Unofficial Prusa Mini Wait Thread  

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@lichtjaeger

Ok.  I found my issue with the TXT sheet.  I extrusion was too low due to low tension on the gears.  I increased the tension and I am printing fine and now I have less jams.  

I have had an issue with the filament getting stuck in the gears.  I reload the filament and it usually allows me to remelt the filament to remove the “bulb”.  Do not try to pull it out or you will have to disassemble to remove fragments.  

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Charles are you doing any further timing comparisons between the Mini and mk3/s ?

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Posted by: @texy

Charles are you doing any further timing comparisons between the Mini and mk3/s ?

Yes.  I printed a 24mm nose cone that has a 15% infill with a brim and supports.  The difference was less significant.  The MK3S printed it in 4 hours 2 minutes and the Mini completed it in 3 hours 50 minutes.  I did notice a minor improvement in quality on the mini.  The weight was essentially the same.  

My first print was likely less due to the extrusion difference on  the prior print.  

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Well, just got off of chat with support.

Man, those guys are nice!

Needed to change my shipping address because I am leaving on vacation, and was concerned about porch piracy (a real concern in my area)

Had the address changed in seconds.  

And was told my order will most likely ship either this week or the next!

Just a shame I won't get to play with it till the middle of March...

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I see than most of the people going a bit off-topic here 🙂

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@charles-h13

Extruder tension was preventing you from printing to the TXT plate?  What was happening?

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@derek

I'm sure Charles will respond when he can, but my guess would be the under extrusion didn't fill material into the texture and then didn't get a good bond.  Or maybe I'm just trying to post again to become an eminent member before I even have my first Prusa 😉

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hopefully he can tell us how to adjust it? I know nothing as this will be my first printer

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@derek

I had an issue with the prints popping off the plate.  It was odd because if the print finished, it had under extrusion.  I felt like I was too low and could not get ti to stick no matter how low I got.  I tightened the tensioner one full turn and mine magically started.  Tonight, I will redo the first layer.  I think I have confirmed it was too low, but need to check that.

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@lh

That is correct.  

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@scott-r20

It will be worth the wait.  

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Does anyone know if they end shipments for the day at 5pm Prague time?  I don't want to stress myself out by keep checking when they are closed down, which is the majority of my day on the other side of the world.

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@charles-h13

Cool, I may try that tonight as well.  First I'll try cleaning it thoroughly but I'm not sure that's truly the problem.

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@lh

You’re eminent!

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@scott-r20

I have made the big leagues now.  I will have to contact Prusa right away so they know I have such forum esteem that I qualify to finally get my printer shipped, jk

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At this shipping rate, I'm picturing one Mini making Mini parts for printers.

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Well I just ordered one so I'm in for a little wait. I was going to get a Mk3 but reading a local forum there is a big import tax on items over a certain value which the mini in under so it's about a third the price. Hard to go past that.

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There were no shipped MINIs reported yesterday (according to our online sheet)

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@hawwwran

It looks like the sheet is read-only again. So I hope this is the reason why there are no new shipments in the document.

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@hawwwran

Could be true - I didn´t receive a shipping notification    😉

Best regards, Clemens Mödlin (hoping to get a MINI next week - fingers crossed)