Cheap 3D printer with 3 linear rails - How the Cetus changed my mind
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2017
- Cetus 3D Printer: shop.tiertime.com/
Cheaper alternative: www.banggood.com/custlink/3DG...
Electric Screwdriver www.banggood.com/custlink/GmK...
Pay my filament bills: / marcoreps
Until now I was a 3D printing sceptic. What good could come from cheap hardware trying to lay down layers of plastic strings? But as soon as I saw this machine I suddenly wanted to give it a try. A minimalistic, functional design, real linear rails on all 3 axes and a low price somehow resonated with my inner CNC aficionado. And I was not disappointed. I have found no problems at all and I suspect, that it will now become a regular on the show :) 
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The combination of your accent and no-nonsense tone of voice makes your silly humour work so well.
Misspelled "humor"
@@LoganDark4357 Both versions are correct. Humor is typically American, the rest of us it's Humour.
en.oxforddictionaries.com/spelling/british-and-spelling
I thought this was a synthetic voice :D
I was going to say the same thing. I came for the printer, stayed for the dry humour in a German accent. It's the juxtaposition of serious tone with underlying joke. It's hilarious.
@@ThexBorg Please include another reference. The Oxford dictionary is irrelevant. Only winners write history. By winners i mean mostly by having big guns and big boats with big guns and Planes with big guns inside the boats with big guns. Even our small guns have big guns.
I always enjoy your videos. Perfect balance of serious review with that dry German sense of humor that gets me every time.
If British humor is dry; this is absolutely parched. Hilarious. You almost don't realize that you've encountered a joke. Great stuff.
Dude... my car has been running on rotten fruits for years. I have no complaints
its called fermentation - and you don't pay taxes on it in usa = always a bonus
yay
watched the whole thing with a smile on my face
This is the first time I've seen one of your videos, and you've totally won a new subscriber. You give us a solid, useful review of a technical product - which alone would make it extraordinary. Add your deadpan delivery - as dry and understated as any I've ever seen. Remarkable work, and fun to watch. Bravo!
Putting the printer “out of the way” was hilarious on so many levels.
Great video ! Well explained and documentated. With a nice sense of humor. I love your workshop.
Your sense of humor is amazing! Loved the video, and got a good laugh ever so often from your presentation. Einen schönen Sonntag wünsche ich noch allen.
I was one of the original Kickstarter backers, I got the first gen Cetus for $240 including shipping
Pipe organ builder? Now that IS cool. 18 years ago, I was doing pro audio and found myself in the lowest bowels of Uptown Chicago, beneath the moorish-styled Aragon Ballroom. My assistant and I thought it appropriate to explore the tunnels, reportedly a refuge of one of their more infamous denizens, Al Capone. Two levels beneath some gigantic leaf springs which suspended the dance floor, we stumbled upon several very large relatively thinwall pipes. From a dark passage a man emerged, startling us. He almost seemed like he was waiting for us. Very friendly, the man explained he was the resident electrician and He invited us into his warren. Quite homey, if you like museum-quality electrical equipment and pipe organ parts... I do. This man maintained Aragon's three manual, ten rank WurliTzer Opus 1897, from the factory rebuild of the two-manual, ten rank instrument from the Pelican Theatre, Klamath Falls, Oregon.
For the life of me, I can't remember his name. He is likely sleeping with the angels, given his advanced years. He told us that his primary gig was rebuilding pipe organs, and the Aragon was a side job. Lovely, lovely man. He gave us the $.29 tour, then we bid him auf wiedersehen. I walked away feeling as though I'd completed a heretofore undiscovered bucket list, and I could now die. Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers never sounded so good as that night... partly because I strongarmed the bonehead mixing-board dude into not showing off our 150,000 watt sound system we configured and turning it down and let the most excellent acoustics of the Aragon do the heavy sonic lifting. Phase cancellation is a b**tch!
Speaking of death, Aragon's mighty Wurlitzer exacted a fatal toll upon one Kyle Kirchoff (RIP) in 2015. Seems our tragic and probably un-sober subject found his way up to the catwalk around the domed plaster ceiling above the main floor. He crashed through the plaster, fell, and was impaled on the organ's pipes. Ouch. A lesson that one should consider: a bosun's chair is one's friend whilst engaging in such activity. Curiously, Chevelle, the Chicago band playing at the time didn't notice and continued playing, stopping only at the behest of Chicago's Finest. "Chevelle": a sometimes muscly, but mostly crappy contraption out of Detroit's glory years. Aptly named. Have seen Iggy Pop, Nirvana, Hüsker Dü, many others at the Aragon. Stopped going there because I'm old, tired, and found that urinals are not the walls.
Did I digress? God forfend. Cheap linear rails, oh yeah! Stick-slip, plentiful, cetus3d, et robotdigg, all making our motion-control more controlled. Good times!
Herr Marco Reps, there is a certain youngster in Chicago - J., who won't stop talking about his semi-famous RUclipsr friend. Seems your rep is circulating around the NYLF/Envision STEM camp at Loyola University lately. These rugrats are adopting little, quiet, dry ways, and thinking this is funny. Hahaha. It is insidious and must be stopped. Someone will report you to the authorities and you will pay! However, we will visit you in your new "home" and bring you a nice raisin cake and maybe some tea. No beer allowed. At your release tribunal, your appreciation for Aminita designs will count to your favor. BTW, Kooky (film) may soon be featured at a regular film night we have at CTS Orthodox ch. in Chicago. Real love makes things real.
Very sad when the likes of Resident Electrician pass on and take their amazing skills with them leaving snowflakes to fill in the gaps. Excellent story-thanks for sharing.
Unlike cnc machines the print bearings don't come into great sideways force on a 3d printer so linear bearings are far less of a problem.
brian whittle Actually your only partially correct and they do play a significant role in accuracy. My printer is level and square to .0005 every direction and bed. How much different do you think my prints compare? My controller cost as much as the average printer. Using high quality components will produce high quality prints. The technology is moving towards linear rails and it is also moving towards closed loop servo driven printers with precisional accuracy that will soon print in a far higher resolution than anyone imagined.
Do you have any aditional info about that controller? How do you achieve that precission?
@@glennedward2201 .00005 what? km? :P
MrRoomTemperature ..,apologies that was a typo now corrected and it is five ten thou standard units and not half a hundredths as originally typo’d. It has needed monthly attention to maintain that tolerance and currently out of those specifications atm. Meaning that the four corners are usually within .0005 or less vertically, horizontally, or diagonally between the four corners and not necessarily in any particular order. Using a machinists level is how it is leveled. All of our equipment typically needs to be readjusted every 4 weeks to maintain similar tolerances. Floors shifting, weather changes, temperature expansion, etc... everything affects it. We did have a lathe at one point set to .00002 or 2-3 hundredth thou, although it changed daily and we could not maintain it consistently due to floor swelling and had to taper the machine left to right .0005 to get it to stop moving every day and keep our parts consistent back to back.
To the other gentleman I would suggest to anyone now days to run nothing less than a 32 bit operating system on any 3D printer. We’re currently using a PC based CNC controller however that’s a different scenario altogether and probably not for the average persons needs or consideration. It’s complicated, a headache to setup, and requires a knowledgeable person to setup and operate it. I think in the next couple of years you will start seeing more and more using PC based systems as speeds and accuracy increase and hardware requirements become more demanding.
@@powertothebauer296 Small deviation per layer * amount of layers = noticeable difference especially as the amount of layers increases. So having a deviation of only a fraction of what lower quality hardware could give you is a big deal to people who want a print of any size to still be dimensionally accurate.
A total deviation of less than a millimeter could still be the difference between two parts fitting together perfectly or either not having that perfect snug fit or having to sand it down, for example.
I love your sense of humor great machine by the way ...
Slobodan Vidovic i was going to say that also...hee hee.
I love the monotone delivery of your one liners 😂😂😂 This looks like a fantastic machine. I was looking at building my own corexy style printer with linear slides, until I saw this... Now I may have to pick one of these up. Thanks!
Please cut more rubber prints in the future
Wow ! I was just thinking about cartesian printers with real linear rails yesterday, awesome video!
great video and great sense of humor
Wow, astonishing quality for the amounts of views and subs, you got me, suscribed
Really love your Videos:D please continue your work!
Did you ever find the FT-5? It only has linear rails on x-y, though...
I like your style my man, keep it up! Subscribed!
This looks worth investing in. Made me laugh when suddenly it appeared on that chimney stack :)
You have a great sense of humour....love your videos.
What got me was the PCB etching.
Great video
You had me laughing with the PCB agitator.
And for that my friend, I subscribed.
Great review! I’ve been on the fence about the Cetus, primarily due to the small build volume, though without a standard heated bed it’s hard to justify getting one for your primary printer. If there’s a fairly straightforward way to add a heated bed I would leap at the chance to get one since it’s just so darn sexy compared to the plastic construction of most other entry-level printers. I did end up backing the maker’s Kickstarter for the newest design they’ve created since it’s a lot cleaner (And includes automatic bed leveling!), and looks far more professional than the cheap, no-name printer I started out with, which is always such a huge pain to use. The new design is your standard printer (i.e. no linear slides), but it integrates a lot of know-how and design experience to really optimize for a reliable, easy to use printer for a wide range of materials. Sorry, can’t remember the name of the new design!
I just ordered my second one of these. They're great!
Loooved that ending.
Nice finale. Thanks for a review. I was looking for info about using linear slides for all axis on my new large machine build.
First vid I saw from you, I like your sense of humour, I'm subbing.
Thank you, an excellent video both in content and presentation.
Very interesting and funny video! A Cetus 3D is now on my shopping list. Thanks for the info!
WONDERFUL JOB, LOVE THE CHANNEL!
I love your channel!!! I work vit Chermans effree day (Henkel) and your accent and humor is perfect!
As usual, another great video. I just love the scripted humor being delivered through an awesome Germanglish. Thumbs up and subed. Going to the channel to find ( hopefully ) the video on adding " a " bed heater to Cetus
I don't always like RUclips videos, but when I do I like yours...
Great video and you got a sub the cetus is a very nice machine ive been wanting one for a wile
Funniest video on 3D printers and printing I've ever seen. I really like your sense of humour ;-)
Misspelled "humor"
@@LoganDark4357 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humour
"also known as humor"
As I looked at your 3D printer setup and the hot glue gun, I laughed out so hard, because this was exactly the feeling I had with my first 3D printer years ago :) Thanks for sharing such great videos!
super geil, mit der Klebepistole :D ....you made my day!
Oh gawd I love your style! Keep it real
what's the stability of the bed like with just a single actuator in the middle?
Chimney Rooftop CNC... I LOVE THIS MAN
Great topic, thanks 👍
Great review
Truly an inspirational man!
"I don't care, just give me the parts" Exactly my feelings about slicers, and one reason I like Tiertime products.
Have you tested the alignment of the axes to eachother? How is the alignment for X and Y established, since the user has to mount the turret theirself?
I can watch your videos , even if i don't care about the items you describe!!!! Your presentations are among the best I have seen!!!!
gerokatseros greatest subscriber ever ))
Bei so einem Winzling sind die Linearlager auch echt nötig.
In dieser Qualität können die konkurrenten ohne jene Lager auch drucken.
Dennoch Daumen hoch, dass er von Anfang an so gut eingestellt ist.
Excellent video. The highlight for me was learning about using back-emf as a virtual limit switch. Gonna see if I can get that working on my cheapo Banggood laser etcher.
If not, try Trinamic stepper driver ICs, they mostly have sensorless stall detection built in.
Cool and Fun!
Where is the screen? I have a Prusa I3 MK2 with proper roller bearings and spring belt tensioner
I'm going to save this video just in case the internet breaks, this deserves to be seen by future generations.
Showing the build volume with the cardboard mock-up is VERY effective. Excellent review: I have found the 3-D printer I will purchase! I would like to hear more about the heated build platform control since it appears to be a fixed temp per the mfr website. It is amazing so good for only $450!
Have you made process on the heated bed?
I'm wondering if nicrome wire mod of the standard bed could work
Neat trick for leveling flex prints!!!!!!!! What material did you use? TPU?? I'll try it
We produce high temperature resistant all-metal linear guide blocks
What flexible filament is that? First time seeing hot air smoothing, kinda curious to try it out now..
Informative and entertaining as well
David Brian Moore true!
I'd love for you to throw your humor into quantum anything, I'm laughing already!
how compared to the monoprice mini? they are almost same price
Wow, Cetus looks pretty good, pricing is very palatable. That said, I was considering backing the Kappa 3D printer on Kickstarter (not for meme reasons Krappa). Do you have thoughts on their design?
Nice power screwdriver, where did you get it from ? or what is the brand ?
God start and ending(with humor), and fine video in between.
You offer me engineering knowledge and a smile
motherjoon same ))
Nice printer, waiting was a wise choice. If you're adding a heated bed an AC powered silicone mat with an SSR works wonders, specially in a small form factor. ABS makes for pretty prints but that is about it, I've found CPE's to be a good compromise between usefulness and print quality.
I love dry German humor. Had a friend once with the exact sense of humor. Priceless, especially for Anglo's like myself.
There is an argument to say linear bearing are a worse choice than the cheaper simple lightweight bearings here. I built a laser cutter from scratch once and used linear bearings like this. The added friction from the grease and ball bearings induced quick a lot of backlash from the added friction. If I had to do it again I would go for something cheaper and lighter.
A side of me was thinking... "This is exactly how Arnold Schwarzenegger would comment a 3D printer video."
You should replace the: "See you soon!" at the end of your video for: "I will be back!"
Nice solid construction. Makes me look askance at my prusa mk2's less-than-shiny-and-gradually-breaking 3d printed components and "I found these at the bottom of my parts bin" y-axis screws.
Do you know what the highest temperature is that the nozzle can reach?
i really laugh when the printer reqch the roof lol. really humor makes me grin face. keep up the detailed and humor video
I like how they don't put too many plastic crappy parts on the machine.
Don't let RUclips get in the way of your, uh, important work.
Could you replace the fan for a aftermarket (noctua) fan?
Which flexfilament is that you heatsmoothed?
as a cetus owner, I can only agree. great vid
very nice video! :)
I love your humor.
I'm thinking of getting one of the larger ones as my first printer. There are so many choices of printers. More important to me than options is the thing works consistently and reliably. Is it easy to find parts and add-ons for it later to print with different materials? Is there a Plexi case available for it? How is the warranty and tech support? Has anyone had to go through RMA or support? I'm saving for an X-Carve and wondering if I should get this printer first. I already have the router and rest of the tools for the X-Carve. I have actual products I want to produce with these tools.
I done some work with linear synchronous motors. They are in a way stepper motors, but not that exact.
Make me wounder, is it possible to make a linear stepper motor? Maybe using something like 9/10 gearing.
Every time you said 'biggy' with a German accent it cracked me up, thanks for that! :D
So what is the advantage of the liner rails over the liner rods?
I took your vid to heart love my 3dprinter now any one out their that can do this go for it its worth it
Thanks for sharing :-)
The linear rails combined with ball screws would be the ultimate for long term accuracy.
kudos, very entertaining
wait, you actually get the LEFTOVERS!? SWEET :D
great sense of humor :D
A thing I saw on the Marble Machine X channel was creating a stable chamber for it to work in.
I suspect changes in temperature is the enemy of accuracy once you've got those fancy linear things.
Dein Video ist ja zum schießen. Voller nützliche Informationen, und auch witzig. Ich habe vor drei Tagen eins von diesem bestellt, und freue mich schon sehr über die Möglichkeiten. Ich finde auch das simple Design faszinierend. Mal sehen wie schnell das Ding von China nach Sydney, Australien ankommt.
I have already invested heavily in a DIY printer, but it struggles because i lack access to another printer, the parts are just crappy.
Gonna buy the Cetus and re-purpose my existing printer.
Great video man!
The hot glue fun taped to the machine...A+
I know I'm a few years late, if you still have this printer, I'd love to see how the stepper motor actually drives the rails, ie closeups of how the belt is run and connected to the moving bed. A follow up video would be great :-)
LOL i often find myself staring at the printer like i am begin hypnotized, watching it print when i meant to be doing something else.
Can I ask why the large raft in 1:50?
Wie viel hat den der Drucker insgesmant gekostet mit Porto und versand?
Love it, thanks. :)
I work, assembled machines with the same structure, only they have, a tank between the rails. My problem has been aligning the rails on each side, to ensure parallelism and squareness. The rails are located at a distance of 3 meters from each other. Do you know any technical and effective alignment system. Well, I do it empirically with a tensioned steel wire.
Did you get those machine for free by Cetus? Because according to Maker's Muse, people reported lesser quality rails on the retail version after he poster his review.
No heated bed and small build volume for 300$. Nah.
@Abitamim Bharmal Anycubic linear delta for 300usd.
@Abitamim Bharmal Linear rails Cost in this only 40 US $ China Import. I think, this Guy cost completly only 100 US $ in the Production. But i know that will only 75 US $ cost. Soo 324 US $ was only Profit.
And a proprietary extruder.
@Abitamim Bharmal my Ender 3 pro has linear rails and it didn't cost me are fortune to upgrade.
@@havocklp4337 I do agree that this device costs too much. But not al linear rails are equal. The €30,- hiwin one drastically outperformed the €10 ,- Chinese import one I got.
Awesome!