Printer parts - Revisions and current information?
I have a mk3s arriving in a couple of days. This is my first 3D printer. I have very little experience, but I have been involved in lab equipment repair/maintenance and also RC control hobbies for 40 years. I don't anticipate any troubles following the procedures and getting the kit built.
On a reddit thread a poster indicated that I needed to make sure that the parts I built my printer from were of the "most current revision" , that I would be able to tell by looking for a rev.# on the printed part, and that if they were not that I would be able to get the most current part somewhere on the prusa github site, and that my first priority after setting up should be to print and replace those parts.
I'm not real familiar with github, but I have gone and snooped around. When I look at the files I can find on github. I don't see any indication of a part number or revision number anywhere in the documentation. I am not positive I am in the proper location.
How am I to know if the file I am looking at is a newer version of the part? Or is any of this information relevant at all? Have I been sent down a rabbit hole by someone having fun with me or is there any accuracy to the statement that my kit may contain obsolete/older versions of parts. Not being familiar with github, it's purpose, structure and how it works, I am not sure I am looking in the proper location, or if I need be looking at all. At this stage I just want to get my printer built and learn how to use it, but I am a tinkerer and chasing down things like this are enjoyable to me. If I am going to have to be printing things to learn, it might as well be attempts at something that have a purpose, rather than trinkets.
I understand not to follow the printed guide, but rather the online assembly guide for the most current information and to pay attention to the user comments on each step as I go through the build.
Again, is there any validity to this.... or have i been trolled a bit.
RE: Printer parts - Revisions and current information?
All of the parts have designations somewhere on them. Factory parts are <Letter><number, e.g. D4, whereas released parts are marked R<NUMBER>.
The number is what matters.
RE: Printer parts - Revisions and current information?
Yes, what vintagepc said. If you ordered and purchased it new from Prusa, you should get the most updated parts and should not worry about it.
You could read the assembly manual online a head of time, especially the comments, for good info to be aware of when assembling the printer. The assembly manual talks about the versions of the parts. The link below has the manuals to review.
https://manual.prusa3d.com/c/English_manuals
Strange women, laying in ponds, distributing swords, is hardly a basis for a system of governance!
RE: Printer parts - Revisions and current information?
The assembly manual is both good and current.
The online version is good for user comments and additional pictures.
Use both.