Bambu Fans, Meet Your New Resin Printer - HeyGears Reflex RS

[@Amn2k9]

Very nice walkthrough Loyal. Resin printing is definitely getting a lot more convenient to deal with. It is incredible how much has happened in the 3D printing world, just in the 1 year plus I have been a part of it. Now while I would love such a setup with this combo unit(s), the biggest issue is the lack of space. :D

[@LoyalMoses]

Thank you! And I agree, there is so much awesome happening, how do we find the time AND the space to play with it all?!? Thank you for the comment.

[@sohar88]

I think that resin can improve in one thing - lowering toxicity. Both ABS and Water Washable (and/or whatever you can use).

[@LoyalMoses]

Good points!

[@barneyfromblueshift]

This is what keeps me away. The first company to give me an easy to use, out of the box solution that comes with some kind of intended ventilation solution that fits most window sizes would get my money. I want to make super detailed prints, I'd love to make little statues, but none of that is worth the hazard risk to my family in an apartment setting. As the hobby currently stands, I feel like you need to own a dedicated resin printing room or climate controlled shed and this just isn't feasible for many today.

[@EngineerWilky81]

I like the look and build quality of HeyGear's new printer. I could see it being a great system included with their wash and curing combo for doing miniatures and figurines. It's great that it works pretty much out of the box. HeyGears is like the Bambu of Resin printers, imo. It'll be interesting to see how it handles working with un-official resin material using their resin cartridge bottles. This could be something I could get into down the road when I get to where I want to get into doing resin printing and potentially start up a side business that could utilize it to help support the hobby.

[@LoyalMoses]

HeyGears knocked it out of the park with this printer. It’s absolutely amazing and I am so happy with the direction they are going.

[@zachary7440]

Dentist here… I’ve been printing on GKTwo for almost a year now, but only since I need dental models and occasionally a Nightguard. The challenge for dental is that we are a user base who needs resin printing but they don’t know how or have the software available to take the STLs of dental models and 1)put a “base” and internal support structure 2)use a Chitu or Lychee slicer 3) have knowledge of placing supports and orienting the models correctly 4) post processing them 5) calibrating the resin purchased. Now Chitubox has a dental software to automate that step 1-3 but that’s all we got. Hence a lot of dentists are just purchasing the expensive SprintRay or Asiga ecosystem of products and resins: not much learning needed besides post-processing… it’s plug and play, and resins are calibrated by the manufacturer.

[@LoyalMoses]

Are you in our discord?! I’d love to pick your brain about dentistry and resin machines / prints!!!

[@zachary7440]

Nope, I’ll try to find my way over there

[@LoyalMoses]

@@zachary7440 loyal.ms/discord

[@christianortiz3738]

Loving this printer

[@LoyalMoses]

Awesome to hear!

[@bones75]

This looks really nice , thanks for the info

[@LoyalMoses]

You are very welcome!

[@sliverbaer]

Cool system. You could put finished prints in the cure station and use if as a mirrored lightbox.

[@LoyalMoses]

I'll try that!

[@shrug_shrugsly]

They’re crushing it with the wash and cure!! Too bad ipa is so flammable bc what we need now is just a way to to now conveyer off the print from the wash to the cure

[@LoyalMoses]

The coolest wash and cure I've used!

[@r3v3rs3r]

Looking great... About the next step... Coffee! Imagine.. the machine making a mug of hot coffee for you to enjoy while waiting for the printing process to finish! 🤔☕ Glorious! 💡👌

[@LoyalMoses]

I think they already have machines for that!

[@6712heath]

Very cool, from asthetics and ability it's a must have. Great review thank you.

[@LoyalMoses]

Appreciate it a lot! Thank you.

[@Titan3DAZ]

Having worked in a dental office, and having had the Reflex for 2 weeks, I can say that this isn't enough for medical grade applications. It would be amazing for printing verification models and surgical models. With this speed and ease of use, it would be awesome to have in a dental lab, but it's not quite up to par with making the actual dentures or medical implants. HeyGears does have actual dental machines that seem to be on par with Asiga, Desktop health, and Sprintray. I haven't tested those HeyGears models. I have printed with the other dental printers though.

[@LoyalMoses]

I’d love to ask you a ton of questions about what is used in a dental office with resin!

[@AuzzieJD]

Nice! I love your channel ❤🔥

[@LoyalMoses]

Thank you!

[@kschaffer6978]

Luv the look on your face as you stare at Optimus Prime! 😅

[@LoyalMoses]

Haha! Thanks!

[@shrug_shrugsly]

I dunno about the resin cartridge. Bc when you change bottles, getting the resin back in the bottle is important. And with failed prints concerns, that doesn’t seem to be helpful to a big degree, and significantly increases road of fap damage, which can result in costly costly annoying repairs. So, that I don’t get so much. But that wash station is SWEET

[@LoyalMoses]

I really want to see more automated solutions for this, but that will likely drive the costs even higher. We get such amazing print results from these machines now, everything else needs to level up!

[@shrug_shrugsly]

@ I’m so excited and I’m so new. Literally just started doing the actual printing last week and am doing both SLA and FDM!!! It’s blowing my mind. I think the word hypnotizing is literal. Especially with FDM. Watching the layers go!!! And then seeing creators like you taking it to the next level with video. So great. You’re so appreciated

[@stefanzapf]

I just want to print resin in 3D. So I ordered the Heygears RS, Even if it costs more than other consumer printers. The software will work offline from December 24 (they promised on their homepage)

[@MrMuzza008]

Just wondering, are we ever going to get multicolor resin printing? Is it even theoretically possible?

[@LoyalMoses]

I’ve seen some crazy systems over the years, but I would love multi-color resin at home!

[@nekrosoft13]

I want to see a 3d printer merged with bubble jet printer technology. To be able to use white color and inject dye into it while printing.

[@donjohnson3dprints]

i was nervoius about resin printing because i heard you got to have ventaltion cause its toxic to breath in but dang this looks so nice

[@LoyalMoses]

The anti-resin crowd is loud and exaggerates quite a lot. It’s not nearly as bad as many people have been told. Nobody is dropping dead or filling hospitals because of resin printing. With that said, like anything from FDM printing of ABS and ASA or resin printing, having clean fresh air is a good idea.

[@donjohnson3dprints]

@@LoyalMoses ok yeah I was really considering resin printing for some of the really detailed models I want to do good to know cause I live in a 2 bed room apartment lol

[@LoyalMoses]

You can definitely keep fresh air coming in, and keep resin bottles closed. I would recommend visiting with someone that has resin to see if you like it. The detail is just incredible! And it’s so easy now.

[@donjohnson3dprints]

@@LoyalMoses alright

[@Maronicam]

I hope that the next step for customer level resin printers is managing the VOCs within the chamber with better filtering, looping air through them, self-sealing vat after print, replaceable filters / active carbon inputs. I really like resin 3d printing, but I didn't care when I started using it, after a while I ditched using gloves and used hands to scrap the full vat etc and now I get the effects of resin poisoning or allergy quite fast (swollens lymph glands and nose, sore throat - kinda like your description of asa posioning?).

[@LoyalMoses]

That would be great to help reduce the fumes! We have some products coming to help measure those in the studio for some content! Oh, you were touching resin without gloves?! YIKES! I am so sorry to hear that about it making you sick, that is not good! Definitely have to be super safe around it. I know some people that are allergic to resin as well, they still print, but they just use gloves and a mask.

[@kschaffer6978]

The cartridge bottles are a definite plus.

[@LoyalMoses]

It’s going to allow so many more people to be very successful with resin! I love seeing it.

[@acolyte8564]

To answer your question about where the future of resin is going. I personally think (hope) its going to be layered deposit, like an inkjet printer, allowing multi colour prints etc. Already exists at super unafordable prices 😉

[@LoyalMoses]

Wouldn’t that be epic! I would love to see that. Thanks for sharing and for some exciting hope!

[@mikewhite2991]

seem like one of the things resin printers fall short at is printing flat on the build plate. It looks like they are addressing this with the dynamic motion algorithm. Coming from a design/manufacturing environment I think this would be a boon for rapid prototyping at lest for the non-organic shapes.

[@LoyalMoses]

The tech is advancing so quickly, and we always say that the hardware is here, it's the software that needs attention for the user experience!

[@meadmaker4525]

Where to go from here? Bigger. I'd like to see an X1C-sized build plate on a Hey Gears machine. With that, you could print just about ANYTHING you wanted. Unfortunately, just about all resin printers have an odd, rectangular build plate that kind of restricts its use. If you're printing minis and such, it's moot. This is a fantastic machine. But if Hey Gears wanted to improve in some way, build a machine with a very large, square build plate. THAT would be interesting. With the amazing quality of the end product from this machine, I bet a bunch of prop makers and FDM cosplayers would suddenly be VERY interested.

[@LoyalMoses]

Thanks for commenting. I would LOVE a larger build plate. A 256mm cubed build volume would be incredible!!!

[@justinbouchard]

pumping the content out!

[@LoyalMoses]

Absolutely! 💜

[@TinTalon]

Looks impressive. Like you said, the last few resin printers i have seen come out have such i high resolution I question where do they go from here? I mean the detail is just insane so maybe speed is the defining spec to look at but then again the last few resin printers i have seen has been pretty fast as well. I dont know how to classify this printer for a user. Would this be consider almost a commercial grade? I have seen some commercial grade resin printers and they look nothing like this one. Thanks for the awesome video.

[@LoyalMoses]

I am seriously still blown away at how awesome this machine and experience are. This is just some of the coolest tech ever! I believe it is commercial grade for sure, but a lot of dedicated resin users have machines like this for their hobby crafts. Perfect print results.

[@mattweatherly]

I am not worried about it being messy as that is all how careful you are with everything... My worry is the fumes.

[@LoyalMoses]

The fumes aren’t so bad, mostly overstated. I worked in the room with these printers running.

[@mattweatherly]

@@LoyalMoses thanks for the reply, Now time to convince the wife to let me get another printer.😁

[@vreedognight]

Great video! These are exciting times for resin printing. Also, did you get the pulsing release module with your combo?

[@LoyalMoses]

Thank you! I actually thought I misplaced it, Mrs LM and I searched all over for it for hours… so I don’t think we did. 😅

[@vreedognight]

@LoyalMoses with the amount of printers and boxes you guys have and with how small it is, you might have one hiding still 😆

[@LoyalMoses]

Would be fun to find it!

[@LoyalMoses]

Would be fun to find it!

[@vreedognight]

@LoyalMoses at this point it might just be easier to ask hey gears if they sent you one.

[@vreedognight]

When you want to change resins, do you just pour it back into the bottle, or does it have a special way to do it?

[@LoyalMoses]

Yes, the second lid on the bottle opens up, and you pour it back in - you use a filter if you like to make sure pieces of partially cured resin don’t make it back into the bottle

[@vreedognight]

@LoyalMoses I noticed that and though that might be how it's done. But with all the features it has, it wouldn't have surprised me if it had a pump to go back into the bottle.

[@doodle4532]

You need to try the new Saturns. It seems like this may not be as good but I don't own one. please let us know.

[@LoyalMoses]

I have all the Saturns and the Mars here, I’ll do some comparisons if you’d like to see that?

[@doodle4532]

@@LoyalMoses thanks, it's mostly the tilt function. Is it faster then those.

[@JustBlameShane]

Sweet!

[@LoyalMoses]

It’s an incredible machine!!!

[@JustBlameShane]

@@LoyalMoses I'm having to stay with my A1 mini and my filament printers due to a curious cat and space but with the combo you've shown and how it works, I might have to reconsider for later! Great video by the way! Excellent quality as always

[@LordWiseWolf]

It’s really hard to see where resin printing can go. I do think the laser resin printers need a little more work. Then the resin itself with safety and cost. Granted chemical reactions can only be so safe. I wanna say cost overall but I don’t know where you’ll bring down the cost without quality loss. I’d like to see you do some more resin printing. For me it’s fun like when Uncle Jessie does more FDM, you doing more resin. It’s fun to see things switch up.

[@LoyalMoses]

I appreciate that and we’ll definitely do more of it. Thank you!

[@blaze0ne2]

I’m sorry they haven’t shown any reason to switch from my Elegoo Saturn 4 Ultra. The ease of use and high quality prints is crazy. To go from this to the HeyGears having to be online and use their resin is definitely not a selling point for me. I could buy 2 more Saturn 4 Ultras for the price of 1 HeyGears RS and that is before the actual price of the printer goes up after the preorder sales have finished. I just preordered the Uniformation GK3 Ultra and the price is nearly the same as the HeyGears Rs. I get a bigger print volume and higher definition screen with this.

[@LoyalMoses]

Thanks for sharing.

[@u2cantsee]

I would like to see no more trees plus a 40% speed increase. But I don't think I'll be around when it does happen. I think there will be a day when resin print speed is done in 5 to 10 minutes. But the biggest thing I would love to see is no more trees to deal with.

[@LoyalMoses]

Wouldn't that be amazing?! Almost instant!

[@dwilliams660]

If you don’t have internet or if the server your logging into is not working or you happened to forget your password your helpless, they need to have a LAN feature

[@LoyalMoses]

They do have a LAN feature... also USB stick.

[@dwilliams660]

@@LoyalMoses I just saw a video of a KZbin user @onceinasixside trying this and it didn't work, I was going to buy it, until I seen his video

[@sammykim4896]

@@dwilliams660 Heygears just gave an update offline slicer’s coming by December, we won’t need to log in or be online😄

[@FlintStone-c3s]

Nice printer but the new Anycubic Mono 4 will be 7", 10k, 17x17um, so that is were things are going, finer detail. Too bad it is entry level without sensors and heater.

[@LoyalMoses]

It’s more about the complete package and user experience than a single piece of tech.

[@bryanfoster362]

It may be nice and quiet, so much that you can use it in the same room you work in, but who would want to put up with the smell? 😵‍💫

[@LoyalMoses]

I know what you mean, but I am sitting here in the same room, and their resin has less odor than most. In-fact, after I had already filmed the a-roll and we were wrapping up the video, I had actually attributed the low odor to the lid being sealed well... but then I realized the lid isn't sealed at all, the entire back edges are open, meaning their resin is very low odor, and I wish I could have included that in the video.

[@IgnusFast]

I realize that this is a me problem; though I do appreciate the efforts made, $799 ($999) is still not affordable for a lot of us, unfortunately.

[@LoyalMoses]

I wish the prices were all lower!

[@colincampbell3679]

Well, That's another rich persons system to be sure, no normal hobbyist has that money! I think most people are in fact turned off from Resin printing because of the pricey cost of the systems and the resin and also it being toxic and hard to get rid of the used resin and any wash liquid. I have the Elegoo Saturn 2 and cure and wash system. But I don't use it, Because of the points above! Sadly in the UK we don't have the strong year round sun light to help with the resin waste water and no companies for safely disposing of the waste water. But if you live in a year round hot sunny place then get it.

[@thomasd9827]

You could use a UV light panel to cure out your waste wash.

[@LoyalMoses]

I don't think this is a rich persons solution... I mean, I've bought $5k printers and I don't think of those as rich persons printers. They are just machines that may or may not be within or outside of a personal budget. As for the resin disposal, you can just hit it with a UV light as mentioned by another comment and cure it for disposal. I do hope you can have so positive experiences that can turn your time with these machines back into a joyful one.

[@CHRONIC2oo3]

having to use their resin is absurdly stupid

[@LoyalMoses]

Yes and no. They are increasing quality and ease of use through quality control and user experience. It allows everyone to get perfect results without messing around with or tuning for different resins. However, stay tuned - I’m going to be testing other resins in this machine for sure!

[@rsilvers129]

You don’t have to use their resin. You can use other resin at one of their resin settings.

[@PeterDrage]

It is only stupid if the price is higher and quality lower than other resins. If they offer it at comparable pricing to 3rd Party resins and the quality is as good, who cares. Vertical integration can be a good thing if done correctly.

[@final3119]

You dont haveeee to use it… you just have to find something cheap that works with their presets lol. Yeah this is BS and they need to unlock it.

[@final3119]

@@PeterDragethe pricing isn’t competitive.

[@Serenityindailylife]

I think resin will go away, it will be replaced by 3 laser dry polymer systems. They are almost there on the tech. No washing,drying only curing.

[@tbip2001]

You really should write for a marketing department somewhere!! 😂😂😂

[@LoyalMoses]

Thanks for the engagement!

[@ChristianBlueChimp]

What is the advantage of using resin instead of "normal" 3D printers?

[@LoyalMoses]

Print detail for sure, and there are some amazing resins with properties that you just can't get in FDM.

[@Ebonyqwe]

Gre😢 😊

[@LoyalMoses]

🤦‍♂️

[@Binary_Omlet]

The chest doors on Optimus are warped.

[@LoyalMoses]

Nah, they open and I opened one slightly.

[@Binary_Omlet]

@@LoyalMoses Look at the shape of the bottoms of them. The models are square and yours are angled.

[@nekrosoft13]

Why would you buy 8k resin printer when 12k/14k are available.

[@LoyalMoses]

Because it isn’t about the Ks.

[@greenman360]

Bambu fans? Is that just clickbait, or has the community really fallen so far as to refer to all 3D printing enthusiasts as "Bambu fans?"

[@LoyalMoses]

Does this upset you? Bambu fans enjoy quality and the joy of printing over tinkering. This printer is all about the user experience and results, no tinkering. Just a beautiful system.

[@acolyte8564]

It click baited me ! Curse this mans knowledge of human psychology. I watched the whole video.

[@LoyalMoses]

Haha! This is the best comment ever! Thank you! 💜🔥

[@greenman360]

I just saw another video in my feed and was reminded of this train wreck. His title was "If Bambu made resin printers." So it's a sponsored talking point. They've decided to go that route with it, I guess. Not any creator's fault, but I know I will never buy a printer from such a company.

[@Return_To_Sender]

Anyone who makes you use their ecosystem for resin, etc is trash in my book. Just so stupid to limit some one.

[@LoyalMoses]

They are creating an experience that is so far superior to everyone else because everyone else is forced to have a thousand options in the slicer for the hundreds of resin formulas. However, stay tuned because I am going to test other resins in it.

[@greenman360]

Ohhhh. So that's what he means by Bambu fans. If you like 3D printing, but also like being restricted to what someone else says you can use because.... logic? That makes more sense. I'll stick to freedom though.

[@LoyalMoses]

🤣😆🤣

[@kschaffer6978]

@Return_To_Sender so your prerogative to not buy the system. Others prefer that a system works well right out of the box.

[@MattHealey.]

Got an apple devices ? If you have this is no different