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Welcome to 2020! I will start the year putting my original Prusa kit together. <\/p>\n

After making my decision, I purchased an Original Prusa i3 MK3S kit from a Canadian source, Voxel Factory<\/a>. The price was CDN $999, which is roughly equivalent to its US dollar price, and I avoided customs and other related costs.<\/p>\n

I found the kit well packed, which parts logically arranged in a number of smaller boxes. Everything was there. I even found a bag of “spare hardware”, which was a nice touch.<\/p>\n

Believe it or not, Prusa actually provides a glossy 100+ page book of assembly instructions. You don’t see this attention to detail and customer service very often. You can find this book of assembly instructions online here<\/a>, if you want to take a look. A particular benefit of the online version is you can view the pictures full screen for extra detail while assembling.<\/p>\n

In my opinion, the Prusa folks have put a lot of effort into this manual, providing just the right level of detail and very clean English instructions. No garbled translations here. From what I can gather, customer feedback and suggestions supported this first class effort.<\/p>\n

Finally, all of the plastic parts and hardware were sorted out into plastic bags, shown right above. Each bag was referenced to a section of the assembly instructions. I began by sorting all the bags into the order I would need them. Each plastic part has a clear name. You can see that all of the hardware bags have a proper scale outline of each screw or nut on the cover, so you can check size easily. Wow.<\/p>\n

Putting My Original Prusa Kit Together – Slow and Steady<\/h2>\n

It took me 15 hours, over 3 days, to assemble my Prusa i3 MK3S kit. This was slightly longer than the estimated 12-14 hours, but I was not in a rush.<\/p>\n

On the first day, I did the basic frame and X\/Y axis, including bearings, stepper motors and timing belts. The frame is made from machined aluminum plates and extrusions. I found everything screwed together easily and the final result was very solid. On the second day of putting my original Prusa kit together, I focused on the extruder assembly, which was the most difficult part of the build.<\/p>\n

Finally, on day 3, I did the heated bed, power supply and electronic controller, followed by harnessing and connecting all the wiring. The final result looks like it was built at the factory.<\/p>\n

If you are interested, here is a video time lapse assembly<\/a> that demonstrates pretty well the whole process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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