Budget 3D Printer Build - The Ender 3 is the tool that makes other tools.

welcome to this first episode of tool tips in this episode i will introduce you to a budget 3d printer and show you why it is a must-have in your garage welcome back to the journey to the baja 1000 and this first episode of tool tips what is tool tips all about well there are some things that i have in my garage that i wish somebody had told me about years ago it would have saved me a bunch of money or time or it's just a really cool tool well this 3d printer earns the first episode because it's so cool and you'll be surprised at how cheap it is let's take a look at it well there are a bunch of misconceptions when it comes to 3d printing versus that they're too expensive or they're difficult to use the printer that i have is the creality ender 3. let's take a look at how you buy one how much they cost i'm going to walk you through how you set it up and how easy they are to use but first let me show you some of the things that i have made maybe it'll spark your imagination and you can see how one of these will fit in your garage let's just start with some toys that i've made this was a project for my little boy he wanted to be the coolest kid in his kindergarten class we printed up like 20 of these batman keychains and i was able to print nine of them at a time here's a really cool wind-up car that we made you print it out it's in a sheet and it's just like those old models we used to make years ago and every time one of his friends has a birthday party we make one for them too so i have two different kinds of sono speakers in my house and so i had to make mounds for them this is one of them that i made here's the other sonos speaker mount that i made and as you can see if you look underneath the bottom comes out and you can tuck all the wires up inside of that it's basically a hollow box on the inside pretty cool like i said this thing makes some really cool tools i was working on a project where i needed to find the center of a piece of wood so i printed out these center finders basically you put it on there you put a pencil in the center and you can scribe a line right down the center of whatever you're making and i was able to print a couple different sizes for that i've been making a lot of mounts for ls engines and i printed this part out such that i could basically on a piece of plate still mark off how big the plates got to be and also where i'm going to drill each one of the holes and it makes it a lot easier i made this part because i've been bending a lot of tubing and anytime you're bending tubing you need to know exactly how many degrees you rotate it before you start another bend so i had an angle cube and i already had this vise grip i basically made this plastic mount in here to where the angle cube sits inside of there and then once i clamp it down and i rotate it it tells me exactly how many degrees i've rotated the tube before i make the next bend well it is really cool all the things that you can make once you have a 3d printer so where do you go to get a 3d printer well first let me say that the one that i have is the creality ender 3 and it's this one that's on the screen right now and it's just the one that i would tell you to go with there are a bazillion options of different printers that you can get but just if you just want one you know it's going to work and it follows along what i'm going to tell you to do this can work for you every time make it easy make it cheap then go with this one i will make it link in my description for this printer below they're asking 250 for it at amazon now if you do a google search which i would do you can find it for 189 directly from creality they're both coming from china it doesn't matter who you order it from but it's still a pretty good printer when it shows you up you're going to have to put it together yourself and there are tutorials online that show you exactly how to put this printer together there are a few other things you're going to need to get to make it all work just like you need printer ink well you need filament to go inside this printer and the one that i would recommend to use is the hatchbox now there are other brands that you can get and use and you might save some money but i would just go with hatchbox you have less likelihood of having failed prints and the quality from what i understand will be better and it just works so i would just go with the the hatchbox even if it cost you five dollars more one spool will last you literally a week of printing while you're on amazon go ahead and pick up some glue sticks these are the crazy art washable glue sticks and you're going to use that to make the filament stick to the glass that you're going to use and i'll explain that a little bit more later and also while you're at it if you've never cut glass before for a couple bucks go ahead and pick up a glass cutter and let me show you why you're going to need to get one of these if you look online you'll see that there are a lot of folks that are doing modifications that are 3d printer since this was my first one i decided to go with just a very generic build the only thing that i decided to change was this plastic mat that comes with a printer this is where the part prints onto and it needs to be flat but you'll find that this thing over time starts to warp and the part just doesn't stick to it anymore so what i replaced it with was a piece of glass i found this piece of glass out of an old picture frame that i had i just took this plastic mat i took a sharpie i marked around the edges i took a glass cutter cut out this piece of glass and then now it ensures that every time i start i start with a flat surface and that is really the most critical part when you're starting a print okay so now you have your 3d printer how do you actually make something well first thing you need to do is get a file called called a dot stl and i have no idea what dot stl stands for but there are two basic different ways to get one either you can download one from the internet i'll show you that in a second or you can make your own there's a bunch of different cad programs out there computer aided design you can use solidworks you can use sketchup what i use is fusion360 because i also use that when i use my plasma table and so i'm pretty familiar with it so whatever you're familiar with as long as it makes a dot stl you can print stuff from it and so this is that angle finder that i was mounting on my vice grips and you can kind of see it customize it it's all ready to print i'm ready to go with this thing so i'm gonna go over here and i'm gonna say 3d print i'm going to select the part that i want to 3d print and it's going to send it to cura and i'm going to explain in a second here what cura is the other way to get a stl file is to download one from the internet there's a couple different websites i'm sure out there that you can use but i use thingiverse and i find that you can just you can find all kinds of cool stuff on this website i'm trying to find something that i can put on my pegboard so i can keep all my consumables for my cnc plasma table so i just typed in pegboard and let's see what it comes up with after the search well i found a couple different uh people are making things for pegboards here but i like this guy he's called the pegboard wizard let's click on him and see what he has and he's got a bunch of different really cool stuff and what i need is this thing right here i want a tray that i can put on my pegboard so i'm going to go to his thingy files and i'm going to go down to this tray that he made i'm going to click download and then once it's downloaded i'm going to go ahead and and tell it to open that file and it's going to open it again in cura let's take a look at what cura is okay so one of the biggest hurdles for me to get through with 3d printing was how do i get this dot stl file into the 3d printer make that work i thought it was going to be a big issue but it just really isn't the tutorials will walk you through how to use cura which is their program for converting that into the code that 3d printer can read so we've already talked about how you get the the dot stl to go from either your cad program or from thingiverse and it's going to open up in the cura program there are a couple things that i use on here i just want to show you so you can see that it actually is pretty easy and anybody can do it first we start with the settings and what that's going to talk about there's two things that i use i use infill and support the infill tells you how much of the object is going to be solid when you're done printing it 100 means it's going to be completely a solid part 20 means that 20 of it's going to be filament while the rest is some kind of open space and some kind of matrix that it's going to print to support the part what support is and you need this anytime you have something that's hanging out in space you see these pegs right here if you were just to try to print those then the filament would just go all over the place so it needs to print something underneath there to hold those things in space underneath here you can see the top of the box or the bottom if you will we would need to print an entire support underneath there to make it so that that whole top doesn't just fall in and print all over the place so i'm going to go ahead and slice it and by hitting the slice button what i've told it to do is start generating the code that would go into the 3d printer it's also going to tell us how much filament it's going to take and how long it will take to print this part and it's telling me 18 hours and three minutes to print it in this orientation and also at 100 infill well let's see if i can eliminate some of that time i'm going to print the same part but i want to just rotate it on the bed and i want to flip that big huge open space to face up and then i'm going to hit slice again and what we'll see is now it it still has to print the supports underneath these pegs but it doesn't need us print the support that is ins you know to hold that bottom up anymore in this case it's going to take 11 hours and 35 minutes that's a lot less now this part doesn't need to be strong for me i just need to print something that will hold a couple parts so twenty percent infill is going to work just fine uh for me in this case and i find most of the stuff i print out i'll just print out with twenty percent uh infill and it does it does just fine and uh after doing that we'll see it should take a lot less time seven hours and 10 minutes it literally took off 11 hours of printing and you're going to end up with what looks like the exact same part a couple other things on the left side that you can do you could rotate it like i said i said one that i use all the time is moving it around and this this option to to move the part around on the bed and you'll find that that is really important and i'll show you why if i right click and i say make multiples i'm going to make one more of these um is now i can if i have like say nine parts i want to put on the bed i can move those around such that it all fits on top inside the bed and then i might also cluster them together so the printer isn't going all over the place to try to print these things at the same time in this case i really just want the the one part on there so i'm going to go ahead and slice that and now what i have in the computer is the sd card that came with a 3d printer so it's going to give me the option here is to save to removable i'm going to click that and then just like anything else i'm going to go ahead and eject it and now i'm ready to pull the card out and put it into the 3d printer and it's ready to go you can see it's just fit into the usb drive i grabbed that microchip i pull it out and it's just an adapter it's as easy as that they give you and that's what goes into your computer and now you take this microchip over and you put it into the creality ender three just slides in there you'll hear it as it clicks into the 3d printer okay so what i'm going to do is i'm going to go ahead and coat this piece of glass lightly with the other glue stick first i'm going to start all the way on the very side because what the first thing the printer is going to do is it's going to print one test strip i think it's just a test that it does to clean out the nozzle and get it ready to print and then next i'm going to do is i'm just going to cover as best i can the entire area in which i think the printer is going to print and if if in doubt just cover more area because what you don't want to do is to have a corner of your print to print up to pull up during the other print once that's covered go ahead and take the four clips that it has put that thing inside on top of your your print bed and clip it down all right glasses on the printer you're ready to go these are the steps that you need to take every single time you print something and you need to re-level the bed so here's where we're going to start we're going to go ahead and go to the main screen go to prepare and then we're going to go down to auto home auto home is going to send the all the different axises and all the servos back to their zero point once you're there we're going to go back over here to the uh the screen if it goes back to normal just go back to prepare and then down to disable steppers once the steppers are disabled you can go ahead now move around the bed and also move around the nozzle what we're going to do next is try to set the height of the nozzle above the bed and what we're shooting for all the way around is about the thickness of a sheet of paper to do that we're going to go ahead and turn these wheels if we turn them clockwise the bed is going to raise if we turn them counterclockwise the bed is going to lower so the first thing we'll do is we'll go ahead and slide this piece of paper in between the nozzle and the bed and the goal is just to slide the paper back and forth and then start turning the knob clockwise until we feel it start to drag on the piece of paper once it starts to drag on the piece of paper we're not we're right about there at that point we'll do is we'll slide it to the other corner one of the tips i have is just leave the piece of paper underneath the nozzle and slide it with the nozzle across the the bed and then do the same thing on that corner slide it to the rear do the same thing on that corner by moving the rear knob up and down and then over to the final corner once you have it all done and you may want to go around one more time and check all four corners then now the bed is level in relation to the nozzle and it's ready to print [Music] so like i said the first thing it does is it prints down the side i call this the nozzle cleaning print it's just trying to get out especially if you change filament you'll see that it'll start with say black and then eventually get to the filament color that you're using at that time and then the next thing it's going to do it's going to print the perimeter of your part this is your chance to check to make sure that whatever you're printing is actually going to stick to the bed if you didn't level it you're going to find out right now because it's going to be the extreme corners of whatever you're printing out there so if it's starting to pull up around the sides this is where i would go in and i would stop the print and start all over again with putting on the glue stick and then also re-leveling the bed it goes around this thing about two or three times and then once it does it's off to the races and printing and now you can go and do whatever you need to do for the next seven hours while this thing continues to print [Music] so [Music] once the print is done just remove the clips take the glass off the tray go ahead and find a flat surface to put the piece of glass on they provide you with this scraper and what i normally will do is i'll take this scraper in a small hammer find a little spot maybe in the corner of the print and then just start tapping on the print to release it from the glass and there you have it from here we just got to remove some of the supports that were on there that were holding the parts that were just hanging off in in space and there you have it there's the full part well here's the final part at work in the garage you can see i liked it so much i printed two of them i think it's really cool that we went from an idea to having a working part in our garage after just only a couple hours it probably cost me about 25 cents to make so let me rehash one last time the three most important rules first start with a piece of glass so you can have a flat surface when you start your prints use the glue stick to make sure that print sticks to the glass and then finally level the bed every single time well hopefully this has maybe changed your mind and cleared up any of the misconceptions you might have about 3d printers all the products i talked about are linked in my description below and now you can see for about a little over two hundred dollars you too can be 3d printing in your garage and making some really cool parts thanks again for joining us on the journey to the baja 1000 and this first episode of tool tips please don't forget to hit the like and subscribe button below can't wait to see you again on the next episode take care of yourself thanks again for joining us on this episode please don't forget to hit the like and subscribe buttons below we'll see you in the next episode take care of yourself [Music] [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 17min 40sec (1060 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 08 2020