**First Impressions: A Review of the New 3D Printer**

As I take the new 3D printer out of its box, I notice that it feels solid and sturdy. The design is sleek and modern, with a chunky look that reminds me of the X-Tool. I appreciate the raised rails, which allow for more travel on the Z-axis, providing a comfortable range of motion for printing thick objects.

The amount of travel on the Z-axis is quite impressive, with 76 millimeters of movement, allowing users to slide objects under without having to raise the rails. This feature alone makes me confident in the printer's ability to handle complex prints. Additionally, the inclusion of limit switches is a notable feature, which allows for home positioning and repeatable prints.

**Growing Pains: Understanding the Design Flaws**

However, as I begin to assemble the printer, I notice some growing pains with the design. The wire connector on the back seems to be too small, making it difficult to stay in place while the printer is moving. This could lead to a loss of alignment and affect print quality. To mitigate this issue, I plan to use short wire connections and create some play in the system to allow for easier cable management.

Furthermore, the bottom of the printer's base feels a bit too solid, which might make it difficult to insert objects with thicker profiles. This could be rectified by tweaking the design or adding more flexibility to the build plate. These minor issues aside, I'm confident that the printer can deliver high-quality prints with proper setup and calibration.

**Pros: The Good Stuff**

Overall, I'm impressed with the printer's design, which feels solid and sturdy. The raised rails and limit switches are particularly notable features that will enhance my printing experience. The amount of travel on the Z-axis is also a major plus, allowing for more flexibility when working with thick objects.

The sleek and modern design is also a bonus, making it feel like a high-end product even at this price point. The user interface seems intuitive, although I did encounter some issues during assembly due to lack of instructions. However, the printer itself feels solid, and I'm confident that it will deliver reliable prints with minimal maintenance.

**Cons: Areas for Improvement**

One area where the printer falls short is in its engraving capabilities. In my test runs, I noticed that the cut test results were inconsistent, with the text being slightly muddled at times. This could be due to the laser's precision or the material properties of the object being printed.

Additionally, I encountered some issues with detail rendering on smaller prints. The larger Star Wars mandala print was impressive, but the smaller ones seemed to suffer from a lack of clarity. It's possible that this is due to my settings not yet optimized for the specific printer model.

**Testing and Results**

I decided to conduct some tests to see how well the printer performs in various scenarios. The engrave test revealed some inconsistencies in the print quality, although I suspect this could be improved with calibration and software tweaks. The cut test showed promising results, with clean edges on thin objects like cardboard.

The engrave test was also used to showcase the printer's capabilities on colored acrylic, which produced impressive results despite the object being only 2 millimeters thick. This suggests that the printer can handle detailed prints with precision.

**Conclusion**

As I wrap up this review, it's clear that the new 3D printer has a lot of potential. While there are some growing pains with the design, these issues are minor compared to the overall solid build quality and impressive print capabilities. With proper calibration and settings optimization, I'm confident that this printer will deliver high-quality prints and become a trusted tool in any makerspace or workshop.

**Additional Information**

If you're interested in purchasing this 3D printer, be sure to check out the manufacturer's website for pricing information, as it was not specified during my review. Additionally, make sure to follow proper assembly instructions (which, unfortunately, were lacking) and consult online resources for calibration and optimization guidelines.

**Future Updates**

I'll continue to use this printer and provide updates on its performance, including any software or firmware changes that may improve its capabilities. As always, I appreciate your feedback and suggestions, which can help shape the future of 3D printing and make it more accessible to makers around the world.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys i'm nick and this is build that build alexa play i'm never going to give you up on repeat alexa volume 10. sorry about the the wrecking and the rolling there guess what time it is the lasers are coming in fast and hot guys i can't help it so this is currently a unit that i don't even believe is out yet i don't have any specs on it it didn't come with any instructions but it did come from sanesmart and i think it's their first attempt at their own branded diode laser this is the ginsoku lc-40 i was checking just the laser to see like the wattage and things like that there's nothing on here this is you know this is how much they're in testing right now the only thing it just says the warning label i have reached out to saintsmart to try to get some sort of instructions on how to put this together but it is modular and it does look fairly easy so we're going to take a crack at it without any instructions i have built a couple lasers in the past so i kind of have an idea how they go together this may be a total failure and i'll have to come revisit once i get the instructions but that's what we're doing right now i'm just kind of looking at some of like i don't even have a spec sheet on the thing yet just kind of looking at the information sent over to me it looks like it says it has two different firmwares i think i think they're talking software the stock firmware is custom is customized to allow users to operate it via their mobile phones and computers the mobile phone app is easy to use this machine also allows you to switch to gerbil based firmware basically let you use laser gerbil or uh or light burn so right now we're gonna lay the pieces out on the bench and let's get to work kids let's get tires on this thing giddy up i'm guessing that is a gantry got a couple packets with some stuff in it pack it pack it pack a packet that is going to be one arm so the other side i guess i should say in that arm some cabling it looks like for power and attachments that looks like a front or a back panel then i mean like very little branding even on this the laser unit itself looking at this we can get through this we can do this okay so i'm not sure if this is the back or the front yet but what i'm noticing is that each one of these stepper motors has a cable coming off of it we've got another cable here this has two cables on this side that look like they marry up to those and then this one in here looks like it marries up to this guy so that being said i think we're gonna do is try to get these connected and then let's see let's do this and then we'll bring this up i don't know exactly where this thing is supposed to go i guess it can tuck down in here to a certain degree because this needs to come in here you see i'm saying i don't know if you guys can even see that but i don't want to pinch my wire this is my issue here and so i'm trying to stuff them in there as much as i can i think and then there we go okay so let's see i can't see that now so this the screws for this are underneath it looks like so now that we have the wires kind of tucked into that rail let me take a look and see if i can figure out which screws this takes this is my one concern is i don't know what these little guys are at all i think these might be like cable clips though do you need an allen wrench there's one provided i'm assuming the bigger ones are going to go in and here we'll just do the other same thing on the other side now the good thing about this is one of the reasons that i'm attempting this is because all the belts are already in the unit which makes it a lot easier to put it together yep there goes the camera now the fun part is going to be trying to get this one let's see how this is going to go on here well it's definitely not going like that it's going to go like this but i got to get these two guys plugged in first so let's pull this having the camera rig over is better for you guys to see but don't know me a lot um no that's not going to go there let's see oh wait yeah this one goes here make sure i was sitting on a laser the other day and it had a bent pin in it okay and that's what this is and then this is going to go this is going to be fun but so there's this little guy right here actually done this side first first comes the shovel take it apart and do that but this is a short little connector so i'll try to get it in there without damaging anything and then we're going to try to tuck this in there okay so we got it plugged in tucking i'm tucking while i'm trying to push this in here so because the big big thing is you don't want to pinch any of those wires in here they could pull out a connection or you could just sever the wires all together okay and we're going to repeat this on the back side but the back side doesn't have any uh really anything you know any wiring it so this should be a little easier hopefully and then i'm just gonna bring this down this way this is gonna have to go like this okay so the problem is here again this is just a really short connection if i could ask for anything i would just want this connection to be a little longer because it's just those little tiny cables little tiny wires here let's try something around here okay that's enough and then this guy is gonna drop right in there i kind of you guys probably think i'm doing this backwards i the reason i'm doing this the way i'm doing is because these connections all kind of hide because normally i would put you know you put the pieces on first and then and then secure it so next thing i have four screws here which i'm gonna guess go to the gantry these guys there's two little channels here to kind of slip into and you're kind of doing this blind let's see if we can get it i'll do one of these guys over here so we're even stevens even stevens what does that even mean dude i honestly use like a longer um allen wrench for this it's not a horrible design it's just not the easiest once you get in there like i i slipped out of the allen wrench or i slipped out of the the screw and you guys know how bad it is when you slip out and then trying to get it back in that was kind of a pain we got it though so far no instructions um this is still going pretty quick i mean i'm looking at my timer and we're about 12 minutes right now how does this thing go up and down oh i'm holding it upside down oh sure okay all right so you've got a thumbscrew over here we're gonna probably screw into the back of this right it's gonna go like that maybe this is the front of the machine it's kind of weird then like the power and everything's on the back but it'd be out of the way i guess all right let's jump around again and then take one of these guys keep it up on there come through and and action okay i do know where that is it's right here oh and it plugs in right there okay so there is there's like a usbc back here it goes right here i think you know what that is yeah looks like a usbc to the cable for the laser so it's kind of an interesting thought in having this kind of this kind of cable and having up right so it's out of the way basically so where does this go all right let's take another look around this thing i am missing another one this little usb type c places it looks like because i have another cord which would make more sense because right now this thing's really tight ah found it okay all right so i think what we're doing here this goes here we have this guy and this guy so there's two of them my thought is this one's gonna go in here we're gonna cable manage this across the back of us this guy is going to go into the one on the back and then come over and clip into this because in this way like the way this comes up you got a clip a clip and a clip which is basically this on the back you've got your switch your power your usb and everything and then right here in this little fence there's another one that's usbc's i'm just trying to give you like kind of where we are in space type situation i feel like we're going to go here and then clip there and then all the way down and this is going to run all the way down here and we're going to clip those in so it looks like the whole point of these is to clip everything in so it's so it stays you know kind of like you would with a zip ties but they have designated spots for them which is kind of nice like i said because zip ties aren't always the easiest thing to deal with and they you know they don't look great it also comes with the zip drive so okay so moment of truth oh it's home let's just pull that clip right off oh okay well that was solid it feels solid it sounds solid um i don't think that clip's ever going to stay on there and i guess we're homing to the back left okay and as i was poking around on the uh the flash drive that came with the unit i found an instruction manual yay so for the most part that was assembled correctly as far as i can tell from the pictures but time for nerd facts it's the lc40 we knew that high grade aluminum alloy the laser head is a five millimeter fixed distance laser travel for the z-axis is 0.1 millimeters to 76 millimeters the travel on this thing is no joke look at this all right that's all the way up and watch this see i gotta figure out something like that but that's huge sorry i didn't mean to interrupt nerd the power supplies uh 12 volt 5 amp says the machine power is a 60 watt the laser electric power is 12 10 to 20 watt upgradable to 20 to 40. laser optical power is less than 4.5 watts standard upgradable to 8 watts laser wavelength is 455 nanometers nano meters the engraving area 400 by 400 millimeters which it's kind of the standard but i i just didn't know engraving accuracy is 0.05 millimeters giving speed or i guess i guess less than and equal to 170 millimeters per second okay now we're gonna learn how to focus because i don't know man it doesn't have a bullet or anything to focus with as far as i can tell that if i would have never seen that wow i don't i can't believe i just saw that um this is the the spacer tool this is your focusing billet and it's really handy let me show you where it is okay so laser and when you get over here you've got this little thing here i just remember wondering what it was earlier and if you pull this out it's right there and that's your focusing billet 5 millimeters sweet all right now we know how to focus also while i'm trying to set this up in light burn hopefully um there are some drivers and some firmware updates that you need to do they are also on that usb drive and there was a video on how to uh like kind of put this into pairing mode i guess in order to upload the firmware and things like that okay so i had to add it manually and light burn but it does look like we're up and running so let's uh let's give the beans let's uh let's uh let's let's test it out there's this really cool site called o2 creative dot co dot n is in nancy z and zebra i'll put the link in the description down below basically you can you can generate your own uh power scale tests for light burn so what i did is i went ahead and just made one you just put in your parameters so we're looking at 10 all the way to 100 and i think we start at 500 millimeters per minute and we go all the way up to 10 000 we'll run the grid and then we'll take a look at the results sorry it's a little smoky in here i think i think snoop dogg stopped by after the halftime show so i'm just kidding uh it's uh it's smoke from something that i was anyway guys thanks for making this part of the video uh before we get to the results and kind of the pros and cons and thoughts on the laser uh i just want to say thanks for sticking around uh if you like this video and you want to see more of them go ahead and hit that like button if you have not subscribed please consider subscribing i really would like to hit 100 000 subscribers this year and it would really help me out if you uh if you hit that button that being said i want to say an extra special thanks to my patrons these guys are the ones that make the magic happen especially my boilermaker or top tier patrons uh i gotta check them out again so we have some moving and shaking going on over there kids if you haven't been to my patreon page go check it out it's a great way to support the channel you do not have to join up at the top tier by any means there is a three dollar level uh every little bit helps the channel out and there's the wife and on to the boilermakers steven mann eric weiss derrick coates chuck fogner puffy muffins jim carter andy the viking dwight smith christopher walters and our newest boilermaker todd stewart clinky's kinda we're not quite there yet so i figured we'd actually hit a list of pros and cons that i noticed kind of while setting this thing up and then get in to the fun stuff it's a really good result by the way odds and these honestly all these cons are pretty small okay um needs a longer allen wrench it is a little hard to get to a couple of the screws in the device with the length on the allen wrench that there is the wire ties are are difficult to get on the design seems a little weird to me you're trying to put a something that is that shaped around a round cable that's thicker than that so it's it's a little odd to me on that same note i feel like this top uh gantry cable is just a little too short you guys aren't looking at it this one right up here it i absolutely cannot get the the wire connector on the back of this to stay on while it's moving so i feel like this needs to have a little bit more play so it can kind of come up and go over maybe and then a couple of short wire connections uh that i had while i was putting together um and and that's growing pains you know they they they may have manufactured it and not realize that those are too short or you know maybe maybe this whole bottom doesn't have to be it doesn't have to be solid and it'd give you a little bit more play to get in there and kind of pull the cables around if you needed to that's about all the cons i really like this unit pros on this the first one i just have great design red and i like the way it's designed it's very close to the design of the x-tool i really like the kind of like sleeker look to it it's chunkier chunky so uh so it feels a little bit a little bit beefier i really like the fact that they raised these rails up a bit so you can actually slide something pretty thick underneath here overall the unit just feels solid i also really like the amount of travel they put on the z-axis this you know what is it 76 millimeters that's a lot um so you not only can you slide something under here that's thick but you wouldn't have to raise the rails up to do that run solid it feels solid another thing is it does have limit switches on it which the the x tool does not so you can home the device i mean you can hold the x tool too but it's a little different this thing will home on its own and it kind of zeros itself out to begin with so it's a little bit easier to do repeatable things on this and between that coffee and this hat it's hot those new merch though by the way so just got the new logo put on to uh beanies and um and ball caps and that will be in my merch store i can't get beanies or hats in like like in my merch store down below so they will be in my etsy store right next i just want to get some of the tests this is the engrave test and honestly those boxes should have been filled in and that's just my fault when i was doing it but you can get in here and kind of get an idea of what's looking good and what isn't next is the cut test you can see that you're cutting at up to 150 millimeters at 80 percent and then i just wanted to do a quick engrave to see how it would turn out this is their artwork anyway you get down about four millimeters on the text and then it starts dropping off so you can't really read it this maybe if it's a little darker you'd be able to read it but then two millimeters gone so those inner lines are a millimeter apart so it's getting it's getting pretty good on detail there this is a cut piece on cardboard corrugated cardboard as you can see i had to cut a couple pieces out i probably need to tweak my settings on this but all in all it goes uh it's pretty snappy to do it too so next up i just want to do a cut and engrave so that is the engrave of the skull and then but you know the edge is dark but the cut is clean so then i like to just jump in and look at some of the kind of detail detailing on it so this is kind of a larger star wars mandala and i don't know if i don't know how well this is gonna let me get in there for detail right now then i went ahead and did one this one gets just a little muddled just because i haven't cleaned it off yet but that's a much smaller one but look at that detail it's still looking pretty good it will it will cut and engrave on colored acrylic this particular piece is two millimeter i believe caught was two passes but all the way through nice and clean on the edges looking good wow okay guys all in all i would say it's a solid machine i do not know what the price point is if i if i find out after this video is live i will put it in the description down below along with a link to go check it out once it is live so it's really hard to say if this is a strong recommend recommender not without knowing the price point however i would say it's a solid unit it's very beginner friendly uh i mean you know you guys will probably have instructions there was no instructions in this and i still got it together and probably about 20 minutes oh that being said um that's all i can say right now guys because uh thanks for playing and now i gotta get to work okay so this really great site called nowhat's up guys i'm nick and this is build that build alexa play i'm never going to give you up on repeat alexa volume 10. sorry about the the wrecking and the rolling there guess what time it is the lasers are coming in fast and hot guys i can't help it so this is currently a unit that i don't even believe is out yet i don't have any specs on it it didn't come with any instructions but it did come from sanesmart and i think it's their first attempt at their own branded diode laser this is the ginsoku lc-40 i was checking just the laser to see like the wattage and things like that there's nothing on here this is you know this is how much they're in testing right now the only thing it just says the warning label i have reached out to saintsmart to try to get some sort of instructions on how to put this together but it is modular and it does look fairly easy so we're going to take a crack at it without any instructions i have built a couple lasers in the past so i kind of have an idea how they go together this may be a total failure and i'll have to come revisit once i get the instructions but that's what we're doing right now i'm just kind of looking at some of like i don't even have a spec sheet on the thing yet just kind of looking at the information sent over to me it looks like it says it has two different firmwares i think i think they're talking software the stock firmware is custom is customized to allow users to operate it via their mobile phones and computers the mobile phone app is easy to use this machine also allows you to switch to gerbil based firmware basically let you use laser gerbil or uh or light burn so right now we're gonna lay the pieces out on the bench and let's get to work kids let's get tires on this thing giddy up i'm guessing that is a gantry got a couple packets with some stuff in it pack it pack it pack a packet that is going to be one arm so the other side i guess i should say in that arm some cabling it looks like for power and attachments that looks like a front or a back panel then i mean like very little branding even on this the laser unit itself looking at this we can get through this we can do this okay so i'm not sure if this is the back or the front yet but what i'm noticing is that each one of these stepper motors has a cable coming off of it we've got another cable here this has two cables on this side that look like they marry up to those and then this one in here looks like it marries up to this guy so that being said i think we're gonna do is try to get these connected and then let's see let's do this and then we'll bring this up i don't know exactly where this thing is supposed to go i guess it can tuck down in here to a certain degree because this needs to come in here you see i'm saying i don't know if you guys can even see that but i don't want to pinch my wire this is my issue here and so i'm trying to stuff them in there as much as i can i think and then there we go okay so let's see i can't see that now so this the screws for this are underneath it looks like so now that we have the wires kind of tucked into that rail let me take a look and see if i can figure out which screws this takes this is my one concern is i don't know what these little guys are at all i think these might be like cable clips though do you need an allen wrench there's one provided i'm assuming the bigger ones are going to go in and here we'll just do the other same thing on the other side now the good thing about this is one of the reasons that i'm attempting this is because all the belts are already in the unit which makes it a lot easier to put it together yep there goes the camera now the fun part is going to be trying to get this one let's see how this is going to go on here well it's definitely not going like that it's going to go like this but i got to get these two guys plugged in first so let's pull this having the camera rig over is better for you guys to see but don't know me a lot um no that's not going to go there let's see oh wait yeah this one goes here make sure i was sitting on a laser the other day and it had a bent pin in it okay and that's what this is and then this is going to go this is going to be fun but so there's this little guy right here actually done this side first first comes the shovel take it apart and do that but this is a short little connector so i'll try to get it in there without damaging anything and then we're going to try to tuck this in there okay so we got it plugged in tucking i'm tucking while i'm trying to push this in here so because the big big thing is you don't want to pinch any of those wires in here they could pull out a connection or you could just sever the wires all together okay and we're going to repeat this on the back side but the back side doesn't have any uh really anything you know any wiring it so this should be a little easier hopefully and then i'm just gonna bring this down this way this is gonna have to go like this okay so the problem is here again this is just a really short connection if i could ask for anything i would just want this connection to be a little longer because it's just those little tiny cables little tiny wires here let's try something around here okay that's enough and then this guy is gonna drop right in there i kind of you guys probably think i'm doing this backwards i the reason i'm doing this the way i'm doing is because these connections all kind of hide because normally i would put you know you put the pieces on first and then and then secure it so next thing i have four screws here which i'm gonna guess go to the gantry these guys there's two little channels here to kind of slip into and you're kind of doing this blind let's see if we can get it i'll do one of these guys over here so we're even stevens even stevens what does that even mean dude i honestly use like a longer um allen wrench for this it's not a horrible design it's just not the easiest once you get in there like i i slipped out of the allen wrench or i slipped out of the the screw and you guys know how bad it is when you slip out and then trying to get it back in that was kind of a pain we got it though so far no instructions um this is still going pretty quick i mean i'm looking at my timer and we're about 12 minutes right now how does this thing go up and down oh i'm holding it upside down oh sure okay all right so you've got a thumbscrew over here we're gonna probably screw into the back of this right it's gonna go like that maybe this is the front of the machine it's kind of weird then like the power and everything's on the back but it'd be out of the way i guess all right let's jump around again and then take one of these guys keep it up on there come through and and action okay i do know where that is it's right here oh and it plugs in right there okay so there is there's like a usbc back here it goes right here i think you know what that is yeah looks like a usbc to the cable for the laser so it's kind of an interesting thought in having this kind of this kind of cable and having up right so it's out of the way basically so where does this go all right let's take another look around this thing i am missing another one this little usb type c places it looks like because i have another cord which would make more sense because right now this thing's really tight ah found it okay all right so i think what we're doing here this goes here we have this guy and this guy so there's two of them my thought is this one's gonna go in here we're gonna cable manage this across the back of us this guy is going to go into the one on the back and then come over and clip into this because in this way like the way this comes up you got a clip a clip and a clip which is basically this on the back you've got your switch your power your usb and everything and then right here in this little fence there's another one that's usbc's i'm just trying to give you like kind of where we are in space type situation i feel like we're going to go here and then clip there and then all the way down and this is going to run all the way down here and we're going to clip those in so it looks like the whole point of these is to clip everything in so it's so it stays you know kind of like you would with a zip ties but they have designated spots for them which is kind of nice like i said because zip ties aren't always the easiest thing to deal with and they you know they don't look great it also comes with the zip drive so okay so moment of truth oh it's home let's just pull that clip right off oh okay well that was solid it feels solid it sounds solid um i don't think that clip's ever going to stay on there and i guess we're homing to the back left okay and as i was poking around on the uh the flash drive that came with the unit i found an instruction manual yay so for the most part that was assembled correctly as far as i can tell from the pictures but time for nerd facts it's the lc40 we knew that high grade aluminum alloy the laser head is a five millimeter fixed distance laser travel for the z-axis is 0.1 millimeters to 76 millimeters the travel on this thing is no joke look at this all right that's all the way up and watch this see i gotta figure out something like that but that's huge sorry i didn't mean to interrupt nerd the power supplies uh 12 volt 5 amp says the machine power is a 60 watt the laser electric power is 12 10 to 20 watt upgradable to 20 to 40. laser optical power is less than 4.5 watts standard upgradable to 8 watts laser wavelength is 455 nanometers nano meters the engraving area 400 by 400 millimeters which it's kind of the standard but i i just didn't know engraving accuracy is 0.05 millimeters giving speed or i guess i guess less than and equal to 170 millimeters per second okay now we're gonna learn how to focus because i don't know man it doesn't have a bullet or anything to focus with as far as i can tell that if i would have never seen that wow i don't i can't believe i just saw that um this is the the spacer tool this is your focusing billet and it's really handy let me show you where it is okay so laser and when you get over here you've got this little thing here i just remember wondering what it was earlier and if you pull this out it's right there and that's your focusing billet 5 millimeters sweet all right now we know how to focus also while i'm trying to set this up in light burn hopefully um there are some drivers and some firmware updates that you need to do they are also on that usb drive and there was a video on how to uh like kind of put this into pairing mode i guess in order to upload the firmware and things like that okay so i had to add it manually and light burn but it does look like we're up and running so let's uh let's give the beans let's uh let's uh let's let's test it out there's this really cool site called o2 creative dot co dot n is in nancy z and zebra i'll put the link in the description down below basically you can you can generate your own uh power scale tests for light burn so what i did is i went ahead and just made one you just put in your parameters so we're looking at 10 all the way to 100 and i think we start at 500 millimeters per minute and we go all the way up to 10 000 we'll run the grid and then we'll take a look at the results sorry it's a little smoky in here i think i think snoop dogg stopped by after the halftime show so i'm just kidding uh it's uh it's smoke from something that i was anyway guys thanks for making this part of the video uh before we get to the results and kind of the pros and cons and thoughts on the laser uh i just want to say thanks for sticking around uh if you like this video and you want to see more of them go ahead and hit that like button if you have not subscribed please consider subscribing i really would like to hit 100 000 subscribers this year and it would really help me out if you uh if you hit that button that being said i want to say an extra special thanks to my patrons these guys are the ones that make the magic happen especially my boilermaker or top tier patrons uh i gotta check them out again so we have some moving and shaking going on over there kids if you haven't been to my patreon page go check it out it's a great way to support the channel you do not have to join up at the top tier by any means there is a three dollar level uh every little bit helps the channel out and there's the wife and on to the boilermakers steven mann eric weiss derrick coates chuck fogner puffy muffins jim carter andy the viking dwight smith christopher walters and our newest boilermaker todd stewart clinky's kinda we're not quite there yet so i figured we'd actually hit a list of pros and cons that i noticed kind of while setting this thing up and then get in to the fun stuff it's a really good result by the way odds and these honestly all these cons are pretty small okay um needs a longer allen wrench it is a little hard to get to a couple of the screws in the device with the length on the allen wrench that there is the wire ties are are difficult to get on the design seems a little weird to me you're trying to put a something that is that shaped around a round cable that's thicker than that so it's it's a little odd to me on that same note i feel like this top uh gantry cable is just a little too short you guys aren't looking at it this one right up here it i absolutely cannot get the the wire connector on the back of this to stay on while it's moving so i feel like this needs to have a little bit more play so it can kind of come up and go over maybe and then a couple of short wire connections uh that i had while i was putting together um and and that's growing pains you know they they they may have manufactured it and not realize that those are too short or you know maybe maybe this whole bottom doesn't have to be it doesn't have to be solid and it'd give you a little bit more play to get in there and kind of pull the cables around if you needed to that's about all the cons i really like this unit pros on this the first one i just have great design red and i like the way it's designed it's very close to the design of the x-tool i really like the kind of like sleeker look to it it's chunkier chunky so uh so it feels a little bit a little bit beefier i really like the fact that they raised these rails up a bit so you can actually slide something pretty thick underneath here overall the unit just feels solid i also really like the amount of travel they put on the z-axis this you know what is it 76 millimeters that's a lot um so you not only can you slide something under here that's thick but you wouldn't have to raise the rails up to do that run solid it feels solid another thing is it does have limit switches on it which the the x tool does not so you can home the device i mean you can hold the x tool too but it's a little different this thing will home on its own and it kind of zeros itself out to begin with so it's a little bit easier to do repeatable things on this and between that coffee and this hat it's hot those new merch though by the way so just got the new logo put on to uh beanies and um and ball caps and that will be in my merch store i can't get beanies or hats in like like in my merch store down below so they will be in my etsy store right next i just want to get some of the tests this is the engrave test and honestly those boxes should have been filled in and that's just my fault when i was doing it but you can get in here and kind of get an idea of what's looking good and what isn't next is the cut test you can see that you're cutting at up to 150 millimeters at 80 percent and then i just wanted to do a quick engrave to see how it would turn out this is their artwork anyway you get down about four millimeters on the text and then it starts dropping off so you can't really read it this maybe if it's a little darker you'd be able to read it but then two millimeters gone so those inner lines are a millimeter apart so it's getting it's getting pretty good on detail there this is a cut piece on cardboard corrugated cardboard as you can see i had to cut a couple pieces out i probably need to tweak my settings on this but all in all it goes uh it's pretty snappy to do it too so next up i just want to do a cut and engrave so that is the engrave of the skull and then but you know the edge is dark but the cut is clean so then i like to just jump in and look at some of the kind of detail detailing on it so this is kind of a larger star wars mandala and i don't know if i don't know how well this is gonna let me get in there for detail right now then i went ahead and did one this one gets just a little muddled just because i haven't cleaned it off yet but that's a much smaller one but look at that detail it's still looking pretty good it will it will cut and engrave on colored acrylic this particular piece is two millimeter i believe caught was two passes but all the way through nice and clean on the edges looking good wow okay guys all in all i would say it's a solid machine i do not know what the price point is if i if i find out after this video is live i will put it in the description down below along with a link to go check it out once it is live so it's really hard to say if this is a strong recommend recommender not without knowing the price point however i would say it's a solid unit it's very beginner friendly uh i mean you know you guys will probably have instructions there was no instructions in this and i still got it together and probably about 20 minutes oh that being said um that's all i can say right now guys because uh thanks for playing and now i gotta get to work okay so this really great site called no\n"