I did it, I 3D printed with an actual hot glue gun! Hot glue is fun and all, and I think that this could be useful to combine with regular prints (hot glue infill or support?) when I'm going to use that second portal on that grill plate printer. But I think that printing with material in the shape of rods is what's especially interesting about this. I'm sure that this will enable some interesting use cases! Maybe printing with candle wax🤔 What other materials could we experiment with next?
@@realgoose Good question. I'm currently redesigning the extruder with the insights I got from making this video and I'm pretty excited about it! Regarding the hotend, I need to design something capable of melting this large diameter material without being so long as the glue gun was. I have some great ideas that we're going to explore in future videos!
I wonder if with your original design you were getting too much back pressure from the compression of the glue sticks. It would be similar to printing with a soft plastic like TPU I'm sure.
Kinda boggles my mind that there's even people out there not versed with 3D printers. It's like not being aware of Ai as a concept. ( 8 years ago most people I met weren't aware of 3D printing, but it's everywhere now)
@@Schwift3D I used to think this but keep finding It's "everywhere' for those of us that are into making and 3D printing. For the uninitiated "man on the street", it's still something they've "heardof" but might as well be science fiction. I've been making gifts for the various B-days my kid is invited to and everyone is always amazed and surprised that "you made this in your home?!".
Hey quick tip for working with hot glue: Keep a bottle of rubbing alcohol/isopropyl alcohol/ethanol with you, just a few drops at the seam will make any hot glue peel off any surface in seconds!
You really did it, you not only did the thing that people sometimes joke about but shake their heads and never expect to actually work, but you actually made it work.
4:12 "Let's not jinx it," he said, jinxing it xD In all seriousness, these projects are what keeps the engineering world progressing. Like, 3D printers wouldn't be where they are today without, for example, the reprap community trying out crazy new ideas, learning from the failures, and improving designs with outside-the-box thinking.
Nothing convey frustration better than swearing in Dutch 😂 I admire your perseverance, hats off to you, youre an inspiration to all us others who f* around and find out! 👍👍👍
Chocolate printer anybody?? The man just made automatic reloading cartridges. I know it wasn't talked about much in the video, but this is definitely the biggest thing in the video and a genuine innovation!
@MumrikDK they are, but the one commercial cartridge one has to be reloaded and remelted, which takes like 20 minutes if I remember right (not less than 15). Smaller cartridges would have more control over the melt and pressure. There was one run by a gear pump that was fed by a chocolate bowl, but they seem to be gone now. If someone used this to feed cartridges and a giant silicone sock over the whole thing, they'd have a sweet chocolate setup. That and two heaters.
Changing the extruder direction is a one-character change in RRF config.g and you can send the revised M569 command from DWC without even restarting, at least for live testing -- yeah, that's much harder than resoldering all the stepper connections But we all get those project blinders on sometimes ...
This is wonderfully cathartic. I don't know how many times I've told newbies about 3D printing by calling it a hot glue gun on a robot. Wonderful to see it actually done, properly too!
Although I agree that I maybe am a bit special😅 I want to be able to change between tools so I don't have to think about changing it each time and keep everything the same
@@properprinting I saw the other comment just before you replied haha. Fair enough there. Still not sure why you'd resolder rather than recrimp but that's probably preference. Hoe dan ook, lekker bezig pik.
@@properprinting I didn't even think of the auto-feeding system when making this comment, but indeed that would make a lot of sense. Kinda considering doing this project on my printer which I just rebuilt the rods for lol
This. Is. Perfekt! Every time someone asks me how a 3D-Printer works I tell them to imagine putting down Layer after Layer of a conture with a hot glue gun. And you just build that metaphor! I'll use your video for years to come, thanks a lot!!
This admits a super convenient path to recycling: mold the material to recycle in a cylinder, then let it cool and use the rod in your extruder. PLA scraps (Bambu poop) and shredded PET bottles are obvious candidates.
This is really rad. I would love to see you continue refining this printer. I really like the design of the original hotend you created before modifying the gun itself. Would be really cool if you kept working on it to solve those problems and turned this into a release candidate quality kit.
I was thinking about something like this last night. Had no idea how to even begin it, but was thinking of ways to speed up getting material to the build, especially where fine detail doesn't matter. Great stuff. Once I get further along with experience I hope to finally be able to help out with projects like this.
This is probably one of the most ridiculous uses for 3d printing but I'm about it! I love it! I always get excited when I see your videos in my feed. ❤
Dig it. A cotton earbud with isopropyl on it lightly painted around the build plate to print join will release it really effortlessly and leave the glass clean. It's hard to believe how effective it is until you try it, so long as your surface is non porous.
Unironically, this is probably a good step towards at home filament DIY recycling. One of the biggest barriers to it is that shredding material to a good and consistent grind size and re-extruding it is tough anbd requires tight tolerances in order to get decent quality filament that wont jam your extruder. It's a lot simpler melting down print scraps to 7mm bars in a silicon mold, and then printing with those instead.
I rellay enjoy your videos :) The basic ideas explored are usually simple in concept yet interesting to get you hocked, but the execution is such a pleasure to watch ! Keep up the great work
I love how crazy your ideas seem. Then you execute them and the rest of us go, "Yeah, why wouldn't it have worked?". Keep up the amazing, innovating project and pushing the boundaries of what we think is possible.
Great project! I wonder what you'll do with this on the multi-gantry setup. Hot glue infill? Getting the first layer to stick on anything? I love how you're working on larger arcs and smaller spin-offs and everything with so much creativity.
My favorite part was when you said f*ck it and just embraced the jank. Honestly, love your content, it shows us that weird ideas are attainable, you just have to do the work to make it fit. -Definitely inspiring me to want to try and create my own 3d printer!
When I saw that S on Twitter I don't know why but for dome reason I didn't even think that this will be a seperate video. And when I saw firsts seconds the only think on my mind was - well yeah... That's the One. I like you enthusiasm... And I agree 100% on that if something is worth doing,it's worth overdoing. Story of my Life :D
For crying out loud. Today I had a clear out making room for stuff I don’t need or use and one of those things was a bloody glue gun!! I thought one use in years equals bin. And look who goes and makes the glue gun useful… yup, Jon. 😂
Hot glue guns have a temp that makes them easy to extrude using light finger pressure. Good that you dropped the temps a bit as that stuff doesn't cool well after extrusion.
Easiest way to get hot glue to separate from the build plate -> Squirt some Isopropyl Alcohol at the joint. It wicks into the bond line and separates with ease.
Ha, I'm glad I'm not the only one - for people that don't know how fdm works, I'm usually like "well, it's basically a big hot glue gun controller by a computer"
Super cool stuff man! In theory for testing you could print some glue stick rods using any regular filament you choose, ans then run them through this beast
I got a Kobra3 a few weeks ago and have been looking for inspiration to recycle its Aegean poops back into filament to use for supports, but extruding decent filament seems ridiculously hard and expensive. I figured it would be easier to mould it into sticks and find a solution to extrude them into filament without shredding or pelletising - I've seen a printer somewhere that uses square rods. I wondered if I could engineer something similar to extrude filament reliably without a hot auger, which is how its done professionally. You sir, are a genius and an inspiration. With your insights, I think I might be able to recycle filament with hand-built equipment and shrug off the cost of both pooping and support material. You have to be the most tenacious builder I've ever seen, how many times did you redesign that driver head in the end? 😅
If you're having trouble getting the printout off the bed, try spritzing it with a little alcohol and it will magically fall off easily. It works great on glue gun glue.
I always love your vidoes, great job. Did you consider that your heater catridge was maybe just way underpowered compared to the one in the glue gun? You could use a solid state relay and mount the Dremel heater cartridge in your nice new extruder maybe?
Interesting thought! The glue gun was 20W and the cartridge I think is 50 or 60. I could've replaced the heater cartridge in the eventual glue gun, but was done and just wanted it to work xD Next iteration wouldn't include a hot glue gun at all!
Thanks to a mistake on the big river company's part, I managed to get the Sunlu S4 for £44 ($57). Couldnt recommend it enough, would have happily paid full price for it. My TPU prints are flawless using the dryer, looking as good as my PLA prints with practically no stringing. PETG prints like a dream too, havent tried anything too exotic yet though :)
AHH! That nozzle crash gave me flashbacks to my first (plywood frame) 3D printer. It also homed at the top. Except, in my case, the limit switch wasn't triggering so the fat Nema 17 motors paired to fine-pitch threaded rod tried to push the x assembly off the top of the printer. There was the sound of wood on the verge of splintering. 😬
I did it, I 3D printed with an actual hot glue gun! Hot glue is fun and all, and I think that this could be useful to combine with regular prints (hot glue infill or support?) when I'm going to use that second portal on that grill plate printer. But I think that printing with material in the shape of rods is what's especially interesting about this. I'm sure that this will enable some interesting use cases! Maybe printing with candle wax🤔 What other materials could we experiment with next?
Now that you have used the dremel hot glue holder, could you see a successful redesign of your original hot end attempts?
@@realgoose Good question. I'm currently redesigning the extruder with the insights I got from making this video and I'm pretty excited about it! Regarding the hotend, I need to design something capable of melting this large diameter material without being so long as the glue gun was. I have some great ideas that we're going to explore in future videos!
Casting wax would have an actual end use case. Typically done with wax blocks and machined on a CNC.
I wonder if with your original design you were getting too much back pressure from the compression of the glue sticks. It would be similar to printing with a soft plastic like TPU I'm sure.
ok, i know was already done... but given the period... chocolate sticks 😛
Glossing over the stick dropping system? That thing is awesome.
Agreed, we need a video on the stick handling system. That thing looks awesome.
@@ShipmanPartnersmaybe a short?
This is exactly how I describe a FDM printer to some without any 3D printer knowledge.
Kinda boggles my mind that there's even people out there not versed with 3D printers. It's like not being aware of Ai as a concept. ( 8 years ago most people I met weren't aware of 3D printing, but it's everywhere now)
@@Schwift3D I used to think this but keep finding It's "everywhere' for those of us that are into making and 3D printing.
For the uninitiated "man on the street", it's still something they've "heardof" but might as well be science fiction.
I've been making gifts for the various B-days my kid is invited to and everyone is always amazed and surprised that "you made this in your home?!".
I like to call it a "glorified hotglue gun"
I’ve done the same, only I add, “instead of hot glue sticks” we use weed eater string”! ツ
@@FrozenDozer I usually say "It's like an extremely precise hot glue gun"
You sir are a madman! 😂 love it
For changing motor direction, change M569 for the motor from S0 to S1 (or vice versa) in config.g. Easier than rewiring the motors!
True! I should've mentioned that. I'm switching between hotends and want to keep this the same between them.
Hey quick tip for working with hot glue: Keep a bottle of rubbing alcohol/isopropyl alcohol/ethanol with you, just a few drops at the seam will make any hot glue peel off any surface in seconds!
This! It's like magic!
Dude, I love like even after failure he pushes to the end and the result is absolutely amazing. Love it
You really did it, you not only did the thing that people sometimes joke about but shake their heads and never expect to actually work, but you actually made it work.
4:12 "Let's not jinx it," he said, jinxing it xD
In all seriousness, these projects are what keeps the engineering world progressing. Like, 3D printers wouldn't be where they are today without, for example, the reprap community trying out crazy new ideas, learning from the failures, and improving designs with outside-the-box thinking.
The stick-feeder is pure dope :D
amazing project! funny how you had to revert back to the bolt-hot-glue-gun-to-printer-method"
Nothing convey frustration better than swearing in Dutch 😂 I admire your perseverance, hats off to you, youre an inspiration to all us others who f* around and find out! 👍👍👍
This idea makes me feel old cause I remember people coming into the RepRap IRC channel and asking if this would work circa 2008
Took a while, but it's finally proven now🤣
Haha, very nice! Really liked the final product🎉
Chocolate printer anybody?? The man just made automatic reloading cartridges. I know it wasn't talked about much in the video, but this is definitely the biggest thing in the video and a genuine innovation!
@@aaamott Absolutely!
Chocolate printers are already a thing.
@MumrikDK they are, but the one commercial cartridge one has to be reloaded and remelted, which takes like 20 minutes if I remember right (not less than 15). Smaller cartridges would have more control over the melt and pressure. There was one run by a gear pump that was fed by a chocolate bowl, but they seem to be gone now.
If someone used this to feed cartridges and a giant silicone sock over the whole thing, they'd have a sweet chocolate setup. That and two heaters.
Changing the extruder direction is a one-character change in RRF config.g and you can send the revised M569 command from DWC without even restarting, at least for live testing -- yeah, that's much harder than resoldering all the stepper connections But we all get those project blinders on sometimes ...
This is wonderfully cathartic. I don't know how many times I've told newbies about 3D printing by calling it a hot glue gun on a robot.
Wonderful to see it actually done, properly too!
By far the coolest project I've seen made for 3D printing. Hands down for you're sanity and patience
9:05 resoldering wires rather than reversing direction in printer firmware is truly..... special.
Although I agree that I maybe am a bit special😅 I want to be able to change between tools so I don't have to think about changing it each time and keep everything the same
@@properprinting I saw the other comment just before you replied haha. Fair enough there. Still not sure why you'd resolder rather than recrimp but that's probably preference.
Hoe dan ook, lekker bezig pik.
This extruder and hotend combo would look SICK on a delta-style printer. Especially if you add a third rod to each axis to support the top.
That's an epic idea! Just dropping it from the center makes a lot of sense with a delta printer. Thanks for sharing!
@@properprinting I didn't even think of the auto-feeding system when making this comment, but indeed that would make a lot of sense. Kinda considering doing this project on my printer which I just rebuilt the rods for lol
This. Is. Perfekt! Every time someone asks me how a 3D-Printer works I tell them to imagine putting down Layer after Layer of a conture with a hot glue gun. And you just build that metaphor! I'll use your video for years to come, thanks a lot!!
Thank you!
This admits a super convenient path to recycling: mold the material to recycle in a cylinder, then let it cool and use the rod in your extruder. PLA scraps (Bambu poop) and shredded PET bottles are obvious candidates.
great idea!
13:07 - we've all been there 😅
This is really rad. I would love to see you continue refining this printer. I really like the design of the original hotend you created before modifying the gun itself. Would be really cool if you kept working on it to solve those problems and turned this into a release candidate quality kit.
This is the first time I've seen someone print with HOT GLUE. :D I've printed with filament from a pet bottle, but this was more interesting :) Thnx.
PET bottle is cool too! Thanks :)
I use Sunlu PLA+ all over the place and love the way prints come out. It has been my go to for some time now.
Always doing the crazy projects. Never change.
Amazing! Your resilience always amazes me!
"Hotglue is hot!" - it's almost like there's a reason for it's name xD
I was thinking about something like this last night. Had no idea how to even begin it, but was thinking of ways to speed up getting material to the build, especially where fine detail doesn't matter. Great stuff. Once I get further along with experience I hope to finally be able to help out with projects like this.
awesome! I love the part where you say "Im not giving up!" that's the spirit!
Dude your commitment is insane! Love the vibe, camera angles, and of course the projects. Keep it up but don't stress!
Seeing stuff like this makes me so unbelievably happy. So much to learn from what seems like a silly project at face value.
This is absurdly cool!
This is probably one of the most ridiculous uses for 3d printing but I'm about it! I love it! I always get excited when I see your videos in my feed. ❤
Dig it.
A cotton earbud with isopropyl on it lightly painted around the build plate to print join will release it really effortlessly and leave the glass clean.
It's hard to believe how effective it is until you try it, so long as your surface is non porous.
What a fantastic series of messes with an excellent end result. Great work as always.
BRA!!!!!!!! the glue stick feeding contraption is genius looks so cool to watch
When mixing nordic languages and english word "bra" makes so many ppl go wtf? 😁
Amazing, love the transition from giving up, to giving up in a lazy way using the glue gun directly
Unironically, this is probably a good step towards at home filament DIY recycling. One of the biggest barriers to it is that shredding material to a good and consistent grind size and re-extruding it is tough anbd requires tight tolerances in order to get decent quality filament that wont jam your extruder.
It's a lot simpler melting down print scraps to 7mm bars in a silicon mold, and then printing with those instead.
Saying insane is an understatement, man I love this sooo much
Love the videos, I'm looking forward to seeing your future projects.
I rellay enjoy your videos :)
The basic ideas explored are usually simple in concept yet interesting to get you hocked, but the execution is such a pleasure to watch ! Keep up the great work
I love how crazy your ideas seem. Then you execute them and the rest of us go, "Yeah, why wouldn't it have worked?". Keep up the amazing, innovating project and pushing the boundaries of what we think is possible.
The sickest thing to me is the glue bars loading system. That's mil-spec stuff, dude!!
Awesome project, Genius😀
Your vide0s are always worth waiting for lol 😅
Krijg de T! Oh shit F! He's back! Woot Only thing I missed is why exactly the original didn't work and the gun in between does.
Beautiful work as always.
This is awesome. And crazy.
Well done Sir.
My god, you're an evil genius. Love it. Great work man.
Great project! I wonder what you'll do with this on the multi-gantry setup. Hot glue infill? Getting the first layer to stick on anything? I love how you're working on larger arcs and smaller spin-offs and everything with so much creativity.
very cool project, and kudos to your endless determination!
this is so awesome! cant wait to see you experiment with different types of glue sticks
This guy is the living embodiment of they got so busy seeing if they could they never asked if they should.
love this channel. love the struggle and the failures.. its very relatable.
Mind blowing! You can even print your own gluesticks with this!!! Jokes aside this is really amazing and innovative!
Very impressive. Well done!
Ah man, you never fail to astonish me...great video!
I love your videos because I never know what far-out idea you're going to present next. Plus, you're not afraid to show your failures.
Hot snot printer!
My favorite part was when you said f*ck it and just embraced the jank.
Honestly, love your content, it shows us that weird ideas are attainable, you just have to do the work to make it fit.
-Definitely inspiring me to want to try and create my own 3d printer!
13:04 had me screaching out in terror while covering my eyes 😂 Great video and amazing what you're able to build! 😃
I’ve explained 3d printing with the hot glue gun example for years, only I add, “instead of glue sticks, we use weed eater string”. ツ
I ususally explain it like "pooping up a clay vase like you did in kindergarten", which makes people go "aaah, okay" :D
When I saw that S on Twitter I don't know why but for dome reason I didn't even think that this will be a seperate video. And when I saw firsts seconds the only think on my mind was - well yeah... That's the One.
I like you enthusiasm... And I agree 100% on that if something is worth doing,it's worth overdoing. Story of my Life :D
For crying out loud. Today I had a clear out making room for stuff I don’t need or use and one of those things was a bloody glue gun!! I thought one use in years equals bin. And look who goes and makes the glue gun useful… yup, Jon. 😂
You got my sub! This was awesome and I was surprised how clean the prints came out
there is something just so satisfying about seeing you work through tough problems... i really hope I get to see this guy at the next OpenSauce!
Awesome! Dremel already has all the stuff within their company to put these out.
Can you reuse glue stick?
Unreal, love it!
Awesome video. Hope to see more things with the scanner with more tech details as I have the Three 3d scanner.
Use isopropanol to separate hot glue from surfaces. It works really well.
You can use isopropyl alcohol to unstick the hot glue. works like a charm
Hot glue guns have a temp that makes them easy to extrude using light finger pressure. Good that you dropped the temps a bit as that stuff doesn't cool well after extrusion.
Great video again! Thx for your inspiration and great sense of humor! 🎉
Easiest way to get hot glue to separate from the build plate -> Squirt some Isopropyl Alcohol at the joint. It wicks into the bond line and separates with ease.
Yes! I eventually got it done with a low viscous lubricant, but didn't show that. The letters came off a lot easier already!
Good day when bro uploads!
Ha, I'm glad I'm not the only one - for people that don't know how fdm works, I'm usually like "well, it's basically a big hot glue gun controller by a computer"
Super cool stuff man! In theory for testing you could print some glue stick rods using any regular filament you choose, ans then run them through this beast
Epic! Great job, ma man!
Lil tip for further experiments rubbing alcohol helps remove hot glue from a surface so much easier
I got a Kobra3 a few weeks ago and have been looking for inspiration to recycle its Aegean poops back into filament to use for supports, but extruding decent filament seems ridiculously hard and expensive. I figured it would be easier to mould it into sticks and find a solution to extrude them into filament without shredding or pelletising - I've seen a printer somewhere that uses square rods. I wondered if I could engineer something similar to extrude filament reliably without a hot auger, which is how its done professionally.
You sir, are a genius and an inspiration. With your insights, I think I might be able to recycle filament with hand-built equipment and shrug off the cost of both pooping and support material. You have to be the most tenacious builder I've ever seen, how many times did you redesign that driver head in the end? 😅
For hot glue, more cooling = more better. Maybe some more cooling fans will help with overhangs and stringing?
Dude you are next level
Great video! Happy I could help out on sharing some footage of an expensive pellets extruder 😊
I finally felt brave enough to try pink glue sticks... 😂
The printer looks amazing in the video, and even better in real life! Great video!
Watching the video I get technical pleasure, it's cool!!!
This is the most awesome and pointless contraption I've seen in a while. Nicely Done!
If you're having trouble getting the printout off the bed, try spritzing it with a little alcohol and it will magically fall off easily. It works great on glue gun glue.
I always love your vidoes, great job. Did you consider that your heater catridge was maybe just way underpowered compared to the one in the glue gun? You could use a solid state relay and mount the Dremel heater cartridge in your nice new extruder maybe?
Interesting thought! The glue gun was 20W and the cartridge I think is 50 or 60. I could've replaced the heater cartridge in the eventual glue gun, but was done and just wanted it to work xD Next iteration wouldn't include a hot glue gun at all!
I enjoy that you include the mistakes in the process, happem to us all😅
RepRap firmware and Simplify 3D don't get enough love these days.
Nice job, Jón
“this is going to be a walk in the park”
...
after the nineteenth iteration: “things are going much better than i expected”
Hahahaha!
I mean I get content, but the Duet ecosystem is so well documented! Disable thermister controlled tools in config.g
Also you need an E-stop
Thanks to a mistake on the big river company's part, I managed to get the Sunlu S4 for £44 ($57). Couldnt recommend it enough, would have happily paid full price for it. My TPU prints are flawless using the dryer, looking as good as my PLA prints with practically no stringing. PETG prints like a dream too, havent tried anything too exotic yet though :)
WTF! This is totally awesome-Great work!!
when you see the title and you immediatly start the video. feels good man.
AHH! That nozzle crash gave me flashbacks to my first (plywood frame) 3D printer. It also homed at the top. Except, in my case, the limit switch wasn't triggering so the fat Nema 17 motors paired to fine-pitch threaded rod tried to push the x assembly off the top of the printer. There was the sound of wood on the verge of splintering. 😬
I've always thought of FDM as "Hot glue gun on a gantry," it's so satisfying to see that actually realized!
13:07 I’m bought a new way more powerful CNC last week and I hope I will never crash it like my 3D Printers into the bed sometime 😂