad link). Can't print it because my Nextruder is essentially damaged.
What do I do?
RE: Damaged Fan Case. Where can I get a replacement?
Never mind. I found my way to the part purchase link.
RE: Damaged Fan Case. Where can I get a replacement?
Just went through this very problem last week. Got the part in 3 days from Czechia. Would have been two days if the local FEDEX driver did his job. Now to play with the settings to prevent print lifting. I started the part last night that created the problem and it had begun to lift. Off to another place on this forum to find some hints.
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My backstory is that I was printing my first part that I "split" in the slicer. I left for an appointment and when we returned, my wife said, "what is that grinding noise in the basement?" The print was jammed up in the upper left so I terminated the print. When I looked at it there was TON of plastic melted around the entire print head. It took a hour to clean it out with a needle nose and a heat gun. An incredible mess because the Prusa has so many things packed into the bottom of the extruder. The fan shroud was damaged. Ended up damaging the heater block, but the whole thing was pretty much toast anyway because it was surrounded by bunch of plastic. The carriage bottom was damaged but not fatally.
The biggest mistake I made was ordering a few parts before I was done, so I ended up paying for international shipping twice. As usual PrintedSolid had almost none of what I needed and what they did have was out of stock (as usual). Owning a Prusa is kinda like owning a luxury car--the purchase price is only the beginning of cost of ownership.