Bondtech Extruder Upgrade For MK2 / MK2S

Upgrade your Caribou or Prusa

Upgrade your Prusa with a Bondtech Mini Geared extruder featuring higher gear ratio – 3:1 – that allows for extra push force and higher resolution.

Print Faster Or With Higher Quality

This lightweight extruder will allow your 3D printer to print faster or to achieve even better surface quality.

Reduce 3D Printing Issues

Decrease the risk of heat creep to avoid clogs and improve filament feeding by avoiding slipping and deformation that cause under and over extrusion issues.

Bondtech Extruder For Prusa i3 MK2.5S & MK3S

This kit contains only the necessary parts to convert your current extruder to our own popular design based upon our BMG (Bondtech Mini Geared) extruder with 3:1 gearing ratio for better precision and resolution together with optimized geometry for the heatsink cooling and professional SLS 3D printed housing.

Working Temperature Limits

Bear in mind that if you use this upgrade kit inside a closed chamber, it will have the following set of working temperature limits:

• Due to the sensor plastic parts made of HT PLA > up to 60°C (90-100°C when parts are annealed);
• Due to the stepper motor > up to 80°C.

Product Main Features

This extruder upgrade presents the following main features:

• Adapted to fit Prusa’s new filament sensor and Mosquito hotends
• Includes one Bondtech BMG extruder with 3:1 gearing ratio
• Optimized geometry for heat-sink cooling
• Less moving weight to reduce vibration and ghosting
• Professional SLS 3D printed housing and 3 other key parts
• Compatible only with E3d V6 hotend and the mechanical filament sensor (current sensor)

Updating the Firmware

To use this upgrade in the MK2.5S / MK3S, the E-steps and Z_Max needs to be updated. Check out the latest version of our firmware.

MMU2s

To use the MMU2s together with the Bondtech an extra Add-On is required. This will allow sensor to trigger once the filament is reaching the drive gears.

You can download the STL file bundles from our MMU2S Add-On Files from Bondtech: https://www.bondtech.se/en/product/prusa-i3-mk3s-mosquito-extruder-upgrade/#tab-mmu2s-add-on-files

All credits to Leon Van Roosmalen for his amazing design. Find more information about his work and designs here: https://www.thingiverse.com/Leonrsmln31/designs

Community involvement

This is a co-development work with awesome guys in the Prusa Community like Chris Warkocki, Grégorie Saunier (Bear Upgrades), Olof Ogland, Erik Bjorgan, Josh Jones, Kyle Wiehe, Marc Evertz, Matt Harrison, Ocie Ward, Sando Bendig, Vecko Kojchevski (Vecko Extruder), Steven Mölby, and Yuri Delia that have provided excellent feedback and suggestions of how to develop the “perfect” extruder setup for the Prusa series printer. A lot of work has been put in this project and we tried to listen to all the inputs in order to find a solution that can be the best fit to the Prusa I3 MK3S.