TwoTrees SP-5 V3 first impression and test - 3D print your Halloween!

Deviating slightly from my usual content, let's take a look at the new version 3 of TwoTrees' Sapphire Plus 5 coreXY 3D printer! The SP-5 V3 has a build volume of 300x300x350mm, maximum print speeds of up to 300mm/s and now features a direct drive extruder and a Robin Nano V3.1 motherboard running Marlin with TMC2208 silent stepper drives.
Having never used an off the shelf 3D printer before, I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to set up and get running even with my limited knowledge about 3D printing. I was basically able to get very good prints off the cuff using the included slicer settings. With Halloween so close I obviously had to print the best Halloween knick-knack I found on Thingiverse and Printables!
Purchase the SP-5 V3 on Twotrees' online shop: bit.ly/3S565wQ
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Note: this is not an affiliate link and I don't receive any comission from a purchase. I was sent this machine free of charge in return for making this video, so my testimonials may be inherently biased. Your mileage may vary.
3D print the Chronic Screw Collector: www.thingivers...
Everything else I printed:
Tolerance test: www.printables...
Tea light ghost: www.printables... (slightly different one since Celta seems to have deleted his)
Emoji ghosts: www.printables...
Temperature tower: www.printables...
Creepy Halloween Spiders: www.thingivers...
Amazing Halloween Crow: www.thingivers...
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[@ChronicMechatronic]

Anyone need an editor for a horror flick? Hit me up! 😂 NOTE: this is not an unbiased review, I'm far to inexperienced in 3D printing to provide any neutral evaluation of a machine - also no worries guys, this won't change a thing for my DIY 3D printer series, next video we'll print the first benchy!!

[@Twotrees3Dofficial]

We want to thank you reviewed our product and made a video and our customers who have supported us. Your feedback is greatly appreciated, and we welcome any suggestions. Rest assured that we are committed to continually improving our products and services to meet your needs better. Thank you for your support and trust in our brand. Everyone who walks through here, don't forget that we have a discount now, see the text description of the video for details.

[@ChronicMechatronic]

Happy Halloween everyone!! I went all out with the editing on this one, watch out for the cursed clock!

[@Raytenecks]

Auto bed leveling isn't about the rails, it's about the bed. When you head up a big flat piece of metal, it warps slightly. And it could warp differently every time. Automatic bed leveling adjusts for that slight warp to give a great first layer every time.

[@ChronicMechatronic]

A Patron suggested that might be why they chose a glass bed

[@GeekDetour]

Hi man! Nice review. Where are you from? Cool country accent.

[@scottbaeder37]

I am SOOOO glad to see you get a printer to "review". Yes, it's not the speed of a Bamboo, but it is a really good printer, and YES, it is SOLID. Love the "reed switch" as an upgrade of the Raven. Keep up the DIY, since you really are pretty amazing at engineering solutions out of basically CRAP, and THAT is a truly unique talent!

[@ChronicMechatronic]

Thanks 🤭

[@eatthedead1ify]

for a corexy machine: i highly recommend changing the infil angle to 0° or 90° as the 2 motors will be working together. this allows higher accels and speeds. 45° is perfect for bed slingers for the same reason. great video!

[@ChronicMechatronic]

Thanks for the tip!

[@sq3rjick]

I have the previous version of the SP-5. I unlinked the Z motors to get automated bed tramming (G34 support). There’s not much use if you don’t have two end stops (mine has a single Z limit switch by default that I replaced with two independent optical ones) or a bed probe. The point of this is that you can ensure your bed is always parallel to your gantry before every print automatically. Generally overkill, but I hate manually leveling my bed. I added a mosquito high flow hot end, gdstime fans, a Sherpa micro extruder, bltouch, tmc2209s, and klipper to mine and it really screams. It fills the space between my X1C and my V2.4 350. Just need to get the enclosure panels. I know that Design Prototype Test has an SP-5 (early model) that he completely enclosed for high temperature printing. Hope you enjoy!

[@ChronicMechatronic]

Honestly, personally I'm probably too lazy to bother with upgrades - though the fans could definitely do with being quieter ngl, not much point in quiet steppers if the fans sound like a jet engine...

[@chrisis4933]

This printer is solid but I think it lacks of state of the art features like Klipper firmware, ceramic hotend, input shaper, ABL, etc.

[@fouzaialaa7962]

its a good printer ,you did not mention the price ,or maybe i didnt hear it something is wrong with that extruder , the layer lines are not consistent , either you need to adjust the extrusion multiplayer in your slicer , or the extruder itself have something wrong with the hardware, CNC kitchen investigated and found out the gears in his extruder are not eccentric to the motor shaft , after that i found out i have the same issue and it really improved the print quality significantly also tune retraction and enable wiping on retraction (it will wipe the nozzle on the part itself to get rid of the blobs after retraction) also you need Automatic Bed Leveling , you should investigate how to add it on the cheap

[@Rfster900]

Great video. I really like the fact that you are taking the time to show us the construction of the machine and the internals. This is great. Thumbs up!

[@ChronicMechatronic]

Thanks! Since at the time I really knew nothing about 3D printers I tried to make a rather neutral video showing everything so smarter people than me could form their own opinion. Though I guess I might still have been biased by the "shiny new toy syndrome"...

[@gregorimigliavacarodrigues942]

I have the same printer model, I would like to add a Bltouch but I couldn't find anything on the subject. Can anyone recommend something to me?

[@Elkarlo77]

My Tronxy X5SA 400 has a Semi Dual Z-Axis as well. Didn't saw it at first and ran it without the syncronizing belt. On a large Bed the Belt would slip on a XY, so they use two motors on one driver. The problem is that you need to syncronize the Z-Axis after every powerup without the Syncronizing belt, as one side might drop. So they got 1 Driver 2 cheap motors and a geared belt. And thats the problem on a real dual Z-Axis or tri Z- axis Core YX printer, thebed needs to be leveled, wih syncro belt it doesn't . So less firmware demand as well. So cheaper Prozessor, Marlin and less problems.

[@nathanskinner423]

Maybe my standards for quality are inflated having gotten used to Bambus. But the Z banding on these parts is atrocious.

[@ChronicMechatronic]

I dunno, for some reason it mostly occurred on some parts, the tea light ghost and crow were (as far as I can tell) perfect despite being taller

[@markkoelmeyer3799]

I hope you don't skip the diy in diy 3d printer😁

[@ChronicMechatronic]

I was worried it may be received that way, but no worries, my DIY 3D printer series will continue the way it always has! There will be no cheating using parts printed on this printer 😅

[@alexstone691]

I feel like it should be illegal to add bed tramming knobs with springs on a printer that has linear rails

[@BukkitViper]

At what speed did you print the ghosts? I am looking for an upgrade for my old ender 3 and want to print at least at 80 mm/s

[@ChronicMechatronic]

I printed most of the things in this video at the Prusa default setting (I think that's 40mm/s perimeters and 80mm/s infill) because this was the first time I touched a 3D printer and I didn't know what I was doing. I've since gone up to 120mm/s on this printer without any problems. Mechanically I see nothing preventing it from going the full 300mm/s they claim, it just needs some tuning to get there, which I haven't yet had the time or knowledge to do. When I just cranked up the speed I got some severe belt chatter :p

[@judith_pp]

certified snapple addict with all those caps lol. The printer looks good surprised that they'd sell a printer with a build surface that large without bed leveling

[@ChronicMechatronic]

Haha, actually milk bottle caps, I have bags of them in the attic. Five people eating cereal at breakfast is bound to create plastic waste - I need to get that filament extrusion machine built ASAP so I can turn all that stuff into free filament!

[@MarioIArguello]

I noticed TWOTREES has the machines I've been looking for with similar architecture to the I3 Mega which unfortunately Anycubic pulled away from to go the open frame structure with side mounted control panels which I highly dislike, so I am interested in their machines, they have other machines as well CNC laser cutters which look well made for being entry level. I am looking to try both their I3 and the machine featured in this video. I don't care for bells and whistles more important to me is consistency repeatability and durability. I can level the beds myself not a problem in fact I prefer to do that, but if the machines come with auto-leveling even better. Amazon has the older CORE XY version I wonder if TWOTREES is considering updating their product line at Amazon.

[@bipsendk]

Physical size of heated bed - in case one want to use magnetic PEI sheet for PETG printing ?

[@ChronicMechatronic]

310x310mm :)

[@jamiejoker118]

Omg get a girl

[@leszekzajac7772]

that's not annoying at all , just as i finished upgrading my sp5 v1.1 to orbiter direct drive extruder and ceramis core V6 hotend. Hotend on mine was total rubbish and looked just loike the on you have, jammed on first print and ket jaming every 10 minutes of printing. one motor would strugle to move bead at reasonable speed without being huge. and uncoupled double drive z axis motors always desync on power down. unless you home your printer every time before poering down And you zero/home position is on full motor step you will have desycned motors.

[@ChronicMechatronic]

Oh noo! 😂😢 So far I only got the hotend clogged twice after forcing in super brittle PLA that splintered and jammed in the softened PTFE above the heat break.

[@leszekzajac7772]

@@ChronicMechatronic well i planned on using direct drive and full metal hotend anyways, but printing new mount proved impossible, had to use old knackered printer with rattling linear rails and max 15mm/s speed and 100mm/s2 accelerationto get half decent print 😂

[@uygar2580]

I have SP5 v1.1 but upgraded with diamond mount head and klipper, thanks to my friend done this upgrade which take almost all day :) I'm happy with my printer. I installed enclosure too but roof is missing. I need to done it too.

[@9111logic]

Two motors spread evenly any potential stretch of the belt resulting in a more precise movement and less stress in the belt - Thanks for sharing 🙏

[@brianipsen643]

I wonder how it compares to the FlyingBear Reborn 2 - which also is a CoreXY printer...

[@jessehavok4181]

What did the last version run on. I thought these were always Marlin

[@fonziesanders]

Hi Chronic. Nice video. I've got an older SP-5. What a 'project' it has been over the years. When you get your sea legs, how about another video pushing the speeds? Seems an appropriate test for something advertised as high speed. Benchy in under 15 minutes 😂? I'm skeptical after zooming in the times on the slicer. Also it would be cool to walk us through the touchscreen functions.

[@ChronicMechatronic]

I agree, an "opinion after xx months" video would be good, I've learned so much since getting this printer I now actually have options about it where in the beginning I was just overwhelmed by how cool everything seemed. Unfortunately I've been pretty slow at trying to print faster because I haven't been printing a lot since, so there might already be a new version of this printer on the market until I finally found my bearings and get around to making that video... 😬

[@davidemancini4990]

AHAHAHAH mi dispiace per te

[@ChronicMechatronic]

Why?

[@mustafizsiam1506]

Idont know much about sponsor..But did you have to pay for that printer?

[@ChronicMechatronic]

No, when companies send stuff to influencers it's generally free since they do it for the publicity. I only took the deal to kinda get a feeling for what off the shelf units are like so I don't talk too much crap in my DIY builds - sort of as a a reality check since I've been doing 3D printing related content for years now without ever having seen a 3D printer in person...

[@mustafizsiam1506]

@@ChronicMechatronic make a comparison video after your diy 3d printer is done

[@ChronicMechatronic]

Haha, "$50 vs $500 3D printer" would sure would get views, tho I don't think the results would be very favorable to the DIY 😂

[@zafindraberahonaJCA]

Hi Ben! Fair review. Looks that it was a big deal of work... Almost 30 minutes...

[@ChronicMechatronic]

Yeah, it was definitely one of the most stressful videos to make, but I'm kinda proud of how it turned out in the edit 😅

[@cheroso1000]

Did you make a speed test in it, to see really how far can it go?

[@ChronicMechatronic]

Not really, I'm a bloody beginner at 3D printing so I was happy to get decent results at all. I did try to go up to 240mm/s and got a lot of belt chatter, but a Patron of mine said with proper tuning it'd likely manage the claimed 300mm/s

[@kamhaq]

men you shout so loud, may be too hyper :), i have the same printer it worth every penny, and tons of options to upgrade.

[@ChronicMechatronic]

People told me I should drink less coffee, but I don't even drink any 😅 The microphone is just a bit too sensitive for my voice ;)

[@vapomondo2580]

Hi good video I ordered a new one and got the slightly older v1.1. Anyway was just wondering what size and diameter the new smooth belt pulleys are so I can order some with out having to vuy the whole high speed kit as Ive already teplaced the hotend and the extruder etc just need to swap out the pulleys and configure some new firmware again.

[@ChronicMechatronic]

What, you ordered V3 and they sent you the old one? That's inacceptable, did you reach out to customer support? I could raise the issue with my contact there. The smooth idler pulleys are all 20 tooth size, 12mm OD 4mm ID

[@Mikehatespigs]

Looks like a good printer to mod into a vz bot

[@ammmze]

I've been thinking about trying it...there's a project for that called the "sapphibot project".