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I think it's got to be clear by now that
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I wasn't a huge fan of the Cobra 2 Pro I
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like the Cobra 2 but in the time between
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those printers a lot has happened in the
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fdm space and unfortunately that new
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model from any cubic got significantly
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trumped by other players in this latest
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generation leag the Cobra 2 is neither
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suited to beginners where there are far
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better options nor does it seem ideally
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suited to the tinkerers community where
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their competitors are using the more
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open- Source Clipper firmware yet on the
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cobras any cubic swears that it's their
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own despite other community members
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saying otherwise the point is I have no
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idea who that printer is for but with
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the Cobra 2 max it's much clearer it's
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for people who want to print very big
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things and speaking of things that are
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bigger than they should be According to
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some medical professionals I'm Russ and
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this is f Hammer videos now when a
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company sends me a printer I don't like
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to rudely go and overtly say the name of
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their competing Brands because well it's
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just in bad taste but this printer is is
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made as a direct competitor to the
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Neptune 4 Max in fact the build area on
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this bed is identical at 420x 420 but
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the height has a slight bump over the
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competition where this offers a full
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half meter in build height whilst the
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newest generation of Neptune is 2 cm
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shorter thanks to its partk calling F so
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there's a plus one in the wind column
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for any cubic but potentially a minus
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one because this printer doesn't have a
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part calling F but what is a definite
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win is building the printer is as
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straightforward as any of this style and
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size and what I really like is that so
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long as you have this on a stable
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surface the upper frame will hold itself
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in place while bolting it together from
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the sides rather than underneath however
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you do need to unbolt it all when you
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take it out of the box as it's been
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secured together for protection during
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shipping a minor time sync but nothing
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to complain about I actually prefer a
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more securely shipped printer to one
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with a twisted frame that you can never
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calibrate but yeah building is
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straightforward and even the filament
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reel holder which is mounted off to the
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side can all be achieved solo and this
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is another plus one over the Neptune
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just like the Cobra 2 Pro however the
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screws aren't labeled so you will need
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to work out what the sizes are and where
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they go it's mostly common sense but
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this was an opportunity that any cubic
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could have taken to be a bit more
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helpful but any guides and support from
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any cubic now are clearly more aimed at
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being done rather than being done well
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once it's built just plug in the cables
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and boot up the printer that's about it
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the UI then walks you through the
2:34
connection to Wi-Fi leveling inserting
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filament and resonance compensation to
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stop vibrations in the print Wi-Fi setup
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is better here than on their resin
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printers that need an app and well they
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rarely work here you do the sensible
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thing of just choosing your network via
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the UI but to enter your passcode you
2:52
need to use a form of alpha numeric
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keyboard like a phone from 1998 and I
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know I made that same point on my last
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video but still like like if any cubic
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aren't going to change the printer much
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why should I change my video much but
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honestly when I see this I immediately
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think come on any cubic grow up who
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decided this was a good way to go or
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were you just not aiming for good now
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unlike my Cobra 2 Pro this printer
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completely Auto leveled itself
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successfully first time but I recommend
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you check out that earlier video for how
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the auto leveling works because it seems
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there are no options for any form of
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manual adjustment and if yours comes in
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such a way that the nozzle struggles to
3:29
calibrate over the levy Q sensor then
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the realigning method they give you is
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very hard to confidently get it into the
3:35
place it needs to be in order for this
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system to work but it worked here and I
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was able to get my test print shark
3:41
bottle opener off the print bed now this
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print bed it's big it's a Pei sheet it's
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flexible and it's great for part removal
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but because any cubic haven't put so
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much as a notch or raised area on the
3:52
frame of it it can be a trick to relay
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this straight and this is much harder to
3:57
do when the printer's just finished and
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all the components are still H when it
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comes to using the printer there are a
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couple of ways PC or phone on the PC you
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will have some slicer options the any
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cubic slicer is okay it's a fork of prer
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but the UI is about as limited as they
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come and nowadays I'd avoid it purely
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due to its lack of controls when
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compared to pretty much any other modern
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prer based slicer I mean the UI is clean
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and everything so as I said for the
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beginner perhaps this is easy but
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applications like bamboo studio and
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orcca slicer have shown us that we can
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do more with just as clean and yet more
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intuitive UI you also have the fact that
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they have a much larger Community behind
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them should you need support with using
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any of the features or functions I
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honestly don't know why any cubic are
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wasting development time and money
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making an app like this when they could
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have spent that effort making sure the
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printer works well with existing popular
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derivatives of prer slicer and give
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beginners a clear guide on how to
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configure this I'm sorry any cubic but
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so far you just aren't good enough to
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make a competing slicer yourself so I
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don't get why you're wasting time on it
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this isn't helping anyone this is more
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of a hindrance by all means do it guys
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but as other brands have now shown do it
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properly or just don't bother you're
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wasting your time I'm trying to save you
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money so I hope you're listening stop
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wasting money on this unless you're
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going to actually do it well now
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speaking of other slicers they do
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include prer slicer on the USB drive but
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the installation and setup instructions
5:28
are Absol absolutely garbage they aren't
5:30
even made for the Cobra 2 max they're
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made for the normal Cobra 2 not even the
5:35
pro just the Cobra 2 so unless you
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already know how to set up prer and
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import profiles which to be fair is easy
5:41
as I've just shown on screen you're
5:43
stuck with any cubic slicer or you're
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testing your own Google Fu abilities
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before you even start your first print
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my preferred option as always nowadays
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is orca slicer as it's both the most
5:54
intuitive and feature Rich slicer out
5:56
there now unfortunately there were no
5:58
official profiles for the cobra 2 Max at
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the point that I was testing this
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printer so I tried one by someone called
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Brock Das
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burned however when slicing up and
6:08
printing a benry this was nearly 50%
6:10
slower than the model sliced iner so for
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now I'm just going to stick with that
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and it's more limited functions that I'm
6:16
not as familiar with in comparison to
6:18
orer whatever your choice just slice the
6:20
files stick them onto a USB drive and
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plug them into the printer now you may
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be thinking surely you can just transfer
6:26
files wirelessly to it from the desktop
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slicer but no
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for Wi-Fi the only way to benefit is
6:32
with the anycubic app on your phone
6:34
which makes Wi-Fi both a useful and
6:37
useless function for this machine since
6:39
the only feature it has is integration
6:41
with the ne cubic print app whilst not
6:43
being quite as egregious as the reality
6:46
app is still one that is offputting
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enough that I just don't want to use it
6:50
just little things like one bottom tab
6:52
which is clearly for the any cubic shop
6:54
it's poorly translated as mail like what
6:58
seriously any cubic do it right or just
7:01
stop bothering with this stuff please
7:03
now the app does give you some
7:05
notifications from the printer but all
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of the stats and info you get in the
7:09
actual printer's interface like last
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print total printing time or number of
7:14
prints are only calculated from prints
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that you send via the app it won't
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actually record anything where you
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follow the usual process of slicing a
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file on your computer and transferring
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it via USB because none of this is a
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summation of what the printer's done
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only what the appers done much like
7:30
reality's approach to doing the same
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thing but that still makes this data
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inaccurate for the majority of users and
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therefore useless now you can also
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apparently slice and print files in the
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app itself but it seems you won't even
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get the simplest features like the
7:47
ability to view where the supports are
7:49
that the inapp slicer generates and in
7:51
my case the print never actually started
7:53
on the printer when I tested this
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feature out so not wanting to use a
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printer this way or this app at all I
8:00
went back to slicing on my PC honestly
8:03
why would anybody use a 3D printer this
8:06
way it baffles me am I wrong also
8:09
there's the option when starting a print
8:10
to enable a camera and selecting this
8:13
begins to generate a preview as though
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the app is waiting for a camera feed but
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obviously I couldn't see anything cuz I
8:18
had no camera connected but I don't even
8:20
know what camera I can use other than
8:22
probably some kind of USB camera due to
8:25
the icon denoted above one of the three
8:26
USB ports on front of the machine though
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as many people have pointed out online
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right now it seems that this function is
8:33
just not available and I'm yet to see
8:35
anyone figure it out as for printing
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itself well other than the supports that
8:40
came across quite broken in many ways
8:42
despite me using the tough supports the
8:45
print itself was fine enough there's not
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really much you can say nowadays about
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print quality I had no issues when I
8:51
sliced models for it using prer slicer
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they all printed and they did a decent
8:55
enough job at decent enough speeds this
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printer like most others nowadays claim
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speeds of up to 500 mm a second with 300
9:03
being typical that's fairly standard now
9:05
within like a 5% tolerance of other
9:08
printer speeds but that doesn't stop any
9:10
cubic claiming their 18-minute Bene is
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83% faster than other printers which
9:15
take 108 minutes but to me that's just
9:18
another sign that this model and any
9:20
cubic as a brand are behind the times
9:23
most new printers have been capable of
9:25
these speeds for over a year you could
9:26
have claimed this back at the beginning
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but the posts for average have moved up
9:32
quite a while ago by all means say your
9:34
printers fast just don't say that all
9:36
others are slow because somebody looking
9:38
to buy this printer is looking to buy
9:40
this printer or Another Printer so
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therefore they'll be buying a new modern
9:45
printer and I can guarantee whatever
9:48
they're looking at probably has the same
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print speeds as this so the claim is
9:52
completely irrelevant in case you can't
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tell guys I've got more issues with the
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marketing than with the printer itself
9:58
that's fairly typical of this channel
10:00
I'm just trying to stop the consumer
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being lied to I'm sick of it I'm
10:04
honestly sick of it I hope you can hear
10:06
the passion in my voice cuz I'm studying
10:08
now I'm doing this review this isn't
10:10
even in the script it just does my head
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in why are people lying to you seriously
10:15
I want to get back to the script sorry
10:16
that's just a rant sorry any cubic that
10:18
isn't just you that's everyone but I'm
10:20
sick of it stop just tell us the facts
10:22
tell us what the printer does give us
10:24
controls let us use them the way that
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you intend for us to use them stop
10:29
locking stupid stuff down and just do it
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right right back to my script so where
10:35
this printer is a bit silly is once
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again in the hot end which is the heart
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of the whole machine this machine comes
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with a 0.4 mm nozzle and I'll say it
10:44
straight that's kind of daed on a
10:46
machine of this size it should come by
10:48
default with a 6 or a08 but let's say
10:51
you want to swap out your point4 to a
10:53
larger size yourself it's a sensible
10:56
Choice well any cubic don't make another
10:58
size Noz nuz for this machine and just
11:00
like eligo they've also gone with the
11:02
proprietary nozzle option it's pretty
11:05
much a normal volcano nozzle but for
11:07
some reason they added a little notch on
11:09
top and I don't see any benefit this
11:12
offers us it seems engineered purely to
11:15
stop you buying nozzles from anyone else
11:17
now at least where other brands have
11:19
gone the proprietary nozzle route that's
11:21
given us some benefits normally
11:23
regarding faster swaps but here I can't
11:26
see a benefit so unless you can find a
11:29
third party compatible nozzle of which I
11:31
can't find any or it seems you can swap
11:34
out some other internal components to
11:36
use a normal volcano nozzle or at least
11:39
that's what it looked like after one
11:40
post I saw on Reddit but I've got no
11:43
idea how this will have an impact to the
11:45
auto leving function and there seems to
11:48
be no manual leveling option either you
11:51
are literally stuck with .4 mm nozzles
11:54
on a machine where the last thing you
11:56
want is a 0.4 mm nozzle and
11:59
unfortunately the direct competition has
12:01
now caught up by offering alternate
12:03
sizes and spare parts which was a
12:06
complaint I made in that video but here
12:08
the Cobra 2 Max has shot itself in the
12:11
foot and I don't know how long this
12:12
limit's going to last if you're looking
12:14
at a big printer you already Limited in
12:17
choice and whilst I didn't have a great
12:19
time with this printer's competitor due
12:21
to it failing to print anything and me
12:23
having no Avenue to repair it I actually
12:26
have had a good experience with this one
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overall all what is unfortunate is that
12:31
just like with the Cobra 2 Pro any cubic
12:34
are operating on a series of outdated
12:36
principles in terms of attracting
12:38
consumers using proprietary nozzles with
12:41
no perceivable benefit seems little more
12:43
than greedy not giving us size options
12:45
on a printer that needs it is either
12:48
lazy or tells us the printer is not
12:50
ready to Market not integrating with
12:52
modern slices in favor of making their
12:55
own again with limited to no consumer
12:58
benefit is
12:59
absolutely baffling including Wi-Fi with
13:02
none of the modern slicer benefits is
13:04
yet another sign of their egregious
13:07
manipulation of you the consumer to only
13:10
use their stuff it's geared towards
13:12
getting their app on your phone just so
13:15
that they can promote their own
13:17
storefront and just to rub salt in the
13:19
wound for a modern printer if you need
13:21
to change anything in the hot end beyond
13:24
the nozzle itself it's a full tear down
13:27
to get to basic things like the extruder
13:29
gear between this and the Neptune I
13:32
would still choose this because at least
13:34
in my case I could get it to work but at
13:36
the same time this printer already has
13:38
limited appeal because it's made for
13:40
those people who need to print big
13:42
things and well that's not everyone it's
13:44
already a niche of a niche but honestly
13:47
any cubic really needs to mature in this
13:49
space very very quickly because the
13:52
Innovations we've seen in the last year
13:54
are nothing to do with speed they're all
13:56
about user experience
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so any cubic it's time to grow up fast I
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