MINGDA Magician 3D Printer - Build & Test - Chris's Basement

[Music] [Music] [Music] uh [Music] [Music] do [Music] uh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] my huh [Music] [Music] and let's go uh clapping for the start of the stream so hello everyone how are you welcome to the basement um it's been a busy weekend i have to say uh i hope you're all well the olympics are going uh hank is upstairs watching kayaking right now this is i don't know if i want to say interesting interesting is not the q white not quite the word i'm looking for um this is the minge magician and i have had a couple of ming de printers like three this is the fourth one that they've sent me um this one isn't even for sale yet it was on pre-order for a while but it's supposed to have something called free leveling not sure what that is there's not a whole lot of information on it but nonetheless it is a 3d printer that is what we do here i did start the stream a little bit early in case that caught some of you off guard uh we will at least look at something like a 3d printer hang out and chat because that's the best part about these streams there is already a ton of people in the chat speaking of that and uh yeah this should be a good day jerry from 3d printing painting is here johnny gardner is here mike never let the machines win james at rushmeier 3d ken gross marcel is here all kinds of folks all right so let's just get right into this um we i'm sure we have lots to chat about actually let's not get right into this let's do this first we we have our friend hanging out with us today and let's take a special look at our friend because it has to do with somebody's birthday hey there's like more than one audio stream going on right now hopefully that doesn't actually relate over to the stream it doesn't look like it does anyway if you don't know veteran you might know him as wexter he makes super awesome models and this model of him floating on a pool toy was created for his birthday it is his birthday today so happy birthday veteran i hope you're having a wonderful day i know you are several hours ahead of me but awesome awesome model uh there is actually a gif on twitter a veteran in one of these said pool toys in the pool which still makes me laugh every time i see it so veteran's gonna be hanging out with us today over here hopefully he's enjoying his birthday happy birthday to him uh tom loma is here yes this is my go-to knife uh tom made it for me it's got a little guy falling down the stairs uh again i don't have a top camera i don't see me putting one up anytime soon uh it just that's one of those tasks that i never get done i do plan on changing the basement around sometime soon so it's probably not gonna get done i have very little coffee i didn't make any more i have like a half a cup so we're gonna have instead of a coffee break we're gonna have to have like a water break or popsicle break popsicle break is the best what filament is that that is a sample that i had from makerbox uh nebula multicolor htpla from proto pasta that's what color that is i saved that just for that question is awesome looking filament um i was the like i had the color change i had one section so i had to reload the filament but i was pulling the string off after it reloaded the glitter in it is so thick you can actually feel it when the when the filament's a little liquidy so there's a lot of glitter in that filament uh tom 3d print viking is here hand rails to the stairs i do have one but that's not going to keep me from falling down it especially when i'm uh you know carrying printers and things like that plus if i didn't fall down the stairs there'd be no stick to this [Applause] people still say that schtick a box in a box let's try to unbox it in an unboxing i honestly i have had not much luck with ming de printers they do send them to me um i believe this is going to be my last bing to printer i'm not saying anything negative about manga they've treated me okay but i have not had a lot of luck with their printers at all this one the only reason why i'm taking a look at this is because i want to pull the cover off and see what free leveling just might be i think this is in german it is in german alrighty okay so we have a sample of film we haven't had a sample in a while uh we had so this this was actually kind of interesting we have a molded plastic uh spool holder and it actually just snaps on the top of the carriage which is so you can move it from side to side which i thought was actually kind of interesting on the design i don't know just little things like that sometimes power cord tools that looks like an e3d nozzle uh that looks genuine to me focus i believe that's genuine the carriage is all one piece that is not a genuine e3d hot end but the nozzle might be real there's a lot of injection molded parts on here hmm now let's get it out here and see we'll take a closer look it does have a handle on the top you know how i like things that travel well standard bed uh i do there it is right there i was just going to mention nightbot is spitting out some information for us that is not the correct information unfortunately i should probably change that can't ever get it right the first time if you're working on a project and you don't go to the hardware store at least three times in one day you're just not doing it right uh it is 2 32 30 um what did i just say i was reading chat and i got lost 232 3260 is the build volume all right uh it also has a secret compartment which also i like in a 3d printer i'm really not focused on if you if you've noticed i'm really not focused on how things 3d print anymore it's just how many gadgets they come with um that's kind of the most important thing to me that's probably loud all right hey they actually pulled the um they actually lifted the tape on the screen so that you can pull it off instead of putting the surround over the tape like i really hate that when do they do that ready although it is still over it i don't know if you could actually fish it out of there nope still a fail clean er i guess ooh tv's loud chris said he threw away better printers tears of joy [Laughter] uh jimmy thank you very much for the five um i don't know about better but we're going to find out together the new inspector gadget and to monetize uh so this is a completely plastic cover it's completely injection molded the whole thing wow it's almost like um man what does this remind me of i don't like an old school tube tv or something it's got little covers it's strange um i've never seen one quite like this the power supply has actually got like a little indent where it's setting in there uh this thing does have all 2208s all five drivers i do know that even the bed i mean there's no good way to crack it open i mean there's a lot of screws in it a lot of screws we gotta look inside here fisher price that's a good call good call yeah like i expected to have like a speaker in it or something i don't know it's really strange i don't know what the price on this is either they do have a i left a link in the description they do have some information on a site out there and they did like a pre-order for like a thousand of these or something and uh but i did not catch what the price was going to be hopefully it's you know five six bucks i don't know why people still send me these printers but they do i'm kind of wondering though if there's a bunch of clips now it's just it's there's just a few catches i hate plastic clips of all kinds that's never going back together again uh i am not those things are actually magnetic the screws are in wells aha magnets win again oh you win this time magnet clip breaking now uh we're gonna find out because it doesn't feel very i wonder if that's glued are there screws underneath the feet there's there wasn't underneath that one there is under this one though oh but did that help me yes it did excellent yes this isn't really 3d printer build anymore this is 3d printer autopsy absolutely yes the door panel on the car uh what do they call those little things they're not pop rivets they call those plastic tab thingies that they pulled the car doors together with they called this something these feet are never going on again by the way i just fell in love with resin 3d printing frozen sonic mini 4 kelvins do you have any resin machines 4 kelvin nice uh benjamin thank you very much for the five uh i do not have any resin machines resin is one of those things i never really got into i have done it um i uh you know i get the whole thing uh we've done some streams with resin printers way back in the day but uh it's not something that my workflow is indicative to i just don't have a good area to do resin printing so i never really got into it fdm is just so much easier and there's not much in here but you actually get some wobbly out of that it's not just for steel sheets anymore but thank you for the five bucks uh drink coffee and chat we can't do that we have to press forward we don't do this because it's easy we do it because it's hard um what is this thing it's got a what it's an arm chip that's got to be an stm chip it says gd32 but it's a fox 407 zet6 huh i've never seen one quite like that it does have a spot for wi-fi it's got a decent beefy mosfet oh you guys what are you doing what are you doing shouldn't do stuff like this so they've got what are they doing here why don't they have all of these i'll show you as soon as i figure out what they're doing so it is a dc powered bed so they took the time to put some it took some time to put some crimps on the ac wires but they just tucked the the dc wires underneath the terminals and put some goop on it at least the wires aren't tinned they don't look like they're tinned but these down in here come on man and then traditional tft there's really not a whole lot to write home about here folks here you can have a good look at it but i mean the basic of basic boards not a whole lot here power supply it is 24 volts it's a clone supply of some kind so i mean you know uh it doesn't it has 2208s on the drivers but you notice there's no heatsinks on them either okay so there's a look at that there are two pieces of uh extrusion there are two pieces of 20 20. i guess i should have showed you that there are two pieces of 20 20 in there to bolt the uprights to that's all you get so there's two pieces of 20 20. there's one on either side and they're sandwiched to the top of that plastic case that's it they're screwed directly into the plastic there you go all right all right uh let's not let we've we've said all we need to say in the chat we've seen it we all know the score here now let's focus on positive things like flowers we're just here to have a good time that's all we see what we see we know what we're looking at people don't come to chris's basement because they don't know about 3d printers they just come to appreciate them with me i just revealed the magician's secrets i think you can like go to jail for that right like if you tell the magic codes like all the magicians of the world will come after you houdini rises from the grave and chokes you out i tell you what somebody said in the chat earlier uh come to hang out with a great guy thank you jerry that's right that's all we're here for we're just here to have some fun uh ac just kicked on that that finished my thought for me somebody said it already but yes it is freaking hot wow uh i know that i'm not in the hottest part of the country but it was like 70 humidity here yesterday and the heat index was like 106 and it's not letting up anytime soon i'm just gonna will these feet to stay on there's no way they're gonna stay on uh yes ridiculous hot right now i'm sure that's pretty much the way it is all across the united states at this point see how this actually lines up a little bit here so all of the like the x gantry so there is like a 20 60 20 60 cross member and then there's some 20 40s they are all aluminum but then pretty much everything else is injection molded uh ex-gantries all that good stuff the carriage is the bed's decent the bed even has a plastic injection molded uh carriage that might get a touch melty 81 in southern canada today that's not too bad and by the way there's only one screw on each side so you get one from underneath where's the good driver they do have two on the sides there but it's raining in arizona that's pretty uncommon right i mean like you guys get like five days a year or something well depending on what part you're in i guess uh i do not know how much it is this is pre-order i don't even know if this thing's gonna see the light of day honestly we don't know haven't had read in 18 months yeah that's kind of what i was figuring that's crazy oh max is here hello max 24c in scotland i'll take that there's a couple screws on the side nothing really miraculous balmy 92 yeah uh it also does have kind of an interesting end stop setup i wonder whose idea this was i'm not sure the z motor mounts are made out of something a little different i'm not sure exactly what that is it's not metal it's super hard plastic of some type and that's it there's all that's all there is to putting it together uh there is no strain so this is a molded cable for the bed there's really no strain relief there belts are pretty tight that's good the there's a ribbon cable that supports everything on the extruder side it goes right here like a about a 20 pin and then you have a filament sensor wire maybe up here at the top and then this is a motor wire so this goes down on x yes it is a ribbon cable okay so the next question is so that's it that's all there is to the assembly so some things that i've noticed oh i can put my magic cover cover on magic box cover that's what it reminds me of like in the 80s when you had a boom box and if you wanted to take it with you you had to put like 14 d batteries in it and the giant cover that you had to take off with the snaps like on the back of a remote they had this huge panel cover to pack all the batteries behind this is what this reminds me of an 80s boom box so finally so i'm not one into putting printers on my shoulder and taking a picture that sounds like a lot of work but this one if i could get it on my shoulder and get it to play some you know sweet tunes from the 80s i'd be all for it yes all those batteries lasted like an hour the 80s were hard man okay so the next thing that i'm curious about is what is in here so this free leveling thing so uh let's uh do some surgery on that uh it does have a din style connector instead of the flat ribbon cable connector so that is a bonus that might last a little longer than the ribbon cable hello so what you got what she into it had so manga has a really bad habit of doing uh this so not my coffee cup this camera loves that coffee cup so they put a really cheap bontec vmg clone on here completely injection molded that don't work very well and then they have these they're very inexpensive v6 clones and this matchup whatever they've done to it it makes the hot in lean a little bit like two or three degrees one way because the the the ridges on the top of this these are groove mount uh when you put these in there when you sandwich it together it ticks it to the side also they have the hot end fan going out the back which is directly covered by this plate um the carriage needs to be tightened up but what's up with auto leveling the the high end fan is almost lower this is just like the rock 3 pro it's almost lower than the nozzle i'm not even sure that will clear there's a breakout board over here but what's it say so this is abl what do they got abl going into what what what kind of sensor is this there's leica now i'm confused i mean that's the first thing i thought was maybe it's the strain relief type strain gauge type but oh my gosh so what i configure so first off let's they do have two lead screws and they're hooked by a belt some foam just fell out i'm sorry right now to whoever i give this one to um let's make sure the carriage is tight and slash you can tighten it because i don't it does have a nut on the bottom so let's tighten that up first before we delve any further ooh they give you a nice wrench before we delve any further to troubleshooting what that does because i'm gonna i'll drop this on you in just a moment you're gonna love it you are going to love this i can tell i can tell a little bit more swing on this i think those might be single start screws okay so we're going to take that variable out of things now how does this thing actually level well if it does that's a big if uh let's have a look shall we so there is a sensor right up here and there's a little metal pad well my guess is how this works the reason why this carriage is so loose when you touch the nozzle to the bed this whole carriage flexes up to touch that sensor [Laughter] [Music] so it makes a it makes a closed loop there awesome that is just pure awesome okay so we've seen it it does have a handle on top let's stay positive stay positive being negative just makes you sad that's all there is to it what accuracy are they advertising it's the magic that they're advertising mike the magic is what we're talking about but now you've seen it now you know and the more you know all right so there we have thoroughly done our diligence for this design now let's see if it powers up oh i did did i show you the uh oh oh other way did i show you the bed carriage here oh yeah that's plastic um power power power dude no that's any cubic i was gonna say these play a song i don't think these do play song half of these streams are me trying to find a camera angle that is decent made the power strips on okay powershift's not on it booted they did give me some firmware for this they sent me like three renditions oh no he's opening the extruder maybe i'm not sure i mean somebody out there at their group has to have watched this post stream beer fund i have feeling you're gonna need it andrew thank you very much for the five much appreciated but somebody over there had to watch one of these videos and said hey we should start sending printers to this guy so they know what we do here they know the goings-on of the basement crew but they send them anyway all right so firmware file firmware file dude it's a rar file um there is a firmware.bin it looks like there is also some there's some tft files but they look to be they give you cura49 the tft files look to be just the layout to the bmps and such so let's let it upgrade did they forget to include the magic wand it did upgrade i'm sure there are printers that rival this one right uh let's see if it heats up pla go for it fans kicked on hot ends going beds going let's stop the bed because i'm sure it's got stuff all over it ah this was not too bad what um what do you think of this leveling thing is going to do huh let's see if it homes it so it has an optical end stop down here with kind of like one of these it's like a plastic tab on the x gantry finally found a replacement bed nice those round beds are hard to find what liquid is in the bottle that is isopropyl your name makes me crave steak a top hat okay i can smell it uh leveling so for leveling it's going to take the hot end temp down to 150 and it's going to bring the bed up to 50 before it does anything that's what it just told me so probably don't want to see the screen anymore let's see what it actually does you tried isopropyl on your any cubic and it ruined the bed one of those ceramic surfaces that's odd what's it doing there you go that's exactly what it's doing the hot end moves just a bit oh it's got lots of points to do well that will give us time to if you touch the carriage at all though that's going to really mess things up uh what kind of filament do we want it's only two rules it has to be from print and solid um we did retina burning orange last time there's always lots of requests for blood red glitter i've got some pretty cool mixtape stuff if you are part of the printed solid jessie monthly box you get a lot of colors that you can't buy what other colors do we want uh crosstalk purple some silver mixtape [Music] yellow something started rubbing off that's weird i i've never had a problem with any kit with one of those ceramic beds with alcohol before but that doesn't mean anything i mean they change stuff all the time right um i've got magenta that's always a fun color we got some really interesting mixtape the other day that i want in fact i'm gonna veto all the choices because we're gonna try this stuff i want to try this stuff but i think you'll be i think we'll all be pleasantly surprised so this is a really interesting color this is mix tape but it's like it's like red filament if you painted black over it it's kind of like it's a really dark like black cherry color and it looks to be almost transparent uh if this turns out i'm hoping that they consider making this full time it's even got some glitter in it you can see that color uh on the camera it looks a little more coffee or brown but in real life we'll see what it looks like when it prints it's actually a lot it's it's got a lot of red in it it's pretty cool so let's try this out i want to see a benchy in that okay so did it actually do it went around and did some stuff so what do they offer us for setting an offset cancel the offset it's set at 0.6 remove the bed right now no menu uh this is jessie piola from printed solid this is part of their monthly subscription box they send you uh odds and ends colors they call them mixtape but stuff that they've tried to make that they don't necessarily sell but you always get something really cool something one off it's kind of sparkly milk chocolate when it prints all right good to know uh i don't want to go 10 millimeters okay okay they got the offset at point six you can't go into the negative what's that look like i don't know 0.6 seems a little tight to me but but how accurate could that possibly be okay spool holder this is something that i did find kind of interesting it's just got you can do it on either side it's just got a slot but why would you put it like this hmm i guess that's cool man i have hundreds probably of sets of clippers can never find one pair never find one pair i hate to really quarter quarter asset with this but it'll do uh it's not actually gripping anything i'm not sure that it's actually making it past the let me get a proper set of clippers i don't think it's making it past the filament sensor clippers yes nope we're all gonna die all right oh i hate it when that happens yep we just weren't sharp enough come on printer you can do it there you go all right now we need is a file in one world tell you what i wonder what happens when you g29 this dude we should find out man honestly that might mess up the whatever kind of map that it has in there let's not find out let's not find out what happens life is nothing but a chess game my friends this here 3d printer is the pope all right let's see what happens pile of side cutters yes they're all in the same corner uh somebody with a bunch of cool characters subscribed thank you for that and uh expat prepper subscribed thank you how bad is it from mr joel telling the magician i got is horrible well that pretty much says it all mr telling um we're getting ready to find out together printing huh maybe if i can't print a benchy on it then i mean the skirt didn't stick very well see if baby stepping actually works when do we get to say chris play drums it's going to be a minute i don't know maybe we can let it rock add the skirt's gonna mess it up a bit but let's give it a couple of layers and see what it does joel telling thank you very much for the 10 bucks sir i appreciate that i've come a long way well thank you i guess we need a better angle than this i think we did this last time in fact let's change this up try that let's see if it does the speech to text-to-speech here the cool thing about these streams is how often they turn from boxing into fix-ups good job chris derek thank you very much for the 50 that is huge and uh that's pretty much what we've what that's the only reason why i'm still taking 3d printers is so that we can do stuff like this and maybe if somebody actually got one of these they would stand a chance to get it running uh i'm i enjoy it and i think uh i mean it's just fun to hang out and work on 3d printers anyway right so we might as well do it this way so but i appreciate that tip thank you and thanks for everybody that comes hang hang out to hang out with me for these things uh darling subscribe thank you war x subscribed uh uh printer prawn we're gonna say it like that uh you are very welcome i'm glad the videos help magnus is here what's up am i printing spaghetti i think my uh skirt is getting snagged i think the print will actually stick i think it's doing okay we'll let it go a couple more layers though but it's pretty spaghetti what if we could pause does it actually get out of the way if you pause it it does that's almost jeopardy oh i hope it didn't unload the filament i just want to get the skirt off of here so it doesn't freak you out it's almost coffee break time you know how i like coffee breaks oh that's right no more coffee i drank all the coffee today all right go back to it the fan duct it i mean it's microscopically above the nozzle i mean it couldn't be half a millimeter it is very quiet i give it that there there is one high point it is very quiet it does run 2208 how i can make more coffee i won't allow it tom i won't allow it if i make more coffee right now i will drink another pot of coffee and i i just can't do it all right it happens the widespread socially acceptable addiction all right i think we're going to make it the back might be just a bit lifty there and the resume might have shifted it a touch but not horrible you're actually getting really tight on these not a horrible first start oh now it's so tight it won't uh zoom it won't focus there you go oh all right i think it's coffee break time what do you think back in five it's trying to focus on the logo looks awful melty speed benchy all right so uh coffee break time back in five [Music] all right we're back i'm just not happy with uh the camera location you're right about the whoever said um sparkly coffee or sparkly chocolate that's pretty cool kind of like that so what do we do now i got several things that i need to repair i might work on that while we chat what is the white piece what where's the white piece inside the hot end to the right of the blue silicone sock uh i think you're just i mean so right there is the block that's the aluminum block but then there's i mean this main plastic section part of the vent i'm not exactly sure what you're seeing maybe it has some foam in there i don't know that'd be pretty cool if it fell out and went inside the print the block looks like a piece of foam yeah no that's just a really rough aluminum block cherry coke i saw a guy with a shirt the other day that said something to the effect of um my blood has been replaced with diet coke i don't know it kind of struck me funny not sure why but i've never seen that before so another thing on the list of things that needs to be fixed if you remember the stream where we did the comm grow cnc uh the board blew up and they sent me another one so i need to swap that out so i might do that while this thing prints no coke pepsi oh i just heard something catch benchy's looking a little uneven so yes i have to swap a board out on this cnc without damaging what's going on here it completed one letter before the board blew up i got a c done artillery sidewinder anybody have issues with usb sd card reader i have not had issues with it maybe other folks have most of the time when i have issues like that it's because i got hold of a bad card but if you're having issues with both maybe that one might have like a ribbon cable that ties to that or something or those might be cereal actually touch screen serial i don't remember exactly i'm just taking guesses now so i always have these thoughts you know i can only speak for myself of course i only have the experience at the level that i am at uh you know these aren't sponsored builds or anything like that i don't get paid for doing this um but i've always thought it would be interesting to get some perspective from people like joel telling you know and i don't you know i'm not uh this isn't hard copy here i'm not uh you know answering the questions everybody wants to know just i think it would be interesting to have a chat about these machines you know the machines that everybody wants to send you and they want you to show on your channel um where are we going with this why are they doing it because like this why why would they ship it like this i i think it's just a bad idea i mean i understand that they're trying to make money uh aren't we all but what what is the logic behind it and i'm sure we will end up with a whole lot of questions and no answers but i think somebody that does youtube professionally has a different perspective than i do i'm just doing it for fun right i don't um i have no real stake in the game i just hang out with you all and and we look at these things but i think that would be an interesting chat to have with from the youtube creator perspective why are we doing this maybe that's something we could line up someday get a few folks in on it and you know some creators might not want to talk about it all advertising is good every time that is true it's true you get free stuff uh i'm i've long jumped over needing any free stuff so that's definitely not it really got going here oh this is for the laser gotcha that's for the this thing runs on like a wall wart too i think it does it's been so long i don't remember how all this whole thing works all i remember is that after it shorted out the spindle would never shut off that concerned me son well the spindle's off make sure the crash button's not so there is that so i'm going to consider that fixed for now so i guess we'll give it another try how's our benchy doing we're getting there one ugly hot end it's quite the mass of cover and such yeah i don't know so if you are looking at this from a perspective that hey it does super awesome magical bed leveling and i hate bed leveling so i should buy this thing don't do that that's uh that's a farce truer words have never been said mike free stuff becomes a liability and an obligation it is still free when you uh when you have to scrape to get one printer um i i mean talking about money is not something that i like to do i i will be 100 honest with all of you all because that's the only way i prefer to be i only do this for fun um i you know you make a little bit of money on youtube ads which is nice um i have excellent patreon supporters uh who fund a lot of what i'm able to do um and that is that's the bulk of my income for for basement stuff you know there's basement stuff and then i have i do have a more than full-time job uh that i have to go to every day but i've been doing 3d printing since 2016 and i have been on youtube um since 2017 and between when i started on youtube and today if you give it if and you have to take this into perspective that a lot of these 3d printers that i have bought personally that i wanted to i wanted to see how they worked but they were also for content so you can look at it either way like the e3d tool changer it was very expensive but i paid for it out of my own pocket because one i wanted to play with one and two i wanted to show others what it was like because that's what i like to do i really do when i say i like to help i do i like to help people figure stuff out it's fun for me but given all of that some of it i have some things i have spent my money on because i wanted to not just for content but if you put everything together all the printers all the filament you know what it take cameras what it takes to do to you youtube subscriptions just things that i do to put everything together over the last since 2017 and today i have lost over 34 000 out of my pocket and uh that that counts and that counts everything that i've made prof like there's no profit like that that included is everything that youtube has paid me patreon has paid me all of that helps a lot but it's very expensive to do stuff like this when you're not sponsored um the three printers that that's that's neither here nor there um the you know wire fittings you know i mean it just it all adds up and i do it because i enjoy it and there's no there's no sane person that would do would spend that kind of money if they didn't just like to do it so i you know i'm just putting it all out there on the table uh it hasn't made me any money at all but i do really enjoy it it's a great hobby and it's not the most expensive hobby in the world i mean you know you could go build race cars or something and it does pay a little bit back so but i enjoy all this stuff wait we're supposed to enjoy this bad monkey's here what's up jordan i did not buy this ming gut a lot of a lot of the lower end printers like these i don't buy them i i didn't pay for this they send them free but you know anything that is worth doing something with or you want to actually use it to make projects you're going to have to pay for it that's just how it is i i did when in my younger days i did a lot of stuff with cars and steven is right talk about wasting some money you can really throw a lot of money into a car uh i could have been into battle bots yes i could have i i'm still tinkering with that idea i still think that's a great idea i just had to find some time to do it and i get to hang out with all of you and we all enjoy it chris love you gesture thank you very much i appreciate that and thanks for the 20. um i enjoy it as well i like hanging out with folks i like making content uh it's a good time for me and it's something relatively easy to do that i can schedule around my work schedule i don't i can do it all right here at the house it's a it's a great hobby awesome new stuff is always fun uh that so that is a bear in the background that is 100 paid for by me all the prusa stuff i have never received anything from prusa for free i have paid for it all ben yes marlon is kind of my thing so hopefully that's helpful guitars get expensive but the nice thing about guitars especially right now i do not do resin printing uh it's just uh it's too messy for me the nice thing if we can talk about guitars all day long the nice thing about guitars is they if you buy the right ones they usually always become more valuable so if you buy one you take care if you're a collector you know if you like to play guitars but buy one that you like don't buy it for its value but if you're a collector which i fancy myself one i haven't bought a guitar many years but i do have quite a few i like collecting them now given the state of things and how many guitars they make here in the states and the wood that they're allowed to use and all these different factors a lot of them are getting more valuable now than they've ever been uh so eventually you might if you collected guitars you might turn a profit on that if you waited long enough overwatch moments thank you very much for the five much appreciated the amount of money you spend on free stuff and that's the truth never had a hobby that was what that wasn't more expensive than you expected yeah hear that and stephen that's exactly why i said it set out to do the to do it this way um is i don't there's there's i have no stake in this game it though if i give something a bad review or if if i review it at all if i don't review something that's probably a bad sign if i give something a bad review what are they gonna not send me another free one i mean i i don't have anything to lose in it so that that's what that's why i set it up that way that's why i i enjoy it more because i i can be a little freer with the things that i say i don't ever want to put something down just you know just run it into the ground this thing is horrible i i don't i don't find any um joy in doing that it makes me feel bad but uh but it is nice to be able to have the capacity to just say whatever you feel about the whole thing esp guitars are great i don't currently have an esp guitar i've had a few in the past first one is practice uh i love buying new guitars they that that's a lot of fun um i but i haven't i haven't bought one in a long time you can you can throw a lot of money down filament alone absolutely filament gets pricey especially depending on which ones you which ones you use you know a lot of like i bought like a 250 gram spool of igis the other day because i wanted it for a certain project i think it was like 45 bucks or something plus it was kind of hard to get trunksy let's not talk about trunksy somebody sent me a picture i was working with somebody um they had i don't remember what it's called but it's a giant trunksy they make now it's like 600 millimeter build volume or something i don't know anything about this machine but they sent me a ton of pictures of it after they built it and it actually looked fairly decent nothing anywhere close to like the old trunks the the trunk seats from three years ago uh that tried to kill me it was nothing like that it was totally a different design so that one kind of looked interesting return to sender when done wouldn't that be nice if they would just give me a return return label i think it's the x5sa 600 600 is on wheels yeah i don't remember what he told me that was now i remember it was a big xy 600 millimeter whew that one's kind of expensive okay so you might be right x5sa how big is that dude oh there's a couple different ones okay so there's an x5sa 500 pro that is 500 500 600 i think that's the one he was telling me about it is 550 bucks though i don't know i'm still not convinced by this whole thing that's the printer i was uh i was talking about but yeah i i think i'm still oh no it's 819 i think i'm still on the no tronxy wagon oh mike so there is a 600 the link i posted is for a 500 mike found a 600. give it a summary you don't like as much showing my age well i did just turn 40 so getting old there you go mike's got the link for you cool cool cool yeah our bench is not looking real even i wouldn't say uh his uh extrusion was calibrated all that well no sir thank you dave dave wilson is here uh dave is a neighbor of mine he lives right down the way from me dave has been on the basement tour i need to have dave back over sometime soon so he can see all the changes i made mr dave randolph told me that 40 is when your uh warranty expires and things start to break so looking forward to that dave dave wilson is the best fatal in most cases what else do i need to fix i know there was like five different things that i needed to uh oh i could totally swap out the board on log did i leave a board hooked up to that i think i pulled the board off of this one oh that's something i was going to update you on so last time i think it was last time we did a stream i was talking about the skr2 i had i've had like four boards already four twos and um you remember the whole revision a revision b problem like the revision a boards were blowing up stepper drivers because of that mosfet so i had a revision a board that i couldn't use because of that issue and it seemed to work okay i just couldn't you know i couldn't use it for anything did it already read it not yet the 40 wagon is getting full uh derek thank you very much for the 40 bucks that's much appreciated yes there's a lot of us turning 40. like i say uh veteran is 40 today um two strokes in late 30s ouch sorry to hear that all the kids love log ready what rolls down no um so skr2 so i had a revision a board and i had a handful of revision b boards all of the b boards that i had the encoder wouldn't work so everything seemed fine other than the encoder uh but both of them you couldn't scroll left or right i changed screens i changed firmware i i did everything on this thing trying to get it to work um i eventually i was very technical when i was troubleshooting this problem so i got a pencil and i went down all of the pins on the cpu while i was turning the knob until i got to the one that i thought probably controlled it and when i hit the pencil the encoder would work so i didn't bother trying to reflow them or anything like that that that's not going to work so there was obviously some solder issues on both of those boards so the chip was not making any contact on some of the pens just happened to be both but they did send me a brand new one and it does work so i can at least continue on but i will make sure that that makes it into the video that it took me several times to get a board that actually works so there you go so it was a hardware issue so if you see that maybe that's somewhat common don't know can't confirm that but i did have two boards that have the same problem so now you know what i know yes it's the big tree treetech skr2 board this is the board we're talking about [Laughter] rules over your neighbor's dog what's great for a snack it's on your back it's log log log big tree tech man it's a crap shoot the company itself they've always done really well by me i mean they they send the boards over they're not real picky about what i say about them or when i review them and that's always appreciated they're very affordable you have to you have to say that but qc not all that great i've heard many many horror stories about buying like a half a dozen of these and just a couple of them worked but when they're integrated like this for smart drivers when all that's baked in and the cost is what it is uh it's hard to get around not using them i mean you're starting to see more of this now like mks has some boards that do it too but um buys tech has boards to do it there's a couple of companies now but they're so readily available it's hard not to buy them even if you have to buy a couple inadequate memory size huh never heard that one i guess it depends on what you're trying to store i really need to do some of the reduce of the plugs on this poor printer it's just all over the place yeah i would guess a lot of the old-school 32-bit boards like if you don't want you know smart drivers integration all that good stuff uh i would guess some of those are really cheap nowadays if you know they made a billion of them they're probably still sitting around i have to say though this i mean if i can get it to work that's an f if i get it to work i do like this one the skr2 because it does have three pwm fan ports and that's nice to see if i can get it working what's up oh heck monkeys here what's up scott skr2 just felt rushed oh do it three mini heck yeah if everything if everything worked like it should i wouldn't have a youtube channel uh jsc or dupont connectors i have a mix of everything i've got dupont uh i've got some molex connectors i've got jsts of multiple types this thing is a mess [Laughter] a new question oh that was the answer to that question okay so i can fix it make my own okay where can you find is there a good reference to all the different connectors that are on these boards does anybody know of one even is there a good reference where somebody describes why they call them what they do because like the most common one is a 2.54 jst i think that's what it's called it's like the distance in between the pins is there even a good explanation on you know why they call them this this and that japanese solderless terminals and all that good stuff i don't know of one of those i learned i probably learned all of mine from digikey datasheets i don't even remember google searches vector 3d has a video on it excellent he's a great source of knowledge uh andy's here no worries andy you know youtube sometimes it tells you sometimes it doesn't you're here that's all that matters video guide what connectors are on this thing no there's absolutely no standard any scratch built printers lined up not necessarily scratch um we could have some really exciting things for us meaning me and exo slides so i'm going to say about that right now but there's some pretty cool stuff with that they're coming out with some new things um not really scratch builds i do have some kind of some community community derived builds that are going to be coming up i got so much packed in the next couple of months we'll see how much i can actually get done but yeah there should be some pretty cool stuff coming what else what else here we go i'm hungry i had some leftover chinese before i came down here but now i'm hungry where did i put all the drivers for this thing that's the next question how's the benchy doing we got some uh got some ringing in there ouch uh multi-crib tool for all the connectors i have never found a good one i have like five different sets uh smoke ribs with good awesome multi-octoprint multi-camera without serial numbers for printers and cameras dennis is very hard um paul paxtellis has a very so he has packaged up an image um he's re-imaged he's pulled it made all his changes repacked it so that you can load it directly on your pi and it will walk you through setting up multiple printers and he does have multiple cameras but it's kind of beta there is a video on it his method is much more refined than my method he scripted it out when i show you how to do that stuff i'm walking you through the steps of what i actually did his he does it just a little bit differently and i think it works better if you don't have serial numbers like if if that's the condition that you're in his method works better so when somebody asks me that and they're struggling with serial numbers i always point them at paul's video um let me see if i can find you a link i think you'll have a easier time with his image than trying to follow one of mine here we go try that pizza tacos taco pizza paul is an extremely smart guy if you've ever had the pleasure to talk with him uh he knows what he is doing cool chocolate binchy i bet you it doesn't taste like chocolate hmm okay what was i going to do i was going to go find some drivers you want to take a you want to do a close-up look for it on it for a little bit i can you can still hear me but i want to walk over here nope those are 2130s where's the one with the 2209's on it the oh nope that's not either there it is so awesome yes give that a watch that might it might make just a little bit more sense and i believe he does walk through it in ubuntu on the video but if you're just making the image you can do that in anything windows it works just fine i have tested it it does seem to work pretty well we can link video stream tom is live as well that um i think history like sunday evenings for him i think that's pretty common for him we're probably i mean we probably share an audience but uh i'm sure he has a couple thousand people over there tom's probably like to the half a million mark or something i would guess he's been doing this a long time hmm well it might work we're gonna find out guru session [Laughter] i just never really got into resin like i say we've tried it um we tried it on stream it worked okay i think we did like we did uh um what was it any cubic it's been years ago photon any cubic photon it worked uh but i just it's too big of a mess for me honestly my bit rate is higher than recommended well that's no good why basements are better than studios well probably more people have a basement i would guess not everybody basement studios are top-notch uh some are i don't know that mine is but uh some are i'm sure what else we got going on if you tuned in to if you follow tom uh your wife has never seen a basement a lot of folks haven't uh if you if you tuned in to tom's stream we did what last week sometime i remember what it was i sent tom a big box of 3d printer stuff it's not i'm not going to call it a 3d printer it's just 3d printer stuff and i'm looking forward to seeing what uh what tom does with all of that stuff at least he can use the filament and the t-shirt that i sent in any cubic viper i know nothing about it well quite honestly if i didn't have a basement there would be no youtube channel i don't think there's another room in my house that i could host all of this stuff if i did it would be on a much smaller scale like welcome to my office chris's office really doesn't sound as good as chris's basement in my opinion um the plus it doesn't help that my office is like five by eight literally i mean it's like five feet by eight feet room it's just a desk and a chair so it wouldn't be a whole lot of fun not near as much fun as the basement no basements in the sound stuff yes we're keeping this family friendly adventures in the living room basement does kind of have a serial killer sound to it i'm not gonna lie chris in the garage chris's garage that's not bad i like it that's right use the kitchen table uh when i was a single man uh i rebuilt uh a whole um dual overhead cam uh upper head on my kitchen table um it was there for many days those were the good old days swimming pools that's right basement and swimming pools in the south the layer nice two living rooms yeah hobby room a chris's he shed that's a good one i think log is done i should really go make some crimp connectors for this thing that doesn't sound like any fun at all we'll just leave it like that for now hello larry from washington state chris's east wing studio that's right we we did that i'm gonna start doing more videos over there it's getting to the point now where it's kind of cleaned up so uh i won't be i'm getting old now so i won't be doing all the videos standing i'll do some over there danny's here what's up dan chris's loft octoprint camera you gotta be careful run them cameras man tom likes the east wing view excellent yeah tom was commenting on you know you have a a a 3d printing channel and then on all your videos you can't see 3d printers it's just one over in the corner i mean we can switch back to this view and that is true i mean usually you just see that now it has been switched out over the years the bear has been there for a long time i do have 3d printers but you really can't see them but none working so yeah you really must just have that one there is one down below there and there are two over here but you really can't see a whole lot of 3d printers and it is a 3d printed channel i get that so but over there um it is just a complete mess with 3d printers so there's there's a lot to look at over there treehouse of tech hey welcome to my treehouse and then occasionally i fall out because there's got to be some sort of falling that is true i this this shelf used to be just for filament i used to just have stacks of it um i have switched it over i'm gonna do something completely different um after all of this after i i get everything a little bit more organized i'm gonna change things up a bit i'm not exactly sure what we're gonna do i'd like to have i'd like to have a smaller shelf maybe just for some prints and stuff get rid of some of this stuff and put it someplace else i don't know i really haven't figured it out fully yet chris's mom's house basement i don't think my mom would like it if i came back home and took over her basement sock puppets what is the trick on printing petg without the raft to support welding it to the model um so if you're used to printing pla and you have your layer heights and and widths and your first layer and all that tuned in for pla you probably need to go back and tune again for petg uh because the i have found over the years the most important thing that you need to look at if your supports aren't sticking is usually your ex in most slicers probably the first setting that will be impacted that you're going to the first setting you're going to want to tweak to try to resolve it is extrusion multiplier so what i would do if you're trying to troubleshoot a part that you can't get the supports off i would go into the slicer and reduce your extrusion multiplier by a tenth and see if it gets any better and if it does then i would start the process of tuning towards the filament that you want to use because petg is definitely going to react differently than pla does um it's not going to extrude the same so even like temperature i mean it's it's going to be different and if you use linear advance you need to be careful with that too but go back re-tune for that petg but you might be able to just get away with lowering the extrusion multiplier depending on your part um it might impact strength um in some you know in some instances but that's the first place that i would start to try to tune it you're going to have to tune for that filament though to be able to do it consistently and to be able to do any part that you want so that's what i would tell you that's where i would start you gu you groove track guide bearing uh that i do not know tornado shelter yes that can happen in a moment's notice around here what is my full-time job uh i am so full time i am what they call a mainframe system programmer now that means things to other different things to other people you might if you don't know what a mainframe system programmer is it's kind of an old-school term you might think that i program things well that's not really the case so i do write programs um i on occasion but i'm not like a cold wall or an assembly programmer like an old-school program that's not what i do uh the system programmer basically what we're in charge of is installing equipment and doing the hardware configurations to meet up to the specifications so um i set up i i do the config they call them io gins so you i do the gin we take care of all of the information that lives on the hardware in hsa um all of these terms probably don't mean anything to anybody that doesn't work for ibm but that's the the biggest thing that i do i'm also in charge of all of the interim pieces so there's a lot of different piece parts to the mainframe you have to have uh interconnections you have to have you know all your replication all of that stuff is independent when you work in a mainframe environment so you have to you have to maintain all those configurations as well so that's what i do for a living i i do i create and maintain large mainframe configurations mama's boy the ramones i love the ramones you have a 427 main board upgrade on your inter three where do you plug in the create i guess a creality filament sensor i don't know 427 board i figured all the new ones if you had a filament sensor i figured all the boards would just have a port for it is that what's the what's the badging look like what what are your open ports motorhead mitch is here what's up mitch do i work on specific mainframes uh there's really only two people making them right now i believe the the alternative is fujitsu i believe that's who's making those if i remember correctly and then ibm i only i've only ever worked on ibm mainframes there used to be a lot of companies you know hp hitachi amdahl all that is gone i only work on ibm equipment aix is still around i do i don't work with aix but we do have it mainframe still but pretty if you are a large if you have a large infrastructure you're running a mainframe um if if you anytime you swipe your credit card or you go to the atm that's hitting the mainframe at some point as400 i used to work with as400 occasionally we don't do much of that anymore but once in a while system 360 days now that's back there don't know well unisys there you go digital had them too uh unisys that's that's getting back there uh let me just pull up a drawing of that board my new friend 427 how about a pin out for that board there's firmware can i make this picture any bigger i can okay what do you got you got x y z t b t h you got fan two fan you got k fan uh you got a bl touch port okay you don't have a filament sensor port on a 427 i'm afraid now if you're really tricky in your configuration and you don't have a bed leveling sensor if you don't have a bed leveling sensor you could use that and flash marlin to it and then use those pins but you'd have to know what you were doing in the firmware and as a new person that's probably not for you so i'm afraid to tell you well now what is that port this diagram isn't very good now hold on maybe i'm wrong i missed a port maybe i'm wrong hold on a second let me look let's see if i can find a better oh okay i missed it so there is a filament run out since here so on your board on that 427 board you have your fuse here i'll just show you i have the power of computers there you go so this is your board you can see my mouse moving right this is your filament run out sensor plug right there so plug it in right there that's where it goes and done another problem solved that system we did have a vax we had it hooked up to follow that for forever one of those old platter systems yeah that was a good one mr roboto's brain is ibm uh z linux vms man i missed the linux vms uh yeah it probably shouldn't still be on os 390. we used to have a huge z linux farm and i really enjoyed that but they decided to move to a different ibm platform and so we did away with all the z linux we they got tired of buying ifl's uh so yeah i really like z linux yeah most people are getting away from i aix and going to linux that's just the the way of the things wild wildcat is yelling at me that he told me five minutes ago well you didn't show us did you you're welcome andrew used to be aix tech support awesome todd hello smitty was the best thing about it andrew thank you very much for the five bucks i am glad i can help you out yes that is true there's a lot of esx folks out there probably not near as many z linux what flavor of industry max i don't know unfortunately i don't know anything about the industry max do they save do they all save to the sd card or can you save to flash i do not know um so a lot of the boards that you see now they were using emulated eprom instead of a chip and you could save to the sd card which probably isn't the best idea but now it's really common to see them just use some of the flash memory for eprom that max i don't know about that board sco i don't know that one so what are mainframes like for playing games boy they they play the worst games like the hit the enter key game i play that a lot um i'll pull up my user id and hit the enter key enough so that i can actually see you cpu time that's a pretty fun game no mine sweepers though you are awesome doing this in a full-time job johnny gargan thank you very much for the 20 i enjoy doing this but thank you for that a full-time job is kind of hectic but but i appreciate the supports as always i need to uh dave we need to like do a short video or something uh on your print cave i need to come over and check it out one of these days we were talking about speaking of my career and what i do for a living i've been doing this stuff for years and years um mainframe like things i started hanging tape way back in the 90s but so that it used to be when you when you got started in mainframes you got started by hanging tape and that's how i got started we were talking the other day though about being an expert working on chris excellent that's okay 3d walkout i'm just kidding no hard feelings uh how close am i being able to do this full time is even possible it is not possible it will never happen unfortunately it's just not going to happen i would have to i would have to position myself in such a way uh to be able to do this whole time that it's just it's not worth my effort or time i just i i don't have enough free time to dedicate that much time to this to be able to do it um i would need like a third person to help work on this stuff in the background to even be able to schedule things like this it's just it's not never gonna be possible that's okay i don't i mean i never really intended to do this full time um the new model arc welder and save the eprom as well cool without stall guard pen most of them have the pen 56k line uh so we were talking about being experts the other day what are you an expert at and a lot of people like to throw that word around i'm an expert in this i'm an expert in that well i am technically an expert in something let's move this camera real quick it by definition of the word now a lot of people like to think well you don't know everything about this so you're not an expert well that's not actually what we're talking about here right uh i'm trying to get you more in frame there there you go uh i i am an expert i am not a reference guide uh i am by far not an expert at 3d printing i'm nowhere close i would never consider myself this is just a hobby i i am not an expert at it what i am an expert in is configuring data centers for large mainframes that's my expertise so if you're google i can help you out if you're amazon i'm there for you but my the what i actually what i know best not going to be much help on youtube uh so there you go but we were talking we were just kicking that around the other day the word expert and how people kind of if you if you call somebody an expert they expect you to be the the end-all reference for something uh i know guys that have been and girls that have been in ibm forever since like they like people that invented certain things i made this and we're still using it today and i mean they are you know these are the people that that think the the grand thoughts right and you know they're not gonna know everything but uh pretty smart x-ray fluorescence nice expert eater i'm pretty good wouldn't say i'm an expert mainframe guy what that means is just they i found some there's some old guys that sat around and said hey we should show chris how to do this there we go expert probably not even that who is an expert in 3dp um i don't know i mean it would have to be somebody in the manufacturing sect i mean uh it kind of depends like who who is good at you know running 3d printers or who has a really good grasp on the technology or the market i mean there's a lot of different things like who is expert at making the a super awesome 3d print i don't know that's kind of subjective um i can tell you there are a handful of people in the 3d printing community that i go to with my questions and those by by my standard those are the experts um uh because i mean so people ask me questions i go to other people to ask them questions there are all kinds of different experts so i mean that that's that's a tough question to ask i dave rant just for for instance dave ramble if we were pretty solid i asked him a lot of stuff he's been in this industry a long time um so i mean i go to him with a lot of stuff in certain areas especially like things like enclosures and the 3d printing business i would say he's an expert so i mean that's tough call always learning that's right iced coffee today absolutely i uh i stopped it is way too hot john way too hot wordpress experts an expert at not being an expert that's i'm pretty good at that that's for sure that's right uh warp team yeah uh you know honestly we've only about 15 maybe less than that 13 years ago that we just now got a completely away from warp from os2 yeah it hasn't been that long ago met your wife through the vbs that's pretty cool master of nothing i try to be a good source of info i try to be as accurate as i can be sometimes you know uh i tom is filament frenzy tom is uh he he knows what he's doing with that filament that's for sure uh and he puts a lot of work into it he has to tom he turns out some really cool stuff um so i mean he he's right up there if you want to call somebody an expert at actually printing things out tom would be one one guy to look at that's for sure scott latina is definitely an expert in marlin i mean that's what he does right i mean he is our expert he is our reference he's our guy expert at your house that's all that matters absolutely i love that name by the way yeah uh like like somebody already said it's it's too vast of a of a of a landscape to have somebody over everything you know like chuck you take a look at chuck what he's done over the years and how many books he's written on electronics and things i mean he's an expert in a lot of things especially when it comes to you know components and and all that good stuff he's the man no one can know everything podcast we've kicked around the podcast idea a couple of times that might be interesting uh i don't know we'll see is it magic it is not magic uh we will do john we will do a overview of this when we're done this is not the basement cube this is not going crazy [Laughter] yes chuck has all good search for chuck uh he's got all kinds of stuff out there it'll blow your mind how much stuff that chuck has accomplished over the years running dmx lights i see 3d toys for tots campaign that is a good cause if you're up for that go to ic3d and check it out every year they do a thing where uh they accept don't they pick a model or maybe a couple of models i don't remember but uh then they tasks you know the folks with 3d printers hey print a bunch of these send them to us so we can donate them for for the holidays that's a good a good cause go check out ic3d site for that implementing 95 excellent probably still people out there running 95. have i mentioned zildjian's in the video before i might have i had a vast collection of symbols at one time there's actually three of these there's one over there somewhere that you can't see it's behind some stuff uh those have been hanging there for years and years and years i just i found them they're broken they've all got chunks taken out of them and i found them in a pile of stuff and i just couldn't bring myself to throw them away so they ended up back here and they were here before i started the youtube channel and everything but you can see uh like one actually has a chunk out of it this one's completely cracked through i just couldn't bring myself to after spending all the money on these i couldn't bring myself to throw them away so they became wall art and uh that's the story of these i used to play drums a lot i don't play anymore but maybe someday i'll go back to it zildjian's a hard one to spell want to finish it out close up i find the smokestack layers the most satisfying for some reason groove juice abracadabra any plans for a new build on not too distant future absolutely we've got a lot of builds coming up and i've mentioned this a couple of times i've got an idex build that i really need to get to it's going to be really involved i have a i still have a lot of sourcing that i have to do for it but we're going to build one of those um i have a couple of different ones lined up i actually have enough parts to build another prusa i have a kit a bear prusa i have a frame kit and most of the other parts so we might try to scratch with one of those just for fun neon brown with a dash of glitter this is all on you [Laughter] thinking about voron i've thought about voron many times but i'm not currently thinking about vora that hot end being skewed just one direction really bothers me it was like that on that rock 3 pro that we had you being reactive i don't know about this one there it is you can definitely tell this one has flatten out a little bit so maybe it'll focus come on you can do it there you go definitely tell that one has a lot more noise in it than other prints i'm guessing that's because of the plastic components but you can see it the ghosting you see it real bad in there real bad up front more than you would usually see even on the bedslinger style it concerns me because the wheels on this actually the the top ones they're sitting on plastic standoffs and that's not good this is a lot of plastic on this machine it's not a terrible print it's not terrible honestly hopefully you can get a good shot of that so i mean there's some noise in it you can definitely see that the extrusion is a little mismatched you can see where it got hot or it starts laying down all that plastic when it's doing the when it's doing the infill over um cooling seems to be somewhat adequate it's got a nice sharp edge on it again does have a lot of noise on it finish looks okay chimney's nice and round it turned out a lot better benching than i thought it was going to let's put it that way so not horrible not horrible so real quick let's do this and that's not gonna be any good let's just go back to front why not okay so this printer let's let's have some final thoughts here um so this is the magician they they say free leveling is what they call that's the big attraction to this thing that's what they're that's what they're talking about it is almost completely injected molded plastic this the carriage the bottom uh the the part where the heated bed sets in that is all plastic the the gantries the top portion here x both sides all molded plastic the z mounts molded plastic really the only aluminum you get are the extrusion the uprights uh the x gantry extrusion and there's two little pieces of 2020 i showed at the beginning of this video that this these two uprights bolt to that's it that's all the metal uh this is still a pre-order deal i have no idea how much it's going to cost there is a link in the description if you want to try to get a few more details about it it is a 260 260 no 230 230 260 printer um the the free leveling there is a sensor on top here that when you touch the nozzle to the bed this whole carriage actually moves slightly to trigger that sensor so it's just uh i don't even know what you want to call it it's not like a living hinge or something it's just it's just using that stress the flex of the carriage to make that sensor trigger i don't know how that's ever going to be accurate i don't know i'm not sure why this why i really i meant kind of a loss why did they do this because it's got to be more expensive to build this thing than to throw some extrusions together right i don't know so it is what it is check go check it out try to get a little bit more information about about it for yourself but i've done my best to try to show you how all the parts work and and what it does honestly though i mean it did turn out a fairly decent print but i don't see why this one would be you know any you wouldn't have any advantages buying this one over any of the other models so especially who knows what it what it costs it has to cost something this this is not cheap to make so so there it is right it's a strain gauge okay single or dual lead motors um on this one they're actually single start so their their motor setup is fine i prefer dual just for a little bit of security so you don't these are hooked together at the top of the belt if they're not straight you might have some problems but on this configuration they're okay duel if you can get them so there it is uh we owe clint we opened it up at the beginning that's it that's all there is to it so stream is over for today uh i have one more stream that i have to get to um and it's one more 3d printer we'll just see how it goes as always thank you everybody that hung out today um go watch some olympics i know it's going to be on constantly um needs more orange i totally agree thank you for everybody that subscribed thank you for all of the super chats that is much appreciated and uh stay cool i know it's super hot here and uh stay safe and we will see you hopefully i'm gonna shoot for next weekend so we'll hopefully either saturday or sunday next weekend we'll do another stream and we'll see you all then so take care everybody i'll talk to you later

Channel: Chris Riley

Views: 7,040

Keywords: live build, live stream, mingda, Magician, free leveling

Id: JikclkmcwVU

Length: 150min 25sec (9025 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 25 2021