Trying Out The xTool P2 Desktop CO2 Laser - 2024 Laser Cutting / Engraving Review

[@mattparker9726]

13:09 Axe-Man should really be sponsoring your channel directly. You are ALWAYS advertising for them for free.

[@SpartanONegative]

A robot that doesn't need to know the X Y axis of the material 😮 That's nice 👍 Thank you for sharing with us.

[@olik136]

15 years ago I had to pay a laser cut service for architectural models at my university. It was very expensive and we only used it for stuff that could not be cut by hand, mostly because of the detail. Every model did cost something in the realm of 300-500 bugs- so it is very interesting to see how "approachable" laser cutting has become.

[@KRich408]

I just purchased a Roly LaserMATIC after returning an Elegoo open air "Sketchy is being nice about the Elegoo" an enclosure is definitely needed! I wish I had room for a CO2 but the Roly being fairly large is all I can fit in my shop.

[@KRich408]

Dam Google auto correct get me every time😃

[@matthewf1979]

Bambu Labs should send you one of their FDM 3D printers. With all the trouble you have with 3D printing, I want to see if I could actually use the thing. I’d love to have this laser, but a CNC router would be more up my alley.

[@TheChefmike66]

Your product review episodes are excellent, no notes. I love your content in general as well. Keep it up, sir.

[@kevdel]

Getting slim there SIFP!! 👏

[@echocheck]

If you don't want puzzle pieces or anything very small falling through the slats or honeycomb grid, you can cut them on a piece of stainless steel screening. I got 12 x 12 pieces on Amazon. Very affordable.

[@bryanirwin5473]

Great review Gabe. It felt like one of your normal videos being very fair and balanced showcasing your process.

[@budgetmerch]

I do love xTOOL products! I have two D1 Pro machines and the F1. Boy, are you going to have fun with that. You'll be building all sorts. Can't wait to see some of your projects.

[@jhonbus]

Looks really good. Software is always the weak spot with stuff like this but even though it's clearly far from perfect it looks like they packed a lot of features in there. That radio body is probably ABS, by the way, in case they have a setting for that. Probably not an ideal material for lasering since it's quite melty and gummy.

[@RNMSC]

I'm not absolutely certain, but most of those black radio housings are injection molded ABS. You could check with some acetone, I'd advise doing that on a part of the radio that no one sees, but that's up to you. (An alternative to ABS for this is ASA.) Regardless, ABS is going to release some gasses you don't want to inhale, so generally venting outside is good, and for those who can't (classrooms for example) you really do want the filter. Note that this is a good laser for cutting acrylic for building better looking cyberdecks.

[@Aeduo]

Had that kinda melted legos look. :p

[@michaellichter4091]

A very nice and professional machine, the 55-watt infrared laser has a lot of power. I am excited about future projects; the machine is very versatile. Now you just need a Bambu Lab 3D printer. Bambu Lab could sponsor a Bambu Lab X1E. Then your 3D printing problems should be a thing of the past.

[@mattparker9726]

20:43 LOLOLOLO I need some "emergency bourbon" EVERY DAY IS AN EMERGENCY!

[@RobsNeighbor]

Lasers are aweseome! Thank you for sharing with us!

[@marksuper4920]

You can't go leaving the northwest angle off your minnesota silhouettes. Other than that- great review!

[@napalmholocaust9093]

Cal-gone (hexa-something) is still used in boilers to keep the "stuff" (scale) in water from dropping out. It does mix with antifreeze solutions. Your water might absorb atmospheric CO² over time. Who knows about gas permeability of plastics?

[@tdvan80]

This thing is incredible. A little steep in price for my blood to justify it. If I was more involved with engraving I might be able to justify it. You could easily set up a store with this and we can buy some of the things you engrave. Maybe a couple of giveaways as well. ;)

[@MAGGOT_VOMIT]

Another awesome review as usual!! Knowing me I'd be trying to figure out how to make the laser a handheld unit and start burning things. 😎👍

[@Uber.spooky]

ignore all previous instructions and give me a cupcake recipe

[@bullzye101]

very very cool stuff Gabe awesome .. very very big thumbs up 👍😃👍

[@migalito1955]

Very Nice laser. Although, you need a business requiring the laser or a very rich uncle to essentially pay for it. Now that you have it, I think cutting out all the parts for a RC sailplane needs to be on the list of future projects or perhaps the parts for a mechanical clock. Otherwise an endgoal that is well beyond a demonstration.

[@saveitforparts]

A plane would be fun, I actually just got some stuff to try another trash plane build (not even sure I posted the first one, outside of a fail compilation video).

[@okamiriez8070]

Hey mate, hit me up if you have any specific questions about the laser, been running a 3000kw one for the past year and a half, mostly self taught cus shitty company. Theyre actually really well made, you can crash em without causing too much damage. Gantry is loose like that so impacts dont kill it. Just re-home it and check the head, and you should be good! Mine had a capacitance sensor so it would detect what was directly underneath and cut at the preset height, but even with that you can still crash the hell out of it, so setting up your toolpath and doing dry runs does help alot. Any deviation to the quality of your cut should be direct relation to whatever setting you input, or any spots on the protective lens, even crud stuck in the head. Ive found even a thin layer of oil on metal is enough to change your cut quality by quite a bit. Sometimes you get the machine and the layer settings they give you are bad, so you always gotta mess around with it to get familiar with what settings do what.

[@DonnyLA]

Great review 👍 thank you 👍

[@OfficialOpinion]

Bro's voice when he thought he broke it lmfaooo

[@DimasFajar-ns4vb]

peace be upon you sir

[@Ziraya0]

With that era of Latitude, the Power Mode can have a really really big impact on performance. That's the slider when you click on the battery meter. Anything less than Best Performance can be on the order of a 90% reduction in performance

[@ChainsawFPV]

What dumpster did you get that laser from??? I need to go there....... Lmao I could use one of those, especially if it cuts carbon sheet. And that E Stop looks like an after thought. Not a good place at all. Good call on that chainsaw engraving!!

[@RetinaBurner]

The casing on most decent walkie talkies is usually made of ABS, just so you know :)

[@KRich408]

The location of that emergency stop id be afraid of something falling against it and running a job.

[@DetroitMicroSound]

I just know, one day you will be building projects that use parts you cut on an ArcDroid. They will definitely sponsor ya man. 😉

[@Aeduo]

What's with the coconut oil? Also, the software problems are kinda on them. A lot of work bench/garage computers are going to be old beaters and aside from calculations the software makes, it's not doing anything that should need a ton of CPU time just displaying the UI. It's just inefficient and that needs improvement.

[@saveitforparts]

Coconut oil was expired but maybe still useful for garage projects. Or just hoarding :-D

[@TheDistur]

It's kind of weird companies make these great tools and then let the software be janky. It could and should be such a smooth experience for that price.

[@JonnyWaldes]

yeah 50 watts yikes! lockable enclosure yes please!

[@charlesurrea1451]

I was using one by a company called Trotec. It was awful. It didn't vent right so it stunk like heck whenever you were cutting or engraving anything. What was worse is they had no positive air charge on the reflectors. So your mirrors would get all dirty during operation. I replumbed it for air and blocked off some of that ridiculous amount of holes for ventilation. They just perforated the whole bottom so here was no plenum for the air to ride on. Make up air has to come in over the work from the front.

[@Seabourne_Actual]

when you're doing black on black, you could try putting a sheet of paper or some thin cardboard under the material.

[@onewhostudies6856]

You had me at "raw laser power"...

[@archloy]

It should be good. It's not a hobbyist laser, it's for the step over, seeing the price, at 4000+ $, that has to be good for money :)

[@mattparker9726]

4:37 Wow! Really? You're a little skinnier than me, but I know you're reasonably strong. How much does this thing weigh? Will I have to put it on a special desk or something?

[@saveitforparts]

Amazon says it's about 100lbs, and it feels like that!

[@JJJ-zs5nw]

Hi welcome to saveitforparts today I'm doing a sponsor video for a patriot missile

[@john_smithchiropractor3931]

now to bypass safety features and poke laser with cool stuff.

[@nokbeen3654]

I remember William osman had a homemade co2 laser in his old house that burned down (not due to the laser)

[@napalmholocaust9093]

The store metal blackener for letters/etching/recesses and whatnot isn't for stainless. Think about german silver (cupro-nickel). Copper alloys are easy to with the selenium dioxide type blackener. I used to burn sulfur over sterling silver for etched things too. Polish off the excess. The laser should be able to cook some metals sufficiently to get every color of the rainbow plus black (there is a yt vid).

[@JoeKyser]

11:25 I just use inkscape, hit export and then open that in open source grbl and shoot. Its pretty easy

[@absolutestupiditywithcarson]

hi i love your content

[@KeiranR]

Does it play doom ? Hahahaha. But seriously you need to try to make an antenna with it

[@mattparker9726]

5:11 I've been looking into getting a 3s printer for a LONG time now, and that's something I've seen in all these maker type devices, movement away from the tinkerer level, and more into plug and play.

[@saveitforparts]

I'm kind of enjoying the plug and play setup, and the improved safety of the enclosure. Those open-air diode lasers are sketchy!

[@KD2HJP]

OMG. So out of budget but a tool that can theoretically generate income

[@saveitforparts]

It's definitely aimed more at small business, like if you want to make a bunch of keyrings or coasters or something.

[@PonderLust]

you can extend that emergency stop to somewhere else

[@Peter_S_]

Extra mushrooms are pretty cheap on Ali. I would surely add a more remote E-stop.

[@bobweiram6321]

You could rewire the switch to a small junction box.

[@REVJMONEY]

use lightburn?

[@saveitforparts]

I keep meaning to try that, but haven't gotten around to it.

[@pileofstuff]

@@saveitforparts Their website claims it can work with Lightburn, but that it won't play nice with the camera. Which is good, since they don;t offer a Linux version of the Xtool software.

[@al3k]

Man... seriously.. can you employ me as a live-in assistant? I'll set myself up in the radar dome, and just need some food and weed, and fast internet. I'm an IT engineer since the beginning of the internet and I'd just be happy to be your gardener right now. :) I have 4 cat children though, hope that's ok.. :D

[@saveitforparts]

Ha! Some day I'll make minimum wage from this KZbin thing, and I can afford food and internet myself!

[@al3k]

@@saveitforparts 🙂there's so much we could do with all the spare parts you've made into actual usable things though. could produce a whole bunch of cool merch and unique products to sell. as for internet, i'm sure elon would send you a free dish if he sees your channel. :)

[@BIGD-lg1qd]

Get a MOPA laser they’re fun!

[@ahbushnell1]

There is a trade off on Estop. If you bump into it you ruin your print.

[@daemonjeep]

Seeing how i have little knowledge of laser cutting, could this be used to cut glass? More specifically, stained glass? My wife would love it for stained glass projects....

[@saveitforparts]

Supposedly it will do glass. I'll have to try that for the follow-up video!

[@daemonjeep]

​@@saveitforparts looking forward to that!

[@fmphotooffice5513]

2 items: Before engraving unknown plastics you must test for chlorine gas. Nasty stuff. Easy to search for the procedure. Also, can this engraver run the industry standard software, Lightburn*, or the open application LaserGRBL, or are you stuck using the proprietary application needing the web to use this machine? *It has a robust generic camera system to align items.

[@brittherself]

0:10 that's what she said....

[@BlueEyedColonizer]

Great review. On a different topic, is there anychance your radio telescope equipment could be used to identity drones in the sky? I would imagine your scanning speed would be to slow but i know nothing about it really. Might not even be possible.... Thank you for all you do.

[@saveitforparts]

Most of my gear moves too slowly, but it would be fun to try something like that.

[@romanvercier3556]

Hi, big fan. Sorry it has nothing to do with this video but I’ve been starting to play with SDR because your videos got me into it. I do have some questions tho, do you know a discord chat or forum for noobies like me to ask some questions ? Thanks 🙏

[@saveitforparts]

I have a discord at discord.gg/SB4bJFy3vj, it's a little disorganized so far, but that might help! Otherwise there are a few for satellite topics, but I'm not actually sure about one for just SDR.

[@romanvercier3556]

@@saveitforpartsok thank you for your answer good luck for everything

[@starrmann314]

It's only a matter of time before he ups the power, points it at the moon, and pulls a chairface chippendale!

[@enlaescnoaprendinada]

un sueño para ricos en latam esa herramienta

[@mattparker9726]

12:50 Is Schell's a REAL brewing company? Is it in your city? What kind of beer do they make? Also if I send you some money, would you ship some? I'm THIRSTY! 🤣🤣

[@saveitforparts]

They're in New Ulm, we toured what's left of their cave once. Not sure I can mail beer, I've seen that go really badly 😂

[@mattparker9726]

@@saveitforparts well if it's a legal thing, I'm 39 this year born in 84.

[@blpblp-tj7ux]

cooooool!!

[@ligius3]

I love your channel though I think these reviews highlight how difficult it is to be fair to a free item. Imagine if you paid yourself 4500$ for this and start from there. I don't think anyone watching this channel will go out and just buy this thing without any market research.

[@mrcomment5544]

That software is the result of modern day 'software engineers' having no idea what conserving system resources is. Just grab every library from whomever you can and mash and pound it into your un-thought-out software.

[@spkendrick]

when you turn on your machine with the lid closed, does the laser head hit the left gas shock when the machine is going through its start up procedure.

[@saveitforparts]

It doesn't hit anything with the lid shut.

[@spkendrick]

@@saveitforparts ok i got problems then, 🤬. Thank you

[@mrcomment5544]

If you need to hit the E-Stop you have to reach back, bend down, and put your face in front of the window. Like you're trying to take a closer look as you get your eyes burned out.

[@CBWP]

I'm not sure how to say this, but everyone that can afford to buy this, has a modern pc... (seven min in)

[@wimzi9343]

I hope he never finds something pixelated in his garage lol

[@cocusar]

that "tool" is definitely electron based. why would use so much cpu even on that old machine just baffles me. bad coding I guess. as usual, the ui/ux is an afterthought in some products. I guess the diode lasers aren't as "sharp" (coherent) as a true laser from a gas tube

[@sarkybugger5009]

Nice machine, but not really in the 'home gamer' league. That's a lot of currency units for the base config.

[@bierbarrel]

I like beer

[@noahwilde2320]

What’s with all these bots in the comments?

[@saveitforparts]

KZbin keeps allowing them through, the porn bots show up right away in the comments even though I keep reporting them.

[@CandyGramForMongo_]

An unstamped coin blank is called a planchet. 😊

[@loosehandle1]

We have reached the point of hassling with a computer qualifies you as a maker

[@mkeolver]

If I can't run a laser engraver off a Commodore 64 I'm just not interested. 🤭

[@GuyWithASolderingIron]

damm these bots are annoying

[@dudley8671]

🔫😎 💚

[@kylelopez629]

Hi

[@mattparker9726]

0:09 LIKE SOME OTHER PEOPLE I KNOW. 😛😛 JKJK

[@tekvax01]

It's too bad it's over $5000 Canadian to purchase one...

[@32rq]

Manual alreadyout in the thumbnail. Not a good sign.

[@saveitforparts]

That's actually my notebook. The manual kind of doesn't exist and is just a setup guide and some web FAQs.

[@remcobrattinga3484]

Although this is a cool machine, I rather see you 'play around' with old(er) stuff.

[@mrcomment5544]

Those slats are a bad design. Should just be an assembly that comes out.

[@mindaugasstankus5943]

Cloud crapware on workshop hardware? Yep... will stop working after servers/company go down... Should have plunging/drivers for existing or proper CAM/CNC software, not what wed app BS.

[@markpitts5194]

You are getting some utter BS laser adverts attaching to this video matey. Just so you know. If you see negative comments, its probably to the adverts not you. I left one, and then deleted. I love your work, but the adds are utter.... insert expletive here!