I Bought the 5 Cheapest 3D Printers on Amazon

I bought, tested and reviewed the 5 cheapest 3D printers on Amazon and there were some surprising results. #3dprinting #3dprinter #review
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• Easy ThreeD K1 3D Printer (the aqua one, green prints): amzn.to/3KwVdnQ
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• Easy ThreeD K7 3D Printer (the orange one, red prints) : amzn.to/3ZiVyi1
• X1 3D Printer (other orange one, orange prints): NO LONGER AVAILABLE
• Anbull ET-8000 3D Printer (white with no screen, blue prints): NO LONGER AVAILABLE
• Minnie 3D Printer (white with screen, yellow prints): SORRY - I can't even find this one in stock on Amazon any more - but who would click this link anyway?!
• Longer LK5 Pro 3D Printer: geni.us/RZXTTG (Also available on Amazon with a $70 Coupon!: amzn.to/3xMRESK)
• Ender 3: amzn.to/3IOGYZW
• Ender 3 V2 (the control printer in this video, gold prints): amzn.to/3KA7tUm
• Tronxy X5SA 3D Printer (the BIG one at the beginning of the video): www.tronxy3d.com/products/x5s...
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[@AustinMichael]

This is scary when I picked up an ender 3 pro for 100 bucks at microcenter brand new lol

[@WaterjetChannel]

No comments on how amazing the set is!? With color changing to match the filament!!

[@dustybookshelves2948]

Thank you so much for making a fun, high resolution video of these. I'm always so tempted to try tiny machines for fun and talk myself out of it because it's, as you noted, half of a much better printer, or 1.5-2x ultra durable nozzles, a decent UPS on sale, etc. But they're so dang adorable, making it quite enjoyable to get to see them. :)

[@sidekick96734]

Nils! I bought two K1 printers a few months ago. They both lasted a week. The Y axis stepper motor bushing wore out from the belt tension. Can you test longevity? I found the K1 prints good enough for the price. If you read this, look where the Y axis belt meets the Y axis pulley wheel... You'll notice the shaft and wheel are slightly leaning towards the front of the machine.

[@jan_franzke]

They're not really "copying" each other, I'd call it "sharing of development and production resources and leveraging economies of scale".

[@ZSA929]

Seeing the Mini's botched attempts made me laugh so much. poor little thing really tried it's hardest xD

[@jacobrollins37]

3D printers is definitely a product you don't want to go cheap into it. 3D printer filament is not the cheapest thing and I don't want to have to trundle shoot all the time. My first printer was cheap but going to a better printer made 3D printing fun again.

[@ComeWhatThey]

Even if they weren't Chinese clones, there's not really copywright infringement because they're based on open source designs from the reprap project. With a few modernisations.

[@sticky_ricebowl]

I kinda wanna see how far you can modify these small printers. I would never replace my ender 3 with these but if I want (for example) a kid to learn how to tinker and make their own improvements, I'd probably buy them one of these

[@PacoOtis]

Dude! We are impressed with your delivery and apparent fairness and hope you are an instructor somewhere as you are so good. Best of luck!

[@sedlja4605]

I still have and occasionally use X1. It was my introduction into 3d printing.

[@DolphinLover30]

Bought 2 printers from Goodwill for $40 each, they thought they were rotisserie ovens lol. Both work great, one needed an extruder but was cheap to replace. Eventually will buy one with a large print bed or the creality model with the rolling bed for larger prints but getting started with these was a bonus.

[@jimharrop9818]

Thanks for taking your time to review these budget "alternatives" Nils, hopefully you'll save some folks their pennies 🤝

[@ryanokeefe12]

If your tronxy is has a build volume of 330 x 330 x 400, it's ~3.5 times larger than than the build volume of 100 x 100 x 100.

[@wilzworld6]

Love this video. Learned a LOT!

[@nishanthkanala]

Ohh man! The production value of these videos is mindblowing!

[@thewatersavior]

Nice, thanks, I had been curious about the clones.. Layer shift on x1 seems to be from tension on the head.. the double gantry on K1 seems to make a difference

[@suemcgoun2047]

Great video with lots of helpful information, thanks!

[@nathan1sixteen]

I love the video idea, though, one word of caution I'd throw out is that the quality control on these devices is probably non-existent. Basically, is this one of those "you managed to get a good one" type deals, where you just so happened to get one of the better K1s (on your second attempt, mind you), but most don't print as well. And, on the flip side, is one of the other printers typically more reliable, you just happened to get a dud

[@scotthoffmaster4600]

My first printer was an Imakrr Startt! at 99 bucks. Basically a rebranded tronxy. Sort of a mini Anet A8 with full size stepper motors and a 6 clone and printed really well.