What I did find interesting is I am not the only one who had complainnts about poorly drilled holes, and no luck talking to the tech support guys. I did a search on the Migbot printer, found a pretty decent number of threads on the subject. But otherwise it seems like a great kit.Īn interesting note here. Usually I don't need to deal with support, but this was my first printer so I wanted to verify steps as I knew the spring and parts on the extruder were wrong. I emailed a sequence of pics, each one numbered, hi res close ups, asking is this corect on each pic and got no reply beyond check the website even after telling them I had already done so. And I found MK8 metal parts for this at (10.00 USD) which I ordered to replace the ones supplied with the kit. I'm still waiting to hear from them regarding replacing the aluminum plate for the 'large print area' upgrade, I'm really not keen on the idea of having to go out and pay a metal shop here to make me a new one and pay for it a second time.Ī quick modification or two on the pieces for the extruder took care of the problem, although I think that it's a bit unreasonable to have to do that, it should work out of the box. And the kit is pretty much finished, just finicky details to do still like cleanup the wires and make it pretty. Once they upgraded the instructions online, things went much better. This was not how I had hoped to get started with this. So build is still incomplete, I have to buy another aluminum plate from someone here in the US and spend another 50.00, try to figure out how the self leveling and height detection hardware is supposed to attach to this thing, and hopefully start printing eventually. I really wish I had purchased this here in the states where I could have gotten decent support. I'm feeling like we are having two distinctly different conversations at this point. I was also told I needed to finish the build so they can debug it and see why it isn't working.huh? Then they want me to add them to skype so they can figure out why the printer doesn't work. Again, no reply to my questions, just refer to website. With the holes drilled wrong, and do not line up with the holes in the heating element or the platform. The 'large build area' option, was an aluminum plate. Told them that was what I was going by, still no answer. I sent pictures, with very specific straightforward questions, and instead of answering, I was told to check the link on the product page for instructions. I'm not even sure what to say about support here. There were no wiring instructions available until a few days ago. No instructions provided for the self leveling kit at all. The spring that is supposed to provide tension for the bearing that the filament rolls over was too short, and required a lot of effort for me to jury rig something that provided tension to the bearing. However many of the holes in the extruder components for the screws are mis-drilled and the parts don't line up with the mounting holes in the brackets. Although the you tube video was basically the same. Unfortunately it's been a week trying to build this, and I'm still not printing yet.įollowing the build instructions, some of the extruder components were different in the build instructions than what was shipped. With Large print area add on, self leveling kit, and MK* 'Pro metal extruder', the kit came to 415.00 with free shipping.īox arrived in good shape, all looked well. I saw this kit at, printer was a great deal. I'm curious if anyone here has purchased this kit? I did a forum search and couldn't find any threads on it.
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