UniFormation GKtwo Final Review

this is bad it moves a lot welcome to my Channel with me Denis we will have a look at uniformation gk2 uniformation gk2 been dra for a while when it first released I do not have the chance to review the printer yet people keep asking my opinion back then I will tell them I do not like the single linear rail especially because it is a mediumsized printer and there's a big risk for the printer to be wobble and I'm sure some of you remember that out of the blue uniformation offer me the chance to review GK to and I had a dilemma almost every other YouTuber that I know give a very positive review about this printer and I thought I'm going to be the B guy and expose this medium siiz printer bed design because of the single rail uniformation gk2 has 10.3 in screen and the print volume is 228 * 128 * 245 mm and the XY solution is 29.6 Micron it has buil-in heater L filter flip up cover quick release build plate and resin tank and the price is $849 include in the package is extra seuring guard very thoughtful from uniformation extra nvp here's the Wi-Fi dangle and then typical accessories like glove extra bolt USB stick it includes this silicon spatula it was scratch your fvp film and this is the correct spatula to use to scrape resin in your tank not the plastic spatula I am also getting extra Wii dangle I'm not sure why probably just logistic mistake some tweezer and Allen key and the straight Allen key I like this a lot it is very comfortable to use for leveling build plate metal spatula silicon funnel Nipper and some filters this printer has such a sleck and compact design great placement for the USB port and power button most of the body is made of metal but the top part here where the cover hinge attached it is made of plastic and somewhat weak in my opinion I think I saw some post in uniformation Facebook group where some user experience issue with this at the bottom of the printer we can see that gk2 has adjustable Fe at the back of the printer you can find the power plug and you can place the air filter here now this is just my opinion so please correct me if I'm wrong look at the carbon filter design at first I thought it will suck the toxic air from inside the printer and blow out clean air to the back of the printer but this is not the case it sucks the air here and then blow out the filter air from this opening so basically whenever I open the cover it blows the rising toxic fumes towards me but no worry this is easy fix I can simply mck the opening and redirect the airflow I also got this MK just in casee the resin tank made of hard and sturdy plastic it also comes with its own cover and this is a great addition from uniformation because I only ever found such cover for resin tank on a high-end resin printer it also has fit to prevent dust sticking to the bottom of the field and the quick release is such an amazing [Music] design no more hustle securing the rest tank or this because you forgot to secure your resin tank but it is kind of over engineered especially when it comes to the tank ship with all the nuks and crannies it takes uh extra effort to clean the tank at least it doesn't affect the performance another great and thoughtful design from uniformation is the blue plate is also comes with quick release design it fits very well no wiggle at all lock the latch and you are done no more file print because you forgot to secure and tighten your build plate and uniformation make sure you will not forget to lock the ledge the ledge will drop when you close the cover but try not to forget too often because the ledge could scratch your cover and because the wig top plastic might break at least in my opinion many other user press the leveling design on gk2 build plate I'm not sure how I feel about this because in my case one of the bolts here is either too short or maybe it has defect I'm unable to fully tighten the bolt at this corner here and I assure you my BL plate leveling is not as good as usual when I do printer review in fact it is not level at all so my easy solution is Raising bottom exposure beyond my usual setting which is maximum at 30 seconds expecting I will have a hard time to remove the object from the plate but I do not have any issue at all I play around from 30 to 40 second bottom exposure everything just slide off easily from the plate speaking of leveling I like what I find in their manual so I'm about to do a leveling test for the build plate and I have a quick look at the manual the number one said please fold the test strip twice equivalent to the thickness of three sheets of paper and I remember back then when people would debate me when I said three sheets of paper is the correct thickness to leveling your build plate so thank you information to prove me right here factory leveling is not very good in my opinion because they said that you have to fold the paper twice or the thickness of three sheet of paper and over here see only one but I can move it but over here I cannot I can slightly pull it but at the back two corner I cannot pull it at all so that means the factory leveling is not very level at all so I think I will redo the leveling on my own you know just out of curiosity I'm taking apart the printer sorry I mean the bill plate to see so it has spring loaded for corner and this year to tighten the spring and this to this bolt here to lock this corner bolt in place very simple yet a very good leveling mechanism now this is my personal opinion the handle is kind of uncomfortable to hold but understandable because the way how compact this printer is designed and the next thing is I'm not sure what is going on I cleaned the build plate thoroughly before I start recording this video and I never get res to the top part of the build plate at all but still thinking just to be safe I bet wipe it again with IPA and I get this black stain like I'm wiping painted surface with suven because IPA is also suent or the plastic that made up the handle here cannot withstand corrosive agent and in the long run even the raisin fumes might be problematic for the handle the handle might crack I hope this is just a pain the screen already comes with screen got installed I love it so now I can confidently ditch the shipper protection film they designed the screen so it can be easily removed and installed in case you want to swap the screen or upgrade to 12K screen yes gk2 has 12K upgrade kit the light uniformity ranging from 3.6 to 4.1 not the best result but not the worst still within acceptable range the printer cover can block 100% UV light coupled with the resin tank cover you are sure to Safe leave your resin in the tank for a long period of time gk2 definitely not as loud as scaming kitten asking for food also not the most quiet printer it is kind of loud if you leave the cover open because of the air filter when you close the cover it can dampen the air filter noise and for me personally I can still work very comfortable near the printer I got to say I love the touchscreen it is very responsive and intuitive and you can see this built-in storage this means you can copy your slash file to the printer internal memory you can also find The buil-in Hitter setting in system setting and the printer can also help you keep track of your consumable parts what I like the most from this is the file validation I think this is to check whether your file has slice error or not rather than finding out several hours later when your print stop mid print itself and waste lots of resin material all because of slice arror it also shows the amount of resin needed to print the file you want so you can make sure you have enough resin in the tank although I'm not sure how accurate they are but I like it at the top left corner of the screen I think this is temperature gauge I'm not sure how accurate the gauge is but I never realized my studio is this warm if you made it this far I hope you enjoy and like this video also subscribe to my channel and if you want to support my channel directly you can become my YouTube member or check out my pattern Link in video description of all the great design that I see on gk2 the one thing that Hur me the most is why at this price point they give only a single rail the D indicator test result is quite concerning let me show you the video and you can judge it for yourself aside from that I'm super glad that my stability torture tests do not have wobble at all I even print them twice to reconfirm analizing works really well no complaint about that obviously the very top letters of this letter model only 0.1 mm wide both emboss and EXT letters but I'm happy with the print quality because I can read them very well at the back here the letter WID only 0.05 mm I can read the emboss letter for the exert letter I can see the shape but I am unable to read them this m the red panda fur details are very sharp and cre the same result with the shield details but somehow the 2D Micron letter here not very sharp and it is weird because the hood stitching details are good for this termic cut armor model the 29.6 Micron XY resolution really did its job well every part of the details are printed very well especially the head part the ID detail is super tiny and you can see how well it is printed by G gk2 I'm very happy with how this lady Samurai head turns out gk2 is able to show the skin texture details and look at how good the eyebrow individual Str the armor details on the shoulder here is not very sharp but still within acceptable range considering the small scale of this bus model for this three steering wheel model I strategically place them like this during printing to simulate uneven healing Force because you know when pulling the bill arm side to side the dial at move and the result no wobble no bad print lines everything looking great from the smallest one I can read all the letters very well on the screen except the letters around the turn knob the second smallest I can start to read all the letters around the noob here and this one here the original size of the file all the details are very Cris and sharp so I scale it bigger to the maximum length of of gk2 build size and I'm very happy with say of course Dimension accuracy if you guys look at my measurement I guess it is safe for me to say that the printer is accurate I printed this stability torture test I strategically place model to create uneven pulling Force I printed this bigger scale steering wheel none of them show any wobble or bed FR lines so I have to admit I was wrong when some of you asked me about this printer before I review it and I said this printer has a big risk to be wobble but my test result proved me Pro well you get your money's worth I do hope uniformation would consider to make printer with duel for their future release because I heard some people not buying gk2 because of the single rail design and if you happen to watch this video I hope this can open your mind I want to offer my apology to uniformation when I said I will finish the review in two to three weeks turns out it took longer than expected because life happens and I'm grateful that you guys trusted me with this opportunity to review your printer and I'm happy that I'm wrong about gk2 single rail design thank you to our subscriber patreon and YouTube member with all your support I can keep making video and share my knowledge to the world so please like this video and share it as much as you want see you guys in the next video for

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Length: 14min 11sec (851 seconds)

Published: Mon May 06 2024