Thermal Grease Shipping Cost
Is there any way to get Heatbreak Thermal Grease without the high shipping costs? It looks like the only choices on the order page is expensive carriers.
RE: Thermal Grease Shipping Cost
Partsbuilt 3D carry many Prusa parts and they ship from Ohio in the US. I've had good luck with them.
RE: Thermal Grease Shipping Cost
They really jacked up the price, $13.60 + $6.99 shipping vs $2.49 + expensive shipping at Prusa or $4.99 + shipping at Printed Solid, also in the US.
For small items like this, I suggest you combine them into a larger order so the sellers can get in the sweet spot for shipping. Almost no one else has the in house shipping capability that Amazon has and free shipping is not really free. They just bake it into the price. From Prusa to the US, I have found the sweet spot is buying two spools of filament, plus any spare parts I need. That provides the lowest ratio of shipping cost to product purchased.
Regards,
Mark
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Get a boron nitride or zinc oxide, which should be easily obtainable locally in radio shacks/eletronics store/computer etc. They are generally white in color.
Boron nitride - better suitable to higher temperature operations.
Zinc oxide - this one is in Prusa store, common computer cpu thermal paste, also known as 'the white goop'.
Also watch out for using CPU thermal pastes such as Arctic Silver MX series (such as MX-4) - generally they are grey and contain aluminium powder - people were reporting that it damages parts due to the parts getting fused together or getting corrosion.
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RE: Thermal Grease Shipping Cost
Get a boron nitride or zinc oxide, which should be easily obtainable locally in radio shacks/eletronics store/computer etc. They are generally white in color.
Boron nitride - better suitable to higher temperature operations.
Zinc oxide - this one is in Prusa store, common computer cpu thermal paste, also known as 'the white goop'.Also watch out for using CPU thermal pastes such as Arctic Silver MX series (such as MX-4) - generally they are grey and contain aluminium powder - people were reporting that it damages parts due to the parts getting fused together or getting corrosion.
Thanks for the specific information on the types of thermal paste. Radio Shack is long gone in the US, and local computer stores are rare also. There are Best Buy stores, but they only seem to have grey or black thermal paste, likely with aluminum powder. There are Micro Center stores and they do have some high temperature thermal pastes. Amazon has pretty much killed the local computer stores. They of course sell all types of thermal paste. I hope this helps the original poster. I do happen to have some of the Prusa stuff, from spare parts purchases with filament as described above.
Regards,
Mark