it's time to start disowning Bambulab printers.

[sighs and gasps]

Betrayal is a hell of a thing. It can

completely upend your life. Just blow it

to bits.

Suddenly, you don't know how you're

going to make anything anymore. How

you're going to make anything work.

You're angry.

It's hard to focus.

Can't eat.

[sighs]

Silly girl.

Oh, also Bamboo Lab betrays open- source

community. I guess we'll talk about that

in this video and a few other things.

Yeah, this one's going to be a mess,

guys. [laughter]

But should be fun. I mean, let's go back

in time about a month before I mean any

of the stuff with Bamboo Lab went down

and maybe for fun see if you can spot

the point in this video where

Oh, never mind.

It's new printer day. I've got this one.

I've also got this one.

And then I've also got this one. We'll

get to this other stuff later. Let me

know if you want to see these deltas.

That could be fun. But let's get this

back inside. I'm all wet. Too excited.

Okay, so with uh new printers always

comes space constraints. This is a

pretty solid table. I think what I'll do

is I'll set up the prer in here. We'll

move the X1C into the main studio. This

new guy can go right there beside the

H2D here and this uh Sunloo filament

dryer. I've got some room there for

that. And then down this end, I think

it's time to finally retire the 2A ones,

which oh man, I'm sad to do. I the these

have been the best printers ever.

Honestly, I've had no issues with them,

and I've gotten some of the best prints

ever out of them. You know, from the

moment I first bought a Bamboo Lab

printer and got it all set up, it's just

been chef's kiss. Like, it was these

printers that really jumpstarted my love

for FDM printing. Up until this point, I

always kind like it was cool, but I

hated it because it was it was so

temperamental. It was so difficult. I

used to be of the opinion that resin

printing was so much easier. But then

with these printers, there was this

inversion and suddenly FDM printing was

the beginner friendly like easy thing.

And it's yeah, but they've served their

purpose. You know, I've had them here

for a long time. They're taking up room.

I'm using them less and less in place of

other printers. The H2D I use all the

time. Like I've got nearly,000 hours on

this thing. It's just it's never skipped

a beat. It didn't do miniatures super

great last time I tried. I haven't

really tried that again. I I think we

will revisit that because we are going

to try that uh with the producer at some

point. So, we'll revisit multi-noszle

support material blah blah blah at some

point. Hey, Pippen. And now I'm just

going to give these away cuz it's so

much easier than trying to sell it. Um

if you're in my Discord server and

you're in Australia, uh first in best

rest, I'll make a post in there. Just

reply to it or whatever and we'll

organize it. I'll send it to you. Just

cover the cost of shipping. That's all I

ask. I'll get you a quote. Usually, it's

not much in Australia. I'm on the East

Coast. Usually, it's between 30 and 50

bucks to send a printer. If you are on

the West Coast, it can get up a bit. I

We did one last year. I think it was

like 150 bucks or something. So, that

sucked. But, you know, they're big

things sort of. So, the Six Side

Discord's a good place to hang out to

catch little things like that.

Definitely. The last one I gave away was

the what's it called? the new Eligu one.

New ear. I say new. No, it's like it's

it's now the the it's now the old one

because there's a new Centauri or

Centtory, however you say it, two that's

just come out. They sent me the first

one and it was okay for a little bit,

but then I started running into some

problems with it, I think. Hang on, I

took some notes. So, off the bat, like

the build quality, like some stuff that

wasn't super important, like the the

packaging was super spartan. It

everything felt cheap as [ __ ] the door

magnet popped out and and then the

things that actually mattered. Uh the

first thing I noticed is it didn't have

any blockage detection. That was kind of

a pain. I'm used to printers like this

now that'll just tell you like, "Hey, uh

no filament's coming out. Can you please

check the printer?" Whereas, you know,

the the carbon will just keep printing

and you don't know that you've had a

print failure, and it's just a massive

waste of time and material. Anyway, it

kept printing fine for a little bit. I

ran a few more jobs on it, but then

something just went catastrophically

wrong. I didn't do anything. I swear it

just it killed itself. It suddenly

stopped heating up. It started throwing

this like weird error, this heating

anomaly error. I tried taking the hotend

apart to see like what was going on,

then putting it back together. Also, I

noticed this like weird issue with like

dust coming off the hot end. I looked

that up. Apparently, it's something to

do with uh like some shitty thermal

compound that they use at the factory

that just breaks down over time. But

basically, yeah, gave up on that

printer. I just I don't have time for

printers to to not work. Okay, the the

bar has been set. I expect my printers

to give me a good user experience at

this point. Uh, and I just don't have

the patience for them when they don't.

So, I gave that printer away in the

Discord as well. Uh, I haven't had any

updates on it if that user was able to

get it working yet. Hopefully, they

could. But anyway, I know a few of you

are waiting on an update on that

printer. I'm so disappointed with Eligu,

with FDM printers. Like, my my

confidence has never been lower for

them. I I had such a rotten experience

with the the Neptunes, the Neptune 4,

Neptune 3, the ones that I got

personally, I liked, even if the print

quality was a little hairy. But then

people who bought them on my

recommendation had a miserable time,

which made me feel terrible. And then

the Neptune 4 that they sent me was

absolute trash. I tried to make a video

with it and it was just a nightmare. So,

I scrapped that. I don't know. Maybe

this new one, the Centauri 2, they'll

finally have figured their [ __ ] out. I

hope so. I do like Eligu. I like their

resin printers. They're usually pretty

good. Anyway, we've got work to do. You

want to help me with this box, buddy? I

know you love unboxings.

That's like your favorite thing. Let me

put this here. I'm going. No tripod.

Who needs tripods?

If I remember right,

you pop these out. Yes. And then the

whole top just lifts off.

[panting and sighs] Okay.

Hey. Yes.

Look at that.

Oh, that's sick. Instructions.

Very cool.

Now, I saw

there's a little bit of controversy with

Bamboo Lab at the moment. I watched

Lewis Rossman's video on it. Basically,

Bamboo Lab's trying to like uh enforce a

developer on GitHub to take their [ __ ]

down, but that developer has used open

source code that Bamboo Lab published

that they were also using that they got

from like other slicers. There's a

there's a long lineage of this open-

source slicer code. Um, and under that

license, Bamboo Lab is supposed to

publish their own code under the same

license, which grants other people the

right to publish and modify and fork,

etc., all that stuff. Um, but it looks

like they're being massive dicks about

it and trying to like threaten people

and stuff and it's just it's a it's a

it's not a good look and I don't like

it. I'm not going to make a whole video

about it myself. You know, we've got

advocates like Lewis Rossman who are

attracting a way larger audience on

that. So, yeah, before we continue, I

just thought that was probably worth

mentioning in case you weren't aware of

the news. If not, I'll leave a link to

Lewis's video in the description. You

can go check that out. Definitely worth

watching. Um yeah, that guy has done so

much so much for the community on a

number of issues. Like there are so many

things that companies constantly try and

want to do that is anti-consumer.

There's a long history of it. It's not

just 3D printers, it's, you know, it's

Apple, it's computers, it's phones, it's

cars, BMW, Volkswagen, there was a there

was a thing. Yeah. It it turns out that

when is, you know, the the thing that

governs how society runs, uh, you get

negative outcomes that are

anti-consumer, antihuman.

Who [ __ ] knew? Turns out some really

smart people have known about this for a

very long time. [laughter]

I've got a ton of books, actually. Hold

up. Going to stop myself right there. I

didn't really feel like I had anything

to add to the whole bamboo thing. Like,

everything that needs to be said has

been said by other people. It's been

really well addressed at this point. And

if you somehow aren't aware of it, well,

at least you are now. And again, there's

links down below. You can dig into it

further. And because I felt like I

didn't really have anything to add to

it, I got lost on a 20inut detour here

about like how companies in general just

keep doing really shitty things because

of the system within which they operate

from. But I don't think you came here

for a 20inut systemic critique. I think

you're here for 3D printing. So, we're

going to keep it on 3D printing. I've

cut all of that out. And if you really

want to see it and if I've had the balls

to post it, there'll be a link for that

in the description, too. And it'll be on

my other channel where I do whatever.

But for the meantime, let's get back to

the 3D printers. Oh, and for anyone

wondering if I'm like going to continue

to recommend Bamboo Lab printers, it's

really complicated. And actually, if

you're having fun watching this video,

stick around and you'll understand why

by the end of it very clearly why this

is not such an easy thing for me at

least to put my foot down firmly and

say, "Huh, I'll never buy another Bamboo

Lab printer again or I'll never

recommend that you buy one." It's just

it's really [laughter] you know what it

is. It's nuanced. Anyway, back to the

unboxing. Okay, we got some accessories.

Spare nozzle. That's nice.

By the way, um

While I did buy the H2D myself, this was

almost $4,000 Australian dollars. This

was a crazy investment for the channel.

So, thank you, my my dear patrons, for

your help with that. I could not have

done it without you. This one, and this

is the H2S, by the way. The little one,

the AD5X from Flash Forge and the big

one, uh, the XL from Prusser, those were

all sent to me by the companies, and

they all agreed to my usual creator

[ __ ] which is here, and I'll put it

in the description as well. You know, I

wish I could buy them all myself. I

would feel much better about it that

way. But, you know, at least under these

conditions, I feel like that gives the

company the least amount of influence

over me as possible. Uh there is still

some influence because I obviously I've

got the thing for free. So, just keep

that in mind. And uh let's continue.

Now, I'm actually I'm really excited for

this printer in particular because the

way that I've come to use the H2D is

primarily just with one nozzle. So, the

fact that this gives you the full print

volume with a single nozzle is pretty

much perfect. Or in theory, it should be

perfect. I I have a feeling I'm going to

like this printer a lot just because I

love the the H2D. It's like that

printer. I can't say enough good things

about it. Like the qu the build quality,

the print quality, the the user

experience, just everything about that

printer is amazing. Anyway,

I think this lifts off,

but it's Aha. There's tape here and

here. Come on.

The things I do for footage in there and

there. And now that guy. Ah, yes. He

just lifts right off. Beautiful. I was

really glad to hear that you guys loved

the second installment of the LAR video.

I'm really I'm trying to break new

ground here with with 3D printing

content. trying to create stuff stuff

that you know is a bit more conducive to

playing on the television while you have

your dinner and relax or whatever rather

than like short pathy little here's what

happens if you do X or whatever. You

know, I'm trying to just model this

channel on the stuff that I love to

watch, which lately has been like a lot

of automotive stuff. You know, I'll

watch a 2-hour video on a guy fixing a

car and love every second of it. And

judging by the views on that on those

videos, a lot of other people do as

well. And I think we're missing that

in the 3D printing space. What do I do

here?

So, tell the algorithm you like this, I

guess. Uh, like and subscribe and all

that [ __ ] That' be that'd be sweet.

We're almost at 100K subscribers, and

it's not been an easy road to get here,

to say the least. It's been a lot of ups

and downs, but mostly ups. The first

video, the first serious one, I posted

February 7th, 2022. It's now June 2026.

So, yeah, I think that's like 4 years.

We're almost at 100K. That's mad, I

guess. There it is. So, thank you

everyone who subscribed, even if, you

know, most of you probably aren't here

today. I do appreciate you all very

much.

By the way, my fellow Aussies, go to

Bunnings and look for this Trojan

um box cutter

utility knife. It's so good. It's got

like a little thing in the back with a

bit. You can get this at Bunnings for

like 10 bucks. 10 or $11. It's so good.

I love it.

[laughter]

Oh, yes. That's the glass for the top.

AMS in there. Excellent. That's good.

That's all you need.

Who needs multi multiple nozzles? All

right, let's get this up on that shelf.

I think that's the next step. All right,

you big beautiful thing.

Can I lift you on my own or or am I

going to Am I going to regret that? It's

got cutaways on the side, I reckon.

Yeah. Yeah, we can do this. OH GOD. OH

[ __ ] [ __ ] [screaming]

Watch out.

Yes,

you fat [ __ ] Get in there.

Um.

Ow. [laughter]

Oh, I deserve that.

You're beautiful.

Let's get this off.

Oh, look at that. Do you see that,

Pippen? You see this? You see how

exciting this is? He's really excited

for the packaging. He's running all

around trying to see what's going on

with this packaging. What do you think,

Pippen?

Come on. What? Come on. What? No way.

What's that guy say? How does he say it?

Ain't no way.

There we go. Beautiful.

Okay.

Yes. This looks sweet.

Uh, all right. I'm going to continue on

here. Get the AMS out. I don't think I

need to film that. Also, I'm feeling a

bit tired and a little bit sweaty.

[laughter]

So, uh I'll see you when this thing's

set up and then we'll do the next

printer.

[music]

Yeah.

Heat.

>> [music]

[music]

>> Hey.

Hey. Ah.

Heat. Heat.

>> [music]

[music]

[sighs]

>> Okay, there we have it. A little bit of

a scare at the end there. It wouldn't uh

turn on. Like the light on the back came

on when I flicked the power switch, but

I was getting no light inside and the

screen wasn't coming on. So, I checked

the instructions and yeah, you're

supposed to plug the little red thing in

the back. So, did that and here we are

all sweet and happy. Got it connected to

the Bamboo app. So, all that's left to

do is calibrate this thing and start

printing. And I've got a really fun

print project in mind for all of these

new printers. So, we'll get to that

soon. For now, I need a break. So, I'm

going to start this and then we'll start

on the next one. What should we do next?

Flash Forge or Prussa?

Hm. I'll have a think about it.

[music]

>> [music]

>> All right, she's done. So, I think what

I'll do next is I'm going to finish up

clearing out the A1's. I already got the

filament off the AMS light here. And

there was some shenanigans with this

little guy as well, jumping to places

where he shouldn't be jumping to and

then panicking and not figuring out how

to get back down.

>> [laughter]

>> Oh, Pippen. Um, and then I reckon we put

the what is it? Flash Forge here. And

then we'll put the the other one X1C

there. And so it'll just be it'll just

be box printers all the way along here.

Box printers. They have a better name,

don't they? What what are we calling

them? I'm so [sighs]

behind. [laughter] Uh, what what are

these printers called? These ones are

beds slingers. These ones are I can't

remember. Whatever. Doesn't matter. It's

to do with the the belts, right? The

core XY. Is that it?

Okay, listen. A1, A2. [music]

I know this is difficult.

It's [music] hard for me as well. You

guys have been so so good to me, both of

you.

I'm going to miss you guys. I really am.

We've made so many cool projects

together. But you know what? [music]

It's not the end of the road, okay?

Because both of you, I'm confident, are

going to go to some new homes with some

new owners who are going to be even more

enthusiastic and [music]

keen and careful. Like, I you know, I've

I have neglected you guys a little bit.

You're a bit dusty. Your print quality

has been on the nose dive a little bit

lately, but it's all right. It's all

right cuz you're going to go to some

[music] new homes uh who with some cool

owners who are going to take better care

of you than than I currently can. But

man,

I'm going to miss you guys.

Sh.

It's okay. It's okay.

>> [music]

>> Oh man,

thank you for your service. [music]

[singing]

Yeah, there it is. AD5X.

If I'm not mistaken, this is a

multimaterial printer, which is cool

because while I don't necessarily use

like multiple nozzles, at least with the

H2D, I found I pretty much just use it

exclusively with one nozzle, but I do

like the multiaterial thing where you

can set up a print to have different

colors and you don't have to manually

change filaments throughout it. That is

cool. But anyway, let's get you open and

have a look. This is like Christmas,

isn't it? All these printers.

Okay, now this one doesn't have a fancy

lifttoff box, so I'm just going to flip

it.

Hopefully

hopefully it's all good. The thing is

though, if I Oh, hang on. Maybe I can

slide it out this way cuz I don't uh No,

hang on. Upside down.

Lovely.

Flip. Flip. Flip.

Uh, does this have no walls? Oh, it's an

open air printer. Okay, but there's

attachments. I'm guessing we can print

our own or buy a kit presumably. Do you

care about that?

How does that come out? Um, power cable,

accessories. Ah, got another glue stick.

I've been starting a bit of a collection

of [laughter]

3D printed glue sticks. Look, I got

Soval. Uh, this one's FL Sun

Eligu.

This one I think was Creality, although

it doesn't say it. And I've already got

a uh what's this Flash Forge one that

you like? It's cool cuz it has a little

like sponge applicator there. But when

was the last time anyone needed glue for

their FDM 3D printer? Let's continue.

Come on. How the

How does Do I have to unscrew the this

possibly?

Look at this guy. It doesn't read the

instructions. What a [ __ ] idiot. Just

starts pulling on [ __ ] Yeah, remove

this. See, I know what I'm doing. Oh,

look at this. Love this.

I was just grabbing the tools. And it

comes with my favorite tool, a little

pair of nippers, which actually the uh

H2S didn't come with. What the hell?

Bamboo Lab, step it up. Okay, this one.

No.

God,

this one. Focus.

One, two. I dropped it. Can I have that,

please, Pip? Oh, man. That's sketchy. I

don't like it. Look at that. That ribbon

cable is like glued here. I don't like

that at all. Does that go? Hang on.

[laughter]

Instructions, please.

Flip and take out the display screen.

Yeah. So, you just go like that. This

metal bracket comes off completely. It's

interesting they went through the the

effort with that, you know. Uh, okay. So

now it should just slide in like that.

And that's it. It's like a fixed angle.

And that's it. Okay. Now, will you come

out? Please.

Come on.

This is a multimaterial. Yes, I

remembered correctly. Look, there's one

of the the things. So, I I believe Yeah,

there's like four of these and you

install them on the side and then they

each take filament. That's cool. But

come on. What the hell is this [ __ ] Do

I have to cut it? I had this problem

with the last Flash Forge printer. They

somehow they make it impossible to get

the foam out cuz Okay, look at this.

This piece of foam here is the same big

chunk I've been trying to pull from the

top and it goes under the tool head

here. So maybe hang on. Okay, maybe

there's a method to the madness.

Aha. The back one comes out. Tool head

goes back.

[ __ ] you. I win.

Where [clears throat] were we? Is this

good content?

Jesus.

This once in a six guy's a [ __ ]

idiot. Why does anyone watch him? I'll

never understand. Here we go. Check this

out. That to me looks like the business.

Oh yeah. Look at that thing. So you pop

your filament on there. It's little

spring-loaded watsie. Holds on to your

filament hopefully nicely. And they're

all numbered, which is important, I'm

guessing. So, there's four, three, two,

and one. Oh, look at the the little

filament samples. Not going to use those

tubes. Oh, look at that thing. So, all

four of these tubes come into this

single junction point here. And then

presumably out that little tip there

will come whichever filament we've uh

selected. So, that's cool. And then what

else we got? This table's way too small.

As I was saying, [clears throat] this

table's way too small. [snorts]

Something else there. Little gear.

What's one day I got dreams. One day

we'll have a big studio with huge

benches. It'll be sick. Until then

though, we got to make do with this

little thing.

Uh, and then finally, this is going to

be the brain of it, I guess. Filament in

here. Filament through there. So that'll

be that'll be where these connect. Yeah.

And then this thing goes on here. I'm

guessing like that. Pippen. No. This

bunny. O. No. Give me that. Give me

that. Give me that.

You're relentless. You are relentless.

Good times. You know what? I'm I'm

hoping more than anything though that

this printer isn't loud. I really don't

like loud printers.

The X1C with its door closed, it's

really quiet. Love that. The H2D with

its door closed, really, really quiet.

The A1's super quiet. H2S, presumably

it's going to be super quiet. We'll find

out. I can't imagine it would be loud,

but yeah, I do worry about that with

this. But you know the A1's, they're

open air printers and they were dead

quiet. So maybe it'll be okay. So, how

do we put this together? Swear to God,

if these go on the back, I'm going to be

pissed.

Oh, no. It's all good. We got numbers

here. 1 4 3 and two. So, this should be

all right. I'm going to check the

instructions. Make sure I do this

correctly. So, step one is we're going

to attach this little guy right there.

like that

using the included hardware one. Make it

tight.

Nice. Next step, the box. And it says to

rotate it and Oh, look at that. Nice.

Yeah, rotate it until you've got the

tubes on the bottom pointing downwards.

Numbers upright. Yeah, that's good. That

just like locks into place. That was

nice. Next up, have to install this

thing. These just plug into the top

here. There's one, two, three, four. And

this guy is just going to plug right

into the tool head. Can I show you that?

Do you want to see? That should just pop

right in there. Uh,

yep. And then there's a screw on this

side. Like that. Lovely. So, that won't

go anywhere now. That's good. Connect

the IFS cable. Which one's that,

brother? This one. cable from here to

somewhere on the back.

So, one there. Oh, yeah. I see it. I see

it, mate. I see it.

Right there. In you go. Uh, and then

there's a clip. Little clippityd.

Where do you go, [ __ ] This little guy

here goes here and then it like holds

the cable in place. That's pretty cool.

Like that. I like that, I think. Yeah.

Although I think it's the other way. Not

that it really matters. Yeah, it's that

way. That's one and two. Lovely. And

then this guy, the cable running from

the tool head has a little clip on it as

well. And it looks like uh that's

supposed to go probably onto the tubes,

I would say. Do it on that one. Like

that. Hey, nice. That's quite quite

smart. And then final step looks like is

50 million [ __ ] thing. Uh final step

is or almost the final step. Yeah, we're

getting we're getting close. We're

getting close, fam. Team team fam fam

team Anthony fam teamo. [clears throat]

We just got to do the the filament

holders now. And I think importantly we

got to match the numbers up. Pretty sure

that that's important. And these I don't

need to screw anything. They just slot.

They slot right on. Okay, let's do

number one. Number one.

Nice. It's number four. Oh god. Why does

that feel horrible?

Oh, there we go. Okay. Number four.

Digger

three in Indonesian. Bahasa.

Here we go. And da two.

Satu da.

Do I have any Indonesian viewers? That'd

be pretty cool. Uh, okay. Now, all

that's left is we got to remove the

retaining bolts

from the build plate. And it looks like

they have used some little stickers.

See, there's one. And in the back,

there's another one. And last one right

there. Don't know if green's the best

color for that. Hey, probably should be

red or orange or something. You know,

something that jumps out at you a little

bit more for dummies like me who don't

read the instructions. That's all right.

Let's quickly get those out. And then

that's it. I think we can plug it in,

get some filament installed, and this

one will be ready, too. And then we can

do the big guy. Honestly, I'm [laughter]

nervous to do the what is it? The XL.

Prusser XL. I think they just I actually

don't know how many tool heads they sent

me with it. I don't remember. But I know

they gave me a 02 nozzle, so that's

pretty cool. Uh we Yeah, we'll see how

that goes. But just based on what I've

seen of other people's videos of that

printer, I think I've got my work cut

out for me, you know, like just in terms

of getting it all set up and everything.

But we'll see. We'll see. It's my first

Pruschia experience and first

non-Chinese printer,

actually. So, that's pretty cool.

See how that goes. All right, she's free

and I think she'll be ready to power on.

Let's put you in your new position,

which I think uh which side do you want

to go on?

I'm thinking on the end closest to the

computer. What do you reckon? Yeah.

Yeah, I think that makes sense. Oh,

nice. It's not too bad to carry right

there.

Yeah,

that works. It doesn't interfere with

the shelf at all. I can put the filament

here pretty easily if you know the X1C

can go there. Yeah, this will be sweet.

I really hope these names don't rub off.

Watch out, Pip. I can't see them. Where

are you?

Cuz there's no cutouts on the bottom of

this for your hands when you move it.

So, uh h actually maybe it'll have to

move over here cuz I'm just I'm just

thinking here like we mount this

filament.

Yeah, on the side of the X1C and it's

going to interfere here.

I try and put filament on like it's

pretty tight. So, what I'll do, I think,

is we'll move the X1C up further. I've

got this thing here that can just that

can move. That doesn't need to be there.

Get that out of the way. Yes. And then

X1C can go next to the H2S. Perfect.

Right there.

Like that.

AD5X,

X1C, H2S, H2D. Nice. And then I've got a

little bit of a workspace here. That's

cool. Uh, we could probably fit one more

printer. Don't know what yet, but not

one of the FL Suns. They're too tall.

Those flipping deltas. Anyway, we had no

name casualties. This stuff's pretty

good.

Excellent. Filament.

What filament do you want? Let's just go

through some old spools. This is any

cubic. Oh no. Okay, [laughter]

she's loose.

Sorry [clears throat] about that. Uh

okay, it's compatible with Sunloo rolls

and so it's also going to be compatible

with insic.

Yep. And uh where are you? Come on.

There must be one here. Yes.

Scamboo Lab.

Nice. Okay. So, we'll start with this

one. I'm in love with this apple green.

Matte green. It looks so good. Just get

that in there to one. Oh, actually, no.

The bottom one.

No, they have to match up the numbers.

Yeah. Duh. Idiot. [snorts] This is one.

This is two. This is three. This is

four. Yeah. So, this is number two. Like

that. Get in there. Lovely. This is PLA

matte.

Let's put this in the one position. Nice

PLA matte black. I'm a really big fanboy

of the um the Bamboo Lab matte

filaments. They just they look so good.

They really do. Look at this tealight

thing that I designed the other day.

Printed it in this black matte PLA.

Doesn't that look fantastic? And that's

free right now if you want to print one

yourself as well for, you know, Mother's

Day present or something. Prints without

supports. Quite proud of it. I need one

more. What's it going to be? How about a

Sunloo? This is PLA light gray. It's one

of their refills.

Come on. Don't be difficult.

How cool is that? Nice. All right.

Power. How do we [ __ ]

Hey, there's an A1 nozzle down the back

there. And another pair of nippers. And

a dead cockroach. Nice. Looks like

meat's back on the menu, boys.

How am I going to get that?

You know what? You know what? You know

what?

Actually, you know what? That's uh

that stuff can just stay down there. I

can't reach it. That needs to

I want to make sure I can get to this

later. Oops. If I do put another printer

here, I don't want to have to work too

hard to fetch this cable. So, I'm just

going to hopefully wrap it here and

it'll stay like that. Janky. That should

be it. We should be seeing life.

Yes, we are. Flash Forge. Welcome.

It's singing.

I really hope the software experience is

good here. Oh, okay. The touchcreen

feels nice. Seems responsive. Same as

the H2S. Connecting

today. Sorry, I don't mean to be rude,

but could you hurry along?

My back hurts. Oh, it's got a little

poop shooter out the back. Uh, I'm going

to have to print like a a thing for it.

That might be the first job. There we

go. And open Flash Maker and scan this

QR code. [ __ ] sake. So many things to

do. I put my phone down somewhere. I

don't know where.

Okay, I got it. Agree.

Plus, confirm. Nice. There it is. Cool.

It's weird. It says it's offline here.

Uh, the only option here is to skip. Oh,

and it's calibrating. Okay, let it do

that. Oh, I don't like those noises.

It's a little noisy.

Yeah. Uh, once it's finished that, we'll

see if we can tell it the colors that

I've loaded and go from there. Okay,

it's finished. Still says it's offline

in the app, weirdly. Uh, but let's let's

tell it what filament we have. Hell

yeah. What are our options? PLA. A white

two is PLA and it's that color. Three

PLA black and the fourth one is PLA

gray. Lovely. Next. I think it's

printing a test model right away.

Interesting. All right. See how that

goes. Ooh, error 100. Channel one. Load

timeout. What do we do? I dislike this.

You see this icons with no labels. Come

on, man. Select the slot and click the

load unload button. Yeah. Which one's

that? Is it the first one?

Let's maybe get in there.

Okay. I think the problem was you can

hopefully see that filament going up and

down. That's the one we want to load.

The problem was they were all

all of them were down in there like that

and that. And so I've just rolled them

back and we're just pushing in this one.

And I think that's going to work. Oh,

yes. I can feel it. All right, we're

good. We are good. It's loading.

I'm looking at the included files here

and there's there's like a fish, like a

statue or something, a benie, a logo,

and we don't know what this is. Orca

plug, like a dice, a d6. You'd think

they'd include a poop shoot. So, okay,

I'm going to try and figure out the

networking thing and uh what slicer I

need. Hopefully, it's orca slicer and

find a poop shoot for it.

[music]

[music]

>> [music]

>> Okay, so now that you're all up to

scratch.

Still says it's offline. Come on, man.

Firmware is up to date. Oh, hang on. We

might have to reconnect. There we go.

No. Yeah, still offline. Try refreshing.

No.

Why is that? I would really like to have

Wi-Fi control. Uh maybe I can connect to

it through Orca Slicer. I've gone ahead

and installed their slicer, Flash,

whatever it's called, which I'm pretty

sure is just a fork of Orca Slicer. I've

also gone ahead and updated Orca Slicer

to the latest version. Interestingly, in

their software, Flash, what the [ __ ] is

it called? Flash [ __ ] Flash Studio.

When I first installed that, it said,

"Oh, hey, make sure that your printer is

updated to the latest firmware,

otherwise it's going to appear offline

in the slicer, and that's probably why

it was offline on the phone, too, right?

And their slicer, it links to a Google

Drive with an older version than if you

go to their website, look up this

printer, and then find its firmware

there." So, that that's really

unfortunately not very good user

experience, I will say, out of the box

for this thing. Uh, and the fact that

we're still struggling here to to

connect to it. But anyway, let's let's

have a look now on the computer. Ah,

okay. We are connected to the to the

printer here. That's good. Let's check

if we can do the same with Orca. If I

remember right from last time, I used

this. You have to click on this button

here. Wait. Oh, yeah. Okay. And then we

can pick a printer. So, this is the

AD5X.

There it is. Nice. Confirm. Now, we can

select AD5X here. Oh, and there's that

little button there. So, we click that.

Uh, and then we can set this to flash

forge printer agent. Yep. Orca. And then

we put in the IP from the printer, which

I can grab from the settings. Wi-Fi.

Please wait. Of course. Hey, [snorts]

come on. Where's the Where's the the IP?

Static IP info.

Printer name. Uh, [ __ ] I don't love

this touch screen. I will say I'm

finding I'm having to hit buttons

multiple times. Um, print a name. Yeah,

that's fine. Oh, is it just here? Hang

on.

Ah, there it is. Okay. See, it's it's

this button here. It's like pretty

hidden, actually. 192 1680202

1926

680202.

And then we can test that. Oh, could not

connect. Maybe I got to change this.

No

flash forge. Maybe maybe we got to keep

that as octo clipper. Test could not

connect. Flash forge test. Uhoh. Um,

bamboo.

Huh? 192

1680202.

Oh, fine. Okay. Yeah, now it's now it's

working. It's happy all of a sudden.

Lovely. So, okay. We can now control

this printer either from No, not from

Orca. Well, I think we can send prints

to it. Let's hang on. Let's get a foot

in. Why not? Slice

print and then yeah, upload and print.

Nice. Okay, that that that is going to

work, I believe, which is cool. But

before we use Orca, let's use it how

they want us to use it. Let's use their

version. And yeah, point4 nozzle. That

should be what's in there by default.

We've got three print profiles. Doesn't

seem like much, but maybe that's all we

need. 12,24.

What What do we want to print? We want

to print a a poop thing. Let's have a

look. Let's try their little model thing

here. Let's search poop ad 5x. Oh, yeah.

We got some options here. I'm a fan of

that cuz that, you know, that brings it

round to the side. That's pretty good.

That looks like it's been modeled quite

well, too. Download. Nice. Yeah, that

looks pretty good. quite like that.

Let's print that in the matte black PLA.

I think that'll look great. Oh, does

this slicer if we're if we're talking to

this printer here. Oh, yeah. We can see

the different filaments here. Nice.

Okay, but I don't see them here. I need

to sync. How do we sync? H. See, that's

weird. You'd think there'd be a sync

button for the printer and then the

filaments would show up here, but I've

only got one filament showing up here.

Multiolor printing. Yeah. See, look at

that. On their little thing there,

there's a button that I don't have. Why

don't I have that button? Oh, cuz I'm

set to the wrong printer. [laughter]

Idiot.

This should be AD5X. Oh, yeah. Confirm.

What the hell? What? Uh,

okay. All right. That's a tight tight

fit. Like that. That is that is really

maximizing the the build volume there.

ambitious. Okay. Do we have the button

add one filament? Do I just have to do

it like that? Flushing volumes. What is

this? No, I guess I just have to set it

here manually to match. That's annoying.

But but why why wouldn't it sync? Why

would they have it so that like

obviously it can see, you know, the

filaments that you've loaded here. Like

I told it on the machine, white, green,

black, gray, and it can see that here in

the computer. Why? Why can't it then

transfer that automatically to here?

What the hell? Whatever. I'll just I'll

just manually do it again. So, white,

light green, black, gray. Just like

that. I want to print this in black.

Actually, what if just for fun, let's

print this at Oh, what the hell? Okay,

so for some reason, by default, it says

we got a 0.25 mm nozzle and a smooth

high temp plate. I don't think that's

accurate. I think textured PEI. It's got

a textured PEI plate by default and 4 mm

nozzle. Or I mean it better have a

point4 mm nozzle. I'm assuming that it

does. And now I got to set the filaments

again. Jesus. I got to say, Flash Forge,

your brand new user experience still

really sucks. Okay, there we go. What

was I doing? Printing this in black.

Slicing it. Oh, but I want to use a

draft profile. I don't care if this

thing's not like mint. It's going to

take five nearly 6 hours, but I want to

do some filament changes. I'd like the

bottom section to be green. I think that

would be cool. Green. Black. Or maybe

switch to black here. That could look

cool. And then when we get to here,

we'll jump to gray cuz you won't even

see that. Oh, the little the little

tower is um is not happy. It needs to go

there.

Yeah.

Nice. I've just noticed as well this has

a giant brim on it. I really don't think

we need that. Say no brim. There we go.

Lovely. 6 hours. Let's go. Okay. Now,

while the AD5X does that, I think what

we'll do is we'll um load up this

filament as well. Yeah. Because we're

going to I think have to do a poop shoot

for this guy, too.

Right.

And this printer, I'm expecting it to

automatically detect basically all of

those because I'm pretty sure those are

all bamboo filaments. And yeah, you can

see they're going to pop up here one by

one. Nice. And that's also going to be

reflected in the slicer straight away.

It's easy to hate on this company right

now, but god damn it, do they do 3D

printing right. Beige, green, purple,

black.

Perfect. Yep. H2S. There it is. Straight

away I can see all the filaments. Uh, we

have to add H2S here.

Confirm H2S. And then look at that big

sync button. Yes. Continue to sync.

Okay. And then look at that. There they

all are. That's just how it should be.

So easy. And it's the right nozzle is

there. This is this is how it's done.

Flash Forge. If you want to [ __ ] around

and make your own slicer and everything

and copy this excellent experience that

Bamboo Lab have cultivated over here,

then put in the effort and do that, you

know, don't half cook the thing. And

this is all open source anyway, right?

You can just copy this. It' be so easy.

I say that with like no experience

coding anything at all. [laughter] Uh

let's have a look at the bamboo little

marketplace of models. I've never

actually tried it here in the browser

before. or I always go to the website. A

poop shoot. Oh yeah, H2 series poop

shoot. No supports, magnets or glue.

This looks pretty good. I do have to use

a couple of the screws on the machine

though, so I'm going to have to spin it

around again. That's annoying. But it

will be secure at least. All right. All

right. I will I will try it out. And

8 hours for this guy. Oh, we could

probably get that down. Hang on. Let's

have a look. Yeah, let's do 0.24.

All right. 7 hours. Really, really

clever design here, too. I like this a

lot. See how this thing here slopes up

like that? So, it doesn't need supports.

Super clever. This here, that'll all

print beautifully without supports.

Very, very cool design. Regards to the

colors. H. What [snorts] do I What do I

want to do? Do I want to do it in this

beige color? Nah. Do it in the green.

Green's way cooler. Oh yeah.

[music]

[music]

Recording. Okay. All right.

I'm ready. [sighs]

I'm not ready. [laughter]

Oh god. How am I [clears throat] going

to do this?

Oops.

That was the matter in form. [ __ ]

That's not cheap.

Okay.

Both the handles are broken. Uh, that's

great. That's real great. I'm just going

to have to

send it. Oh [ __ ] Oh [ __ ]

Okay.

Wow. Hello Pippen. Good timing. Come

check this out.

Look at this. From Prague by Joseph

Prussa.

Yeah. Pretty cool, huh? This Pippen.

This is a 3D printer. Really big one.

Big heavy one. Okay. Okay, here we go.

I'm assuming bringing it down to the

floor was the right move cuz it Yeah, it

has this.

Pull tab on it.

Oh, come on.

Yes.

There we go.

>> [laughter]

>> Let's do it, Pip. Let's do it.

Come on.

Yes.

Beautiful. There it is.

Okay, let's get stuck into it. There's

the poor math completely smacked hard

right on the foot of the table there.

God, that sucks. Hope it's okay. I mean,

I know it's built like a tank.

This housing,

this is a real hard

I think that's metal, actually.

Or it could just be a really thick

plastic. It's heavy though. I think it's

metal. And it's got like a really

durable coat on it. Coat of paint.

Anyway, we got our instructions. Thank

you for purchasing the original Prussa

XL. Well, I didn't purchase it actually,

but thank you for sending it to me,

Prusser.

Galaxy Black sparkly. We'll try that at

some point. Got a [snorts] really nice

3D printing handbook.

Oh, that's cool. That's really nice.

Sniff test. Pretty good. Pretty good.

This is a receipt. That beats the little

QA sticker you normally see from Chinese

printers, doesn't it? Look at this. USB

check, firmware check, LCD check, USB

port check, flash drive check, Ethernet,

hotend, heat bed, all of it. Fans, RPM,

movement, every axis, sensors, extruder,

all. Okay, that's quite nice, isn't it,

Pippen? You love cardboard. Yes, you do.

You love cardboard. Look at this guy

letting his rabbit eat cardboard. Do you

want your rabbit to die? XL LCD. Nice.

And a couple of screws. It's a deep

printer, isn't it? This is the back.

This is the back here. And this is the

front. Are those all tool heads? Oh, you

spoiled me. You spoiled me, Prusser. Oh,

there's even a test print in there. A

look at that. Let me grab that. Stuck to

the bed and everything. That's cool. I

really like that. That's nice.

Oh, look at that. Oh, yeah. And Oh, wow.

Oh, no way.

No way. Look at this,

dude. Oh my goodness, Prusser. These

tools.

Look at this. These have actual like

injection molded handles. This one's a

double injection with the nice grippy

rubber. The quality.

And then and then a nice uh very oily

pair of pair of nips. Uh nips. These are

uh these are these are needle-nose

pliers. But yeah, that's that's really

cool. And then the you see the Allen

keys in there. They're all black.

A great big Wi-Fi antenna. There's a lot

of bits. USB flash drive. Oh, it's even

Prusser branded. Of course it is. Look.

See that? The attention to detail. No

wonder this thing costs an arm and a

leg. Okay. What are these boxes? Let's

have a look. XL multi-tool extruder.

Are you subscribed to proper printing?

I'm subscribed to Proper Printing. Love

that dude's videos. Um, yeah. Look at

that. Wow. Okay, we got to install four

of these, which is cool. There's even 3D

printed components. Look at that. That's

3D printed. That's cool. So, is that

very interesting. So, is that that big

piece there? Wow.

Oh, I got my work cut out for me here.

So, is that, too, there's a lot of 3D

printed parts. This big plastic piece

here. This piece here. That's really

cool. I like that. Although that does

make it seem cheaper at the same time.

Interesting. Wait, how many of these are

there? 1 2 3 4 5 six. Holy [ __ ] dude.

That's a lot. Let me get them out of

here.

Oh no. Okay, this this is a little

spacer in the middle.

So, it's five still. That's crazy.

That's so many. I don't need that many.

I already know I don't need that many.

[snorts]

Okay, that comes out. Oh man, look at

this thing. Pippen, you're loving this,

aren't you? I think it's ready to lift

out. Um, there's a screw floating around

in the bottom. Why?

Strange. Okay, Pip, are you ready?

I am not ready. My back's not ready.

[snorts]

Okay, do we just grab it here by the

frame? I should check the instructions.

the lift instructions. Oh, look at this,

too. The the book comes with a bunch of

stickers. That's nice. Oh, wait a

minute.

Say it isn't. So,

are you serious?

Oh, no.

Joseph, what are you doing to me?

I got the worst sweet tooth. This feels

like sabotage. [laughter]

Oh, I want it, but I can't. I got to be

I got to behave. I can't have that.

Where was I? Pippen, you're having a

great time there, aren't you?

Oh, here we go. Look at that. How to

move the printer. Pick it up using the

integrated holders on the side. We

recommend the help of a second person.

All right, Pippen. You ready? Let's lift

this thing. Careful, buddy.

Oh, the foam stuck to it.

Prussa, I'm tired.

I got to clean that up and then put it

together. Okay, fine.

Oh, you're a [ __ ]

Lollies, man. My my arch nemesis

couldn't even last 5 seconds.

Do you hear how loud this thing is?

It's mostly fan noise that's really

annoying, but there's also a decent

amount of motor noise, too.

So, I don't love that. The H2S, of

course, you almost can't even hear it.

If I open the door, you can hear the

fans a lot clearer. But yeah, the noise

levels of this thing are so much better

that I just had a flashback. I'm like, I

think there's another box to go with the

flash forge. And there is. Look.

enclosure.

Oh, that'll be good. All right.

Hopefully that'll keep the noise down.

It's heavy.

Mission complete. Look at that. All the

color changes worked. You can see there

it's a little bit hairy, bit stringy,

but the quality despite the draft

profile looks pretty good. Although bit

hairy up there as well. You can see some

like lumps on the wall there, but

generally I'm pretty happy with that.

That's nice. Okay.

Nice.

That's not bad, is it? For a first

print. And that's going to do the job

nicely, I think. Uh let's let's torch

it. Get rid of this fluff.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, it's perfect. Just what the doctor

ordered. Good job, AD5X. Okay. And

there's that one as well. And

surprisingly, this one's a little bit

hairy, too. And look over here. Check

that out. It's like scars. It's weird.

Surprising. I wonder if it's cuz it's

tall and thin, but it feels pretty

stable.

Yeah, that's unusual. So, this does have

to get bolted to the back of the machine

like that. And then

sort of sits like that. That's pretty

cool.

I'm going to do that off camera cuz

that's going to be a bit fiddly. Okay.

And then that can just go

there like that. Perfect. Now, the AD5X

where I've got this printer set up and

if you look at the way this printer's

designed and then you look at the way

that this enclosure works, it makes the

printer significantly taller and it's

clearly going to interfere with the

shelving I've got here. So, that's just

not and I and I don't have anywhere else

to put the printer other than I could

put it in the other studio next to the

Prusser, but then if it's in there, I

don't care about the noise. So, I think

I'll just leave the enclosure. I'm not

going to bother. Getting back to this

prusser, I didn't really feel like

talking anymore, so I decided to just

get stuck in and try and film as much as

I can along the way. And I'm glad I made

that decision because it ended up taking

a number of hours to get through this.

Despite this being the mostly

preassembled version, there are still a

lot of steps to work through, and I just

I took my time here. The documentation

is topnotch, and if you like taking

things apart and putting them back

together and all that, then this thing's

really going to tickle your tisms. Uh,

these extruders are called Next

Extruders, and they're pretty

interesting. Though, I will say I think

the 3D printed components do kind of let

the quality down in a way. Like, don't

get me wrong, I love 3D printed

solutions to anything and everything,

but on a printer this expensive, seeing

really shitty overhangs like this here,

or wobbly parts like these, it doesn't

really inspire a ton of confidence. But,

I mean, overall, generally, everything

seems pretty solid and well built here.

Getting all of the harnesses for the

neck extruders installed was mostly

pretty satisfying and I really enjoyed

the process except for trying to line up

the little captive bolts with the

threaded holes on the machine as

visibility is super poor even with a

little high-powered torch. Shout out to

Wuben, by the way. They sent me this

little thing a couple of years ago now

at this point, ages ago, and I don't

think I've ever used it in a video till

this point. But I have used it a ton

when working on the car and and around

the house at night and for whatever. Um,

yeah, it's actually pretty good. Anyway,

with all those harnesses physically

fitted to the machine, you then have to

plug in all the electronics for them.

Around the back of the printer there,

there's a little housing that contains

the machine spirit and all of its sacred

harness docking sites. The Wi-Fi antenna

needs to be installed here too at this

point and is made up of a few different

components that need to be assembled and

then carefully routed into this housing

before buttoning everything back up.

These spool holders I really like the

design of. They're a two-piece

telescopic injection molded thing that,

as far as I know, can accept any spool

you throw at it, and they install with

these clever little spring-loaded nuts

that secure themselves inside the

channels in the frame of the printer.

Then once all that's fit and finished,

all that's left to do before powering on

the machine is popping each of the neck

extruders into position and plugging in

all of their connections. [music]

Now, before running through the

calibration process, I grabbed the

latest firmware from the Prussa website,

chucked it on the USB, and installed

that. And now for the calibration. This

is unlike any other modern printer I've

experienced yet. It's not a matter of

pressing the start button and walking

away for 20 30 minutes like you might be

used to because here with this printer

you are very much a vital component of

the calibration process yourself and are

required to be on call and ready with

your tools to follow along each step.

Now I didn't record all the steps here

as I was really starting to strain at

the edges of my patience here. Suffice

it to say, there's a lot to do. It takes

a long time and you have to pay close

attention to the details. But once you

do make it through to the other side and

you see that tool head successfully

start to dock and undock the next

strudooters, it is extremely cool, I

must say. Now, some usability stuff that

jumped out at me right away once we had

this thing up and running. Loading

filament absolutely sucks. I do not like

it at all. You got to do the awkward

little manual feeding movement, pushing

it in an inch at a time, and if you're

not careful, you kink your filament

really easily. So, if you've got brittle

filaments, you know, you could break

them. I tried to load TPU onto one of

them, but I couldn't figure out how to

get it past the first filament sensor

there. I mean, it's just the resistance

is too high. You just can't get TPU into

it. I'll have to come back to that

later. There's there's probably a

certain process you have to do. And

these PTFE tubes, they're very long. It

takes a long time to push the filament

all the way through. I don't I don't

love that about this uh Prussa slicer. I

know a lot of people love this slicer.

I'm probably just not used to it, but

for my first job that I set up here. I

found it to be quite opaque in what I

wanted to do. For starters, just like

the Flash Forge printer, you know, it it

didn't sync up the filaments. I had told

the Prusser through its menu what I'd

loaded into it, but for some reason,

Prusser slicer wouldn't acknowledge

that. So, I had to manually set up

filaments in there again. And also for

this print, I wanted to take advantage

of PETG for the support material for a

PLA model. So we could really take

advantage of the multiple nozzles here.

And I also had it change color of PLA a

few different times. And I found that

just a bit confusing, too, about how to

actually tell the slicer which filament

to use as the support material. It

wasn't like an obvious thing. I had to

go diving deep into the settings to

figure that out. And I feel like that

should be something that's a little bit

more straightforward. But otherwise,

check it out. Look at the quality of the

mating surface here where the support

material was on this thing. It's

flawless. This is a really good print.

The yellow PLA at the top there, you can

see, is pretty bad. I'm pretty sure that

particular roll just needs to be dried

out. Ooh. Also, this printer does not

have a poop shoot. Instead, what it does

is it drapes its waist off the front of

the build plate, which while this does

create a little tiny bit of extra work

for you each print, especially if you

used more than a couple of the neck

extruders, I must say I do really like

the drama of it.

Okay.

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>> If you've made it this far in the video,

you might just be a fan of the channel.

And I'd really like to add your name to

my fleet of printers along with all

these other amazing people who have

signed up since the last video on once

in a sixixide.com. If you head over

there, you'll see all of the amazing

benefits that come with the Once in a

Sixside membership. The amount of STLs

in the welcome pack is just insane. Have

a browse. Head to once in a sixide.com.

Have a little browse of all the stuff

you see in there. You get to come hang

out in the discord as well. Great place

to be. We do a lot of hobby stuff in

there. And you see this number. This was

the biggest surge in signups to

memberships that I've seen in over a

year. So, thank you everyone so much.

You've helped me a tremendous amount

along the way toward that goal. There's

less than a thousand bucks to go now

before we hit that and then we can do

the poll. It's gonna be really fun to

see what you guys want me to make when

we get there. So, thank you so much. How

about uh we now do some hobby. I want to

introduce you to someone. So, this is

Michael. He looks very scary, but really

he's just misunderstood.

So, this incredibly detailed and

fantastic model has been sculpted by

IMP3D Seon and was very generously

donated to the Once in a Six Side

Welcome Pack. So, yes, Michael here is

among the models that you will get if

you come join me over here on Patreon or

buy me a coffee along with the many,

many other cool models. But he is a

miniature. He's very small. I'm thinking

it would be really cool if we print

Michael here the size of a Titan. And

I'm going to challenge myself to see if

I can split him up in such a way that I

can print him entirely without supports.

Now, Michael already does come split

into multiple pieces. But to start with,

I am going to bring in a version where

he's already preassembled just to work

out my scale first. So, you can get an

idea already of how big he is by

default. Let's start playing with the

numbers here. So, that's a,000%. That

might be perfect, actually. You know

what? I'm going to find a Titan head

real quick for reference. Oh,

h he's going to be significantly bigger

than a Titan. That's fine. Whatever.

It's all good, right? Well, this

particular Titan does have a very small

head. That's the Asimus war construct,

by the way. If you haven't seen that

video, definitely check that out. That's

a fun one. Should we go with a,000%.

What about 500? Okay, that's 500%. So,

he'll be bigger than a warlord titan,

but not by much, I think. Yeah, 500%.

That should be pretty sweet. Let's do

that. And so, now that I know it's 500%,

I'll start bringing in these individual

pieces and we'll go from there sometime

later.

Check it out. This was actually very

quick to do. Ah, I'm so spoiled with my

fleet of FDM printers. If you ever have

the opportunity to own more than a

couple of FDM 3D printers, h I I can't

recommend it enough. It's It's so cool

when you have them all working together

on a big project like this. Even small

projects, too. If you've got a few parts

to print out, just being able to do them

in parallel, it's so nice is really it

is. It is so nice. Ah, but of course,

you are watching once in a sixide. So,

this did not all come to be without any

headaches. In fact, right away, two out

of three of our brand new printers had

some really annoying problems. Can you

guess which ones? Let's start with uh

the flash forge. So, it just completely

forgot how to do a first layer. It was

like the nozzle was way too close to the

bed. So, it was just doing an awful

first layer. And if you didn't know,

with FDM printing, there is no layer

more important than your first layer.

You want your first layer to be perfect.

And more and more at this point, you

want your 3D printer to be able to do a

first layer without you having to stand

around and babying the thing to make

sure that it's doing that. So anyway, I

ran a complete recalibration of the

Flash Forge printer, and again, it still

struggled to put down a good first layer

here. The nozzle was still too close. I

double checked the slicer to see if I'd

done anything wrong in there, and it all

looked good. First layer preview looked

nice. And so, returning to the printer,

I was forced to dive into the settings

and look for something called Z offset

or Z offset, however you want to say it.

And this is a setting that I only know

about back from the days when FDM

printers were [ __ ] [laughter]

back from the dark days. And when I

eventually found that setting, which of

course is like not labeled or anything,

you kind of just have to you had to know

what you were looking for. Oops. I

increased that a whole bunch. And

finally, I was able to get some good

first layers off the flash forge. Uh we

did these parts here, and they're not

bad. It's white filament, so you won't

be able to see super well at this point.

The quality, I mean, I am shooting under

like direct overhead lighting. that does

tend to exacerbate the layer lines and

give you the the harshest idea of the

print quality. But yeah, I don't know

why it did that. And also, it decided to

just give up on the networking as well.

Super weird. I had this problem with the

last Flash Forge printer as well. Just

the networking side of things. They've

really got a long way to go. It it seems

like for one, the printer just dropped

off my network completely and I had to

like manually reconnect to it. But then

once connected and the slicer is

acknowledging, hey, I can see it. at

least when you try and manually connect

to it. On the device page, it's still

apparently non-existent and when you

slice a print, you still can't send it

over the network. So, I had to revert

back to a using a USB drive. So, it

really felt like stepping back in time

with the Flash Forge. Not a good

experience. It required some expertise

that I'd rather not have to dredge up to

get my printers to work. You know, like

I said, I really at this point, we

should all expect our 3D printers to

just nail that first layer where we can

just start the print, walk away. We

don't have to baby it, you know. So

disappointing from Flash Forge. I will

say the next printer that I had to

contend with. If you guessed Prussa XL,

you were right. Uh and remarkably

similar issues to what we just had on

the Flash Forge. uh it completely forgot

its level and it seemed like the nozzle

was way too close to the build plate and

so just you know it was trying to push

filament out but it just it wasn't

coming out and so we had even worse

first layer performance than the flash

forge really really bad. Thankfully

though running the offset calibration

again which is a lengthy one but it is a

hands-off one which is nice. You just

install the little tool thingy and then

you hit go and it does its thing for

each tool head. Thankfully running that

singular calibration resolved the issue

and then it was back to really fantastic

first layers from the XL and we were

able to print this piece which turned

out beautiful and this is in that

sparkly galaxy black prusser PLA. It

looks really really nice. But uh as you

can see there was still some stringing

problems and some of this like

lumpiness. I don't know what that's

about. Oh, and before I printed this

piece, actually, this leg, this was the

first print on the XL after fixing that

bed level issue. And yeah, quality like

good. It's a pretty good print, but

yeah, it's just got that lumpiness in a

couple spots. Bit stringy. I just I'm

just we're just at a point where I just

I you know, I expect not to see that

kind of stuff. Oh, and the Prusso, by

the way, is really really nice and

quiet.

And then what can I say? The the H2S was

perfect. No network connectivity

problems, no bed level problems. I was

able to just slice stuff, send it to it,

and get these incredible, incredible

prints. Out of all of them, they look

the best, I think. And, you know, it was

even able to like switch filaments for

me when one spool ran out. I'm sure the

other two do that as well, but it's

just, you know, the whole from from

start to finish, just the whole just

everything about using those printers is

is exquisite.

Yeah. And God, it makes it so hard to to

recommend anything other than a B. Oops.

Other than a Bamboo Lab. God damn it.

[laughter] Do you see the the

predicament that I'm in? You know,

people want to know what printer I

recommend. It's hard to recommend Bamboo

Lab right now because they're doing

scummy stuff. But it's hard to recommend

anything else because look at these

prints, you know, no messing about, just

slice print. Hello, let's go. And

really, really great results. But

anyway, it is time, I think, to put this

together. It's really interesting,

actually. The parts of this model that

have been sliced such that when you put

them back together, the two mating

surfaces are the first layer, the layer

from which the prints printed from. When

you put them together, there is a seam,

but it it does almost disappear. Versus

parts like this, where this this is the

face that was printed on the bed, but

this one, which is also a flat mating

surface, was not. And so it has very

subtle rounded edges. Uh, which does

mean when you put it together, it's a

more prominent seam around the model.

So, I think we will have to do some gap

filling, but that's all right because

I've got something that I think is going

to work pretty well for it and not be

too much fuss. Not [ __ ] Millie putt.

Jesus Christ. [laughter]

You got to have heroic levels of

patience to deal with that [ __ ] for gap

filling. Uh, I don't. Anyway, let's put

it together. I think this will be fun.

And I'm just going to use super glue,

too. I'm going to use that. Uh, where is

it? There you are.

this stuff that I was raving about in

the last video. Let's see if it's still

good and if I was right. And this

incredible cap pin system has preserved

our glue.

Okay.

Okay. So far so good.

Oh, we have super glue. I'm hoping it

doesn't grab too quickly because I want

to sort of spread it around, get it in

position. That looks pretty good. Okay.

Yes, this is going to be sweet. Buddy of

mine recently introduced me to this band

from the 90s called Morphine.

They're a three-piece bass, drums, and

saxophone, and it is so cool. Um, I

grabbed the compilation album

at Your Service, and I highly recommend

it. Okay, that looks like it's going to

work well. How cool is this piece?

Oh, it looks like it would make a mad

piece of terrain, too. Check it out.

Like a positive Sarlac pit.

Sarlac [snorts] spire. How about that?

And go.

Okay. Oh no.

God, I just launched that thing. And you

know what? It's totally fine. Just

another reason to love FDM more than

resin.

Lightweight parts, tough as hell.

God, I'm clumsy. Why am I so clumsy?

[clears throat] Fast forward.

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>> Okay. Well, that just might be the first

bottle of superglue that I've used 100%

of without the tip getting all messed

up. This is sick. This is worth the

price tag. But I've not finished. Um, so

I got to go get some.

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All right, I got the goods.

You know, we're at [snorts] the point

now where we're pretty much everything's

assembled into the original pieces as

provided by M3DCon. And you know what?

Testament to his craft. This model is so

comfortable and happy at 500% scale.

Like the details are just ah incredible.

I asked him 3D on how long did you spend

on this thing? Um and he told me it was

between 20 25 hours somewhere around

there. So, you know, it's you got to

appreciate a piece of art like this. You

really do. But as I was putting all this

together, uh, I realized

I'd made a glaring omission. In fact,

Oh, yeah. Thanks, mate. Nice to meet

you. Yeah. Yeah. Good stuff. Um, I only

printed one arm. There's a whole other

arm that I forgot. So, I ran that off

on the H2S. Let's go grab that now.

Lovely. Looking good.

Looking very good. So, I'm going to now

finish putting this guy together and

then we'll look at gap filling.

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>> I can't remember how adept I was at

complaining about things back then, but

I really hated the process of trying to

gap fill with Millie pot, and I haven't

touched it since. This stuff sucks. One

option we might play with today,

although I don't know how well it'll

work, is air dry clay. You know, this

stuff is really, really easily

malleable. I think it'll be sticky

enough that it'll work. But the thing I

want to try first is right here. This is

another another one of those things that

a company sent me forever ago and has

just never made it into a video until

now. Uh fun cricole or funk light curing

putty. So this is a a really thick UV

putty paste stuff. And I've got my

little UV torch there.

Let's give that a go first. See if that

works. And if that works, fantastic.

We'll just go around do the whole model

with that. Uh, if it sucks, we'll try

this. If this sucks, I'll just throw the

thing in the bin and we'll call it done.

All right.

Clay shaper brush. Haven't had this

thing out of the drawer in a very long

time. You can see the old milliput on

it. It was just a nightmare. [ __ ] I

hate Millie pot. All right, let's

hopefully it'll work better with this

stuff here.

Do you want to see it? There it is. It

looks like uh Well, never mind what it

looks like. It smells smells like resin.

Yeah. Okay. But it's thick. It's really

It's really quite thick. You see that? I

hopefully that's showing up on camera.

Ooh,

lovely.

Yeah, I'm optimistic. I think this will

work. This feels pretty good. This is

the kind of amazing thing you can whip

up in 2 minutes. with just some

rudimentary

CAD skills. Seriously, if you've not

taken the time yet to learn CAD, it'll

change your life. All right, let's begin

right there. So, this first one, this is

a really tiny tiny seam. Can't even feel

it really, but you can definitely see

it. So, I guess we'll just

we'll just smoosh it on. Oh dear.

Okay.

Okay.

All right.

Once you get good purchase on it, it

does does sort of spread.

Oh, you know what, though? I'm getting

the sense that for best results, you're

going to want to sand this afterwards,

aren't you? I don't want to do that. I

really don't want to do that. Maybe I

can like thumb it.

Yeah. And then just be careful not to

contaminate anything with my thumb now

and my finger. It's the thing with

working with these UV resins. You got to

be real careful of that cuz whatever you

touch then becomes toxic and dangerous.

This stuff is thick.

H

could work. Let's hit it with the torch.

See, the other thing with UV resins is

like how how long do you put the torch

on it for? You know, I don't know, Joe.

Get my fingers to Is it greasy? Are you

a greasy resin? A dirty dirty greasy

resin. When are you safe? Tell me.

Ah, it's still tacky. Hang on.

Okay. Uh

aw. No, I don't like it. You see that?

Still tacky. And

it's like I can still spread it. No,

this stuff's trash.

Okay, [sighs]

whatever. Now I got to clean it off.

[ __ ] sake. That's why I hate resin,

man. Anything resin is such a pain in

the ass. Got to put fresh gloves on. Get

some paper towels and alcohol. Start

cleaning.

This guy winges so much.

Yeah, that's just lifting off

completely. Looks like. No worries. Then

onto the next solution.

Sorry, fun creek hole, but that ain't

going to fly. Okay, final solution.

Air dry clay.

There we go. It's water-based, right?

Like, it's a little bit dry and flaky at

the moment. But if I I wonder if I added

a little bit of water to it, if we can

increase its effectiveness as a gap

filler, probably. Right.

It'll just take a little longer to dry,

right? More

water.

Nothing like getting your hands dirty.

It feels Yeah. A little more pliable, a

little more tacky. I think that could

work. Pretty big one here

around the arm and torso. That might be

a good proving ground. Just get some of

this stuff.

Oh yeah. I don't even need any tools. I

can just do that with my finger.

Oh yes, that's a winner. We just run

that around the whole thing.

Oh yeah.

Probably won't even notice that with

some paint. It'll just disappear.

Vanish.

Vanish. Never here. Okay. Uh maybe even

like a little bit of water on there. Oh

yeah. A little bit of smoothing

smoothing action.

All right.

The real question though is is it going

to stick once it dries? I think it will,

but uh we'll we'll see, won't we? But if

this works. Oh man, gap filling just got

quite fun. Hell yeah. Do I need to film

the rest of this? Probably not. Let's

just super cut to

when I'm done. That makes my life

easier. You don't need to see anymore.

And snap. I'm on the wrong side.

Wow. [sighs] I need to sit down. Okay.

The gap filling with the air dry clay,

it was quite laborious. It did take a

long time, but I will say I really

enjoyed it. Like, you get a bit of water

into it. It's just so smooth. It's so

easy to work with. You can cover an area

with it really quickly and then it's no

big deal to come back a moment later and

just smooth it over with a bit of water.

Yes, I may have dulled the details in

some area, muddied the details, but I

think once we get some paint on it, the

effect is going to be pretty good.

Better than if we just left those gaps

for sure. Uh, he's standing. Wow, how

did that happen? Uh, number of steps.

Obviously, we needed the base. I I was

kind of hoping as this project went on

that he wouldn't need it like that I'd

get it all assembled and put together

and then he would just be balanced such

that he would stand on his own very

comfortably and very stable. Uh but

nope, that was not the case at all. He

definitely needs the base. And I was

looking at the base in the computer and

I could see it had the perfect cutouts

for his feet already. So it just made a

lot of sense to get this base printed as

well. Now, that did present some

challenges. Obviously, we had to cut it

up to fit it on the printers. But before

we could do that, I had to bring it into

Blender first and remove the cavity on

the bottom as well as IMP3D Se's logo.

But I did want to preserve that. And

I'll come back to that in a moment. And

once I did have the bottom of this base

filled in, I brought it back into the

slicer and I cut it up into pieces that

would fit the printers. And then to

preserve that logo, what I did is I took

this back section here with these rock

formations, brought that into Blender,

and then I extruded M3D Se's logo into

3D, and then I used that as a cutting

tool here on the rock. And I think that

turned out really, really nice. I'm

quite happy with that. And now, when it

came to actually erecting Dear Michael

here upon his platform, that

unfortunately was not as easy as

assembling Michael was himself. like

none of the connections really, you

know, made super close contact with each

other just because of the way they were

printed. Whereas a lot of the

connections on Michael were those

perfectly flat first layers. And so

superlue works brilliantly for those and

holds really well. But if you can't get

the two faces to sit pretty with one

another, then you're fighting an uphill

battle. So I switched gears. I grabbed

some of this other adhesive that I have

that I've used for some PLA stuff in the

past that works pretty well. It's much

more goopier and works well to fill up

the gaps between the pieces being glued

together. And that did do the trick. But

to really seal the deal, I grabbed the

soldering iron, heated it up, and worked

my way along each seam, stitching all

the pieces together by literally melting

the plastic together. And that has

created a really nice solid base. And

then to plunk Michael down on top of it,

I really had to pull all the stops to

make sure that he's nice and secure and

stable here. So, first stop, super glue,

which obviously was not going to hold

straight away. Uh, so then stop number

two, soldering iron. Wherever I could

get the thing, I just worked it between

the two plastics, fusing them together.

Stop number three, flooded any of the

remaining gaps with hot glue. Stop

number four, air dry clay. Although I

mean at this point that's really just

for tidying things up and making

everything uniform. And then stop number

five,

pins. And this went exactly as well as

I'd hoped, at least in terms of the

installation. Whether or not the plastic

inside has bonded to the wire

sufficiently for the wire to then act as

a structural pin is anyone's guess. But

what I can say is he does seem pretty

sturdy. Yeah. So, I'm pretty confident

that he's quite well

secured on that base. Ain't you,

Michael?

Yes.

[clears throat]

Oh, and whether the air dry clay sticks

well or not, there were a few loose,

dusty, and lumpy bits here and there

that I hadn't smoothed over. And you can

see some of those falling away when like

using the hammer and stuff. But

otherwise, everything feels pretty

locked in. And I'm confident once we get

some paint on it, it's not going

anywhere. So, let's go do that right

now.

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[sighs]

>> Sorry this video has taken so long to

come out. I actually got to this stage

almost a month ago, but then my whole

life got [ __ ] detonated to pieces.

I've been horrifically depressed. I just

I haven't been able to come back and

film. I've been waiting until I've uh

you know, just in a mindset where I can

sit down and talk again. I think I've

made some good progress toward that.

[sighs and gasps]

I really I don't like I don't like

talking about my personal problems on

here, you You know, I always want to try

and keep stuff on 3D printing and, you

know, tabletop and I want to keep it

light and inspiring and fun and

whatever, but you know, this is like my

whole life doing this stuff pretty much.

And so when other stuff in my life puts

the brakes on this, you know, I feel I

feel bad. I feel like especially to all

my patrons and stuff, I really owe you

guys a an explanation of of what's going

on. And I'm sorry if this is too much

information for for YouTube

talking about depression and stuff, you

know, but like man, my I don't know if

you've ever been cheated on. It's a it's

a first for me. I was with this girl for

like almost 3 years. I was I was even

going to ask her to marry me later this

year after we launched the the Six Side

Shop. So, I've just been completely

[sighs] I I don't know. I It's weird,

man. It's weird getting like betrayed

like that and lied to again and again

and again. Um, you think you know

someone. Anyway,

uh, Michael here turned out freaking

awesome. The the gap filling with the

the whatever is great. It looks really

good. I'm super happy with it. Um, but

I'm not going to go any further here. I

I I did a base coat with black and then

I went over the top of that with this

nice like dark teal, but this model go

he's always going to he's always going

to remind me of this really [ __ ]

awful time in my life. Um I was going to

say something like, "Hey, if this video

gets like a 100,000 views, we'll come

back and paint the rest of it." But I

think I just got to get rid of it. Uh if

so, God, what do I do? Um you know what?

I'll make a uh I'll make I'll put on

eBay, I guess, cuz I really God Yeah, I

got to start I got to really start

making some extra money now. Um cuz with

her gone, you know, all my expenses have

basically doubled. Rent, electricity,

whatever. I've been taking a lot of

steps to try and get my electricity

down, which is challenging because it's

like the middle of winter right now.

It's very cold. Um but it's also it's

also been good to like hyperfixate on

that, you know, through this time. And

uh I might even I think for my next

video sort of step away from tabletop

for a bit and just we'll do 3D printing

but you know bit more lifestyle

household stuff. Um that's really been

keeping me going and it would be nice

just to sort of pivot out of the uh the

burning hellscape that is tabletop

YouTube right now to [laughter] be

honest.

Uh, [gasps]

so if you would like Dear Michael here,

uh, he would, you know, as he is right

now, he looks amazing. You could prop

him up somewhere and just keep him like

this and he'll be a really cool

conversation piece in your house.

Alternatively, if you wanted to from

here build upon this and take the paint

job further, you absolutely could. He

is, I think, about Warlord Titan size.

So, you know, if you're really into one

page rules and stuff, you could totally

totally [snorts] play a game with this

guy. like why not? [laughter]

Yeah. M3DCR did an incredible job with

this. Uh I'm incredibly grateful to him.

You can get the model uh through the

Patreon and buy me a coffee if you want

to print one yourself. I'll provide the

pieces that I printed that I cut up here

and and scaled and and whatever. So, if

you want to do the exact same one like

this, you can. It's a really fun

project. It's a really easy one. The gap

filling takes time, obviously. But yeah,

I think I better wrap this up now. If

you have any advice for dealing with uh

what I'm going through, I guess yeah,

share it below.

I'll uh I might come back in a few days

and read some comments. But God,

I just feel like crying every day

like right now. Okay, I think we're

done.