Speaker 1: Picked up a Bamboo X one E printer three D
Speaker 1: printer from gigaparts. Sign a link in the description blow
Speaker 1: for this and everything we talk about with this printer.
Speaker 1: There a daler for the full line of these printers.
Speaker 1: And I did purchase this. This was not a donation
Speaker 1: or a gift or anything like that. And I'm going
Speaker 1: to keep it and I am going to use it
Speaker 1: for various things in ham radio. This is what it
Speaker 1: looks like directly out of the box. It came with
Speaker 1: this role of black what I assume is PLA Yeah,
Speaker 1: PLA CF right there. And it came with these other
Speaker 1: two spools as well. That one is a PAHT CO
Speaker 1: which I don't know what with spool black with spool
Speaker 1: paht This is for pa pet right there. So we're
Speaker 1: going to put all of this together. I bought some
Speaker 1: extra spools for it. This one will take up to
Speaker 1: four well all of the bamboo line. You can set
Speaker 1: up up to four colors or up to four spools
Speaker 1: with different either different colors or different types of filament
Speaker 1: and program the printer to run and do stuff with
Speaker 1: everything that's set up on the four different options you've got.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna set this up and get it going
Speaker 1: and see what it looks like. I removed the plastic
Speaker 1: from the door and from the top. This is the
Speaker 1: lid here glass hard plastic maybe, but there was plastic
Speaker 1: covering around it. Through that out. Open this up and
Speaker 1: this thing. I don't know what this part is, so
Speaker 1: I'm about to take this out, but I think it
Speaker 1: comes up from the top right there, So I'm going
Speaker 1: to see what that looks like. Put all that together.
Speaker 1: But the best part is that it came with this
Speaker 1: quick start guide get everything set up. Gigaparts gives free
Speaker 1: classes at their location in Huntsville, Alabama for how to
Speaker 1: set these up, and I actually attended one of the
Speaker 1: classes and the guy sat down with me and told
Speaker 1: me some things. I made some notes on it, so
Speaker 1: I kind of know how to do it, but wanted
Speaker 1: to make a video walking through the steps to set
Speaker 1: this thing up and get it running. Set this thing
Speaker 1: down on the floor. It's gonna go right there in
Speaker 1: my hamshack. And they say it for some types of
Speaker 1: filment you'll need some good ventilation, which this hamshack. This
Speaker 1: is where I do all my video recordings and whatnot.
Speaker 1: I do have if I take that cover off. I
Speaker 1: do have an exhaust fan there. I never use it
Speaker 1: because it's simply just too darn loud. But it works fine,
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with it. Heck, if nothing else, I'll just
Speaker 1: open up the door ventilate in here. But I don't
Speaker 1: expect to be using a lot of that filment that
Speaker 1: is that requires ventilation. It's a specific type of filment.
Speaker 1: I forget what it's called. And this has an enclosed
Speaker 1: heated bed, a temperature controlled, environmentally controlled heated bed. So
Speaker 1: I'm not overly worried about it. But I can always
Speaker 1: rearrange it and put it in one of the rooms
Speaker 1: of the house if I want to. But here's what
Speaker 1: it looks like from the top down. Disc box with
Speaker 1: whatever was in it was right there, and then this
Speaker 1: part right here is the part that holds the spools.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna take all that out and set all
Speaker 1: that up real quick. That is the spool holder thinging.
Speaker 1: You have to take these two screws out of this part,
Speaker 1: these screws right here, which is an Allen head. To
Speaker 1: take these two out here right there and right there
Speaker 1: you can see the red arrow stickers on them. And
Speaker 1: then it lifts up out of the top, and then
Speaker 1: all of this other stuff right here has to be
Speaker 1: I have to remove the screws on that. This. Look
Speaker 1: this plastic plate here. This is I don't think this
Speaker 1: is part of the system. This is just for packing.
Speaker 1: So we take this out and that out. These four
Speaker 1: here that'll come out. That's your the printer bed. All
Speaker 1: of these instructions are in the quick start guy that
Speaker 1: I just showed you minute ago. I got pretty much
Speaker 1: everything ready to go, although there's a few things left.
Speaker 1: So on the back of it, it had me connect
Speaker 1: a couple of cables to interface the printer to the
Speaker 1: spooling container spooling deck which you can sit on top
Speaker 1: if you want to. I'm gonna put mine on the
Speaker 1: side over here. So I think I'm gonna clear all
Speaker 1: this stuff out and I'm gonna put the printer in
Speaker 1: the corner. I'm gonna move the printer over here. It's
Speaker 1: got a spooling holder on the back of it right
Speaker 1: here that you had to install, and then the wiring
Speaker 1: for everything is right there. Most of those hoses it
Speaker 1: came with, and I had to put this four pen
Speaker 1: cable in right here, and the six pin cable which
Speaker 1: is not connected yet. This will go to the to
Speaker 1: the spoolers that's down there right now. It's a little
Speaker 1: bit out of order in my opinion on how it
Speaker 1: does it, because it tells you to take all this
Speaker 1: stuff out. It never says anything. There's a bunch of
Speaker 1: there's a big foam insert underneath the hotbed here, and
Speaker 1: it says to take these three screws out right there, one, two, three,
Speaker 1: which I did. That that's done. But this hotbed doesn't
Speaker 1: lift up on its own, like I don't want to
Speaker 1: force it. I'm assuming that it's going to roll up
Speaker 1: and down on these these rails here. But I can't
Speaker 1: get this this big, this phae piece right here, this
Speaker 1: this this is all one big piece, and I tried
Speaker 1: to pull it out. I don't want to leave any
Speaker 1: piece of it down there. And it never really tells
Speaker 1: you how to get that out there. This is magnetic
Speaker 1: pulls up like that, so that's fine there, but I'm
Speaker 1: not sure how to get that out. So after you
Speaker 1: put all that together, it says to pull these these
Speaker 1: screws out. It says to install the screen, which we
Speaker 1: did right there, and then it says to and then
Speaker 1: it tells you how to the next page on here
Speaker 1: is how to connect to Wi Fi. And I'm like, well, okay,
Speaker 1: so I plugged it in, turned it on, looked at
Speaker 1: the screen, and I'm read the next page and it
Speaker 1: tells you how to turn off. There's two ways to
Speaker 1: turn off the network. Switch. Used to be these bamboo
Speaker 1: printers required you to have network, and a lot of
Speaker 1: people were leary on that because it's like, okay, what
Speaker 1: is it reporting back to China? Who knows? There's two
Speaker 1: different ways to turn off network. You can run Ethernet
Speaker 1: or Wi Fi, And it says there's two separate switches
Speaker 1: to physically turn off the Ethernet and Wi Fi, so
Speaker 1: you can do that if you want to. But also
Speaker 1: one of the cool things about this printer is once
Speaker 1: you download the app and bind the printer to your
Speaker 1: app on your phone, you can control it remotely from
Speaker 1: anywhere as long as you have an Internet connection. So
Speaker 1: that's kind of neat. I'm going to do some of
Speaker 1: that in the future. And then printer binding is next, okay,
Speaker 1: And it says right there download the step one is
Speaker 1: to download the print and step two is to connect
Speaker 1: power and follow the instructions on the screen, connect power
Speaker 1: to the printer and following the instructions on the screen.
Speaker 1: So and that's two pages after this connectivity page. So
Speaker 1: why is it telling me to connect power and turn
Speaker 1: the printer on two pages after it tells me to
Speaker 1: connect your Wi Fi? Doesn't make any sense. But oh well, okay,
Speaker 1: And it still hadn't told me how to take that
Speaker 1: phone out of the bottom. But maybe we have to
Speaker 1: move the bed up. Maybe we have to get the
Speaker 1: printer to move the bed up where we can take
Speaker 1: that phone out. So we'll see about that. But there's
Speaker 1: a switch here in the back turn that on the
Speaker 1: screen comes on like that, you can see. And I
Speaker 1: haven't downloaded the app yet, so I'm gonna go download
Speaker 1: the app now. And it says to bind the printer
Speaker 1: to the app, and here it is, so okay, so
Speaker 1: it did an automatic scan Wi Fi scan of Wi
Speaker 1: Fi networks. QRZ is want my Wi Fi network. I'm
Speaker 1: going to enter the password here and connect it to
Speaker 1: the network, and then I'm gonna go download the app
Speaker 1: on my phone and once, because my phonees are any
Speaker 1: connected network and it should just find the printer automatically.
Speaker 1: So that's what we're gonna try next. After connecting and
Speaker 1: getting everything set up with the app, go on to
Speaker 1: the next part of the screen, and it wants me
Speaker 1: to calibrate the system. So once the printer beds started
Speaker 1: moving up, I quickly grabbed the padding. I was told
Speaker 1: by the guy who was doing the training at gigaparts
Speaker 1: to be careful about sticking your hand in there when
Speaker 1: the bed's moving, so I wanted to do it real
Speaker 1: fast so it doesn't crush my hand or something. And
Speaker 1: it didn't. It hadn't moved down yet. It's just going
Speaker 1: through its calibration process. But I did get the That
Speaker 1: was the only way to get the foam out of
Speaker 1: it was to wait for the bed to come up.
Speaker 1: So all good. Now we're gonna see what happens next.
Speaker 1: All right, this thing is supposed to be plug and play,
Speaker 1: and I guarantee if anyone determined that that was not
Speaker 1: the case, it would be me. So here's the current
Speaker 1: snag I'm running running into. It is the loading of
Speaker 1: the film. It worked, Okay, I've got white light here
Speaker 1: and there. There's these two slots are empty. I put
Speaker 1: this filment in this green color. I don't I don't
Speaker 1: even know what kind it is. Really, I don't know
Speaker 1: how you tell what kind it is. It was on
Speaker 1: the package, but I don't know. Anyway, I put this
Speaker 1: in and it kept breaking, like it would break off
Speaker 1: in here, and then it would have a bunch of
Speaker 1: filment stuck in this tube back here. I had to
Speaker 1: take this tube out and force feed another type of
Speaker 1: filment through there to push the broken elements of that
Speaker 1: filament out. Here's one of the pieces of the broken
Speaker 1: elements right here. So anyway, so these two are empty,
Speaker 1: these two. This is a PA CF and PLA CF.
Speaker 1: They at least that's what it reads it as. So
Speaker 1: if we go over here, I've got this set up
Speaker 1: right here. Hopefully that's yeah, that should be okay. So
Speaker 1: this is a different menu than what we saw at
Speaker 1: the store, and it prompted me for a firmware update,
Speaker 1: which I did. I don't know. This looks different than
Speaker 1: what I remember. But you can see right there it
Speaker 1: says PLA CF and PACF And for whatever reason, this
Speaker 1: one's not reading that one says it's gray. It's not
Speaker 1: that one says it's black. It is they're both black.
Speaker 1: I think they're a different style or whatever. But if
Speaker 1: I go over here and neither one of them are
Speaker 1: loaded right now, and I don't know if I have
Speaker 1: to do I have to manually load one each time.
Speaker 1: I thought it did that for me. So if I
Speaker 1: go over here and maybe I shouldn't be using that,
Speaker 1: if I shouldn't be using this menu, let me know,
Speaker 1: this might be my problem. But I go to the
Speaker 1: Benchi right here, it says, please manually set AMS slot
Speaker 1: for the film. That's marked in a double dash a
Speaker 1: dash dash. So if I click on here, it's like
Speaker 1: that far one on the right is grat out, which
Speaker 1: is slot number four, and it's loaded right now. Slot
Speaker 1: number four is loaded. It's got a solid white light.
Speaker 1: I loaded it just exactly how we did it at
Speaker 1: the gigapart store the other day. This one is black.
Speaker 1: PACF is black. But I can't select either one of these.
Speaker 1: I can click on these empty ones and it changes
Speaker 1: that right there, okay, And I don't know. I can't
Speaker 1: select the one I want to use. I want to
Speaker 1: use this one in the far right, this PLACF, that's
Speaker 1: what I want to use. Okay. I can turn off
Speaker 1: use AMS, which I assume that this is the AMS
Speaker 1: right okay, And there's a there's a thing in here
Speaker 1: in the film. It's where you can go in and
Speaker 1: say spoolholder right there. I don't have a spoolholder. I
Speaker 1: bought the ams along with the printer. I don't think
Speaker 1: I have a spoolholder, so I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: something else you have to buy or what I was
Speaker 1: just going to use this. I don't really care to
Speaker 1: use a single color spoolholder, so I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's set up wrong. Again, I don't know. But if
Speaker 1: I go in here and choose Benchi, it doesn't like this.
Speaker 1: If I if I leave it the way it comes up,
Speaker 1: I'm headprinting now. It says there's a filment not matched. Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know what film it's not matched. There's two
Speaker 1: that are Do you have to have this full? Do
Speaker 1: you have to have something in here? You can't just
Speaker 1: print with two in here? I mean, that's what it
Speaker 1: looks like to me right there, because it's got an
Speaker 1: X through a one and a two. A three is
Speaker 1: as unselectable and a four is unselectable and grayed out,
Speaker 1: So I don't know what the heck that means. And
Speaker 1: then if I turn off us ams. It kind of
Speaker 1: goes through a motion and it finally says, oh, you
Speaker 1: don't have a spool in there, so and there's no
Speaker 1: It says there's a filment not matched. So I'm assuming
Speaker 1: that this file built into this folder right here has
Speaker 1: a specific filment set for it. I don't have any
Speaker 1: idea what that is. That I don't see anything in
Speaker 1: the menu to change that filament. And that's where I'm
Speaker 1: stuck right now, because I don't know what am I missing.
Speaker 1: I'm missing something. Do you have to have all four
Speaker 1: of these filled at the same time? Can I not
Speaker 1: use this stuff in here because it's already pre selected
Speaker 1: for certain filaments and I may or may not have
Speaker 1: those available to me right now. I was just gonna
Speaker 1: kind of use one of these for the first print,
Speaker 1: but I can't, and I guess I can. I don't
Speaker 1: think I have the I have the app. I've been
Speaker 1: following along on the app on my phone. It pretty
Speaker 1: much says, you know the same thing that the stream's
Speaker 1: telling me. But then the I don't have the slicer
Speaker 1: program installed on my laptop or my Windows box. I
Speaker 1: can install that, and I guess try it. I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's Should I not use that menu?
Speaker 1: Do I have to use the computer program? Where do
Speaker 1: I get a file? I mean, I know where to
Speaker 1: get You can go to prenibles or thing verse or
Speaker 1: whatever to get files. But since since that Benchi file
Speaker 1: was already saved in that internal folder, I thought I
Speaker 1: could use that. But it doesn't like the filament I
Speaker 1: have for one reason the other. So that's where I'm
Speaker 1: at right now. The problem that I just mentioned earlier
Speaker 1: in this video was I simply just loaded all of this.
Speaker 1: I just had the two here. It didn't seem to
Speaker 1: like that for whatever reason. I guess it's always looking
Speaker 1: here first, I don't know, So I just put the
Speaker 1: red here in this metallic green. These are both bamboo.
Speaker 1: I had that pa HT right there. This is a
Speaker 1: pla HT. This is a PAHT, and these are just
Speaker 1: regular pla filaments. I've got a few more down here now.
Speaker 1: I printed these. These are tie offs for guy wire
Speaker 1: or something like that, or maybe an antenna dog bone
Speaker 1: something like that. I printed these for my battery box.
Speaker 1: Got that design done right now. I'm printing a cigar holder.
Speaker 1: I'm printing some other stuff like that. This these two
Speaker 1: fouled up. I'm going to talk about those in another video.
Speaker 1: So I think the problem was. I guess the problem
Speaker 1: was that these number one and number two slots were empty,
Speaker 1: and the numbers three and four. I didn't want to
Speaker 1: print from those without something in the first two slots.
Speaker 1: That's all I did to make it stop going, okay,
Speaker 1: So I filled it up, filled up the all four
Speaker 1: slots on the on the ams with different types of films.
Speaker 1: They're all PLA, They're all PLA filaments except for the
Speaker 1: one that's the pa HT and then and then they're
Speaker 1: all different colors. And then I did a calibration that worked,
Speaker 1: And then I tried to print a Benchie several times
Speaker 1: and it kept failing, saying that the bed wasn't level,
Speaker 1: and the check your screws, make sure you got all
Speaker 1: the packing material out, that kind of thing. So I
Speaker 1: did a calibration a second time. And I'm sitting over
Speaker 1: here at my desk right there, that's where I make
Speaker 1: all my videos. I'm sitting over there at my desk,
Speaker 1: and I hear the thing going on the calibration, and
Speaker 1: then I hear this crash and I look up and
Speaker 1: this door is open and this thing had popped out
Speaker 1: and had fallen on the floor. I emailed Glenn at Gigaparts,
Speaker 1: the guy I got the lesson from, and I said,
Speaker 1: what is this? I don't even know where it came from.
Speaker 1: And he's like, no, that's probably something that's a brace
Speaker 1: for packing material. You probably should have taken that out.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, well, okay, this looks like it belongs
Speaker 1: in there, but I don't know. But I took that out,
Speaker 1: did another calibration work fine, tried to print the Benchi
Speaker 1: and it was perfect, absolutely perfect. So I guess that
Speaker 1: the problem was number one, I didn't have the ams
Speaker 1: completely filled in. Number two, this guy was still in
Speaker 1: there and I should have taken it out. That was
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago when I finally got that
Speaker 1: done and I just started printing, and I've printed several
Speaker 1: thing since then. So I'm gonna do another video about
Speaker 1: other pieces. I'm gonna do another video about some of
Speaker 1: this filment that I've used. I've determined that there's a
Speaker 1: couple different pieces, a couple of different styles of filment
Speaker 1: I do not like anyway, Thanks thanks for watching. This
Speaker 1: is gonna be a fun process to see how well
Speaker 1: this thing works. For future prints, put a comment in
Speaker 1: the description, or send me an email with something you
Speaker 1: would like to see me print. I printed the case.
Speaker 1: That's the case for radio. But which radio is it.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about that soon. Seventy three