Was Upgrading my 3D Printer Worth It? - Mk3.5 Upgrade

I turbocharged my Prusa i3 Mk3s+ with the Mk3.5 upgrade kit! In this video, I'll walk you through how I did the upgrade and added some great new features, making it a great deal without the huge costs of a new Mk4 3D printer.
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[@divicool72]

"kind of like training your replacement before getting fired" lol

[@BuildyBryce]

Thanks for watching + let me know if you have any questions about the upgrade! :D

[@Rebikbok]

Love that there is more than one type of upgrade kit! Very cool comparison between the original and the new upgrade 😀

[@nickfury1279]

Apparently these upgrade kits also work on the Mk3S clones. I’ve heard of people successfully using the official Prusa Mk.4 upgrade kit on the Fysetc Prusa Mk3S clone, which from what I can see is a 1 to 1 copy of the genuine Mk3S. Thinking of doing that myself

[@MaxMichel89]

Price is important but not everything. I also did the Update, it was fine and I had less problems with the heatbed, maybe I wasnt rushing or filming while I was doing it.
The update also helps to minimize Waste and is from all the available updates the best. The firmware bug for the leveling was fixed quite fast and also the beta firmware for the touchscreen is now live I think. They take time to validate things and dont just talk about a price or the performance. I do recommend the update, if you get a used mk3 for cheap it is also not that stupid to do. (price wise) It is still reliable like before, but much faster now :-D

[@PaulHarker1958]

The price/performance ratio falls short. I can keep my Mk3s and _add_ a Bambu Mini for the same price as this upgrade.

[@iopfarmer]

I like my upgraded printer, really neat and I am now ready for the coming software improvements of the next years

[@sphyrnidae6749]

Also a reason… you have a mk3 and still love it but you want to use MMU3 ❤️

[@Hachiro]

Little note on the touchscreen: Firmware 6 is released now. Still gotta manually enable it though.
Also includes silent mode, which I don't notice a difference with. (My MK4 is sitting on the rubber pads it came with, on top of rubber pads for a washing machine for cable pinch peace of mind, on top of a 16x16in paver stone, on top of 2.5in of closed cell shipping foam.)

[@Xenthera]

I just upgraded my mmu2s to an mmu3 on my mk3s+. It sat in a corner for 6 months because I have 4 bambu printers (x1c, p1p, a1 mini etc). Immediately remembered how brutally slow the mk3s+ is relatively speaking. So I ordered the 3.5 upgrade kit, and hope to bring it up to a more modern standard. Didn't see any value in the mk3.9 or mk4 kit as they are just too expensive and approaching the price of a new mk4 complete kit.

[@cutehamster34]

Cool

[@BeefIngot]

The price of these upgrades is wild. The middle and top end upgrades are straight up enough to buy a P1P/S

[@PrintedByJohn]

Just to let you know if you have a Bambu labs p1p you can upgrade it to a p1s.

[@jamesgates1074]

Imagine if Apple released a kit to turn your Iphone 13 into a 14... 😂

[@glp.1337]

*for the price that's $100 less than a brand new 14

[@riotaken]

wait, you dont even get the nextruder, what a pointless upgrade

[@djispro4272]

You can get the MK3.9 if you want..?

[@riotaken]

@@djispro4272 yeh my dumbass didnt even see that it was 3.5 I thought it was just a mk4 kit