MP Select Mini E3D Hotend Adapter

A Hotend Adapter
by: Brian Benchoff


Every hotend will die. Hotends are consumables. They last a while, though,
and even after 100 hours of printing, there’s nothing to tell me the hotend
on the MP Mini won’t last as long as any other hotend.

Unfortunately, there’s no source for direct replacements. If you want to replace
the hotend on this printer, you’ll have to shell out another $200 for a new
printer. Spending $200 on a new hotend is crazy, and any company that forces
that on consumers will quickly go out of business.

If you buy this printer, this should be the first thing you print.
I whipped up an adapter in OpenSCAD that puts an E3D hotend on the MP Mini
printer. It bolts directly onto the X carriage. Is it perfect? No, but if
you print this adapter out, you’ll be able to print a better adapter out
with your new hotend. Just print that and tape it to the back of your printer.
You’ll thank me later.