CNC Kitchen

Mekanika's EVO is a belt-driven CNC router that handles wood and plastics well.

I bent the G-code after slicing to print non-planar curves on a normal printer.

How to install and remove our Original Volcano Adapter, and why you must never tighten it above 240 °C: the brass loses strength and the adapter can break.

So installierst und entfernst Du unseren Originalen Volcano Adapter, und warum Du ihn nie über 240 °C anziehen darfst: Das Messing verliert an Festigkeit.

There are a ton of filaments for 3D printing on the market that advertise themselves as being biodegradable or compostable.

Pull-trusion turns a PET bottle into filament with no shredder.

Dual-color filament keeps its split even through a high-flow nozzle.

Our high-flow spacer turns a Volcano into a serious melter, holding up to 40 mm³/s.

Tiertime's CETUS had good hardware wrapped in proprietary firmware I never liked.

Dual-color filament is made by feeding two melts into one die so the strand stays half and half.

I drilled my own high-flow nozzle to see if I could beat the CHT.

Kaika sent me a 0.1 mm nozzle.

The CHT splits the melt across three bores instead of one.

My Cetus printed inconsistently for years.

How to set our heat-set inserts properly: soldering iron 10 to 20 °C above printing temperature, melt only 90% of the way, then press the rest flush with a tool.

I extruded PLA filled with spent coffee grounds from my morning cappuccino.

If you are in a foreign country, it's immensely helpful to understand some of the spoken language.

So schmilzt Du unsere Gewindeeinsätze sauber ein: Lötkolben 10 bis 20 °C über Drucktemperatur, nur zu 90% einschmelzen und den Rest mit einem Werkzeug drücken.

A print failed halfway.

I shredded more than a hundred 3D Benchys back into filament.

Extruding my own PLA on the 3DEVO Composer 450: pellets, 2% color masterbatch, and a diameter that holds to about ±0.05 mm once the process is dialed in.

Prusament PC Blend, where PC Blend stands for PolyCarbonate compounded with other polymers and additives is Prusa’s engineering grade material.

PCTG isn't polycarbonate.

So recently, Albert from 247 printing posted a video on his sub 9 minutes 3DBenchy that he printed on his basically stock but input shaper tuned VORON 0.

The 3D printing slicer IdeaMaker made by Raise3D recently implemented an innovative feature in their latest version 4.1.1 called texturing.

This was the first Prusa I ever bought almost 5 years back, and that has probably done more than 10000 printing hours with hardly any problems during that time.

I usually don’t post write-ups of live streams that I did because it doesn’t happen that often that I’m really impressed by a product right after unboxing it.

Swapping my Prusa's board made the heated bed sing.

The VORON 0 is tiny, beautifully engineered and fast: 120 to 150 mm/s at 4000 mm/s² with Klipper.

The bi-metal heat break is the next evolution of the regular heat breaks that we know from our 3D printers.

First impressions of the Formbot VORON 0 kit from Aliexpress: what's in the box, what the parts are like, and where the kit made the build harder than it needed.

The Snapmaker 2.0 prints, lasers and routes for $1800.

I built a camera that rides along with the nozzle to watch extrusion up close.

We were renovating and the old coat hooks had to go, so I reprinted them in two materials on the E3D Toolchanger.

I tested layer adhesion across the whole recommended temperature range.

Previously, we've already been taking a look at another of Colorfabbs foaming filaments, and that was Light Weight PLA.

Trimmer line is cheap nylon on a spool, so I printed it.

The Beamo is a 30 W CO2 laser that just worked out of the box.

Embedding prints in salt and remelting them really does work.

My first delta printer.

Packing prints in plaster lets you remelt them without losing shape.

Of course this is a marketing campaign by Polymaker, though I haven’t been paid for this video and will even participate on my own.

Regular PLA is really easy to print and stronger than some might expect, though if a PLA part actually fails, it shatters quite violently.

A filament with a PC core inside an ABS shell, meant to anneal without warping.

I finally bought a mini lathe, so the first real project was turning a 3D printer nozzle from scratch.

This is the Creality CR-6 SE that was launched for their 6th anniversary on Kickstarter and was a huge success with over $4 Million in pledges.

Considering the view count of my other two videos on threaded inserts, you seem to be really interested in that topic.

I print a lot and this also means that many of my prints run overnight.

Don’t judge me that I’m a little late to the game, especially with the Ender-3, though I just didn’t have luck with newly released printers in the past.

I compared vacuum, a food dehydrator, the kitchen oven and a silica drybox for drying filament.