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I've just had my first proper go with
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the Delta printer. The FL Sun T1 Max
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landed here. And I'll be honest, until
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now, my entire knowledge of Delta
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printers was they look like upside down
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tripods doing a maple dance around a
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hotend. And now I've built one, run it,
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and spent a week or so with it. It turns
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out they're kind of fun, but mostly
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hypnotic to watch. And this one, it's
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pretty big. So, if you've wondered what
0:23
delta printers are and what the value of
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them is, stick around because I had that
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same question coming into this. Hi, I'm
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Ross and this is Fauxhammer Videos. And
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this, as I said, is the T1 Max, FL's
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cheaper, smaller sibling to their
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flagship S1 Pro. That one costs over a
0:41
grand. This one is about half the price.
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Still not pocket money, but cheaper than
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explaining to your partner why you just
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spent the holiday fund on another bloody
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printer. So, here's what it actually is.
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It's weird. If this is your first look
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at a Delta, let's understand the
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mechanics. Three arms move up and down
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on belts independently to control the
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hotend's position in both horizontal and
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vertical space. But due to how this
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moves, your build area is now a circle
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with a diameter here of 300 mm. Now,
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whilst this is called the Max, it's
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because it's larger than the T1, which
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is only 260 mm. But honestly, this is
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still 20 mm shorter than the flagship
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S1. And it kind of makes me shrug at the
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name Max in favor of something more
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accurate. They they should have called
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it the plus. Yeah, should have been
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called the T1 Plus. Anyway, it's also
1:30
worth understanding that it's only in
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the center of this circle that you can
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go up to its maximum height of 297 mm.
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At the edges, you lose some height
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because of the way the hotend can move
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and that maxes out at 251 mm. It sounds
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like a weird limitation, but that's just
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the geometry of Delta printers. three
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columns moving the head around in arcs,
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which looks mad until you realize it's
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just math. The whole machine stands at
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830 mm tall, and that's before you stick
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the swool holder on top. And it takes up
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a footprint of around 510x 510 mm. But
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the weight is only 16 kilos,
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surprisingly light for the size of it.
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The frame is steel, but you'll only
2:11
really see the plastic housing covering
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the body. And when I first saw this in
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pictures, I assumed it had arrived
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preassembled. But no, this actually
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comes flat packed. To build it, you just
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seat the three arms into the base, put
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the top on, secure the screws, and mount
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the mechanics. The difficult bit is
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understanding some of the cabling, and
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the translations in the manual aren't
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exactly fantastic. It's straightforward
2:33
once you know how, and that's made much
2:36
easier by the video guide you get with
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the machine. The extruder is a direct
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drive system with hardened steel gears
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and the hotend is capped at 300° C and
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comes with a hardened steel nozzle by
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default. Now FL Sun claims a,000 mm a
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second on the box. In the real world,
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you won't hit that without the model
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turning into string art, but even
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running it sensibly, it's still quick.
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The limit with FDM printing speed isn't
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really how fast the tool head moves,
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though. It's material calling. I've said
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for ages that it's great these machines
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are moving faster. If we can't extrude
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and then harden the material through it
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at those speeds, what's the point? Well,
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we'll come back to that. The bed is a
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single-sided textured PEI steel sheet
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that slides semi easily into place
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thanks to the rim at the back. This will
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heat to 100° C, which is solid for PLA,
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PETG, ABS, and even some composites, so
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long as you can keep the drafts off and
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don't print it in a freezing cold room.
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But this has no enclosure, so it's more
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aimed at those lower temp materials when
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using it at home, which means the bed
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being 100° and the hot end at 300
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maybe kind of pointless. But anyway,
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it's the cooling that I think is pretty
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awesome. Rather than fans in the hotend,
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there's actually a blower up in the roof
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of the machine piping air down to the
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nozzle via a hose. And this keeps that
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moving mass down and helps with those
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tool head movement speeds that we just
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talked about. In an enclosed printer,
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this could also be used to pull in
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cooler air from outside the printer, but
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again, this isn't enclosed and there's
4:09
no official upgrade kit. The touchcreen
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mounts onto the front at the bottom. So,
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whilst you might consider putting this
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on the floor for fitting it in your
4:16
office, any direct onachine maintenance
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would then need to be done on your
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knees. Connectivity includes Wi-Fi on
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both 2.4 and 5 GHz, which is worth
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pointing out because there are still
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budget printers in 2025 that are
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shipping with 2.4 4 GHz only like it's
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the stone age. Anyway, that's the paper
4:35
spec. Let's get to talking what it's
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actually like to get going. And well,
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it's pretty straightforward. We talked
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about assembly before. It's like a
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modern Macano set. A couple of dozen
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screws. Nothing you'll need power tools
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for. And they even give you magnetic
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covers for the extrusion gaps so stray
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bits of filament don't fall into the
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guts. It's a small touch, but it's
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appreciated. These are 3D printed
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elements, however. Once you've built it,
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switch it on, the fun begins. There's no
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setup wizard, though, no welcome process
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or OB out of box experience. So, once
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you're on the main screen, you need to
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manually run both the input shaping and
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then the bed leveling, which actually
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runs twice, and the screen just says bed
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leveling the whole time. You've got no
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idea how far along it is. A progress bar
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would have saved a lot of standing
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around and wondering if it's actually
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bricked itself, and that's why it's
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running through the process twice. Now,
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when it comes to filament loading, this
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is where things get a bit silly on this
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machine. Rather than sensibly offering a
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filament mount to go above, they give
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you this weird 3D printed stand with a
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couple of rollers on it and a couple of
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sticky tabs so you can attach it to the
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top. This doesn't offer a fantastic
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hold, and if you've got damaged
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cardboard spools, I expect they'll
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struggle. And well, honestly, yeah, this
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is just cheap and nasty. The filament,
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however, goes down through the lid and
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straight into the extruder. So,
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placement wise, this is actually pretty
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good for materials like TPU. It's just a
6:01
shame about that dumb roller. And whilst
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it's unrelated, this is something that's
6:06
my fault, but worth talking about whilst
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we're discussing filament, this roll of
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red I used was actually tangled. So, I
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came down one morning to find the
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machine extruding nothing into thin air
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and the filament was jammed on top.
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Thankfully, there was no clog in the
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extruder gear, but some kind of tangle
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detection on this unit would have been
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nice to have. You don't get that here.
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Now, also on the hotend, this just is a
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bit legacy in terms of design. There's
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no quick swap nozzle, and you'll need to
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pull the whole print head out of its
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body enclosure if you ever need to do
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any extruder maintenance. But
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printing-wise, this chucked out a decent
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benie in just over 25 minutes, where
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most of my Corxy printers would take
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nearer 35, if not more. So that's nearly
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a 30% speed increase. And if you're
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after a faster printer and want to know
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the benefits you can expect here, I
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often tell people just download the
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slicers and put your models in and slice
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them. That'll tell you how long things
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will take. It's a great free check that
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many people forget to do, and it works
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with build volume, too. You can actually
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emulate a lot of 3D printers just by
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playing with the slicers. Anyway,
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speaking of the slicer, FL Sun, like all
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brands now, have their own version of
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Orca. At the time I tested it, the
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profile wasn't available for this
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machine in the original Orca slicer, but
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I'm sure it'll be there before long. And
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I did a ton of FDM tests on this printer
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all in one go. And I've got to say,
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quality-wise, they all came out solid.
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I'm impressed with both the accuracy,
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the stability, and the speed with a lack
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of stringing along with some decent
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bridging quality, too. However, there
7:44
were definitely signs of overextrusion
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because I was actually struggling to
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move the pins on the toaster test where
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I can normally move at least the first
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three, if not four. And whilst I'm
7:54
printing stuff, here's a cool little
7:55
hatchet, which was actually made by the
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Eternal Forge, who you'll probably
7:59
recognize from all those hammers I made
8:01
in previous reviews. Well, now he's back
8:03
with another campaign of little trinkets
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for cosplaying war gamers that you can
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check out. Now, I make nothing from
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promoting this guy other than he now
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sends me the files early so I can show
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you. And I want him to make more files
8:16
like this so I can print them myself.
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That's why I want to support him.
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Anyway, I'll put a link in the
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description if you want to check it out.
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I'm sure he's got more hammer-like
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things coming in the future. But anyway,
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the point is when it comes to this
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machine, I get it now. I understand the
8:31
value of a Delta printer. It's mostly
8:34
the speed. And yeah, to be honest, while
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it's flying about, it does look bloody
8:37
cool when it's printing. But in all
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honesty, I'm just not convinced it's the
8:42
Delta mechanism itself doing all of the
8:45
heavy lifting here. I think the real
8:47
heroes are probably the high flow hotend
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and that blower doing the cooling. Those
8:51
extrusion speeds are undeniable, but the
8:54
platform, it's a strange one. Maybe I'm
8:57
just conditioned to prefer a boxy Core
8:59
XY because the shape of this is awkward
9:03
to fit in most home setups. The build
9:06
volume did worry me at first before I
9:08
got hands- on, but in practice, a 300 mm
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diameter and nearly 250 mm of height
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isn't that bad at all. Yeah, you won't
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be knocking out cosplay helmets easily,
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but if you need tall prints, this makes
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sense. As for this specific model, the
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T1 Max, got to be honest, it didn't blow
9:27
me away beyond the novelty of it being
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my first Delta. The cheap spool holder,
9:32
no camera, no multimaterial or
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autoloading, no quick swap nozzle, and
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no easy access to the extruder
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mechanics, it all makes the T1 Max feel
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like a high-tech machine that at the
9:44
same time is oddly dated for the average
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home user. So, it probably isn't for the
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average home user. I've got to be
9:50
honest, it's a weird one. I enjoyed
9:53
using it more than most printers I've
9:54
had lately, but I don't know if the
9:57
reasons I enjoyed it actually translate
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into real world value. If you want one,
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it's probably because you prioritize
10:03
tall prints or you absolutely need that
10:06
slight extra boost in speed. But beyond
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that, yeah, it works. I had no issues.
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But I don't know FL Sun well enough to
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comment on their long-term reliability.
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Do you? Seriously, drop your experiences
10:20
in the comments because I know other
10:22
viewers of this will be looking for that
10:24
to get other people's hands-on
10:25
knowledge. So, let us know in the
10:27
comments what it's like for you,
10:28
especially if you've had a good time
10:30
because I know the bad ones are going to
10:32
show up first. But, I'm going to say
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this isn't going to be my last Delta.
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I've already got another FL Sun on the
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way, so hit subscribe if you want to see
10:39
where this goes. If you do want to pick
10:41
one up, I'd appreciate you using my
10:43
affiliate links down in the description
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before you do. I want to say thanks for
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watching with a huge thanks to our
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the world. It's about doing our best to
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