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