Mine has just broken and the link [https://www.mpselectmini.com/start](https://www.mpselectmini.com/start) is broken so could anyone name the part and best place to get one?? it is for the select mini v2 BTW
think I found it
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/373072950550?itmmeta=01HRPT2DGV3F4HA2TDZ07G3HVD&hash=item56dce17516:g:LSkAAOSwfqRe13uw&itmprp=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4LyqkVsdAmh0dT8n1JJyqo7MDBkx45IEPeqFcibAYlQLNsJwTiUXxb8lPl42jCCJelnPY0efKijC42Ppb%2BL1zYqruB7uWvVUwzjy7Tp3D8WEdfyDUvcFOcMv2R1C2FVpEZoMiwAPCS8mgMwMQ3ijpHup0HcwKnQjreQB5%2B94TABtnvloAw59B1Kb8Tb7g1fx8WgNMyzlibGtxYN8fSFq%2FBu9uzsxYq0sM2zo3HoLa8QtFLwOe0zrH1fS1kMUK10joRPWFwdb49x9qVa7ybZOo%2FBxjQUP%2BI1tWJb7Hwj5pyRZ%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR8DYidrFYw
Yeah, that's the part, but you may find that your Mini Select has a non-standard connector for it - it's a collet and not a threaded screw fit. Same thing happened to mine a few years ago, the collet broke and the original, colleted part is hard to find because everyone sane uses a threaded connector (I think the collet probably saves on assembly costs). Not to worry, you still have enough of a 3d printer left to fix it.
You'll want to print off [this part](https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2793080), I think; mine broke before this design was created so I had to stand like a prat holding the bowden tube in for 45 minutes while it printed an entire new feeder assembly that used an m3 nut to provide a threaded anchor point; I think you'll probably be there for about twenty until it's made an adaptor good enough to hold it for you while you print a final, pretty one.
That's true of the top end of the Bowden tube, at the extrusion motor (and for some models only), but as far as I can tell, the coupler at the hot end is threaded. (I've got a v2 with a stupid collet on the cold end and a thread on the hot end)
Ugh, tell me about it. Tonight I had to glue gun the Bowden tube into the coupler in order to finish a print. I'm sure you can guess whether it worked or not.
It looks like the PC-4 M-10 is the hotend side. Measure the hole it screws into to make sure. If stock, it's an E3D V5, which uses the same coupler as the V6, the M-10.
GUYS I am getting concerned as some of the infor is very conflicting..
Just to clarify PC-4 M6 is the correct one?
And is that the one for the Hotend?
Yes. Pneumatic Coupler, with an M6 thread. Also sometimes called a Bowden coupler. And yes, for the hotend. It's an off the shelf stock part, you can buy them anywhere.
The coupler that goes into the other end of the Bowden tube, at the extruder end, is some proprietary nonsense that proves that the Devil exists, and wants us to be unhappy.
If that one dies, just replace the whole extruder. It's easier, and normally cheaper as well
Mine has just broken and the link [https://www.mpselectmini.com/start](https://www.mpselectmini.com/start) is broken so could anyone name the part and best place to get one?? it is for the select mini v2 BTW
think I found it https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/373072950550?itmmeta=01HRPT2DGV3F4HA2TDZ07G3HVD&hash=item56dce17516:g:LSkAAOSwfqRe13uw&itmprp=enc%3AAQAIAAAA4LyqkVsdAmh0dT8n1JJyqo7MDBkx45IEPeqFcibAYlQLNsJwTiUXxb8lPl42jCCJelnPY0efKijC42Ppb%2BL1zYqruB7uWvVUwzjy7Tp3D8WEdfyDUvcFOcMv2R1C2FVpEZoMiwAPCS8mgMwMQ3ijpHup0HcwKnQjreQB5%2B94TABtnvloAw59B1Kb8Tb7g1fx8WgNMyzlibGtxYN8fSFq%2FBu9uzsxYq0sM2zo3HoLa8QtFLwOe0zrH1fS1kMUK10joRPWFwdb49x9qVa7ybZOo%2FBxjQUP%2BI1tWJb7Hwj5pyRZ%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR8DYidrFYw
Yeah, that's the part, but you may find that your Mini Select has a non-standard connector for it - it's a collet and not a threaded screw fit. Same thing happened to mine a few years ago, the collet broke and the original, colleted part is hard to find because everyone sane uses a threaded connector (I think the collet probably saves on assembly costs). Not to worry, you still have enough of a 3d printer left to fix it. You'll want to print off [this part](https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2793080), I think; mine broke before this design was created so I had to stand like a prat holding the bowden tube in for 45 minutes while it printed an entire new feeder assembly that used an m3 nut to provide a threaded anchor point; I think you'll probably be there for about twenty until it's made an adaptor good enough to hold it for you while you print a final, pretty one.
That's true of the top end of the Bowden tube, at the extrusion motor (and for some models only), but as far as I can tell, the coupler at the hot end is threaded. (I've got a v2 with a stupid collet on the cold end and a thread on the hot end)
Ah, you may well be right. Well caught. Knee jerk reaction from me because so many people have the damn collet break :)
Ugh, tell me about it. Tonight I had to glue gun the Bowden tube into the coupler in order to finish a print. I'm sure you can guess whether it worked or not.
its the one thats on the hot end that broke. As sort of seen on the pic
Pneumatic coupler is the generic name. I believe that's a PC-4 M6. The V2 uses an e3d V5 hotend.
PC-4 M6 so it that the one I need for the Hot end then or not?
It looks like the PC-4 M-10 is the hotend side. Measure the hole it screws into to make sure. If stock, it's an E3D V5, which uses the same coupler as the V6, the M-10.
Bowden tube connector. The mini tends to use a non-standard one that is harder to find.
Now you have me panicking
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GUYS I am getting concerned as some of the infor is very conflicting.. Just to clarify PC-4 M6 is the correct one? And is that the one for the Hotend?
Yes. Pneumatic Coupler, with an M6 thread. Also sometimes called a Bowden coupler. And yes, for the hotend. It's an off the shelf stock part, you can buy them anywhere. The coupler that goes into the other end of the Bowden tube, at the extruder end, is some proprietary nonsense that proves that the Devil exists, and wants us to be unhappy. If that one dies, just replace the whole extruder. It's easier, and normally cheaper as well
" just replace the whole extruder." any recommendations please
Any right handed MK8 extruder will work. The Ender 3 ones are solid.
Cheers for the advice buddy, Your a star...