Most other videos I saw were nothing but positive. Once you get it dialed in it prints better than the prusa mini. I just ordered one 5 minutes ago on ebay for 105 dollars refurbished.

@@GoranMilici I now have 3 of them (the KP3S with the transparent Titan) Originally I bought two Ultimaker 2+ years back and lately an Ender3 V2 to play with. You know what? My go-to every time are the little KP3S they're such superb machines and beat my vastly more expensive ultimakers in quality. But do be prepared to do a little "tweaking" to them. You won't be dissapointed! Excellent purchase, happy printing :-)

How do you like it so far?

@@sadkingbilly its great ! i replaced the extruder and hot end for genuine e3s stuff and loaded marlin 2.0 on it. replaced the flatspotted linear v wheels and its one of my best printers now. reliable and prints so good. very very impressed for the price.

Been held up by a few things, but HOPING for this week. A few segments I want to include have their fate in the hands of the mail service... uugh

@@AlexKenis waiting on the post is always the worst. :) Gladly, and somewhat impatiently, waiting. 😅 Lol

@@AlexKenis how are things coming? Maybe you been busy, or ended up receiving more of the wrong items, just wondering. :)

I'll show a little in the next video, but I don't have the actual spec from the carts they copied for these cheapies. I did find a reference in a competitor's sheet to the amount of negative clearance for their preload, so if I can find that again, i'll mention it. basically I ordered looser diameter tolerance bearings from mcmaster carr and sorted them out with a micrometer until I found some that are slightly oversized. Even thr loosest tolerance bearings were reeeeally close though, so I did manage to preload the carts a BIT, but not much. It's a cringey, but I had a bear of a time getting the cart on with the slightly larger bearings in, so I ended up loading about half the bearings into the cart, sliding it partially onto the rail, and then feeding in the rest of the bearings one by one. Plan B was to freeze them. I also ordered some ceramic bearings that are slightly 0.02mm larger to try out, but they will not arrive for a while (coming from aliexpress) so I cant say yet if they will work .

@@AlexKenis Cool! Looking forward to the next one - love this stuff :)

@@AlexKenis Might be worth making a jig to auto sort those. Something like a coin sorter with a screw to adjust the spacing between to plates to be the right size anything to large would skip past anything to small would pass through. Dump them over it 2 times to get the correct size by excluding the under/over sized ones. Especially if your testing multiple brands & types and putting them in a google doc to save others the frustrations. also remember to mind the gap.

I'm going to rant about leaving a comment for the algorithm. But I'll do it on someone else's rant about rants because I'm a rebel ranter.

Haha, i think we both failed (.. or succeeded, depending on how you look at it^^)