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Bentonville Heart Lites 3D Printing
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PLA blob of death - need to replace thermistor, heater bock, etc.
I had a catastrophic failure with PLA blob around the hotend. I screwed up fixing it and damaged the thermistor leads as well as the cartridge leads.  I now need to replace the heat break, heat block, thermistor, and cartridge.  Do you know if the following will work with MK3S/MMU2S?  (I tried to use an Amazon replacement from when I had an Anet A8 but that keeps blowing fuses so I'm guessing I need the "real" replacement for the MK3S.)  Thank you!
 
Posted : 26/06/2019 6:31 pm
Nikolai
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RE: PLA blob of death - need to replace thermistor, heater bock, etc.

Sorry to hear that. It happens pretty often. Usually you can scrap the heat break and heater block. Just use a heat gun or any heat source to bring it up to ~60-100C temperature. You should be able clean up everything.

So you should only need a new heater cartridge and thermistor. I prefer printed solid over matterhackers but both should do the job:

https://www.printedsolid.com/products/e3d-replacement-heater-cartridge
https://www.printedsolid.com/products/prusa-mk2-mk3-thermistor-cartridge

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Posted : 26/06/2019 7:15 pm
Feday
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RE: PLA blob of death - need to replace thermistor, heater bock, etc.

Remember that if you have the MMU that the heat  break us not the same as the default one from e3d... Where you can get the prusa specific one I don't know though. Without MMU the normal heat break is fine, possibly even better then the prusa modified version.

Posted : 01/07/2019 6:00 am
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