Recreator MK6 - Prusa MK3S+ Leftovers Edition

After I upgraded my Prusa MK3 to a MK4, I turned leftover steppers, einsy, hotend, and LCD into a Recreator!
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Are you hesitant to upgrade your MK3 to a MK4 because of all the old printer parts you'll have left over? Are you also interested in printing with PET bottles? well this remix should address both of those needs! Your old MK3 parts can be put to good use and given a new life as a PET pulltrusion machine! Check out the original Recreator MK6 for assembly instructions.

A few notes: 

 - this remix only includes the board and LCD mount models. For the rest of the parts, you'll want to check out the original Recreator MK6 Fun Size

- For the V6 hotend, I used an existing hotend mount designed by Crashoverride. Huge shout out for putting this part together so I didn't have to!

- You'll still need 24V to power the board and components. Since the existing 24V power supply went towards my upgraded MK4, I went with this mod by BuzzKillBillZ which allows the use of an external power supply. I simply took the power cables used for the MK3S+, trimmed the end that goes to the power supply, and inserted them into a barrel plug. This seems to work really well.

- In addition to the printed and non-printed parts from the Recreator build, from your prusa remains this build will use
 - the Einsy RAMBo board
 - the V6 hotend
 - the extruder motor
 - Various nuts and bolts left over 

For this initial version, I did not write any custom firmware. Therefore, in order to use without having your printer safeties kick in and become inoperable, you'll also want to make sure you keep the following parts and plug them into the board:
 - hotend fan
 - heatbed thermistor

From my initial testing, you should be able to simply reuse the existing Recreator filament pulling Gcodes. 


Most of the parts I printed with the PETG spools included in the MK4 upgrade package, although I printed the hotend mount and motor gear out of PC. 

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Differences of the remix compared to the original

I modified the board mount to fit an Einsy RAMBo, and the LCD mount to fit a stock Prusa MK3 LCD assembly!

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