GeeeTech Thunder 3D Printer: A bed slinger that claims to print at 300mm/s & 5000mm/s² acceleration

[@jamesmatthew2677]

With settings like "crazy speed", it looks like other manufacturers are noticing the Bambu Lab X1 and P1P. In this case, unfortunately, it was the marketing department that noticed, but not the engineering department. Thanks for the review.

[@DennisMurphey]

Yes you guys always cover the bases and more. They should pay you for the Cons, you are telling them how to improve the product for real users. I know my 10S Pro V1 is a bed slinger so it can not expect speed but with Z struts and SwissMicro Direct drive and Hot end the quality and reliability is awesome. So i loaded up three Fan Smoke Housing for my train and at 5:30 it is done with excellent quality while i was doing inventory. I think speed is important but it is not valuable at the lack of quality in my mind. Thank You for a wonderful video. Dennis

[@MrGerhardGrobler]

Concise, to the point, objective. A great review video. The amount of effort you put into each video is impressive. Way to go.

[@HybridlifeOrg]

I agree it’s pro video and review. I thought it was a very good printer but it’s just interesting and not that really fast.

[@3dexperiments]

This is a VERY interesting printer. They have properly open sourced the firmware which is another pro IMO. I hope that the company will improve it further and that you will have follow up videos about this.

[@Anonymousg64]

look at the repo, hasnt been touched in 4 years, the links to the downloads dont work...

[@3dexperiments]

@@Anonymousg64 You're so right!

[@avejst]

Great video as always 👍 Great idea with the massive blower at the back, if you are printing with PLA. Thanks for sharing your expirences with All of us 👍😃

[@tHaH4x0r]

What a peculiar printer. You can really see that they did their very best to make everything as stiff as possible, and prevent common issues with high speed printing (ex. closed loop steppers for layer shifts, good cooling setup etc). However, if you want to make a printer for speed, why would you ever build a bedslinger? Anyways, it doesn't seem like a bad printer, but for the regular MSRP of 700$, it just isnt competitive, especially in a world where you can also get the P1P for that price. Especially unacceptable is shoddy firmware for that price. The early bird kickstarter price of 400$ is not too bad, but if you want a fast printer, you can get an FLSun SR for nearly the same amount of money! You could even upgrade it later with the klipper pad they offer. Plus inherently delta's are much better in moving fast.

[@theglowcloud2215]

I'm hoping the Klipper community gets Klipper running on the X1 and P1P, really. P1P with Klipper would be a great value CoreXY, coming in at less than half the cost of an LDO Voron 2.4r2 kit. Bambu's firmware is still half-baked, which isn't great.

[@themountain59]

"Fast" is the new fashion term obviously...but what does it do good when the prints look crappy as that ?? 500 bucks for that printer is wasted money, sorry.

[@Soravia]

Design is too old. Should have made it a cube with Z bed for better quality.

[@3DNaGrani]

@@Soravia modded ender3 can push 8k accel on klipper, but it should have 10mm belt on y axis and custom y carriage and buildplate. And it's still cheaper that corexy printers:)

[@madorax251]

Build voron swichwire core xz the best bed slinger

[@polycrystallinecandy]

1:27 idk why but the shape of that nozzle is so funny 🤣 like a pterodactyl spewing molten plastic from it's beak

[@Fredjikrang]

I have to admit, every time you say that "PET can't be printed a fast as PLA" I say to myself "But what if you did?" ;) My curiosity is a terrible thing. Thanks for the nice review! Very interesting!

[@MrGerhardGrobler]

I print PETG at PLA speeds, no fan, bed at 70, nozzle at 235. No issues.

[@gametimegg7315]

​​@@MrGerhardGrobleres i max at 80 speed no Cool fan same temps as you 👍

[@wesleydroll1334]

Nice review! you should take a look at the sovol sv06, looks on paper to be essentially a prusa for 1/4 of the price.

[@AuroraTech]

Yes, the SV06 has been sitting in my garage for a while, I will review it in Dec.

[@edmor1086]

This twelve-year-old girl is extremely knowledgeable.😁

[@TheReaper1]

Awesome review! I could see this being beneficial for parts that are for more of a time crunch than for quality. Just need some sandpaper on hand lol.

[@GreatJoe]

I got Geeetech's A10 Pro, back when that was relatively new. The damn thing shipped with an extra stepper driver heatsink lodged right on the pins of the USB port, and the eccentric nuts for the bed were so loose that it couldn't complete its own test print. It's also a huge pain to maintain in general, though apparently it had a couple features over its contemporary Ender 3. Still, I regret not getting an Ender 3 instead, since it's so much better documented, and mods are so much easier to find.

[@TestTest-eb8jr]

Another thorough review 👍@Aurora

[@corlissmedia2.0]

I would love to see you look at the Lerdge K board with KLIPPER installed. Lerdge has now presented a tutorial on how to install KLIPPER on that board. The instructions are confusing to me, but I'm sure you're get through them easily. Your video would be much appreciated. I will find a way to thank you for it at Christmas Time.

[@AuroraTech]

I will review the BTT M8P+CB1 w/Klipper soon, I am planning to install in on a CoreXY linear rails machine.

[@richardspicer8253]

Can't believe geetech are still going. Was such a fan boy back in the day. First printer was geetech proB then had e180 and few a10 then a few a30 even had a a10m. One thing this new printer has wrong is smartto. I've still got two a30 with smartto which both stopped working with no fix. So there in bits and going to be turned into a core xy. Geetech ditch the smartto and you might get a customer back. Cheers for the very good review 👍

[@gametimegg7315]

😅

[@f33rcetv34]

ive just started learning about 3D printers because my dad has a Geeetech - he has no idea how to use it ofcourse... Ive got no idea what youre talking about here- but its awesome either way

[@Getbent97]

I can't believe Geeetech are still in business, they've always made pretty crappy printers that look and feel cheap. I should know, my first printer was an aluminium Geeetech i3 pro B and its needed rebuilding and modifying so much that its basically a frankenstein printer.

[@rondlh20]

Nice review again. It still amazes me to see the English spelling mistake in the main menu... 4 buttons only

[@stephan.scharf]

I admire you both, really 😃

[@ame7165]

filla-men! haha i don't know why but this cracks me up every time

[@AndrewAHayes]

Aurora is there any chance of you reaching out to one of the plastic recycling machine manufacturers for a review model, I have nearly two Blue Food grade barrels full of ground PLA and one nearly full of PETG and various amounts of other materials that I would like to recycle into filament

[@sorryociffer]

Please attempt to test the HE3D K280 Delta… It does TALL prints…. And it’s an actual KIT. Would love to see the results if you can adapt the klipper creality pad to it.

[@MrBaskins2010]

That printer seems old as dirt. Most old delta kits aren’t worth the effort tbh

[@sorryociffer]

@@MrBaskins2010 Not new but unique in size. I’d like to know how well it does if a klipper pad is adapted to it.

[@TheOldBlackCrow]

My only question is, what do you do with all these test prints? 🤔

[@bobbzhere]

Hi could you anway test the budget printer Anycubic Kobra Go for around $189 US. It has auto bed levelling, pei print surface etc. Your reviews are very precise Thanks.

[@TheIMobile]

Very interesting video. Sometimes we all want a print to be a little faster but not a the expense of quality. I’m interested in how you inspect the gcode what software do you use to achieve that ?

[@iddeegee]

gcode is a txt file, so it can be opened in any text editor

[@KToMmi]

Honestly, printing fast is a whole different story than printing fast at quality. Those calibration cubes honestly look awful even in "Normal mode". The absence of both pressure advance and input shaping is evident. Not sure why they didn't resort to Klipper.

[@noanyobiseniss7462]

Downvoted for misinformation, Klipper can run on the ATMega2560.

[@MuhammadAli22931]

Where do one buy this eryone $13 filament? Thanks for the video btw!

[@AuroraTech]

Seems their best value PLA and PETG were both out of stock, other bundles are available at, but only have ABS, ASA and TPU(500g) are available at such low prices: auroratechchannel.com/links/eryone

[@rachmatdedytaha8608]

Do a review for the sovol sv06..

[@AuroraTech]

Coming next week.

[@rachmatdedytaha8608]

@@AuroraTech oh sweet!!!! I always love your review... Can't wait

[@kazolar]

Closed loop steppers used here are known to cause salmon skin. Normal high torque steppers with silent drivers would be significantly better. I wonder what parts of OS firmware they took to create the firmware used here, unlike Bambu Labs who clearly developed their own from scratch firmware and in house developed drivers -- this machine seems to be using some stripped down klipper variant as the parts are not bespoke. Even the board they are using is similar to all in one boards that combine 2 different arm processors needed to run klipper.

[@AuroraTech]

I see, I didn't know that. This is the first printer I tested with a closed-loop steppers, thanks for telling me that.

[@kazolar]

@@AuroraTech i have drawer full of them. Tried them on a build. Ended up going back to regular high torque steppers and tmc 2209s.

[@revoltoff]

I bought a mingda magician x do you (or anyone) have any beginner tips for me...

[@stephan.scharf]

'I will talk about the firmware in the con section', HAHA!

[@zorabixun]

That race to higher print speed is crazy. It is stupid to print element in 5 minutes with 300 mm/sec and accel 10 thousands/sec, and receive a garbage print 🤪😁 ..... To have nice and good print we need 50 mm/sec and yes, yes, print 2 hours I will never make my E5+ rebuild like a ZOMBIE .... 😁🤪 haha

[@jakubpulka]

After having i3 pro b and a20m geeetech is big no-go for me. Bad documentation, poor tech support and product updates, very few tutorials on certain topics. AVOID

[@AhmedAlsarraf]

Why this channel have just 34k subscribers!!!! I hate KZbin logarithms Great video as usual 👌

[@mikejones-vd3fg]

I still dont get how processor speed increases printing speed, it must be at 100% usage to be a bottleneck? And would mean increasing clock speeds would increase printing speeds? I thought it was a mechanical issue, motors acceleration, toleranaces etc. Say you used your PC power to run the printer, which you can do apparently, use a PC to run kippler instead of a pi, that way you'd have a real powerful pc doing the printing calculations and thats where i think you'd see, more clock speeds doesnt mean faster printing. Does to a point but computers are so fast im almost certain its a mechanical bottleneck in the end. I dont see anyone reporting 10x speed with their laptops running kippler instead of a Pi which would be the case if processing speed affected printing speed.

[@emagiannu]

Those claims on the website are decieving at best. It's a pretty bad printer for the price. It feels unfinished, with random upgrades. It doesn't even have an all-metal hotend or direct drive and those fan on the back are just overkill.

[@Jynxx_13]

Why they would go high speed closed loop without input shaping? Especially with the Bambu line just killing it in high speed high quality. SMH Soooo close to being a great printer but falls short where it really counts.

[@Ryzaki961]

Another awesome review! Would you be looking into how to use the Creality sonic pad on non ender printers?

[@AuroraTech]

I will review the BTT M8P+CB1 w/Klipper soon, I think that's a cheaper and better option for non creality machines.

[@Ryzaki961]

@@AuroraTech oh awesome! Can't wait and ty for the reply!

[@skyrider4789]

"filamenT" :P ;)

[@omegadeepblue1407]

I will only buy it just to tell people that i own a Thunder printer.

[@hallowedshade125]

699? Bambulab P1P is 699. Give up GeeTech

[@AuroraTech]

Yeah, for $699, the P1P should be a much better choice. The P1P is now sitting in my garage, still have no time to open the box yet, I hope I can release the video soon.

[@BriSouth]

I think I love you 😘 thank you for the informative vid

[@sorryociffer]

She’s like 12! Don’t be creepy and weird.

[@BriSouth]

@@sorryociffer dude, no way she’s 12,, at least 17 I’m guessing. In any event, I retract my innocent statement of affection and thank the channel for its valuable content.

[@demian7513]

Aurora great video. Ok I ll talk about the elephant in the room. I am guessing that you are too polite to say it out laud . I am not! Its B A D !!!! Dont worth the 489 they asking plus shipping. Its an unfinished job that can mess with your soul after purchase this thing !!! '' Oh it prints fast'' nope it doesnt, or if they could work more to there product m a y b e could. It prints at least good slow , nope. Reminds me printers before 2 years in the past!!! Tell me something . Way not bambu labs 500 printer??? This product needs LOTS of work. Sorry mr geetech nope. We said a lot about unfinished creality printers,in the past,they fixing thinks,they trying more. I ll live for the moment that we will stop saying the same thinks over and over again.This one is a flashback 2 year printer ,not any more. I am working hard for these 489 (plus shipping) to throw them away! Sorry GT. Aurora I love your videos.

[@Anonymousg64]

Look at the kickstarter page for this printer, it SCREAMS AVOID!!!

[@Ghxzt2161]

I’m waiting for a manufacturer to advertise fast print speeds that actually look good. I can write my name fast as shit but it’s going to also look like shit

[@corinnawagner8735]

ich habe den Drucker keine 5 Wochen und wie kann es passieren, das die Nozzle abbricht und der Rest im Drucker stecken bleibt ? Ich bin vollkommen sprachlos über so viel, Müll , sorry - aber Gott sei dank hab ich Garantie darauf !!!!