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hagensieker
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i3 MK2S Upgrade

Bought an S upgrade kit a looooooong time ago and never installed it. My printer is not used much and I had it dialed in very nice. Hated to take a wrench to it and take it apart.

Decided to tackle the upgrade this morning and just finished. My observations are as follows:

It's great! There were a couple of things that kind of bugged me about the MK2 kit such at the Y motor kind of didn't sit perfectly straight and that the extruder wires tended to droop lower than I wish they did. Always figured someday I'd get a build plate full and it would hit something someday. Never did but it drooped more than it should.

The MK2S Upgrade kit addresses these items and a few more to include the good bearings and rods. I have a home brew i3 printer that I put lead screws and fancy bearings on and it improved it a lot.

Doing my first post-upgrade print now and so far it is looking good. After the build I ran a self-test and XYZ calibration and everything was spot on.

Probably shouldn't have waited so long to upgrade but pleased that I did.

I'm certain that you guys will come up with another upgrade (I know, you already did) that I'll probably need to buy or try.

Great upgrade kit and great instructions. No problems anywhere along the line. Thanks.

Opublikowany : 17/02/2018 9:23 pm
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