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Just a fun video looking at the best and worst features we've had on resin printers in the last year.
*Printer Links* (Alphabetical Order)
Anycubic Photon M7 - https://geni.us/Anycubic-Store
Anycubic Photon M7 Pro - https://geni.us/AnycubicM7Pro
Anycubic Photon M7 Max - https://geni.us/Anycubic-Store
Anycubic Photon Mono 4 - https://geni.us/PhotonMono4Ultra
Anycubic Photon Mono 4 Ultra - https://geni.us/PhotonMono4Ultra
Elegoo Jupiter SE - https://shareasale.com/r.cfm?
Elegoo Mars 5 - https://geni.us/ElegooMars5Ultra
Elegoo Mars 5 Ultra -https://geni.us/ElegooMars5Ultra
Elegoo Saturn 4 - https://shrsl.com/4icdx
Elegoo Saturn 4 Ultra - https://shrsl.com/4icdx
HeyGears Ultracraft Reflex - http://store.heygears.com/referral/reflex020
HeyGears Ultracraft Reflex RS - http://store.heygears.com/referral/reflex020
Phrozen Sonic Mini 8k S - https://geni.us/PhrozenSonicMini8KS
Phrozen Sonic Mega 8k S - https://www.kqzyfj.com/click-100540162-15595624
Phrozen Sonic Revo - https://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-100540162-15750480
Uniformation GK Two - https://geni.us/Unfomation
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last year I took some time to imagine
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what the best future printer could look
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like by taking all the elements of the
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best machines and suggesting this is
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what we want as a new Baseline and since
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then there hasn't been a single printer
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to tick all of those boxes for me and in
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reflection honestly every single printer
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we've had in the last 12 months whilst
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edging forward in terms of technology
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has come with a substantially large but
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just see my best resin printers of 2024
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video if you haven't already and you'll
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see that pretty much every printer now
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whilst awesome has some silly drawback
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you just need to accept when buying any
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particular machine today though I want
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to separate it from reviews and delve a
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little bit deeper taking a look at some
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of the modern features and rate them
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based on my own personal feelings
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towards their value in the realm of
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resin printing think of this like an
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amusing game show one which you can be a
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part of and feel free to disagree in the
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comments this video is solely my opinion
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but I've never professed to be 100%
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right
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about anything cuz I'm married hi I'm
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Ross and this is f Hammer videos so for
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this I've decided to come up with an
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amusing rating system based on me being
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British and using profanity like its
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punctuation I figured I didn't quite get
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the point across to the brands well
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enough last year so this time we may as
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well at least have some fun with it so
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let's go like in my reviews I want to
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start externally we can talk about what
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printers look like all day long and this
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is very much a personal thing whether
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it's more techy angled style or any
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Cubix modern professional style even
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Frozen which I think looks slightly
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better I wouldn't rate anything here
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above it'll do however I do have a
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preference for haar's machines but I'd
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still only up that to bloody bang on
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nothing here has wowed me though I have
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to drop the gk3 and 3 Pro into the camp
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of absolute piss take I don't actually
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think it's that bad and now see why my
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rating system naming has failed but I
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just don't like K it's that contrast of
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PSX gray plastic against the Green lid
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yeah it's not terrible but to me when
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shown against other printers I
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personally feel it's below par so I
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guess this is just a bit of a piss hey
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the rating system does work thanks to
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verbal flexibility one of the big things
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we've seen in this last year though is
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up and over lids and I like these what I
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like about all the ones I've tested so
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far on various Brands is that for those
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of you working in print farms and not
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wanting to sacrifice height or depth
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amongst your work area you can easily
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remove the screws for these hinges and
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have them operate as easily removable
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face plates because of this I'm rating
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every up and over lid as the dogs
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bollocks and whilst these are more
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common on larger printers I would like
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to see them Incorporated in smaller
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machines too nowadays if you are a 10-in
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or larger printer a liftoff lid falls
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into it'll do but for any more premium
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machines like those called Ultra or Pro
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and you don't have a flip over lid I'm
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calling that an absolute piss take and
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yes I'm looking at you any cubic when it
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comes to other external features this is
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easy if you don't have rubber grips on
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your feet that is total wanky tat it may
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not bother some of you but it just looks
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so cheap when a 3D printer can slide
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across a surface as for ports and other
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external features well it's hard to rate
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depending on the price of a machine and
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who it's aimed at I rarely care if a
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printer has an internal or external PSU
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though the latter is easier to replace
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if the transformer blows it's the same
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with ethernet ports if you're not buying
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a machine for any necessary Network
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capabilities then you don't need this
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but if a printer is Network enabled and
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has Wi-Fi but no ethernet that is an
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absolute piss take in my eyes honestly
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any cubic I'm not attacking you on
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purpose we'll move on to USB ports all
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of the options fall neatly into my
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rating system here on the back which I
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haven't seen since the Gtech alcade is
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total wanky tapped on the side near the
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back which is most printers is a mild
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piss take on the side near the front
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it'll do on the front is bloody bang on
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and on the front but slightly recessed
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to protect the port from resin drips is
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the absolute dogs bollock so well done
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uniformation on the gk3 and gk3 pro good
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call one thing I do need to call out as
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an extra feature which is bloody bang on
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is hey gears having an extra port for an
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SD card which allows you to expand the
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internal memory obviously this is only
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useful for machines with internal
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storage and is only really useful for
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people who print the same thing multiple
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times over but I like the addition on a
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premium machine and finally on the
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external side of things extraction ports
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nobody has hit the high tiers here
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because even the brands that have given
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us dedicated holes leave us with nothing
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to plug into them except the Mars mate
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which in itself is a total piss however
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there are some call outs the fact that
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creality gave us an extendable hose in
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Hallet Mage Pro and S makes this
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solution bloody bang on but thanks to
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the DIY nature of any cubic Frozen and
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elegu vents I guess until we see better
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it'll do uniformation have no dedicated
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internal vent hle in their machines
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which is an absolute piss take but there
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are some DIY Solutions online py gears
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though not only has no vent hole or
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obvious fixing location the only DIY
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solution I've seen so far that doesn't
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involve masking tape and a hose which I
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think doesn't actually extract from the
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curing chamber anyway is this one which
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takes over the resin Bottle Hole so in
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comparison to what other brands are
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doing for people using these machines in
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their home this lack of even
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consideration to have such a hole is
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complete and utter total wanky tat
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apparently hay gears are working on what
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they say is a better solution so I guess
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we'll see let's go inside the printer
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and first talk about the build plates
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most are now laser Ed but for those
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wanting a smooth Underside on your
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prints you won't get that here it leaves
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a pattern smooth plates aren't quite as
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grippy though in my experience with base
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exposure times dialed in these are just
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fine if it matters to you you can
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probably make any rough plate Smooth by
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getting a flex plate from the likes of
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wambam though they can come with their
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own adherence challenges and can
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potentially cause issues with pressure
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sensing features of machines now I don't
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know I've not tested it it's just an
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absent worry I have so don't on if
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I'm wrong here I'm just saying do your
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own research and let me know if printers
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do have issues by adding a little bit
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more thickness to the plate when it has
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pressure sensing I'd rate pretty much
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all build surfaces as it'll do cuz
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nothing has wowed me here except for a
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couple of features that haven't come out
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yet that I saw it form next hay gear
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showed off one of their larger machines
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with a pop off mechanism now obviously
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you'd put a tray below this to catch the
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parts before using it but I can still
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see challenges with this mechanism such
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is dropping a load of small detailed
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Parts onto a tray would risk breaking
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them however anything that gets us away
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from scrapers is bloody bang on in my
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opinion it was actually form laabs that
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showed me their dogs bollocks approach
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by having an integrated flex plate which
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you can use to just pop models off just
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by flexing the tabs I would love to see
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something like this in more budget
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friendly machines now we come on to
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leveling mechanisms and well okay Auto
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leveling as a term is absolute bollocks
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and due to its misleading nature I'll
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categorize that marketing claim as total
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wanky tap developed by some kind of
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wumble I literally just looked up
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wumble on Urban Dictionary and whilst
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you might not like profanity well you've
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got this far so you must like it to some
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degree but yeah the description is quite
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accurate but anyway my objection here is
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against the marketing not the idea of
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the feature when it comes to leveling
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mechanisms anything with a normal four
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bolt mechanism where you loosen the
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corners lower the bed and tighten the
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corners fall into the Ito category but
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there's variance in here creality for
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example use such soft metal that it's
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easier than most to actually thread
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these bolts which is an absolute piss
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the only other standout is uniformation
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in both the gk2 gk3 and gk3 pro where
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you level the plate with one set of
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screws and then lock those into place
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with another once done I've never had to
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relevel these which is bloody bang on
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and despite the plate being large it's
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also light and prevents you getting
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resin on top it would be my favorite if
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it wasn't for a feature I know of on
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other machines which neatly brings me
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onto the one I really love because of
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its high-tech nature but I still can't
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quite say is the dog's bollocks and yes
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it's hay gears because the leveling
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process in those printers has a visual
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guide not only telling you what
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direction to turn each leveling screw
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but how far to turn it as well yet
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despite this I've actually had to
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relevel my original reflex a few times
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now which is a frustrating chore because
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you have to empty the vat every time you
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do it on these machines the one that I
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need to call out as total wanky tat
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shouldn't surprise you it's ELO's
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approach this time round not only is
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this two-tiered plate a nightmare to get
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resin out of it shows the worst features
9:21
of thin plates and thick plates at the
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same time with no benefit but you can't
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even adjust the leveling of these all
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that much either and it would have been
9:30
so easy to make this adjustable I've
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said it before but I hope we never see
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this style again in future eligo
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printers but I've got a feeling that elu
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plan to push forward with plates where
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leveling can't be adjusted by the user
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which would be totally fine if they can
9:46
ensure that these are bang on out of the
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box moving on to Features within the arm
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itself we know some printers have
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pressure sensing features and these have
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generally really impressed me any
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printer claiming to be high level
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without these nowadays is a bit of a
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piss take
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uniformation sorry bad chest with elgo
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and Frozen delivering some basic
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functionality like resin level detection
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it'll do but any cubic are bloody bang
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on by offering those features but also
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Dynamic lift height too which is another
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NE cubic feature I'll have to do a video
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on because they've completely failed to
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explain how it works just like the RF
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tests the dogs bollocks here though yeah
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it's hey gears again sorry I know a lot
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of you hate it but with so many sensors
10:33
in it this not only has Dynamic lift
10:35
height but speed too all based on resin
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and environment temperature as well and
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this level of sensitivity is likely one
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of the main reasons that people have
10:45
been able to get so many resins working
10:47
in these machines despite them not
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directly or officially being classed as
10:52
compatible when it comes to Vats well we
10:55
can rate the release films but this is
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really dependent on what you want PFA or
11:00
ACF I've talked about the differences
11:02
enough in reviews for people to learn
11:04
about the materials whether you want one
11:06
or the other it doesn't matter it'll do
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it's your call the things about bats
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that really matter to me are size shape
11:13
and the porw spout yes the porw spout it
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matters for size well if it's a 10-in
11:20
printer I'd like to be able to hold at
11:22
least a whole bottle of resin in it but
11:24
when you get to some larger printers
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these can get cumbersome anyway just
11:27
solely due to how big they are this
11:30
fiddlin only really matters when pouring
11:33
resin out anyway because the rest of the
11:35
time the Vats are sat immobile in the
11:37
printer so other than existing and
11:40
having to be there when it comes to the
11:43
function you need to perform with a that
11:46
it is pouring the resin out and I still
11:49
can't believe how many Brands struggle
11:50
to get that right whether you use a
11:52
funnel or not resin isn't water it's
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sticky so as you pour instead of flowing
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from the lip of the spout resin Pours
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Down and often under the vat leaving you
12:03
to awkwardly hold these Metal Frames
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one-handed as you awkwardly reach for
12:08
some tissue to clean yourself up with uh
12:10
to clean it up with sorry I was thinking
12:12
of the same problem in a different
12:14
scenario and if you think I'm just being
12:16
petty about spouts well wait because I'm
12:19
going to go further I also very
12:22
specifically hate it when these spouts
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are in the front right corners of plates
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because I'm right-handed feel I can
12:29
control the flow better when the spout
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is at the front left because I've got my
12:34
dominant hand taking and controlling the
12:36
weight and you're right it's a poor
12:38
spout does it really
12:40
matter no but at the same time when
12:43
companies are building machines that
12:44
cost us hundreds how can they not get
12:47
this simple function right am am I am I
12:50
insane here why can't they get this
12:52
right hashtag makes spouts great again
12:55
so far this year only the M7 Max and the
12:57
reflex can be rated bloody bang on and
13:00
the dogs bollocks respectively because
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the spouts on these have a pronounced
13:04
Extrusion which helps prevent that
13:06
annoying run over the whole gk3 series
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falls into my piss category for not only
13:12
putting the lip in the rear right side
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corner of the vat but also needs to get
13:17
the resin up a ramp before it flows out
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I know these things aren't common
13:22
outside of England but let me give you a
13:24
tip Kettle Google it now on to heating
13:28
not all printers have heaters and
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considering the main but not only reason
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the resin gk2 dominated the popularity
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charts in the last year was due to its
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heater I expected we'd see more heaters
13:41
in Printers this year but no so aside
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from budget and entry level printers I'd
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consider any machine without a sensible
13:48
heating option as available as absolute
13:50
wanky tap mostly because it's something
13:53
I need but as people have said
13:55
repeatedly in my comments section this
13:57
is not needed for everyone print farms
13:59
for example would potentially control
14:01
the room temperature more than the
14:03
printer itself and considering there are
14:06
some DIY options available for all
14:08
printers I guess I'm resigned to it'll
14:11
do but let's compare printers Solutions
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and rate the heaters alone chamber
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heaters in my opinion in general are
14:20
somewhere between absolute piss and
14:23
it'll do most of the integrated versions
14:25
push the hot air into the top of the
14:27
chamber elgu's add-on heater is limited
14:30
to only 25° C anyway if the point of a
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heater is to combat the environmental
14:36
temperature then I want something that
14:38
will heat the resin more than the air
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around it I mean we've got heating
14:43
nailed on fdm printers both for the
14:45
nozzle and the build plate surely we
14:47
should be able to do the same for resin
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I'm also going to call out any cubic on
14:52
the M7 Pro now its heater works and it
14:54
heats the resin well but it's such a
14:56
cumbersome implementation which requires
14:59
additional cleaning and makes the vat
15:01
hard to maneuver when emptying the resin
15:03
personally for me I want to like it for
15:06
the Ingenuity but I just can't help but
15:08
say it's wanky tat due to its
15:11
awkwardness the two standout approaches
15:13
are heated Vats and heating from below
15:15
the screen both ha gears machines and
15:18
the ne cuic M7 Max have vat heaters
15:20
where the frame of the vat is heated
15:23
which in turn warms the resin how
15:25
efficient this is is your guess as good
15:27
as mine I'm not a
15:29
thermodynamic if that's even a thing but
15:32
I do wonder if the resin is warmer at
15:34
the edges of the vat than in the center
15:37
something formlabs suggest with the
15:38
presence of their wiper arm uniformation
15:41
so far are the only ones I've seen who
15:43
heat the resin From Below by warming it
15:46
through the LCD I can only imagine why
15:49
this provides more even heat and please
15:52
tell me if I'm wrong and whilst people
15:54
will say that this reduces the life of
15:56
the LCD I haven't seen evidence of gk2
16:00
screens failing at some alarming rate
16:02
compared to others I guess until we
16:05
start seeing more machines with heating
16:06
implemented and we have a wider
16:08
consensus of what good versus bad looks
16:10
like I'm still only rating these ones as
16:13
bang on because these at least do a
16:15
decent job as for the screens themselves
16:18
that we're seeing nowadays well this
16:20
generation has really proved to us that
16:22
there's been little progress in screens
16:24
we haven't progressed much further from
16:26
the last year's 27 Micron displays and
16:29
in some cases we've actually stepped
16:30
backwards chasing that bigger resolution
16:32
number at the cost of General quality
16:35
and I see so many people quizzing print
16:37
quality on printers in a lot of my
16:39
reviews and I'd say it's far more than I
16:43
think it even actually matters because
16:45
the amount of people I see who are
16:47
pushing for that higher resolution
16:49
number or falling for the Brand's
16:51
and then getting the higher
16:53
resolution printer even if it's the
16:55
sharpest one and then sticking the
16:57
cheapest resins in them and that's not a
16:59
slight if anything go with what you're
17:02
happy with but you could probably save
17:04
money buying a cheaper lower resolution
17:06
or even older printer the point here is
17:09
the only advancements we've really seen
17:10
this year are the features around the
17:13
print quality not so much the print
17:15
quality itself so look to make this
17:17
quick I'd say any printer with a sub 35
17:20
Micron pixel size falls into the Ito
17:23
category any of those which include a
17:25
sharp coob light source a bloody bang on
17:28
but any printer which I've covered in
17:31
reviews any printer that pushes those
17:34
higher resolution numbers as a win
17:36
whilst having such poor UV transmittance
17:38
or using ACF film by default is an
17:41
absolute piss and I'm talking
17:44
specifically about the smaller printers
17:45
we've seen this year which I'm still
17:47
putting in that it'll do category but
17:50
are measurably just not as sharp as some
17:53
larger printers with larger pixels to a
17:56
point the same can be said about
17:57
printers UI not nothing I've seen is wow
18:00
everything is it'll do though I do have
18:02
a preference again for both any cubic
18:04
and ha gears they're still just okay
18:08
City's halet Mage s is the same piss
18:11
take as it was last year with the pro by
18:13
having stupidly ordered menus and
18:15
scrolling text and sorry gk3 you're
18:18
guilty of this now too scrolling UI text
18:21
in 2024 or now 2025 the whole UI is a
18:25
piss but that specific implementation is
18:28
absolute utter wanky tat to finish off I
18:32
want to talk about some features not
18:34
present or still not common on many
18:36
machines things like webcams and tilting
18:38
bats and the like I do like the tilting
18:41
bat I think it's bloody bang on it gives
18:43
us improved print speed no reduction in
18:45
print sharpness and stops the little
18:47
bubbles you get on the tops of round
18:49
surfaces it has its drawbacks such as
18:51
uneven base layers and a big gap around
18:54
the vat which yeah is a spill Hazard but
18:57
considering everything I print is on
18:59
supports anyway I give very few
19:02
about these drawbacks or at least I do
19:04
for now until I eventually need to
19:06
replace the screens on these printers
19:08
because it's a full tear down on the
19:10
satin 4S in order to do that any brand
19:12
that's made an easily replaceable LCD is
19:15
bloody bang on now when it comes to
19:18
webcams well we have the low resolution
19:21
Mighty Revo Cam that at least lights up
19:23
your print as it takes an image but the
19:25
resulting time lapse is of such poor
19:27
quality that it is a bit of a piss T
19:30
then when you want to remotely monitor
19:32
this in the app you don't get a video
19:34
you only get a photo when you request
19:36
one so overall pretty poor guys it's elu
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that pushes this into absolute piss take
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territory because there's no light and
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no app but speaking of apps we've now
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seen more of these and they do keep
19:49
changing Frozen and ha gears fall into
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the realm of it'll do creality is an
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absolute piss take due to its terrible
19:56
navigation and pushing us towards their
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F online store but I'll Elevate any
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cubic to bloody bang on because this has
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been great for notifications and
20:05
progress monitoring too and then there's
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the rather unique Hay gears PRM which
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people keep asking me whether or not
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it's worth it well I guess it depends
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how much $500 is burning a hole in your
20:17
pocket what it does it makes the default
20:19
support contact points a little bit
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smaller and with that in my experience I
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was more than happy with the quality of
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my puppets War models I printed with
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part 10
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they just pulled from the PRM supports
20:31
with no cleanup needed at all but it's
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also bloody loud for the whole print
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it's a lot of money for what is
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essentially a very small difference I
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have one plugged into my reflex because
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I got one with my reflex and I've never
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used it on the RS and have no burning
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desire to get another one personally
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even if they send me one free it's okay
20:52
and finally because I just want an
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excuse to on them as always resin
20:56
pumps they are all just so limited to
20:59
what bottles you can connect or so slow
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that I consider them as absolute utter
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tootal bollocky twatting awful wanky tat
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they're terrible yeah sorry guys I I
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don't like them if you want a channel
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that does then that's not me there's
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nothing wrong with manually pouring
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resin in and out even with shitty spouts
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the only benefit I see to these is when
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you need to top up a resin mid print but
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the pressure sensing to ensure you have
21:27
enough resin at the start of a print has
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rendered even that value somewhat
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redundant I wish for all printers where
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these are available they were offered as
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an optional extra only so thank you
21:38
frozen but I'm so convinced that people
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find these just as as I do that if
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Brands did that I think they'd actually
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stop bothering to make them at all after
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just one more generation due to poor
21:51
sales I could be wrong hands up if I am
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as I said in the intro I never profess
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to be the authority on any of this stuff
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this is just my opinion but I want to
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know what do you think what's your
22:02
opinion of these printer features what
22:04
have you seen and what do you like what
22:06
have I missed do you agree with my
22:08
analysis if so well sorry that's no fun
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let's have some discourse sensible
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though please I did say this was opinion
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only what would you like to see the
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brands carry forward into the Next
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Generation what features would you like
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to see them kill off completely what
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would your perfect printer have let me
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know all of that along with what
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Underpants you're wearing down in the
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comments I want to say thanks for
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watching with a huge thanks going to our
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members who are on screen now until next
22:36
time clu bar
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Nick po hammer out
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