Hello all,

New here so hope ive posted this is the correct place.

Bit of a backstory (Sorry). I've obtained a 3D printer from a friend, however it wasn't working, so ive needed to repair it. Everything is now working correctly apart from a Max temp error i get for the heat bed. After fault finding and swapping the thermistors over i have identified the heat bed thermistor is the issue. Because of this i removed the heat bed and saw that the pad for soldering one end of the thermistor cable to was missing. Because of this they have soldered the cable end to edge of the surface mount thermistor. (Being a Helicopter and aircraft electrician this made me cringe) The thermistor is also becoming unmounted from its pads too.

So thats the story,

My question is, instead of purchasing a new heat bed with intact solder pads and thermistor, could i just purchase a "through hole thermistor" and using heat resistant silicon from work fix it to the bottom of the heat bed? Would this work in the same way?

P.S my current heat bed is the "ALU MK3 by REPRAP.


Many Thanks in advance

RamJam