{"video_id":"Q9CMfm-lkds","title":"We gotta go FAST! - Formlabs Form 4","channel":"ShortCircuit","show":"ShortCircuit","published_at":"2025-05-04T14:58:16Z","duration_s":318,"segments":[{"start_s":0.04,"end_s":5.279,"text":"at Creator Warehouse we like using printers with a lot of detail but one of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":3.439,"end_s":8.719,"text":"the downsides is they're really slow the form four from form Labs claims it can","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":7.12,"end_s":13.639,"text":"solve that problem by having most prints done in less than 2 hours let's open it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":11.12,"end_s":13.639,"text":"up and find","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.4,"end_s":21.48,"text":"out getting first eyes on this it looks super sleek and it's pretty simple","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":19.119,"end_s":27.199,"text":"packaging inside it is just the printer some cables resin tank and a resin 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bit of a tough","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":311.24,"end_s":315.88,"text":"sell thanks for watching this ShortCircuit if you like this and wanted to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":314.28,"end_s":319.8,"text":"see another really fast printer check out our video on the prusa mark 4S","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"at Creator Warehouse we like using printers with a lot of detail but one of the downsides is they're really slow the form four from form Labs claims it can solve that problem by having most prints done in less than 2 hours let's open it up and find out getting first eyes on this it looks super sleek and it's pretty simple packaging inside it is just the printer some cables resin tank and a resin mixer some other things they sent us were some of their resins so we have a black V5 a elastic 50a which is almost like a rubber and then a clear resin which we're going to be printing with today and it's been a week unfortunately the first printer we got sent had a crack in the back of the cover so we had to get it swapped out the RMA was super easy through form laabs and they got it to us within 3 or 4 days for resin printers you want to make sure that they're level the main reason for that is so that the thickness of resin that you're dealing with is consistent across the tank this printer has a built-in accelerometer or gyroscope that helps you level it next step is putting the resin tank in slots in and they have two little retention Clips on the sides we are looking at the mixer open up the clip slide it in Click lver to lift up slide in and lock into place next up putting in the resin just take it out of the bag and slide it into the receptacle I just went through and confirmed that all the internals are ready to go and the last thing to tell you about is our sponsor secret lab and their Titan Evo chair which not only looks great but emphasizes ergonomic comfort with four-way lumbar support a sculpted Pebble seat base and multi-directional adjustable armrests and if you want to switch up the vibe their skins can give the chair a whole new unique look so check out the Titan Evo gaming chair at the link down below here we're looking at pre-form which is form lab slicing software it's pretty straightforward to use for especially their SLA printers and it does most of the work for you which is pretty nice all right I've got the two parts in I will just have it autogenerate the supports for me their slicer is quite good at generating ports to make them easy to remove and also very sufficient for holding your parts sturdy enough while they're printing so for the selector you can see there's a bunch around the outside edge and then a whole bunch of internal supports to support overhanging features I located these specifically because I cared about the outer surfaces more preform naturally orients them in a slightly different way you can kind of massage things around depending on what parts of your part you care about more all right now that we've got everything sliced up let's send it over to the printer and get it started printer finished up let's take a look O It's So Clean look how clear it is wow yeah wow yeah is this a new one yeah this is a new one it's very expensive holy can I just touch it or see you're wearing gloves yeah do not touch the resins are not great to just handle is it done being cured or no no I wouldn't like stick your head in it right like I was doing before that you let me do some Safety Committee guy here got him looks pretty clean still have some washing and curing to do so I'm going to take this off there and we'll see you after and we're back with some cleaned up parts so we have our 3x selector our 3x end cap and I threw a handle on Just for good measure as well looking at the parts initially they look great the top surface is like a mirror it's crazy taking a look at the rest of the parts even on the side faces it's pretty smooth I know you can actually fully polish these parts and I took a little bit of a buffing wheel to parts of the handle didn't want to spend too too much time on it but I was able to get a pretty good mirror finish even on the side some of the normal things you do have to deal with for SLA is all of the attachment points which are kind of annoying to get off but if you have the patience and some sandpaper and scraping it's definitely doable but overall the clarity of the clear resin that form s has is wild and the print time is pretty spectacular too for the two of these it was around 2 and 1/2 hours total and then for the handle we were looking more like three which for a part this big is really quick all in all the parts that came out are super clear look amazing and fit together like I'd expect from a printer like this the last thing to talk about for this printer is the price and they are not cheap the printer starts at 4,500 us but to make full use of the system and be able to work with it nicely you're going to need to spend closer to 6600 to get a curing station and a wash station you can make do with just the printer and have everything else done manually by you but it's going to be a lot of extra work and a lot of extra cleanup working with the Cure and wash stations makes it a lot easier faster and safer to work with these resins having used formlabs printers before and now this one it's definitely a useful tool for the topend pro suumer and lower level professional use we would end up making pretty good use of a printer like this both for video production and for product development in the create a warehouse side as a single individual it's a bit of a tough sell thanks for watching this ShortCircuit if you like this and wanted to see another really fast printer check out our video on the prusa mark 4S"}