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not everyone has the cashola to shell out on a fancy 3d printer and even

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relatively basic home enthusiast ones can still cost hundreds or even

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thousands of dollars or at least they did

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feast your eyes on the easy three x1 a

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sub 100 3d printer straight to you from

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shenzhen china it moves it extrudes

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sometimes it goes up but it has basically zero competition in

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this price bracket so we absolutely needed to take a look at it

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i know what you're thinking because i was thinking the exact same thing this

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thing has to be a hot pile of garbage

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but hold on for a second even if it is hot garbage you have to appreciate that

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hitting such a low price point while delivering something that functions at

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all is pretty impressive there are multiple injection molded parts each one

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requiring a costly tool to manufacture and it even comes 99 pre-assembled

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there's clearly a lot of value for your money here as long as you temper your

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expectations the accessory package includes what you need and absolutely

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nothing more you get a small screwdriver a few meters of pla filament a card

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reader and microsd card pre-loaded with manuals software and a test print file

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and finally a 12 volt two and a half amp power supply the x1 gets away with such

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a wimpy power supply by the way because there is no heated print bed

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but that means that you're only able to print in pla as most other plastics will

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have bad adhesion and warping issues without a heated bed

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which is fine i mean we can't recommend pla for anything structural but for

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decorative prints single-use widgets or toys it gets the job done just fine that

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is as long as it's a decent quality filament

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out of the gate the included g-code file produced this little cat model and there

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is a lot that we can learn from this the stringing between the ears and the tail

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tells us that while the x1's hot end cooling fan seems to be working the lack

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of a part cooling fan so one that helps solidify the plastics after it's been

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extruded means that the printer ends up either dragging material along with the

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nozzle or printing on top of semi-liquid

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material there's also visible porosity along the

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perimeters of the model that tells us that our filament is not extruding

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evenly now initially we blamed the printer for this understandably but upon

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closer inspection of the included filament we discovered that it is

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complete garbage the diameter of this small length of the

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starter filament varies by over 0.3 millimeters from one end to the other to

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put that in context most manufacturers strive to keep it under .05 millimeters

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across an entire spool like this one

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the good news is that once we switched to some decent filament the print

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quality actually improved dramatically

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it's still not great especially side by

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side against prints that are coming out of our ultimaker 3 plus but it's in line

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with our expectations given the price point and i think we can do even better

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so from here out we're going to be making our own g code using a slicer

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which takes our 3d model and slices it

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hence the name into multiple 2d layers that are laid down in order to make the

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3d shapes we want now ez3 did include

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their own slicer called easywear which uses the unity engine

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yes that unity engine from escape from tarkov so that's neat and it functions

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just fine with the default settings but the menu is a bit unwieldy and for some

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reason the settings list kept scrolling itself upwards so after one test print

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of our LTT logo which i have right here

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sort of holding together still we made the decision to move to a slicer that

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cullen our writer for this video was more familiar with that's prusa slicer

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which actually ended up making things worse rather than better believe it or not

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too much material was being extruded and the nozzle was too low on the first

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layer dragging itself around in the pla after iterating half a dozen times

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though and moving to a slightly larger coin mostly just to help with the part

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cooling so that it's not going over the exact same spot that's still liquid

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right away we actually started to see some half

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decent results now we've still got some infill and

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perimeter blending issues which was a little surprising given the up to 30

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overlap that we tried but overall big gains were made and we felt like the x1

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was ready to take on benchy

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the benchy benchmark model is an excellent trial print for a few reasons

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one it contains nearly every difficult 3d printing feature like curved

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overhangs tiny surface details long curved perimeters and both small and

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slanted holes for comparison this blue one here is

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printed on our ultimaker 3 plus you can check out our full review on that

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printer in the card up here now it's not perfect there's a bit of weird

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patterning in the vertical surfaces but it has nice crisp edges with no

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stringing and its bridged sections are pretty good considering that there's no

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support structure included most of these issues can really be

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attributed to a lack of tuning and our fast print speed compared to the x1s

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it's easy to see which machine did the better job oh by the way we didn't

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mention this but it comes with a magnetic print bed mind you it's kind of

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ruined already from just like a dozen prints but anyway

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with more dialing in we probably could get better results than this

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particularly on the underextruded sections but the results here are

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as expected our solid infill is still under extruded which means that even

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after the tuning we've done so far there's more time we would need to

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invest in order to improve print reliability these hanging bits under the

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roof here indicate both a lack of speed and cooling you see a similar problem in

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the undersides of the archways and as for the smokestack on the top that

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turned into a hot gooey blob and this is an example of fine detail print problems

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that you simply cannot fix by slowing down the printhead because it can't

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solidify with the hot end so close to it

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now there are some files out there to hack a cooling fan onto this printer and

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actually a heated bed while you're at it but this isn't the printer to buy if

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you're trying to do even a moderate amount of 3d printing it's an ultra low

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box starter machine designed to fit onto a bookshelf or in a dorm room closet

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along with all of your shirts from lttstore.com if all you wanted was

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something to tinker with and if you can manage to make a bath toy or two for

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your kids so much the better well it works which is actually more than we

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expected for under a hundred dollars but if you want consistency and plug and

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play operation it's worth the money to grab something like a monoprice up mini

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which comes in at 219 or if you can swing it a prusa mini

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wow we don't actually do a lot of 3d printing videos but um hey you could

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check out our ultimaker 3 plus review i guess that was a long time ago luke was

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still reviewing stuff