$79 3D Printer from EasyThreed K1 Full Assembly and Review. Is It Any Good?

hey guys don here from nova spare tech and welcome back to the channel and today we are going to be checking out a 79 3d printer and if it's any good so let's get started to start this video is not sponsored uh this company does not know i'm doing this i just saw this on amazon the other day and thought it was a really cool 79 gift idea if this actually works out to the way i think it would um obviously for a 79 dollar printer you are not going to get a lot of the features the bigger printers are going to have like heated bed bigger surfaces stuff like that so we're going to try this and see how well it's going to work out so yeah i didn't even open this package and it's still taped up and everything but just judging from this package this is a very very light box it actually feels like a toy so let me see if i could find out uh oh look a net net weight is 1.3 kilograms so it should be about two and a half pounds or maybe three pounds so this is really really light and uh and according to the other side you can actually get it in multiple colors i just got whatever i saw which was green and white not my first color of choice but they do have like blue and white black and white and orange and stuff i would probably prefer the orange now this printer is actually called the easy three or thread i'm guessing that's what they're trying to do uh this is the k1 version there's a k2 with the touchscreen but the k1 is only three or four buttons uh let's open this up and see what we get and we're gonna put this together and see well it's supposed to become it's supposed to come pre-assembled not pre-assembled like mostly assembled and then you just have to put some of the stuff like the other 3d printers that i was playing around with you do have to put the arms and the legs in the the exact seat no z-axis and all that stuff so i'm thinking this is probably the same so okay it's got some styrofoam in there i got the lid pretty much off and let's see the patch package contents this is the bed wow it's actually very plastic i'm wondering if i could actually power this using a portable generator okay don't slide it out this end i should have flipped it to slide it out the other end because all the stuff is on the other end but in the meantime i'm just going to take this instruction and put the box somewhere else so let me see if i can flip this and kind of show you what we got in here uh we got these little orange arms probably for the filament some sample filament white pla and obviously without a heated bed that's all we're going to be printing we got the power brick here which is 12 volts 2.5 amps wow this this takes next to nothing to run a usb sd card a screwdriver and uh about eight screws in here okay usb uh data cord wow does this mean i could actually put octoprint on this guy that might be it let me see can i take it okay that doesn't come out on its own yep it doesn't so we got this wire that's here that goes directly to the head and we got some arms over here okay so it has to be two pieces like this this is another styrofoam piece we don't need this is the arm so the z-axis z-axis [Applause] okay cool this is all pre-built and it's belt driven okay so i don't see these are stepper motors but they're really really weak stepper motors they're not the normal nema's that you would normally see so they got the really tiny stepper motors in here and it's belt driven z-axis x axis axis styrofoam piece and wow that is it it's literally installed this with eight screws because it actually shows you where it goes and you're done like that's how that's how easy this thing is like i'm not even kidding all right let me pull this out from the bottom styrofoam whoa i'm thoroughly impressed how small this is so the print bed size is 100 by 100 by 100 so it's four inches by four inches by four inches but the whole thing is plastic in construction i'm going to screw this in together to see how sturdy it is but everything is belt driven the x-axis is belt driven the y-axis or either war is belt driven z-axis is belt driven you got these buttons but no screen so it's kind of hard to figure out how it's going to print because if you don't know what you're selecting okay and so far it feels stable adjustable bed and whoa this is magnetic you got a magnetic bed this is something that you would get like on an ender three or ender five a magnetic bed i was hoping okay the material the surface of this is textured so it's similar to the texture you would get on an ender 3 or under 5 which is actually a pretty good adhesion because in my mind i was thinking i was going to need painters tape to actually create that adhesion then there's these four holes i'm not sure if you see those those four holes and there's four screws here it kind of pops out on so i get the point once i put it on does it feel flush feels pretty flush all right let's install this comes with a screwdriver and more or less about eight screws are there any different in screws nope they're all the same screws and there are eight holes to screw this in can i screw this up i probably can because it doesn't have um position locking so you could kind of still have a little bit of a wiggle room when you're installing this but this whole install is literally about 10 minutes if like i haven't even really cut any part of this video so about 10 minutes or so to install this whole thing it goes right in and it seems like they gave me oh no it's not extra screws because i still got to install these arms because i was like wait there's more than eight screws in here okay just getting through okay so i didn't tighten all the screws yet i just uh briefly just tightened it a little and then now that i know everything is all in position i could go ahead and tighten it you probably want to use a little bit of a bigger screwdriver to tighten this because i'm slipping from the matches but you can definitely do it so now i have two extra screws and you know funny to say i did not even look at any of the instructions so i'm guessing this goes here because this has it's a smaller width over here on the top so i'm guessing this is where this would go and i'm just gonna pop this in okay pop this one in as well and this probably goes across a certain way to sit on it yep like this and that's it it locks in locks into position this one was a little bit off so i probably want to move this a little bit over connect there's a lot of connectors um one for each side connected that connected this tiny little wires anything else i have to connect you got the stoppers that's connected that's connected this is connected how come i feel like no actually this is all pre-connected we are ready uh aside from a few styrofoam so there was extra screws where am i supposed to put those okay so according to the instruction look how this is too light this is really feels like a toy look how small this thing is really feels like a toy okay according to this the basic parameters extruded temperatures go from 180 to 230 which is pretty good standard our print speed is 10 to 40 millimeters per second which is up not too bad for this size i mean my under 5 prints at 80 um the neptune neptune print at 60. uh print size i already told you 100 by 100 by a hundred um it could do stl and g code uh well i'm guessing that's the up because they have their own software because this does come with its own software or you can use cura maximum power is 30 watts layer thickness is 0.05 to 0.2 millimeters in height machine size working humidity okay um powers is applied that it does slice this up to pre depending on the slicing software easier okay that doesn't really talk about much you do have to save it to a sd card slot over here so you could just press print i don't know how to print yet and why does this feel like it's locked like i can't manually move it now either way let's plug in the power and see how it goes okay so let's press the home button that's what it says to level the bed this will automatically find all the triggers still home this is a little you could probably snake this wire somewhere but oh this also has something called the quiet operation i don't think it's running a quiet operation right now but there is something called a quiet operation okay i could tell you uh the bed definitely needs to be adjusted because i can't even slide a piece of paper under there let's see what else do i need to do how do i level the bed because these buttons don't have a screen first time using the printer you need to level the build platform please adjust the distance between the nozzle before between the four points i know that already uh click on home then turn off the power after turning off the power then you can move the x and y okay so unplug so there's no power switch you just unplug it i still can't move this oh wow i can move it it's really hard to move okay so first off i already know at this point it's really tight so i'm going to tighten this up to kind of get the nozzle down there's like these little four notches on the bottom that you could just spin okay there you go paper is flowing easy uh this is like a quick start guide to my washing machine but it's it's a little bit too big so i'm gonna rip this paper up there you go so this is too loose if you got like a huge gap it's really loose so i gotta loosen that up a little loosen that up a little bit more almost hold these to tighten okay there you go now i got to do that side oh my god this is so hard to move this is really low so keep going oh there you go you got to feel a little bit of a grip like if it's too loose like the paper would just free flow now let's get to that side i'm going to turn so easy to move this printer this is very very loose there you go got the tightness down i'm almost afraid to move the nozzle like that okay that's a pretty good distance get it in the center that's not bad okay it's not that bad i did a quick adjustment it seems like it's going to work the platform seems to be pretty good it could be because this metal this uh bed lifts up a little bit on the ends and that's because the whole placement isn't perfect which you could kind of like adjust but once you get the placements of the actual bed you're not going to be really using the corners well maybe but we are good everything is leveled we are good to 3d print something so i'm on my ubuntu desktop right now and if you go over to their website easy3d or easythread uh you could actually download the slicer software that they have but they don't have anything for linux they do have for windows and mac so maybe they have linux no i don't see it so what i'm going to end up doing is actually importing my own into cura and it shouldn't be too hard but i'm going to show you guys how i'm going to do it so i go to add printer non-network and go over to custom and you want the custom ff printer and here's your printer name so i'm going to call this the easy three k1 because that's what it is they do have profiles that you could download uh for cura which is the infill settings and all the other stuff but they actually don't have the machine settings so um we already know it's going to be 100 by 100 by 100 rectangular it doesn't originally in the center because when it was homing it was towards the bottom right right over here on this corner um no heated bed heated bed volume we don't have i'm guessing it's marlin because they re most of them use marlin so i'm just going to assume it's marlin print head settings i actually don't have the size of this you can actually measure this out figure out what you need but most of the case default is fine extruder 1 nozzle size 0.4 that's i believe what i read and the filament is 175 1.75 and that is it i'm going to hit next so we got this little tiny little print size bed over here so in the sd card itself it already has one g code and two g code i don't really know how it's going to be able to select between the two because it doesn't really offer any solution like what the file names are or how to do it so i'm going to read this instruction super quick as far as like printing uh print click the play button the light will flash regularly print starts okay load insert the film into a printhead tube okay so you can't choose between all the g codes but it will choose the latest one through the timestamp so what i'm gonna do is what stl do they have in here a little square cat okay not interested in that i'm gonna go over to thingiverse and start printing something uh i was trying to come up with this idea the penguin case this guy um i'm gonna leave a link to this what i'm printing down in the description below but he has a customizer so you could just customize whatever you want one of the first things i do want to print is the latch so the latch comes from frog box and it's going to use this same exact latch so i'm going to go thing file lid cam hinge hinge single yeah i think it's the hinge that i need it's coming down with the stl for the hinge and it's a small print so it's good test of this printer i'm going to go over to downloads import the hinge into here does that look about right oh yeah that actually looks about right and i am going to load this up with filament and see if it's going to print this guy out so let me change this around i'm going to go over to preferences cura profiles and import a profile and i downloaded this already the cura slice profile i'm just going to extract this here and hop over to here cura slice profile k1 that's the one i got open and i am going to use their profile called the k1 printing temperature infill desk i'm just going to leave everything as is because they got the speed set wall speed uh retraction rate uh support if it does need support i don't think it needs support adhesion type raft i'm just gonna do a skirt and i'm gonna hit slice and let's see the preview for this that's not too bad okay it's going to take 18 minutes to print i'm going to let this go and see how the adhesion and everything is save the removable drive and let's pop over to the removable drive and check it out it is about there you go cp fff it's the latest file so i should be printing this so even though it has a few things in there it should be printing this i am going to unmount this pop this in to see how this how well this real actually i'm not going to pop it in yet let me plug it up press the play button and hold it so it should go upward right there you go hold it for three seconds it goes up it gives it a little bit of time it's gonna start heating it up no matter what styrofoam let me get that out of there it's gonna start heating it as soon as you plug it in okay so to load the filament which i am going to be using their white pla even though i have tons of filament i could use we'll see how that goes hopefully there's no notch in here because i'm not even checking pop this into a tube hit the plus button until it flashes so it's flashing rapidly right now i don't know if you could see that okay so when you press the plus button it's heating up it's going to flash until the heat flash for one minute the nozzle is heating up after the button lights off like it turns off the light the machine begins to feed and feed successfully silk like come out of the nozzle press plus button to finish the feed okay so right now it's heating up the nozzle it's gonna force feed into it press it again once you know spaghetti starts coming out and you're done just for precaution you make sure that you press this for three seconds to make the nozzle come up three millimeters oh that was quick it's feeding i feel it i feel the nozzle going in okay i'm waiting for the the stuff to come out right now this is so light i could just bring this around i'm not even kidding so now that it's flashing slowly oh there you go you see the stuff coming out press it again and i'll stop yep at this point i just take a little bit of tweezers pull that out click the play button now it's flashing oh you know what i don't have a file in here let's stick that in hit play it's flashing i guess i just wait here until it starts printing oh there we go okay since it didn't print what i wanted to print because probably the date was wrong i don't know i managed to get this print out which is a little spacecraft and i'm actually able to see how their printer works and if you look in close the lines are not perfect i mean it's there it works but you can see that there's still some wobble on the x and y axis so it's not perfect but it is able to get my print out now i'm going to take this off the magnetic plate and it just peels right off and there we have it our little tiny spacecraft it's completely hollow there's no infill in this and once you remove the raft support this bottom piece the bottom came out pretty good the inside came out i don't know if you could see that not perfect but it came up all right so i'm guessing it does really need a wrap support because it did a pretty good adhesion and you don't want things to curl or anything so i might just change my design up a little just to put a wrap support on the pelican case that i'm trying to print and here we go i'm going to start changing out the filament print out the whole thing and time lapse and show you guys what it looks like [Music] [Music] all right guys so we are finally done printing out this little pelican case or the penguin case as they call it online and it took a total of about seven or so hours maybe eight hours i wasn't really counting because at one point i just let it print overnight so i was actually confident enough to have this print overnight without any worry so that's a good thing now based on the print that we just finished you definitely need to do some wrap now on the bottom part of the case and the top part of the case i did not use rafting and you do see a little bit of a warping on the edges so because we don't have a heated bed rafting is almost a must so i would definitely recommend using rafting now the print itself came out pretty decent the lines were pretty straight there were some indications of retraction settings being wrong that's how come on this certain part you see like it's missing material because of the retraction that's something you could do in the settings itself also on the top and bottom there was a little bit of gaps when you're laying down the first layer again that's also a setting this is not a printer issue it's more you could play around with the flow or play around with uh the retraction um so certain things like that would need to be tuned on this machine now this is also using a marlin firmware so we're also able to go inside the settings and actually play around with uh stepper settings and stuff like that just to fine tune it a little bit more so if you guys are interested in seeing that i could probably do a full tune on this guy just to get all those settings proper and get printings probably a little bit better on than this another thing about this the operations are extremely easy there are only four buttons here i thought i was going to have a problem the first button is home just to home everything down minus is to take out the filament so once you press it it's going to blink heat up the hot end and then it'll push the filament out and then you're done the plus button is the same but opposite so it will heat up the hot end and then it'll actually pull the filament through for like i think 50 millimeters and once it's done stringing it will stop itself and that's it the play button there's two functions with that once you hit and hold it for three seconds it'll actually lift up the nozzle end for about one centimeter or 10 millimeters or if you hit play it will constantly blink and it'll actually load the files and print whatever g code you have in there now how it works is that since you can't select the files it'll actually choose the latest files if you copy something over and the date stamp is later than whatever else is in there that's the one that it's going to be printing and there's no way of choosing previous files so it's actually very simple operations i i couldn't believe how easy it is with just four buttons i thought i really needed a screen one thing i do wish they had was like a progress bar something like maybe some leds to tell me if it's halfway through a full way through i can't tell when it's gonna be done i just gotta wait now for all the issues that i did find with this this is sturdy but not as sturdy as you think uh it is easy to lift up and everything but yes once i have some sort of filament on here the filament don't always fit there's certain types of filament that will fit and that's because this is not extended far enough and then this starts pulling also when it's trying to grab the filament it does cause a little bit of a jiggle to this end you could actually feel that there's like a little bit of like play so every time when it needs to pull the filament it causes a little line issue that would help if we actually uh change this entire assembly for how the filament is held second thing they say it's a quiet operation this thing is not quiet at all it's i even slowed it down a little bit just to play around with it for print speed but it's still very very loud so that's out the window as far as quiet operation another thing that i was running into was the rear pulley and as you can see there's actually plastic forming there because it was rubbing against the top plastic and i actually put in some dry lubrication on it just to reduce the noise because there's a lot of noise coming from there like a clicking noise i believe there's something interfering with that causing the plastic to shear off so i do need to take this apart and probably readjust that little belt or adjust the pulley just so it's not touching the top another thing is i would highly recommend lubricating all the tubes which i did not do for all these prints but you could probably use dry lube just to lubricate all these for the bearings because they are starting to see some scoring on there just from the bearings itself again just a little bit of maintenance probably get this guy up and running a little bit better other than that i was thoroughly impressed on how well it actually printed the pelican case i'm going to put this together in a second to show you guys but it printed it pretty well more than i thought it would the lines came out pretty clean other than the certain spots that have that retraction setting problem it looks proper it doesn't look like it's messing up i decided to go for something that's like about 60 millimeter height just so i could see because this is so fragile i was afraid the higher it goes the lines wouldn't line up and i don't see much indication of it maybe a slight indication that it's not like perfectly lined up but it works really well and honestly i would actually recommend this to anyone who's trying to get into 3d printing or like a holiday present for a kid for 79 like i said my son already claimed this he the bigger machines that i have he finds a little bit intimidating uh he'll tell me to print something if i need to but this one he has no problem handling he actually enjoys looking at it and playing around with this even though i have bigger machines he would rather prefer this and honestly he's nine years old so he could probably handle this no problem now because it doesn't have a heated bed you're limited to only certain types of plastic that you print which is pla and pla is biodegradable so it's not going to be harmful if you smell it it's the abs and all the other plastics that will have an issue if you smell those for our starter device and for playing around with little tiny designs like this i think it's really well worth the 79 dollars honestly and with a little bit of tweaking i mean playing around with the proper settings uh fixing up the marlin firmware to get the better e-steps properly maintaining all these beams with lube and everything i think this will actually print a lot better once all that is done so here we have it completely built and it actually the operations of it works really well i could just push this down click it and it's sealed well sort of sealed there's some little play because the screws that i'm using are not perfectly lined up so i'm probably going to have to find the 20 millimeter m3 screws but for now it's a good placeholder that i could get it together and this is how it looks like and it opens up got a little latch and that is it so let me know what your thoughts are on this guy i re thoroughly enjoyed using it because it was such an easy operation it is fun because i could actually carry this around like literally i could lift this entire thing with one finger and it's a little gimmick where a 79 dollar 3d printer actually works properly well if you guys have any questions about this let me know down in the comments below and i can give it a try well if you guys are new to this channel consider subscribing also hit that bell notification icon so you know when the next video is going to be out and as i say my nerd cave hack till it hearts

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Length: 28min 13sec (1693 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 04 2021