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Day 57/365 Printing on Vintage Hardware. Second day of caption testing and time lapses.

Threded rob printers were not replaced by lazer cut plywood. To this day the Prusa i3 decendants are still made of threaded rods.

Not on anything decent after 2017. Prusa i3 MK3 has no threaded rod. Creality, Sovol, Sunlu, Tevo, etc all used extrusion frames for their i3s. MendelMax, Lulzbot, etc went extrusion very early on. Threaded rod Mendel's have way too much side to side movement.

Upon reflection, I conced that the Prusa MK1 is no longer modern.

I've only seen 2 i3 MK1s so far. I let Pooch from Repkord have the one I would have acquired. Frame wise it's essentially the same as the MK2. But the MK3 replaces the threaded Y rods with 30mm extrusions. We have a MK0 era 3mm build that has been updated with MK2 and MK3 parts but keeping it 3mm.