3D Printer Parts Factory Tour With Phaetus!

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[@Vez3D]

Awesome vid brother. Very cool to see it all. Runice... I always thought it was called "AreUnice" 😂. Hehe. They have nice quality stuff. Donald is a nice gentleman too.

[@DynamicDesign144]

That looks like a very clean, well organized, and well run factory - I'm impressed. Most of their machinery were high quality Japanese imports as well. Very nice.

[@mikestewart4752]

Keep in mind, the Chinese State Media machine only allows you to film, therefore see, what they want you to see. Ask a journalist. This courtesy is extended to (insisted upton) KZbinrs too.

[@DynamicDesign144]

​@@mikestewart4752 I have no love for the Chinese Communist Party and their control of the media, and I'm not a fan of sourcing things from China, but this footage shows a very well set up and run manufacturing facility that surpasses many I've toured in the US, so I have to give them credit. There's enough footage here that I'm comfortable drawing those conclusions - they may well have reviewed and approved it ahead of time, but I don't seen any attempts to mislead or only show the "nice parts" of the facility. In my day job I've seen several Quality Audits of Chinese facilities that are horrendous, and some US ones that are terrible too.

[@mikestewart4752]

@ the whole thing views like a commercial in my eyes. Perhaps out of desperation. China is collapsing, I’ll stick with Made in the USA where I’ll be able to get parts.

[@lewistheprogamer8730]

@@mikestewart4752wtf u mean state media? I tell you what u can go to on your own and absolutely no government officials will meddle in whatever fuck ur gonna do.

[@mikestewart4752]

@ Lol, untrue. Nice try.

[@riseandshinejp]

Amazing tool management at Phaetus, the understanding of tool life and wear is world class. Bravo Phaetus! World class CNC quality.

[@johnbelfiglio562]

I’ve programmed Swiss cnc’s for 25 years now. Mostly in medical. I love them! You can make anything on them, round, square and any other shape. Love the “done in one” aspect. So versatile.

[@johnbelfiglio562]

The place I work at now is next door to the engineering facility for Gates belts here in Michigan. I can’t believe how many engineers work there! There’s always at least 30-40 cars on the lot. Didn’t realize the was so much engineering going on for belts!

[@filanfyretracker]

3:23 I had no clue that Brother made machine tools, Always just connected them to office machines.

[@NoizieWorks]

Wow! The amount of detail is insane, thanks for the tour.

[@vondarycrentsil9180]

Need more of this kind of video

[@anwarahmad4354]

They have their own filament dryer?! Nice. From a cocoon to a butterfly.

[@thenextlayer]

Super impressed and super jealous. I can’t wait to get back to China.

[@TripleJAu]

Jealous as well. Haven't made my first trip to China yet.. I can always dream

[@Liberty4Ever]

Thanks for the factory tour. I love those. Phaetus (Runice) looks like a very efficient quality oriented operation.

[@Mr.parks613]

I had no idea you were from the Treasure Valley! I would really enjoy a meet and greet if you ever decide to do one!

[@SwissplWatches]

That was a cool tour! and what a beautiful factory!

[@Aletsch]

Gotta say, I'm rather partial to phaetus products. The quality of the bits I've received over time has impressed, and they don't take the utter mick on pricing either :)

[@Psych0h3ad]

Oh! Glad that you can show it all 😉

[@therick0996]

How It's Made: Modbot Edition

[@Abyssaal1]

Nice Quality and machines.

[@karlh6692]

That explains why UHF hot end is working so well on my printer.

[@NathanBuildsRobots]

Awesome video! I just fired up my old Phaetus Rapido with a Phaetus Copper + Tungsten Insert nozzle. It works like a charm and is one of my favorite setups to date. It looks like a bigger version of the Microswiss factory, but a lot of the same tools.

[@SweHam]

Amazing tour, cool they do so much QC. Makes me hyped to upgrade my V0.2 to a dragon HF

[@HuntersOA]

Wow this was amazing :O We produce train parts and we do not have such thorough QC which makes me a bit troubled :D

[@mattsheehy1854]

Super cool video!

[@raphofthehills4405]

Didn't ask what happens to the parts that fail the QC checks at each step ? Do they have a lock-up and destroy process, or do they participate to the flood of cheap 'copies' sold on Alibaba, Ebay, Amazon, etc, shady storefronts ?

[@ModBotArmy]

It depends on the extent I actually did ask this. If it can be reused and turned into another part it is. But if it’s not possible it’s basically scrapped. It just depends on the error and extent of it. (Removing more material not an issue)

[@avejst]

Interesting tour 👍😀

[@leesmithsworkshop]

I love my Phaetus Dragon fly, Voron Dragon and Rapido hotends. 🥰

[@uosdwishpoom]

Did you glean any information on the Rapido 2 issue. They really needed to recall these and/or send out parts to fix them all without all the trouble it takes to get a work around replacement part. Nice video and interesting tour of the facility. Keep up the great work!

[@djnaddy2339]

Did not know that even Dan didnt know about the Runice/Phaetus thing :D

[@b-right-on6707]

3:22 those CNC machines are very small, I've worked on machines large enough to walk around in.

[@MrFreddie5150]

The Swiss flag is a bit of target on the retailer map.😁

[@nikwoac]

So wait... Is Phaetus not Trianglelab? I always thought they were the same company, or at least that one supplied the other.

[@techmaster242]

Phaetus is all I'll buy any more after I found out that E3D doesn't honor their warranty. I bought 4 revo's at launch with the defective heaters. E3D acknowledged to me that they were the defective ones, but they refused to send me the redesigned ones. So now all of my printers are running Rapido2's and E3D has lost a customer.

[@mikestewart4752]

How were your government minders during your trip? Nice people? Sure hope you used a VPN while there!

[@kymlalu]

Lecktor is "bit" of on the map...

[@glenncol]

Wow

[@jc84com]

china is amazing.

[@italogarcia1597]

Incrível como os chineses chegaram a esse nível de qualidade

[@JcsP3D]

5:56 Hope this a company employee and you weren't brought up as a foreign political puppet for CCP propaganda... Nice facilities, always great to take a look behind the manufacturing process we don't usually have access to.

[@cambouiscom]

9:10 is this worker in the middle of the room claustrophobic, or a olympic level farter ?

[@apoorvumang]

How did you like china? Is it gonna be the next USA or no?

[@fcguy7]

Lol a wall of patents by the world's worst patent infringement country. Literally the country of cheap knockoffs. That's fkn wild.

[@dimtec]

Although the factory looks cool at first sign, it has a late 80s cold war feeling. Not very impressed, but interesting. Not usual let a western to walk around like this in a Chinese factory.

[@rbaile508]

wtf are you talking about? no it doesn't. It's nearly all foreign high quality machining and inspection equipment from Japan, the US and Switzerland.

[@dimtec]

@@rbaile508 I not talking about the "high quality machinery" you could find in any workshop around the world. I talking about the general look of the factory, laboratories and offices. I used to work with suppliers from eastern europe and in the early 2000 they have that feeling of USSR factories (not anymore now).