The moment you've all been waiting for: 4Max Metal is here.

The moment you've all been waiting for: 4Max Metal is here.
4Max Metal is a desktop 3D printer specializing in printing metal materials.
You can print replacement parts on-demand, manufacture with custom Metalcrafts, and conformal cooling molds.😀😀
One of the best things is we work with Uprise 3D to make 4Max Metal, at the same time, we make the 316L stainless steel filament ready for you to print.
Want to know more? 😎😎
see details: www.anycubic.c...

[@Splatterpunk_OldNewYork]

I got exited till I saw the industrial furnace. Then I was back in reality.

[@WoodenWeaponry]

oup there goes gravity

[@grim6980]

You just need a kiln. You can buy one or build your own. Building one is not that difficult I have built a few different size kilns before for a few hundred bucks.

[@TheGoldPoppy]

Same

[@c0nstantin86]

@@WoodenWeaponry gravity doesn't exist! It's just accustic resonance field cuz all matter is sound (uniVersed into existence by God) and earth is flat! Check it out!

[@TheMetalButcher]

Powder bed laser fusion machines will do it all in one if you have about $300k.

[@alextatkin1026]

Cmon, that strength test was a JOKE. Lets see what the material can actually do PLEASE

[@untrust2033]

Upvoted

[@MarkButQuestion]

Exactly. They didn't even show the deformation that those light hammer strikes produced. I would love to see how it compares to, say, aluminum or pot metal (which it looks like it is).

[@gregiep]

A good test should go to failure and compare the failure point and mode to “identical” parts made through other processes: cast aluminum, forged aluminum, injection molded plastic, etc. Also should test tensile, compression, and sheer strength, as well as hardness, stiffness, elasticity, etc. this video was more of an intro add, so I’m fine they didn’t do that here, but a follow up video would be very helpful.

[@therising1]

@@gregiep A good test would involve CNC Kitchen!

[@maikeydii]

The test might have been a bit of a joke, but I have no suspects that those parts really are AISI 316L stainless (which is quite far from pot metal) and their properties matching closely the equivalent properties of traditionally cast or wrought components. Reason for this is that there is already a working and proven method of making steel components from a feedstock that is metal powder mixed in plastic binder calle MIM - Metal Injection Molding. This is just a similarly distant cousin of MIM in the same way as traditional FDM is an a cousin to plastic injection molding.

[@2MeterLP]

1:45 if youre gonna include a strenght demonstration, either hit it like you mean it or dont include it. Those light taps just make me suspicious.

[@Gorgonzeye]

The audio of the 'hit' doesn't even look like it matches the video. I've had bad experiences with Anycubic, and they are Chinese. Its not part of their culture to be ashamed of lying.

[@megacanam]

You can tell the part was printed as a thin 2-4layer wall... just showing it did bond in the sintering phase. But I know what you mean. Show a real strength test!

[@OU81TWO]

Sintered parts are relatively fragile compared to machined parts.

[@seditt5146]

Not to mention the fake ass sound effects they overlaid on it.

[@PhilipLeichauer]

The vice closing action was a bit suspiciously light too.

[@sladeb6036]

I came here just to see that octopus get picked up an see it's legs wiggle.

[@jihfase]

octopuses have tentacles ;P

[@rangerdanger222]

1:33

[@thebigdork6969]

@@jihfase no it takes ten tickles to make a octopus laugh 🤓

[@WaynesStrangeBrain]

me too

[@mysteriousfox88]

im gonna need a furnace bro

[@JinKee]

You can send the green part by mail to a heat treating company and they can bake it for you. Then you can sell sintered metal things until you can afford to buy a furnace of your own. This is revolutionary on how cheap the entry is.

[@christopherriley6299]

Alternatively, you print the part in PLA, and make a PLA loss mold. Melt the metal of your choosing, and poor it into the mold and clean.

[@prathmeshsawant5248]

Try to heat treatment in oven 😂😂plz do not try

[@giuliobuccini208]

A furnace is also good for grilling a steak. Think of it.

[@Frankx520]

Christopher Riley does the result look good?

[@marcus_w0]

Can't wait to put that into my sintering furnace. Like everybody.

[@DoctorBadVibez]

I know right? Who doesn't have one? I made a sintered cheese sandwich with ham in mine.

[@SavetheRepublic]

@@DoctorBadVibez OMG love sintered ham and cheese sandwiches.

[@anotherguy9402]

You can build a muffler furnace for under $100 is getting everything timed right and knowledge of what gases they may use

[@DoctorBadVibez]

@@SavetheRepublic Ah a person of true, refined taste!

[@DoctorBadVibez]

@@anotherguy9402 oh absolutely yes, I'm all for population control, but, just putting it out there, there's a reason why them ovens cost a lot of money, to own and operate. Observe as I wave my hand and state "This is not the moment you've all been waiting for, it is sadness yet to materialize out of digital vaporware."

[@SavetheRepublic]

Printer 5k, oven 150k. Yep this is the moment I decide I can't afford this. Come back in 10 years.

[@BruhBronxy]

You can buy a small muffler furnace for around $700

[@matthewmathis62]

Currently, this product is $899 on the Anycubic website.

[@craigsosebee6335]

I'm really questioning the sanity of Anycubic right now.

[@jamesN6450]

why?

[@sciencebeartimberwoods7610]

@@jamesN6450 Because the product makes 0 sense? Why should I get this instead of ordering the parts from a proper SLS service?

[@BFSarthur]

@@sciencebeartimberwoods7610 exactly

[@olibeau7955]

@@sciencebeartimberwoods7610 Perhaps for an individual, but for a small company, it does make sense. Maybe 10 years from now a truly DiY community metal printer will be a thing. This is a step towards that direction.

[@TechBuild]

@@olibeau7955 I believe that a metal powder 3-D printer can make the products faster and stronger.

[@_..-.._..-.._]

I’m trusting their machines when they can’t even have non distorted music on YT vids?!? 😂

[@lauraiss1027]

This is a big achievement nonetheless. Whatever the results for now, the right steps toward metal printing is being made and thank you for that!

[@luisderivas6005]

I'm still waiting....Apparently the "you" referenced in the title means fabrication facility with industrial vaccuum sintering furnaces. I sure a f@ck don't have one of these in my garage.

[@michelguevara151]

I keep mine in the kitchen gadget cupboard, next to my nuclear submarine..

[@seanwolfe9321]

Simply add a wing to your house for the 7 ton kiln (sold separately) and you'll be on your way to metal printing. *requires 1000kw service, please check with your local power company... YAY! The future is here!

[@sunriseshell]

It's easy and cheap! All you need is a $500 printer, oh and about $50,000 for an industrial oven and kiln. That's it!

[@iviaverick52]

At last! a more affordable $1400 at-home metal 3D printer, that I can then print metal parts to put into my $500k sintering furnace! Seriously, If people need this kind of processing to finish a part, they'll just buy an SLS printer to begin with.

[@t_c5266]

my favorite part was where i recognized a bunch of those mega-expensive 3d printed parts from thingiverse

[@НиколайЕнчев-х4б]

The moment you've all been waiting for! Cause we all got industrial furnace in our living room !

[@zedfoxtrot41]

"As long as you have an enormous sintering furnace and your part doesn't have strength requirements exeding three light taps with a hammer... this is the moment you've been waiting for!" The internet: -_-

[@mikeynjs94]

i love everyone clowning on the strength demo. obviously its not going to be as strong as high carbon steel but it is by no means an easily damaged material. car parts and some gun parts are made using this process. source? i used to work in a factory that fabricated metal parts using plastic injection machines in a similar process to this

[@zedfoxtrot41]

@@mikeynjs94 Although the process of making MIM materials is similar, it is not the same process and you look dumb trying to insinuate that it is. Moreover, MIM parts in auto and gun applications are notorious for failure due to their weak fabrication. This product is a non-starter and everyone knows it. Try harder.

[@ektpuahify]

Reminds me of the Seiko wrist watch TV. There was a joke on this kind of technology: 2 men met at the airport. A saw B watching a movie in the airport, made video calls with the same device. The setting of this joke was in the 1990's. A asked B to sell him this device for US$10000. B Happily complied and handed him the watch after A paid him cash. A then happily wore the watch and was about to walk away with his instant gratification. Then B suddenly shouted to A: hey, you forgot your luggage. A turned back, smiled and told B he travelled light without luggage. Guess what B said to him: Bro, its the battery of the watch :-)

[@andrejspecht8217]

I am positively sure that this is NOT the moment we've been waiting for.

[@99wcguy]

Honestly it would be way easier to just 3d print with PLA, or whatever you want, then make a mold with it (concrete, or sand if it's an easy mold) and metal cast. It would take a fraction of the time, wouldn't shrink, and would be an actual strong metal.

[@CKidder80]

Oh, castings most certainly do shrink. They shrink less than this process but there is shrinkage. However, I still agree with you, the easier process for hobbyists is to print in PLA and do some sort of lost PLA casting. It works fine and then all you need is a normal (and much cheaper) metal melting kiln. One might acquire one of those for under $1000 if they know where to look.

[@nite31fpv17]

Fr just make a mold and pour brass at this cost

[@marcoscoding7275]

Who doesn't have an industrial furnace at home?!

[@selfhealing1047]

It takes less time casting metal the classic way and also stronger

[@rfbirdcontrol]

I would like to see actual strength, compression, and bend data on a chart. Anyone who would buy this would want that. You could screen grab and review. Also it seams there is a back Ned forth to a finishing process. Cost? Confidentiality? Etc

[@mookfaru835]

Right

[@nourismail158]

How would we as consumers do the sintering and debinding phase?

[@zakit.3436]

i was going to ask about that!!!

[@nicolass2782]

same question

[@nicosteps715]

In the microwave 😂

[@GerritSchulze]

There are services that do it for us at least in Germany and the EU. However, I have no idea how much they cost per part. Maybe a simple oven like this www.gerstaecker.de/efco-Modell-135-KF-Brennofen.html could do it as well.

[@qsefunz]

My mom still got a pottery oven from the 80s ... 🤔

[@BubuMarimba]

Just about any 3D printer can do it. Use BASF Ultrafuse 316L Fillament. The most difficult part would be debinding and sintering. Need an industrial support for this (1300oС) in vacuum or high pressure inertial gas - no joke!

[@calumharper5343]

Pretty cool, however the printer looks like it is clearly designed for consumer use but the whole process is still very industrial. I think it will be a while before hobbyists will be able to carry out the full process at home

[@Geddy135]

everyday we get closer to "you wouldn't download a car"

[@willhughes1336]

jokes on you, I have an STL for a Porsche already

[@RomaMixRu]

Интересно а сколько времени займет чтобы распечатать двигатель.

[@ugurokullarimadenler]

You hit it so fast and hard with your hammer it almost breaks.

[@composeexpose8009]

Looking forward to the microwavable version.

[@dragoneyeshatesg00gle76]

because the average 3D printer user is going to have industrial quality Ovens just kicking around their homes!

[@kshatriya9921]

Who exactly was waiting for it? 🙏🏼

[@greenrolaids]

oh.. so a corporation is telling us we are waiting for its thing? NOPE, NEXT!

[@pirobot668beta]

Form a 3d printer club, collect 1,000's of green prints, get a bulk rate on processing. Get folks to commit to a monthly quota; get a better price break from the foundry if you can guarantee business... Doing all the steps at home is the unrealistic part.

[@glennboyd939]

It's so simple, you just need a giant autoclave, a furnace, and easy done😂

[@bob_._.]

Desktop printer and $50,000 worth of autoclaves... yeah, that's gonna take right off like gangbusters.

[@alexandersmirnov6999]

😲 What??? Wow!!! 👍👍👍

[@GaryMcKinnonUFO]

I can imagine only a small market for this. What we really need is a printer that prints aluminium wire just like we print with plastic filament today.

[@GaryMcKinnonUFO]

Would much need to be changed from current tech? Aluminium melts at about 660C so a more powerful heater, different block, no more teflon tubes, not kaptan, not sure what material would be good for tubing, perhaps an all-metal delivery system for the wire.

[@joearchuleta7538]

I would like to see the 3d printer nerd do a review of this process!!!

[@J.R.jr-pc7bo]

I agree! Or Makers Muse.

[@reasonsvoice8554]

They wont until its viable for us at home Or they will and be honest that this isnt something for home tech and its an industrial process

[@MajatekYT]

me with just a standard kitchen oven: ah yes this is perfect

[@libra8993]

LOL

[@wiggy8912]

Lol @ that fake ass hammer strike!

[@ozzy1887]

I'll save up for a SLS printer instead.

[@JJ-vp3bd]

got any recommendations?

[@ozzy1887]

@@JJ-vp3bd The LISA.

[@niw-w1f]

@@ozzy1887 buy mine

[@DAZARI0]

you: puts print in industrial furnace me: i think my air fryer outta do the trick

[@paulkerman8906]

Sweeet just got my "desktop" printer... Now lemme pop it in this ROOM SIZE sintering furnace.

[@bennyintheshed7821]

All things considered, lost PLA casting would be a much more attainable way to get metal parts for the home gamer! Just need a kiln to bake the investment and then a furnace to melt the metal. Much easier than these fancy industrial furnaces.

[@jasonvelasquez5551]

Fantastic, absolutely Fantastic.

[@ciceroaurelius3757]

Good thing I already have a blast furness in my garage

[@Bobotrucker]

I wonder if my daughter's easy bake oven would work? Maybe if I bought an 100 watt bulb and changed it out? Hmmm

[@jamesN6450]

this is amazing, I dont fully understand the science behind this process but the results even compared to other industrial metal 3d printers are fantastic.

[@satan4768]

At this point you may as well just do metal dust injection sintering molding that's how they make cheap planetary gears for drills. I feel like they forgot about the rapid part of 3d printing/rapid prototyping.

[@richardtroell6407]

EXCELLENT ! ! ! ! All I have to do is spend $32,000 on the equipment chemicals, powdered metals and environmental to duplicate an $69 lower with my 3d printer . . . or a $9 octopus thingy ma jiggy . . . I'll hop right on that.

[@3xchris]

will the big vault oven be included?

[@ANYCUBIC3D]

Hello, if you have any question, please contact our sales manager:[e-mail]

[@DarrenC_1024]

@@ANYCUBIC3D Apparently, all can be arranged provided you have to required fund. :D

[@ottoolsen9676]

i think the metal powder with a laser welding the powder is a better home solution, it is easy, and don't require many steps, and parts loks great, but the prise has to drop before i buy it :-)

[@mvirtuos]

that hammer hits XD

[@joeyhillers9460]

I think I can eat ramen for a little bit, it’s time to buy some filament

[@piotrcurious1131]

can You print engine block this way? Perhaps not full scale, just lawnmower or hobby one, it would still be interesting. I know it is not only possible, but easy to print engine block with powder sintering (and electron beam sintering lowers the price) . Your method would make price even more competetive :)

[@Perry_Wolf]

Good thing we all have kilns laying around to process the parts, otherwise this could get really expensive.

[@Zwiesel66]

Nice, i already have such a sintering furnace in my kitchen 😁

[@RupertFoulmouth]

I was all excited until I realized this a not for the home user.

[@Krmpfpks]

How is this different from metal filament that you can print on your standard 3D printer, like BASF ultrafuse 316l filament?

[@ashbite7673]

Next up anycubic furnace

[@Sei783]

It's nice idea until you realize you need a $100,000 furnace.

[@hoverbotfpv1425]

I need spring dial for extruder feed on my Anycubic X but parts are hard to find. You should put this and parts on Amazon for good customer service.

[@Gadgetmawombo]

This is probably beyond your average hobbyist. Super cool tho.

[@DoodleCube]

In all honesty, 3d metal printing is going to need tons of development. At the moment any precision part will still need machining to work properly. Until then I would like to see Anycubic develop more reliable LCDs or an alternative to an LCD that would be less consumable. Have you guys considered an Anucubuc vacuum forming system or other pieces of equipment that would be in demand for current hobbyists and small business owners? If you were to produce a practical metal printer in the future id like to see an Anycubic hand lathe or CNC machine come out at the same time. Imagine printing your castings and then setting them in your Anycubic CNC machine to finish the job! Something to consider!

[@terranearthling9918]

I hope they make a new model soon

[@joemulkerins5250]

I wonder could the filament be used in a normal 3d printer and then home DIY the furnace etc.?

[@jamesjusick1462]

The future is not here until direct laser sintering is affordable. Print and done. For now I will have to stick to my CNC Mills.

[@obe22099]

It's just a matter of time before some amazing engineers make metal 3d printing open source and practically and financially accessible to the same folks using resin and platic filaments. Probably will end up being vastly different process to this and other industrial metal printers.

[@JJ_Assalt]

I'll do whit MIG.

[@obe22099]

@@JJ_Assalt living in a nyc apartment I wish I had the luxury of having a workspace for welding and metal casting. I always wanted a main battle tank.

[@jasonl3445]

Beautiful keep it up!

[@piousminion7822]

Nice, unless you don't want your parts to shrink to the wrong size.

[@salispadli]

I will look up for when I can create or customize my diecast cars with this kind of technology

[@nozyspy4967]

Does the factory, industrial furnace and workers come free with the printer? Will a miniaturised desktop version of them be available in future?

[@berghauz]

But it is just regular 3d printer and all the magic around 316L filament and postprocessing. Dare you, anycubic.

[@xiaoshang6098]

Honestly with your quality control I seriously double if I would buy this even if there’s a way to get away without the post processing

[@cpowerbpower3339]

Markforged has had this technology for many years, and small enough to fit in a small room. Anycubic is really behind.

[@__WJK__]

Great... is MF selling their unit for $5k(?)

[@kissmyavacados]

ill need an entire industrial zone for a small fucking octopus

[@DigBipper188]

Definitely a cool bit of tech here... but that final sintering process will be a pig to do... Sintered FDM definitely won't be a homegamer's tool. SLS would be more likely to take that crown if it can me miniaturized far enough.

[@onjofilms]

Cool. Bought your 3D Delta printer a few years back and just recently put it together because I was needing a part. Printing 8 parts saved me enough to pay off that printer. This looks really interesting. As for a sintering furnace, one can make their own if they want. Plenty of furnace building videos on here. If it can melt glass, it can sinter these parts.

[@__WJK__]

@onjoFilms - Sure... so long as you can figure out how to "safely" introduce the proper gasses, which are required to keep the metal from oxidizing into a pile of dust.

[@francisconikotian2326]

nice work, you are doing great,

[@JAPudas]

OMG, the previously unproduceable parts that can be imagined gave me a braingasm.

[@dguy-xk4fc]

that title is suggesting it is suitable for the masses, but actually involves having a complete factory full of furnaces and sintering machines and what not.. but ok. Still cool i guess.

[@felderup]

the filament is available for other printers and the result can be strengthened with metal melted into it?

[@dragoneyeshatesg00gle76]

make metal parts faster by 3d print: use a easily molten filament make part bury in casting sand pack tight and be sure interior parts properly filled pour molten metal into mold extrude and clean the rough off.

[@simont3686]

Where is the difference to a regular FDM-printer except for the filament? It looks just like a normal hot end. And could one upgrade his printer to be able to print this filament?

[@CKidder80]

More or less, yeah. You might need a stainless steel nozzle so that it doesn't get absolutely murdered by the steel grit in the filament but normal 3D printers can do this. The real magic is in the furnace and that's... not quite consumer grade shall we say. You would need to send the printed parts out to a foundry or someone who has a very expensive kiln to get this to work properly either way.

[@simont3686]

@@CKidder80 Also seems managable if you know some people. They probably don't sell the filament to consumers though.

[@viniciusfriasaleite8016]

Steffan from CNC kitchen could make a proper strength test!!! Send him some pieces!

[@mysteryunwrapping9518]

Man that nozzle is like a furnace

[@ANYCUBIC3D]

😅

[@mikeynjs94]

i used to work in a factory that injection molded parts with materials similar to this. it also went through the same processes from molding of "green" part placed on ceramic tiles which were then placed on graphite sheets and sent to furnaces to become "brown" part and then sintered to the final composition to where they would be finished. and these parts are ridiculously strong for being what they are. if you live in the US and youve been to a restaurant with a coke machine that has the metal arm for dispensing either plain water or just the carbonated water without the syrup: those parts are made using this process. there are also parts made for a gun specifically for the US Military. idk which gun bc it was, being a government contract, a secret but... crazy to see its now a printable material. blows my mind.

[@ktsjpnet]

guys, we need all-in-one machines lol

[@MauserCreations]

About the FURNACE: it need controlled atmosphere with introduction of specific gases, etc... or it's enough a furnace that can reach the temperature required by the process? I asked the customer service this question but they told me to contact after sales service when I have got the printer ... 😡

[@brockly7916]

*READY TO PRINT GLOCKS AT HOME.*

[@robertmoore5002]

Someone figure out how to run the filament in an Ender 3

[@whtkngofc]

Nothing can replace CNC machining, which is still far more practical than any of these "printing" methods.

[@shaylinmonk9208]

3D printed guns coming soon to a garage near you

[@TheLiasas]

Direct laser sintering of metal powders seems waaaaaay simpler and cheaper tham this (considering all the extra equipment needed for part processing) and the final result... A cartesian printer cannot beat what a laser sintering printer can do

[@necropasia]

this, this right here

[@michaelknight2897]

Another step forward.

[@MagicGate814]

NO way!!! I want one, but it's probably going to cost an arm and a few legs

[@RomaMixRu]

Будущее наступило. Принтер в каждый дом.

[@ROMPE_NALGAS_24-7]

THE MOMENT WE ARE ALL WAITING FOR IS THE RESIN PRINTERS TO BE UNVEILED. WE NEED THE SATURN KILLER ASAP. PLEASE DONT LET THE ANYCUBIC COMMUNITY DOWN

[@ANYCUBIC3D]

Thank you! They are coming soon!

[@mhe0815]

So, how hot does that furnace have to be to make it happen?