The only way they can make resin printers better is to take the toxicity out of resin.

Note: You can get cutters basically identical to the DSPIAE ones for like 10 bucks from RUITOOLS

I came for the video, left learning nothing because I was too busy jamming out to the tunes in it! 😂 Song titles would be greatly appreciated! 😁🤘🏻

Just so you're aware, there's a new motherboard for the Elegoo heater that will reduce that banding. Reach out to support.

'banding... and it still looks pretty good'..... noooooo the worst case scenario is a bad heater that causes banding. This is because they switch on and off with too much power or too big a differential, unfortunately there are few to no resin heating solutions that use PID heating like we have on FDM. The elegoo heater had very bad banding, there is now a v1.2 that is fixed.

Ohh ha ha

I've got the same brewer's belt (in a ~18º room) but it's around the outside of the hood (at vat level) of my Mars 2 Pro rather than the vat. Turn that on a good while before the print and I've not had a failure since. Did try one of those mini-heaters (which worked fine) but there's no easy way to have one inside the Mars 2 Pro hood without shenanigans around cutting holes in the hood.

I bought Elegoo one three months ago, and been using it since with no issues with my prints. Temp of room my printer is in goes around 5-10C. Dunno mate, you might have wrong settings or resin for your own situation. Heating resin around 24C before printing helps too :/

I got my first 3D printer for Christmas, but I did a lot of research before getting one. I made sure to order a fermentation belt to go with it, as I knew I'd also be printing in the garage at around 2°C. I'm happy to say I've been printing several times a week since then and have not had a single failed print even sometimes printing at -1°C! I find that switching on the belt for about 30 mins before I start the print heats up the resin to somewhere between 22-25°C and the residual heat seems to also heat the rest of the chamber too so the build plate isn't super cold. I think I paid about £16 on ebay for the belt, for anyone wanting a solution I highly recommend starting there!

My brother & I actually just ordered a fermentation belt yesterday. Our printer's in the basement with a direct vent to the outside, but we keep the house (and therefore the corner of the basement in particular) fairly cold during the winter. Last year we got away with it just fine, but over the summer we changed from Siraya Tech Fast to Sunlu ABS-like, and the Sunlu definitely cares about the temperature drop. Since the temperature only needs to be raised a little, and most of my prints have managed to survive the partial de-lamination we're getting, I'm hoping the fermentation belt and pre-heating the resin will be enough.

This is the best video on this topic I have seen yet. Thank you!!!

No need for a belt and also a heater. Just lower the build plate to the vat for the duration of warming the resin up.

Hands down, the best out of the box heater is the Chitu one. It’s cheapest on Amazon. I love mine. Temp control, I put mine at 21 degrees just to minimise fumes n keep it room temp, and the controls have a timer on too so you don’t have to leave it running all night if you’ve only got a 2-3 hour print going 😄

what about a brewer heater, this is a band that goes around the vat so heats the vat these are 20 euros or less.

i notmaly use water washable / i set files to water washable abs like by photon, as it was a first time i used lyche settings, but ordered by accident was phon abs like normal resin, my printing area is in a cellar at around 10 degree or less - 3 outside with no heating, wrong setting wrong resin, for some reason ive had an entire bottle of perfect prints, go figure lol. oh and i put the normal resin directly into a vat that already had water washable resin in from elegoo for the first prints..... so the 2 resins mix it seems.

I use that same heater, but I use it inside of a grow tent with the lids from my printers removed. This allows me to keep my environment at a nice 28C. My 24"x24"x48" grow tent allows room for 2 AnyCubic Mono X 6Ks printers plus my print removal drip catching cookie sheet, tools, and extra resin. It was around 35 Quid on Amazon. What you ran into with your setup is due to the fact that the thermostat in the heater wasn't monitoring the temperature of the interior of the printer, but of the air in your garage around the printer, so you never reached 30C as far as the printer knew, and it just ran continuously driving up the temperature in the printer's enclosed section. By using the grow tent and removing your printer(s) lid, you heat the full environment - including both the air around the heater's thermostat and the temperature of all of the printer components. This allows the thermostat to turn the heating element off and on as needed and greatly reducing that energy cost.

Great information, lots to think about.

Great findings. Super useful.

I use a cheap desktop space heater for cold weather printing. A lot smaller, not as hot as a regular space heater and it works well.

Great setup with the dual cameras!

Hot wire cutter is your friend. Use it for foam

I gathered no matter how many videos I watch, I’m just gonna have to throw money at brushes 🥲 and eventually the right one will be found haha

Thanks for the video and inspiration. I don't see a cost total for materials here in the comments. Also, where can I find a link for the files and to make a contribution to you?

This has indeed been helpful. ❤

Greatt

how can it be fast if you write the speed of resin in slicers parameters ? i dont get that

I bought one waiting for it to arrive on Monday. After tinkering with it more any tips or setting to get more successful prints ?

Why is there a Fiverr watermark on your thumbnail? Did you have someone make one and then just use the preview instead of paying for it?

It seems like the KZbin Printing Community has become toxic - Creators attacking and name calling - I had to leave a few discords and Patreons because of that. Glad to see you calling some of that out and recognizing it - Keep up the amazing videos

Great video. Eloquent as always. Good to hear the hard topics discussed earnestly.

That 10% affiliation rate definitely helps with getting better reviews.

I've enjoyed your videos and your discord community; you've managed to build a group of nice people around. I'm sad that you don't make more money from KZbin, I'd like to see non-silly channels doing better more often

Its great to hear the reality behind the curtain. I would be curious to know what do you do with all the stuff your sent i mean unless you built a print farm what do you do with it all? Do you send them back, donate them etc etc

Keep up being honest and open James! Your channel is one of the best places on the internet little lone KZbin!

Grst video, thank you for the transparency. I'll admit to only being mildly interested in 3d printing myself, but love that it exisits for the hobby. Im mostly here for painting and the community.

Thanks

If you have time, let fauxhammer know that clickbait video titles bother the viewers. You've clearly figured that out, but he hasnt... Thanks for this transparency, thanks for this info.... And thank you for realizing that the click bait sensational BS videos is just aggravating.

I have nowhere to put a resin printer, but find your reviews of printers excellent and one day I'm hoping you are going to say "this printer doesn't smell and the resin is nontoxic" But until then I'm going to watch your videos, because I enjoy them.

I bought the HeyGears actually mainly for the method of dealing with the resin with its simple resin cartridges that appealed to me and it's printing quality near that of the Saturn 4 Ultra. The only reason though that I really didn't pick the Saturn though was that I didn't want to deal with cleaning the resin off their their build plate. That's not to say that the HeyGears is perfect as you can't tweak the settings for other other resins and because of its price. That price blew my budget which totally sucked as I doubt I'll have enough money to buy another printer anytime soon if ever but it's a price I was willing to pay when I weighed the pros and cons for myself. In the end the pros and cons are what everyone need to weigh for when they purchase anything.

I wont lie i admit i miss your videos about the mentality of painting and the hobby. Working on burnout, interviewing others, what it is like doing the hobby as a dad (i still wish you did the same but for moms). You are so incredibly great at articulating mentality, pros and cons etc. I know your background is in charity and empathy is evident. I do admit I am not watching the videos as much which are reviews but do love tutorials and motivational conversations or realistic conversations. I know its different than your current direction but you asked for comments on the video.

Another great video mate, wonderful to get to meet and know you at workshops over 2024, looking forward to catching up this year! Onwards and upwards! :)

It's good. Good work.

Thanks, this helped me a lot (feeding the YT algorithm)

The algorithm is weird. 9/10 I won't see your content on the main page, only on the alerts section. Despite I enjoy the content and delivery, and will watch most videos. I've even gone back when looking to buy something new and remembered you did a review. Personally I think you are in my top 10, but the algorithm seems to think otherwise. Hopefully this comment will make it promote you more for me at least

Re: KZbin pushing clickbait content: It's awful. Even if you enter the channel name and (almost) exactly the video title for the video you want to watch, KZbin will show you something else first and the video you're after a few videos down. Happened to me during the Female Custodes release/reveal last year (no, I am not discussing the for or against in this comment section). I heard a youtuber I was watching made a video about them - so I typed in the name of the channel and the topic/almost exactly the title. His video, sort of reasonable and calm, if snarky at the "How dare they retcon it so that Custodes can be female, Custodes can't be female because females are weak, GW - go woke, go broke" crowd, was the third I think. The other(s)? Exactly those cringe "WOOOKE!!!111!!" screeches. And just to make it clear - I watched enough of the videos and read the description to know what they were on. Which leads to the next problem: I "interacted" with the videos, so videos similar to that of course showed up in my recommendations and I could not block them. I could click on "do not show videos from this channel" but it wasn't a final block. Had to do that for ages again and again until KZbin got the message and stopped showing it to me. On a related note, bit sad that you and others essentially get peanuts for your work from KZbin itself. Sorry, got a bit off topic there. Looking forward to 2025's videos by you and other creators!

I wish there was competition for KZbin, a valid alternative. I also KZbin would do an experiment and turn off the Algorithm for six months, just see what happens. I hate what KZbin has become.

Just wanted to say, keep doing you, mate. You always come across as genuine, and that's what makes your content stand out. I can see how the pressure to conform to KZbin's algorithm and thumbnail trends might feel like it clashes with your core values. It’s a tough balance when you're trying to grow the channel. Hopefully, word of mouth and your authenticity can be the driving force behind your growth instead. You've got something special-trust that it'll resonate with the right audience.

Love the honesty and transparency. I've had a few things sent to me and it's always hard to know how to react best. The things I've been sent (mainly STLs) have all genuinely been amazing, but I find myself wanting to find things to moan about, partly to make it seem more "balanced" and partly I suppose, for that drama you mention. Staying true is the only way forward, but it's a tough biz!

The way you made your videos are relaxing to watch I always learn something new keep going great work