Artillery Sidewinder X1 3D Printer Review // What the CR-10S Pro should've been

hey guys welcome to make anything it's Devin here and I've got another 3d printer review not too long after the last one but for good reason so two weeks ago I took a look at Cree a Leticia our 10s Pro 3d printer and I mentioned a few reasons why it wasn't quite up to par with their earlier CR 10 style printers and that whole review I had to bite my tongue because I had this printer in my back pocket this is not a Cree ality printer but it's basically everything that I was hoping the see our 10s pro would be I'm gonna tell you why this is quickly becoming my favorite 3d printer in the workshop on today's review of the Sidewinder x1 printer let's do it cool so I got my first 3d printer in fall of 2014 it was a MakerBot replicator 2 it cost me over $2,000 it was so expensive but that's kind of what you had to spend back then for a great printer that didn't require a lot of tinkering and assembly and electronic know-how and you know what it served me well for three years that was the only printer I had and I got some great prints out of it since then well I've gotten a lot more printers I started doing reviews I started my channel make anything I've tested probably close to 50 different types of 3d printers by now and 96% of those have all been bowden type extruders with Bowden style printers we have a carriage off to the side with a gear that feeds the filament through this tube and into the hot end that's on the actual moving carriage I think the main advantages of the Bowden cell printer are for one thing it costs less so I'm testing mostly hobby range more affordable printers so they're almost all voted in style printers and it also takes weight off of this moving carriage which usually lets you print faster now that's great and I've been happy with all these Bowden sell printers like all the CR 10s but I think I just forgot how amazing Direct drive extrusion is and that's what's going on on this x1 printer this is a direct-drive printer because the stepper motor and gears that are feeding the filaments are part of this assembly on the carriage that's moving with the whole printer so the filament is being grabbed and pushed directly into the hot end instead of being pushed from way over to the side it's actually a lot more simple in that regard and can help prevent a lot of problems and it's also really great when it comes to printing in a lot of different materials so of course I did a lot of printing with PLA it's my go-to filament and here you can really see how much detail the sidewinder can capture with this print using matter hacker's translucent blue and again with this version printed using filamentous Vertigo star light at a point zero eight millimeter layer height i also printed the same flintface that i printed on all the cree allottee printers in my last review and this one came out looking great just like all the rest it might still not be 100% perfect but for the kind of stuff I do and for a four hundred dollar printer I really couldn't ask for more as a bit of a torture test I printed the same model at half scale as a wireframe this one came out quite stringy but I think that's a lot to do with the quality of the filmin and just the settings weren't quite right for this kind of a print still for what it is it's pretty impressive that said I think a more simple smooth print better shows off the quality of a printer and that's why I printed this octopus hanger that I designed years ago it's actually a really great test print because it's got those four tentacles coming upwards that really tests the printers ability to move between pillars and printing really thin tiny parts taking a closer look we can really see how clean this print came out look at this perfectly round shiny head a really nice bottom layer and even the very tips of the tentacles came out quite well I also printed several of my astrolabe econ puzzles and I think those also do a great job of showing the consistency among the layers again it's not 100% perfect but these are definitely impressive results out of a $400 printer and these are just some of my favorite PLA prints but the Sidewinder really stands out when it comes to printing other materials here are some parts that I printed using Easons PE TG filament and I was able to print these nice fairly large parts without any warping and just generally good layer quality this particular print had some very noticeable seams and I could definitely fix that with some tuning of my settings but it's also just a result of printing with this translucent filament I also printed hundreds of poly panels on the sidewinder these were made with film n x CPE filament which prints at a very high temperature and these came out super great as well with the perfect tolerances and everything but the one print that I'm most impressed with is this one right here this is a model of my ear which I printed using ninjaflex TPU filament this is one of the more flexible filaments that you can buy and because of that it can be quite difficult to print with but on the sidewinder I managed to get this beautiful print at a very low layer height point zero eight millimeters again and you can barely see the layer lines on this one it just came out looking really clean even the rather steep overhang on the back of the ear I mean I think this is quite clearly the cleanest ninjaflex print that I've ever managed to get off of any printer I was able to print this on the x1 for a few reasons because of that direct drive extruder there's nowhere for the filament to buckle or Jam like it often would do on a Bowden printer on top of that this printer also has a volcano style hot end which means the actual nozzle is a lot longer on the inside it's a long metal part which means there's more space for the filament to melt into a consistent consistency and it's another thing that prevents jamming and helps increase reliability print speed and just the ability to push out film in really quickly those two things combined are really game changers like I mentioned the big downside of direct drive extruder printers has been the added weight on the carriage but that's really not a problem with this printer because this thing is so sturdy while this has the same general structure as the CR 10 style printers you'll notice not only does this have a double wide aluminum extrusions on the sides but along the top as well and the extrusion here for the actual carriage is triple wide it's a really nice solid chunk of aluminum everything here is built so rigidly that it kind of makes the direct drive system work really well this printer also has pretty much all of the benefits that I mentioned about the CR tennis pro without the detractors so it's got the dual z-axis rods and stepper motors it's got the really sleek unified body design it's got a touch screen it takes USB and a micro SD like that's just overkill and you'll also notice that I'm talking about this printer while something is actually printing and I usually don't print while I'm recording my review because the printer can be too noisy this is one of the quietest printers I've ever used I mean I can get real close to it and you pretty much only hear the fan which isn't loud so that's kind of amazing it's usually not a game changer for me but it's definitely nice to have such a quiet printer you also heard me complain about the build tax tile bed on the CR 10's pro well this has one of my favorite styles of print bed which is that ultra based type I don't know it goes by a lot of different names but any cubic has ultra base and this works essentially the same way it's a glass bed with a special surface coating that makes prints stick extremely well and then when the printer is cooled down the prints just pop right off it works so well on this the bed is very flat there's no maduk leveling its assisted leveling with these nice big knobs on the bottom and I love that automatic leveling like I said it's unnecessary adds complication this leveling system works absolutely fantastically and it's very easy to adjust it if necessary I love it like to see our tennis pro this printer also has power resume functions so if you accidentally unplug it or if you have a power outage you can continue the print afterwards it's got a filament run-out sensor which I typically don't use on most printers on this one I have been using it I haven't had any false alarms so it's been okay for what it's worth so I've said a lot of good things but surely there are some bad things about this printer right well hardly but there are a few things first of all when I first got this printer assembly was crazy easy it was maybe a 20 minute assembly you get these two parts you screw them together it's like all the CR 10 s style printers super easy to assemble by now although this one did have a few things that concerned me the first thing I noticed was this crack on the housing here it's purely aesthetic but it did make me a little concerned about how this printer was shipped it was packed really well but it did manage to get that crack which is a little bit worrying also one of these flat ribbon cables was slightly damaged when I received it one of the little pins on the end of the ribbon cable was bent and if I didn't notice that I could have destroyed it by plugging it in wrong so I was able to fix that pin and plug it in and it hasn't given me any problems and these flat ribbon cables should be a lot more reliable now compared to traditional cables so that's all great and another thing that was happening was that the silicone adhesive that sticks the bed heating unit to the bottom of the build bed it was peeling off on one corner I stuck it back on with my fingers and it hasn't come down again I was able to notice those things and fix them right away so it hasn't given me any problems the only other thing that I really hated was the spool loading system on the top the spool holder that originally came with this printer had the spool sitting on top of four bearings and rolling along to system which works fine except for the fact that if you have different widths of spools you have to take a allen key loosen one side and adjust it so that the spool sits on those bearings and I have a lot of different brands of filament so that became pretty annoying I ended up swapping out the spool holder for another one that I had laying around it's easy enough to just print a spool holder on the side too and have that feed into the printer it's not a big deal in terms of the printer as its operating now the prints that are coming off of it I'm absolutely floored and in love with this printer for $400 I think it'll be extremely hard to find another printer right now that can compete with this x-1 Sidewinder it's just really well done and especially coming from this brand that no one had ever heard of I think this is their flagship printer well it's really promising and I can't wait to see what else they come up with this was already an updated version Joe from 3d maker newb put out his review like a week ago even with the older version he's had fantastic results as well he absolutely loves it and he even had success with the timber fill which was the one filament that I had problems with so it's possible if you're interested in buying this printer I'll put links in the description as always it's available on Amazon on gearbest anywhere else you go for cheap printers and it's pretty awesome I'll definitely keep you guys updated I'll keep using this for projects here on make anything and if you visit make anything dot design slash favorites you can see my up-to-date list ranking my favorite 3d printers and this one is definitely gonna make it on the list and if it continues performing as well as it has it will continue working its way up that list it might be my favorite 3d printer I want to use it a little bit longer but it's getting there it's pretty fantastic so that's it for today's video but I will continue using this Sidewinder a lot on future projects so if you want to see how it continues to function make sure you're subscribed or if you want to know what this ear is about don't you want to know subscribe to the channel and you'll find out soon enough but that's it for today so until next time I'm Devon this is make anything and as always stay inspired you

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Length: 13min 42sec (822 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 01 2019