E1613: 3D Printing for Ham Radio!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Consumer of Spicy Poultry sent.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Me, Ah, okay, that's fun, all right, Good evening.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
To everybody, and hope y'all are having a good evening
this Sunday, July thirteenth. Thank you for joining me. Appreciate
you being here. We're going to talk about three D
printing tonight because I got a printer and I've been

(01:14):
using it and I want to know from you guys
what kind of I'm looking for, some ideas and some
suggestions from you guys tonight. So this is gonna be
a participation live stream tonight. So I appreciate everybody who's
got who's here with some good information, and if you
don't have good information, then you can just follow along

(01:37):
and learn stuff. Just like I'm gonna do a special
shout out to all the folks in green text in
the the chat, in the chat excuse me YouTube channel members.
I know Frank Hiking and Hammon, Ron Hiking and Hammon
and Ron. I should say Wayne, Jerry Good evening, KB
five ut I, Dave, ed Word, Hudson, Arthur W six

(02:03):
h e R Bill, Jimmy Good evening. I see KO
four a fl in the house, Prepham. Paula is in
the house, Frank is in the background. Let's see who
else is in there? Yeah, a good deal, okay, oh
him Rated Crusader's in there, vic in there, WTF radio.

(02:26):
Thank you for joining us, guys. Appreciate everyone being here tonight.
And let's uh all right, dude, are you are you?
Are I covered?

Speaker 3 (02:36):
No? I'm literally full. I ended up eating all the wings.
I thought I was just gonna stop at ten, but
I was. I was enjoying it so much. I was like,
my mouth's kind of been covered, and I was like,
I want to be hot and spicy again, So I
thin the wings plus that shaikh Oh, I'm so full.

(02:58):
I imagine so much fun though. Man, I like the
back of my shirt is, you know, damp with sweat.
My hair is all rose now like I was. My
eyes were watering. Oh, it was awesome. It was awesome. Yeah,

(03:19):
And I'm gonna probably try to find hotter and I
and I knew these are not going to be as
spicy as they could have been, or I could find
h but I wanted to get the first baseline. If
I were going to continue to do this something that
everyone can.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Relate, you got to start somewhere.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah, yep, So I chose the big, big restaurants.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
I think Duff Swings in South Lake has a hotter
flavor than Buffalo Wild Wings. I've been told that I've
never actually eaten. I think I've eaten there once. I
never got their hottest sauce.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
But there is one place in Richardson and in Arlington
now that has a flavor that is just amazing. Rick's
Hot Chicken. I've probably talked about them before, Okay, Nashville
Hot Chicken and their level six is or yeah, level
six is just insane.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
They had a Carolina Reaper at Buffalo Wild. No, no, no, no, no,
at Boomers. It was a special thing. They didn't do
it all the time. They did it for a while,
then they stopped. But it was supposed Mike Green had
at one time, and he's like, man, these are hot.
It was, yeah, it was one of those things.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
But oh man, but I feel it around my mouth
more right now. Yeah, yeah, I'm yeah, it's still it's
still on fire.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yeah, I imagine.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
I yeah. So Paul says, wingstop atomic wings. That was
five of them, then five of Buffalo wild Wings blazing,
and then five of Pluckers fire the hole.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Out of all of them, those aren't hot.

Speaker 3 (05:00):
Out of all of them, the hottest ones were was
Buffalo wild Wings, but they had the most flavor.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
Nice. Okay, I've had blazing Winds maybe once. I don't
like it where it's so hot you can't taste it.
Now I have. I'll get the wild wings at buffow
Wi Wing, which is their second hottest flavor. I'll get
the wild and I'll douse him in ranch, and they're
really good because you can taste it, and the ranch
cools down that spiciness so you can actually taste the flavor.

(05:27):
So I think I've done that with Blazon also. But
the fire in the Hole, I didn't think the fire
in the hole the one time I've had the fire
and hole Pluckers, I I didn't think that. I mean,
they were they were good, I guess, but uh, I
didn't think.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
I'm good on cures. He says. A local chain has
Carolina Reaper cheese. I'm good on cures. Oh I want
to eat that.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
That would be good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that would be good.
All right, couple of a couple of announcements. I wanted
to bring Frank on before he and if in case
he keels over and dies of a heart attack during
the stream, I just wanted to get.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
The stomach explosive.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
We're gonna talk about a couple of things here, Okay, yeah, Jody,
we'll get to that here in a second.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
All right.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
So gigaparts, you guys might have heard this. I announced it.
I was gonna announce it on the live stream last week,
and it wasn't live by the time I went live.
The auction wasn't live by the time the live stream started,
and then I forgot about it because we were talking
about the other stuff for the FTX one. So gigaparts
put up a auction. It ends in fifty three minutes,

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so it will end at eight o'clock Texas time tonight.
And they did this on they timed it correctly. They
did this on purpose. They wanted me to announce it.
I didn't announce it on my live stream last week,
but I did announce it during my Prime live stream
my Amazon Prime line streams this last Tuesday Thursday. I
really appreciate you guys who did use my Amazon Prime
links this week. It does help to support the channel,

(06:59):
so think thank you very much for that. This is
the Yazu FTX one field transceiver. This is the actual,
the exact model that I had in my hands at
daytonhamvention because I had ordered an Optima from them and
they didn't have them, and they got like four or
five in at Ham mention. They're like, we're gonna give
you one of these when we get the optimas in,

(07:21):
we'll give you that one and then you just send
this one back. And I'm like, okay, and this is
something I say, give it to me. This is something
I paid for. But I paid for the Optima and
they didn't have them, so they let me borrow this
one until the Optima came in. We've done the switcheroo.
It's all good now, everything's where it should be. But
since this is an open box model, because I had
it out and I was letting people put their hands

(07:42):
on it, and I took it to the troll pub
that night and I was letting people kind of toy
with it. They decided to do an auction charity auction
Yazuo FTX one field radio transceiver with the Explorer backpack,
the little insert that's actually for the seven o five.
It fits this radio perfectly because I right it the
last time I was at Gigabarts and the Poter thirty

(08:02):
three masted all of that. The current price right now
is at fifteen eighty five. All of this goes to
support the qr Z one jump Start program, which gives
away free are very inexpensive hts to new ham radio operas,
newly licensed Hams. You guys might remember that I talked
about it when it was new. I think they gave
away one thousand for free, and then once they hit
that thousand mark, they had to start charging for him,

(08:23):
just because, you know, because people aren't made of money,
but that, but that's what this is going to support
that program. So they're still doing some deep discounts on that.
And I will put a link to this in the
chat here and this will end in like I said
about fifty fifty two minutes. So yeah, there we go.

(08:50):
Well they wipe the jason before they give it to someone.
I hope not, because you make more contacts that way.
But the APRS is working with the newest firmware, so
they've already wiped the mic off of it. So there's
your answer to that.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
So they've already mean by that they wiped the mic.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
I don't know. He just said they're gonna have to
wipe the mic off of it too him Radio Tube
in the chat said that, and I'm like, well, they
did that when they installed APRS and got it working.
So you know, it's kind of one of those things.
It's a joke. You have to kind of be there
to get it, but it's a joke.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
But but yeah, so we're gonna be watching that while
the stream is going, and uh, hopefully somebody I know
wins it because it is an auction. Good deal. So
we're going to talk about the three D printer. Yeah,
I got tonight, so it's right over there. In fact,
i'll show it to you. I set up a new

(09:43):
scene here, okay, so there we go right there. Ah, Okay,
the top right corners, the front of my hamshack. It's
right over there behind the screen, behind the camera, and
I turned one of my cameras around to look at it.
And then the band move slicer is at the bottom
left corner. So we're gonna print something here in just

(10:03):
a minute, just for whatever.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
Five spools.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
Four okay, yeah, there's I can Yeah, there's four in
that AMS. That's the AMS whatever the auto auto, I
don't remember what it's what it stands for. But the
AMS will hold four spools, so you can put them
all the same style, different colors, or you can put
four different styles in there, four different types of filment,
so you can put PET G P C T G

(10:30):
P L A and A S A or whatever. This
is the X one Echo, which was their top of
the I say, I think it still is their top
of the line actually, but after but since then they
came out with a new printer. Since I got this one,
they came out with a new printer called the H
two D printer. Now the eight the X one Echo

(10:52):
is uh this their every comes with Everything has Everything
three D printer. That's their top of the line. Twenty
eight nine is the retail price on that printer. That's
not what I paid for it. But then they've come
out with this H two D printer, and they had
an ht D when I was back at Giga Parts
last month to record the general class that I'm working
on posting to this channel, and that one the good

(11:13):
thing about that H two D is that it has
a bigger plate. All of these bamboos that you see
here have basically the same size plate. I think one
of them. A couple of them might be a little
bit smaller. The Mini has a smaller plate, but most
of these have the same size printing plate. So you
can only print up to a certain size and it
won't handle anything larger than that. But this H two
D printer will print. It's a larger piece, it's a

(11:38):
larger unit, and it will print no shut up, and
it will print on a larger bed. So this right
here says dual nozzle, multi material, three D printing optional,
ten watt ten forty white laser and cutting module, So
I think it'll do laser engraving, also do that with

(12:00):
a different head. I'm not sure. This is a three
point fifty by three twenty by three twenty five millimeter
print volume. Okay, So three fifty by three twenty by
three twenty five. The one I have, this one right
here is D da da dah. Where did it go?

(12:21):
I thought it'd set it over here? Okay, I might
have missed. I'm not okay, I'm not finding it. I
forget which page I read that on. I'm not finding
it now, but it did. But the one I have
is a smaller print area than this new H two D.
So that's that's what that is. So maybe we'll see

(12:46):
I might pick up one of those eventually. I'm not
going to right now because I just got this one.
So but I reached out to Gigaparts. I said, hey,
I'm gonna be live streaming on Sunday, so I said,
send me any kind of deals you have, and you
see some of them are on sale right here. So here,
here's the official word. Bamboo Labs Anniversary sale runs through
July fifteenth, so you've got another two days. Generally speaking,

(13:09):
this is this is gigaparts. I'm reading a gigaparts email
to you right now. Generally these are the best deals
of the year. On top of the special anniversary price
uring pricing, we are offering fifty percent off of a
second AMS until when purchase unit I'm sorry, second AMS
unit when purchased with an X one carbon combo, so

(13:31):
you can load up to eight rolls of film in
each AMS holds four rolls, okay, So you can get
an extra AMS unit if you purchase an X one
carbon combo on the sale and on the X one Echo,
which is the one I have, you can get a
second AMS unit for only forty four dollars and that's
a two hundred and seventy five dollars savings. When we
run out of AMS units, this deal goes away. So

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that's that's what gigaparts is running right now. These are
sales on the Bamboo Labs perters themselves. And if you
get the X one Carbon which is right right there,
X one carbon three D right there, nine ninety nine
is the prize and the sale price regularly twelve forty
nine on sale for nine ninety nine, you can get
an extra AMS unit for free. And if you get

(14:20):
the X one Echo you can get an extra AMS
unit for only forty four dollars. So this is something
that and I don't get any sponsorship, I don't get
any affiliates for this. I don't get anything like that
at all. Gigaparts made me a really killer deal on
this printer that I have, so we kind of partner together.
He's like, hey, if you guys, if you want to

(14:40):
make videos and promote, gigaparts will sell you this printer
for a deep discount. And I'm like, sure, that sounds good.
So it's kind of worked out a deal.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
That package that you were talking about up to eight filments,
is that eight printing filaments or would just store another
four and have it ready?

Speaker 1 (14:58):
You could do it either way, so you can, I
mean you can.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
Get print live from either one of those eight filaments.

Speaker 1 (15:05):
That is correct, Yes, okay, yeah, it will load to
a MS units. So for eight spools of filment for
whatever you want, you could put eight of eight spools
of black PLA and just print forever if you wanted to.
It kind of doesn't make sense. One thing I have found,

(15:27):
okay this So these bamboo printers, they come with a
built in camera, They connect to the Internet. They come
with a built in camera. You download the app on
your phone or on your desktop, and when you're printing,
you can kind of watch it and it records a
time less you got to put a micro SD card
in it, but it records a time lapse video. In fact,
I'll show you one of the time lapse videos real quick.

(15:48):
Let me go here, all right, and let me add
this hold on one second at existing, Greg says.

Speaker 3 (16:02):
The volume is the same as the carbon X one carbon,
So I guess the printing noise.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
I uh, I don't know what an X one carbon
sounds like. I know what this one sounds like, and
it's pretty darn quiet, So take that for what it's worth.
I have very little experience with these things except for
what I've been doing here lately with this one. And
we're gonna print something here in a minute. But uh,
and I want to talk about where I'm finding my

(16:33):
my my print files, my sto files, A couple of
a couple of people in in there. Okay, Giga parts
is in the house right now, what's up?

Speaker 3 (16:40):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (16:42):
You can have up to four a MS units connected
to one X one carbon or X one E printer
for a total of sixteen months. Holy crap, I didn't.
I wasn't sure what the limit was. So I'm like, okay,
all right, that's that's what Yeah, yeah, to uh, that's craziness.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
But you can only be printing like one thing at
a time. You still gotta wait, take it out and
put something else in.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
So right, and that's the drawback. That is the drawback
that I figured out was was the problem with why
is it doing that? That's the drawback and the problem
with it that I figured out by having And it's
not a problem problem. It's just like it's just like, hey, okay,

(17:25):
here's so here's a he was.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
Talking about volume as in volume in space, the printabal space.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
It's about the same. They're both about the same size.
And you mean how much space they take up on
the table. Yeah, they're both about the same size. So okay,
so here's a here's a print I did and it's
on a loop right now it should start over again.
And that took about I don't know, hour and a half,
maybe a couple hours.

Speaker 3 (17:54):
What it was that is it a phone case? No,
a case or a computer.

Speaker 1 (17:58):
It is not a phone case or a computer. Is
this a phone? Is this a computer or a phone?
Ham radio or phone? YouTube channel? This is the case
for my f my d x f T eight q
RP radio that I built on a livestream A few weeks.
Oh nice, that's what it is. That you got to
get a little pin to go in the top there
you can this is actually two separate pieces. The part

(18:20):
you're seeing here is this top piece right here. Yep,
this is the bottom piece, and you can get the
top and the bottom. Uh, the bottom piece. The bottom
piece you can get in different sizes, so I think
there's two or three versions of that radio, so you
can get different sized bottoms for it so it'll fit
it everything. But that's that right there.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
A small cigar case.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
No, there are a lot of cigar items on some
of these websites.

Speaker 3 (18:46):
I'd be worry about the gas on the plastic off
gassing for.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
What though, I'm talking about like an ashtray, like I
printed an ash tray. Oh, and yeah, there's a couple
of things that are there's a couple of things that
are uh like cigar holder cases like you have, or
an actual humidor. But I saw one guy that built
a humidor and he lined it with cedar, and I'm like, okay,
that's that's the way to do it, okay. And I

(19:14):
saw another guy that built one that is just it's
just it says cigar box and it's just the ams
and I'm or just the I think he printed out
a pet G that one that I'm thinking of. But
I'm like, yeah, probably probably be fine for like a
short trip, grab some cigars, throw them in the car,
go to go on, go out in LA or something
like that.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
But I I gotta look at the off gassing on
the plastic before I do a whole humidor. But I'm
gonna if you can do that hand nooxis correct, I
need a tank shaped humidor.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
That's a good idea. That's a good idea. I like that,
So okay, good deal, all right. And this one that
I have will print p l A pet G PCTG.
I got some TPU for it. I haven't tried that yet.
I got some and I've got some uh carbon fiber. Now.

(20:06):
I was talking about this on UH. I was talking
about this on my Prime live stream the other day
because we brought up some some filments that were on
Prime Day Sail and someone said that GF was if
you have if you have GF in the title of
a filment like pet GGF for something like that, or

(20:26):
pct G GF. It means glass filled. And I think
it makes it a little bit stronger. And I believe
the CF is carbon. I don't know if it's carbon
filled or carbon fiber, but my understanding was that the
carbon fiber stuff was supposed to be a little bit stronger.
I'm not because the stuff that I have net loaded, well,
one of the roles I have loaded loaded now is

(20:48):
pet G carbon fiber.

Speaker 3 (20:50):
Okay, okay, So it's not just.

Speaker 1 (20:53):
Basic pet G, which I have another role of basic
pet G I haven't tried yet, but pet G carbon
fiber is what I have loaded. And I've printed this.
This is a honeycomb storage rack. We're gonna talk about
that here in a second. And I printed this with
it as well. So these are these are storage systems
that I'm gonna put one up on the wall over here.
But but that's that's what I've been printing on. And

(21:16):
some of this PLA that I've been printing on, and
I picked up several roles of PLA at Gigaparts, and
this is all Bamboo Labs filament. And I'm gonna do
a whole video about I did a whole video about
setting up this printer. It's currently at the editor of

(21:39):
the editor for this channel for this channel. It's currently
at the editor. But okay, Hiken in Hamm and Lou
says that almost all of his stuff is printed in
pet GCF. Okay, well that's good, good, good, because you
get this message, like the printer gives you this message.
This stuff can be brittle and damage easily blah blah.
And I'm like, that kind of done makes sense to

(22:00):
me because I'm like, I thought it was socially stronger.
But maybe it's just talk about when it's printing. I
don't know, I'm sure.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
So ham till it hurts says, uh, tank shaped cigar
dispenser with the barrel of producing cigars.

Speaker 1 (22:16):
That's a good idea, idea. So, and one of the
main things I had, one of the main questions I
had is how do you design your own stuff? Now,
this might be a little bit over my.

Speaker 3 (22:30):
Under and three D modeling tools.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
Yeah, this might be a little bit out of my
realm of expertise, but more importantly out of my realm
of do I actually care to take the time to
learn how to do this crap? So I just not
care to do that. I might just I might just
you know, for other people have Yeah, yeah, just have
other people.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
Mechanical engineering. It's literally mechanical engineering. You're designing plastic parts. Yeah,
tinker cad, yes.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
Tinker cad. Yeah, that's yeah, auto cab sixty.

Speaker 3 (23:07):
Okay, those are the two main ones right there. Yeah,
don't you have to pay a lot of money for AutoCAD.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
I've never actually looked at that.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
So maybe maybe we can find plans of a ash
tray with a tank in the middle of it.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
You can probably make one yourself. Look, you can probably
find an ash tray and then add an emblem to
the end of it, to the inside.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
I was going with an actual Abrams tank, so the
ass tray and then in the middle of the ass
tray you got the Abrams trying to like drive over.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
Maybe, so a square a square, a circle ash tray
with just a tank in the middle.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
Yeah, circle ass tray cutouts on the divits and in
the middle of the ass tray. Yeah, tank kind of
like up on a.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
Rock probably, and you can probably use.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
It to you know, like get the ash off.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
Yeah, you could probably do that yourself, honestly. All right,
So let's I'm gonna print something. I'm gonna print. I'm
gonna print something that's that's easy.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
And uh, yep, so what are we looking at?

Speaker 1 (24:09):
So okay, So again the Bamboo lab software is in
the bottom right corner. This is the slicer software.

Speaker 3 (24:15):
Okay, boat face.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
That was that was legit. The first thing I printed.
That was legit, the first thing I printed. And uh
and and it and it worked worked great. I had.
I had no problems with this underneath it, right, Yeah,
that's true. Yeah, So if I, uh, let me let's see,
let me go here, and I'm gonna okay, So this

(24:40):
is some of the stuff I printed. I've got a
dual power pole socket for like a battery box. I
printed that. This is just p l A. This is
this is so far my favorite looking filament that I've used.
This is a green metallic.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
I really like it.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
Bamboo p l A just standard p but it's metallic.
It's green metallic in color. They have a green and
they have a green metallic and I just really like
the way this looks. Okay, this is I printed. I
printed some dog bones. I printed them. I printed all
five of these dog bones at the same time. This
is uh, it's just like a They call it black,

(25:18):
but it looks more like a gun metal gray, pla red,
and then three of them in this dog bones like
a like an antenna, like for the end of an
antenna to tie an time.

Speaker 3 (25:28):
Okay, okay, yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
Yeah, you put you could put pair of cord or
antenna's in here or something like that. Put this on
the end of a infed halfwave so that it's as
a strain relief to tie it up a little bit.

Speaker 3 (25:38):
Fre likes the colors.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
Yeah, so I like those colors. It printed this thing
in the back corner on the plate. When I printed
different colors, the only time I've ever printed different colors
at the same time. And it takes it a lot
longer because it has to switch the head out every time.
So it prints, it prints some and then it goes
back and it switches the color and it you know,
so if you're printing multi colors, it's going to take
one girl. Because what I did was after that, I

(26:02):
printed a couple of other things and I put two
colors together and it said it was going to take
like two and a half hours, and then I took
one color off and for one color it was going
to take like forty five minutes, and then for the
other color to do a separate, completely separate print. It
was going to take forty five minutes. So I'm like, okay,
if I'm here, if I if I want to set
it and go to bed, or set it and leave
the house or something, then you know, just set it

(26:22):
to do the whole thing and who cares. But if
you want to do a little bit faster, just do
one at a time, one color at the time. It
goes a little bit faster. But it printed this thing
on the on the I don't know what this is,
but some kind of color dispatch thing. I just thought
that was kind of neat looking.

Speaker 3 (26:34):
But the prints a little pool.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
It puts a little bit, yeah, just kind of like
a like a pres It's not like the perjurer or
something like that, because it has that in the back.
But you know, it's I don't know anyway, So it printed,
it printed that.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
Well, it has to get rid of the filment that's
in the head, right, Well, they should probably cut and
retract the film it, but then it's good to dump
over the filment that reeled melted in the head. You
can't get rid of erect. Yeah, so what was our
choice for the print today?

Speaker 1 (27:04):
That's well, I was gonna, I was I was probably
just gonna print like a like one of these dog
bones because it's it's just it won't take long, okay,
So so let me come out.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
It's a wist tower, a priming tower.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
Waist tower. This is this is the this is a
waste tower. Okay, okay, okay, that's cool because there's a
thing in the there's a thing in the back where
it cleans the print head and it calls it a
poop shoot and it spits all this stuff out the back.
But that's not what this is. This was actually on
the print bed when when I got done with that.
So let's let me okay, so you see the filaments,

(27:45):
if you could see the top right corner, there the
filments I have in on the far the far left.
There is this green metallic green p l A. The
second one is this red pl A. The third one
is the black pet G carbon fiber, and the fourth
one is a glow in the dark PLA which I've

(28:06):
I got one of these. This is an insert for
this for this honeycomb storage rap thing that I'm working on.
So let's print a dog bone in PLA just because, Okay,
So I'm gonna open this up right here, and I
think I can go to I think I can go
to history. Let's see, I don't remember. If I can,
there's a way to go back at there's a way

(28:27):
to go back in history and see what you've done.
And if you look all the colors down there, So
if you're looking at the bottom left quadrant of the
screen right now, all the colors on that white screen,
those are all the filments. I have these right here,
and it represents how much is left on each spool.
So I just put that glow in the dark stuff
on not too long ago. But if I go, let's

(28:51):
see prepare and I don't remember, there's a way to
go in here and see the history. And I can't
remember exactly how to do the h maybe oh here
here we do print history right here. This is what
I want, all right? So these are some of the crap.
And who's heard of gridfinity?

Speaker 3 (29:12):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (29:13):
Grid?

Speaker 3 (29:13):
You got?

Speaker 1 (29:14):
For whatever reason that print history is not showing up gridfinity?
Who's ever heard of gridfinity?

Speaker 3 (29:19):
This?

Speaker 1 (29:19):
Uh, it's a modular system that you print and then
you print like these base these bases like this, and
it sits on a table or sits in a drawer.
You can attach it to a wall, and it has
four hundred thousand different types of holders you attached to
this system, like a complete socket set holder, screwdriver holder,
pen holder, all kinds of stuff. So I learned about

(29:41):
gridfinity not too long ago. Uh, let's go down here,
I have.

Speaker 3 (29:46):
It's awesome, Dave says in the chat.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
Open model, Dave. That doesn't surprise me that that Dave
has done that. Okay, Uh, okay.

Speaker 3 (29:59):
Download is super organization.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
Yes, super organization. Correct, that's what it is, all right,
the correct switch.

Speaker 3 (30:08):
Now.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
So the cool thing about this Bamboo Lab software is
it'll come up if you open an STO file or
downloaded file or something else, and it says because when
you save the file, you save it is whatever filment
you want. Okay. So if somebody prints it in some
kind of weird film in ABS or TPU or some
kind of pet G that I want PCGG or something
I don't have, then I can't print that because I
don't have that filment right now. So what it does

(30:30):
is you open this up and here this is your
first screen, and you can see we're gonna print these
two dog bones here. Okay, we're not gonna print them
in black. I I this is what I do. You
guys tell me if there's a better way to do this. Okay.
So I click on SINC Printer Information this button right here,
and it comes up and it says continue to sync.
And what it does is it reads all the filments

(30:51):
that are in the printer right now, and uh, you
have changed. Uh no, don't save that. I don't care
what I say.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
Dave, it's my new friend. He is. Dave said, I'm
printing you as cigar ash tray with a tank in
the middle.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
With a tank in the middle there right now. That's awesome.

Speaker 3 (31:10):
And now you have a question.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
All right, hold on what once you print all this stuff,
it'll come up with It'll come up with all the
films that you currently have loaded into the printer. And
I go ahead and remove these ones that the printer
that that the actual element is set up for. Okay.
Now I have one, two, three, and four my pl
A metal, pl A basic, pet pet G carbon fiber

(31:33):
and pl A glow. And then what I do is
I write, click on this and I say change filment
right there, and I'm gonna print these and glow in
the dark. Now, okay, let me let me do this
as an example. Okay. Now, so so there's two different
colors here right now, right, and if I click on
slice plate, it's gonna kind of measure everything or what

(31:54):
you do. And then I click on print plate. It's
not gonna print it yet, but it brings up this
other win and it says, and I know you can't
see the other window right now, it says, my print
time is one hour and forty one minutes. Okay, that's
for two that's for two of these and two different colors.
So I'm gonna go back over here and i'm gonna
go back to prepare and i'm gonna change this one

(32:16):
to glow as well, and then i'm gonna slice it again,
all right, and then i'm gonna click on print And
now it's saying thirty minutes. So it was an hour,
so it was a little bit more than twice as
long to print two different colors. So I'm gonna send

(32:37):
this and it's going to come up to a different
window here in a minute. So to take thirty minutes
to print this and by that time, well, our eBay
auction will be over nice okay. And now I don't
know if you can see that in the camera or
not the cameras.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
Do you see the camera the.

Speaker 1 (32:55):
Top the top right camera that you should start seeing
some of that filament start to move and some of
the heads start to move. There's a uh, there's a
glare in the in the door there.

Speaker 3 (33:05):
Yeah, and.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
But yeah, so it and now it's running. Yeah, now
it's running and you can't you can't hear it because
it's pretty I can hear it here it's but it's
still pretty quiet. Do pro oh day okay, see see
and that's what I want to learn. Okay, Dave says,
do print by part when using multiple film, it's only
one filment change. Okay, you can print from either. For

(33:34):
school's ams, yes, you can show the camera, show what
camera so you can see. Yeah, you can see that going.
Now it's going inside of the slicing software and it's
moving and doing his thing.

Speaker 3 (33:52):
But it's right now.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
Yeah. So so what it says is preparing, uh preparing.
It says printing PROG. And it says head heat bed preheating.
That's what it says down there at the bottom green
text heat bed preheating, so it and this is a
this is an enclosed this is a climate controlled enclosure.

(34:14):
If I have the door shut, sometimes it'll tell me, say,
it's a little bit hot in here. It's been hot
in Texas, so you can open the door and let
it kind of cool. But it does have a built
in air condition too, because it'll say cooling the chamber
and you kind of hear it kick on and hear
a fan kick on, and I'm like, I don't know
if it's an air conditioner or just a fan, but
you can hear it cooling the chamber. It'll say cooling chamber.
It heats up the bed, it cools down the chamber,

(34:36):
and then it really levels everything and it does it.
It's it's it does it all itself. It's really cool.

Speaker 3 (34:41):
That's awesome. So, uh, is those kind of question about
when okay, print fails? Uh? Or when a print runs
out of filam it can you switch out the film
and say continue or will it fail over?

Speaker 1 (34:55):
So okay, so do you see how this So we're
talking out the bamboo labs on older printers which are
not this smart, not this idiot proof. I wanted a
printer that was idiot proof because it's me. Okay, you
see how these filaments right here on the bottom left
quadrant of the screen right now, it's got the and

(35:15):
the bottom right corner of that quadrant. It's got these
four filaments right here, okay, And it's got the pet
g the green metallic, the red, the black, and the glow.
And you can see how they're kind of different levels
in there. It knows the bamboo printer knows how much
is on that spool. When you feed the spool in

(35:36):
the printer, it does this calibration thing and it says, okay,
you have this many feet or this many meters I
think of filament. It knows how much filment it has
left on all four of those spools, and it knows,
assuming the print file was done correctly, it knows how
much filment it's going to take to print the file
that you're telling it to print. And you can kind
of adjust the density. I haven't tried adjusting density or

(35:59):
changing the end. There's some kind of like infill or
or somehow to tell it to use less or more
filament inside to make it stronger or lighter or something
like that. I've I've done everything default to this point
in time, I haven't tried messing with that at all.
But the printer knows how much filment you have and

(36:19):
how much filment it's going to take to do the project.
And this one will tell you, Nope, you don't have
enough filment right now. So it'll it'll say, you know, yeah,
the infill greg correct the infill. You can change the
infill density, or at least that that's how I read
it anyway. I meant I haven't messed with that at all.
But but you can go in there and tell and

(36:41):
but it will tell you it's like, no, you don't
have enough of these, so you can either. And there's
another thing in there where when you saw that I
was I had I had two, there were two in
the file. There's a thing you can write. Click on
the file and you can say fill the bed with
as many of these as you want, and it'll fill
the bed because it knows how big the bed is.
So fill the bed to print as many mock possible

(37:03):
maximum as you that you can, and it'll start, it'll print.
It'll print like thirty of them at one time. It
takes a lot longer, obviously than to print two of them.
But again, you know, if you're like, hey, I'm gonna
print this tonight and go to sleep, just click click
click done. See you. But uh, you asked about failed prints.
I'm gonna show you a couple of failed prints.

Speaker 3 (37:20):
Hold on, oh nice, nice, While you do that, still
waiting for some questions. Dave said he's going to bring
me some of that cheese and that's gonna be awesome.
I'm sorry. That wasn't Dave, that was Hankank Cank. Thank you, Hank.

(37:42):
I can't wait to change taste that cheese. We're gonna
get some of that cheese. Jason, and the horsepadis cheese.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
What was it?

Speaker 3 (37:51):
Ghost pepper cheese, ghost pepper cheese.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
Yeah, that sounds good. So there's a nut. So these
are tooth filments and this is this is cool, this
is this is one possible that I'm doing something wrong. Okay,
And I made a video about setting up this printer
and one of the filaments this is not the glow
in the dark filment. This is a filment that's currently
not loaded in the printer. Okay. When I put this

(38:15):
filment in, this is one of the first filaments I
put in, it broke like like the printer was pulling
the filament in and the filment snapped. So there was
a piece of filment in the printer in the tube
this long that it couldn't get out because it had
snapped off the spool. So I had to get like
a I took another filment and I kind of pushed
it down. I took it all apart, pushed it down.

(38:37):
I got it out of there. And then but this
this filment was incredibly brittle. Now they say that show
my miss what are you talking about, Dave?

Speaker 3 (38:52):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (38:52):
Yeah, So so they say that you that the filment
will fail when it gets too moist. You have to
control the moisture. It's basically the opposite of a humidor.
You have to keep it dry. So if it's too wet,
too humid in the area, they say it'll fail. Well,

(39:13):
when this stuff kept breaking on me, it really felt
to me like it was too freaking dry because it
was brittle. And this is this is just a regular
basic PLA. This is not a carbon fiber or a
glass filled nothing, nothing special. It's just a regular basic PLA.
And for whatever reason, I got like five rolls of
PLA and this is the only one that's given me
fits so for whatever reason, it just it it didn't work.

(39:36):
So I let it sit for like a week, and
then I tried it again and you can see. I mean,
I don't know how how well you guys can see
this right here, but if you if you look right here,
you see how it's got all those spines and everything
and all this crap on it. This is how it
came out of the printer. It just it just did
not for whatever reason, it just does not like this

(39:57):
freaking this fillam it. I don't know if there's something
wrong with the stool stool, with the spool when I
got it. Yeah, I don't know if there's something wrong
with it when I got it, because it was really
brittle and it didn't load properly the first time. Then
after I let it sit a week, it printed a
print like that. I don't know. I don't know what
the deal was with that. So but that's the But again,

(40:18):
this is basic PLA and I've not had any trouble
with the other four rolls of PLA that I've tried
so far, so I don't know. This one is another one,
and this is a this is one that I got
This is also a bamboo labs. Yeah, not stool tim sorry,
but this is all. This is one called So the

(40:40):
one I have now is PET. The one I have
in there now is PET GCF. This one, it came
up and it read it as p p a HT
so it was a high temperature PLA that's what it
read it as. And and for whatever reason, this stuff

(41:01):
does not stick to the bed. That's what this this,
this started, This was supposed to be. This is supposed
to be this, and I stopped it. I was watching,
I was watching the video on it, and I stopped
and I saw the print head come down and it
went and I'm like, okay, it's not stuck to the
print head. So I just stopped it so it wouldn't
spaghetti on me. But for whatever reason, this stuff does not,

(41:22):
or at least on this print, it didn't stick to
the bed. I printed a couple other smaller things. It
was okay, but there's a I think it's a high
temperature p l A p L a h T. It
was either p a h T or p L a
h T high temperature. And I don't know. This print
head on this X one echo is supposed to handle anything,
including ABS, which is the one that smells really bad.

(41:44):
I'm told it'll do TPU, it'll do uh P C
t G and pet G and all the other all
the all the all the other stuff too. But for
whatever reason, that one just it didn't like that one.
So right now those are the only two. Well, I
had one spaghett on me out of the out of
the red. I think it was the red one that

(42:05):
spaghetti on me. I was printing something and it just
I don't know why. I so the guy that, the
guy at gigaparts that gave me a crash course in
uh coder Jim says bed temperature too low. It's not
supposed to do that though it's supposed to regulate all that.
This this model is supposed to regulate all that. I
don't know. I mean, you know, it's freaking ABS smells

(42:28):
better than a ham fest, That's okay, but uh uh
So the guy that gave me a crash course, his
name is Glenn at gigaparts. He's in fact, I think
he's doing a couple of classes during the week of Huntsville.
So if you guys have a chance to go to
gigaparts during the Huntsville Hamfest that week before check out
some of the classes that they do. But he said

(42:51):
that you're if you touch the bedplate too often, your
fingers get oily and get sticky on there, and it
can cause the bed plate to get you know, oilean.
So he just he's like, wash it in soap and
dawn or I'm sorry, dawn and dawn, soap and water,
soap and water, just dish washing, soap and water. I'm like, okay,
So I did that. After, after I had a couple

(43:14):
of Prince spaghetti on me, I did that and that
that did seem to fix it, seemed to fix that problem.

Speaker 3 (43:19):
My question earlier was I saw in the chat here.
Sorry I can't find who asked it. Is this your
first real three D printer?

Speaker 1 (43:28):
Yes, yes, my first I had. I had a Prusa
for a while. I had bought a Prusa on sale
at Black Friday like two years ago, and I never
used it. In fact, it was I sold it on Facebook.
Was brand new in a box when I sold it,
and uh and when these bamboo ones came out, I
was like, okay, because everybody says they're idiot proof, and yeah,

(43:48):
so yeah, that's that was. Yes, this is the first
one that I've ever actually set up and used.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
Mm hm, oh, what are you drinking Jason's wine?

Speaker 1 (43:59):
Oh it's different, Cabernet seven.

Speaker 3 (44:03):
That's one of my favorites.

Speaker 1 (44:04):
Trying not to drink beer because of the calories, the well,
the calories and the and the and.

Speaker 3 (44:09):
The carbs, the carbs.

Speaker 1 (44:11):
Yes, because I won't drink cheap beer. I'd rather drink water.
I don't want to drink cheap beer. So I'll have
a good beer every now and then, but I don't
drink much beer anymore, or I'm trying not to anyway.
And I'm out of whiskey, so so I'm not having
whiskey in to night because whiskey and hot wings dunt links.

(44:31):
That makes sense. That makes sense.

Speaker 3 (44:33):
Yeah, and it will probably give you even worse heartburn.

Speaker 1 (44:38):
So hold on a second. I gotta Okay, So guy says,
drink I p A. I would rather drink this, uh this,
I would rather drink this p s A, this liquid PA,
this liquid PLA than drinking I p A. Honestly.

Speaker 3 (44:50):
Yeah, Don has a good follow up question for you.

Speaker 1 (44:53):
Okay, go ahead, can you pull it up?

Speaker 3 (44:57):
There? You go?

Speaker 1 (44:58):
What a Boveta pack that's well, but those things I
don't think so too right, because the purpose of a
Baveta packet is to keep your moisture up so that
your cigars don't dry out. We're looking there are there
are some things I think. I think there's like a

(45:18):
box and like some dry like those salt packets you get,
and like there's these little salt packets that come inside
of the sealed uh spools when I when I buy them,
they're vacuum sealed in this pack and I think that
there's somebody went once told me is like you can
get like a like a basically it's like a reverse
humidor that keeps it dry inside of this box. So

(45:40):
you don't want it to be too humid. You want
it to be less humid and more dry, so the
opposite of cigars. And since it was you know, since
it was Amazon Prime Week, guys, I mean, come on again,
I really thank you guys for using my Amazon links.
But just earlier today, when I was preparing for this

(46:02):
live stream, I created the three D printing materials on Amazon.
So there we go, right there, and I will share
that in the chat because why not. So yeah, I
would like to get a I would like to get
a box that I can put and it's gonna have

(46:22):
to be a larger box because you know, those spools
are this big. It's not the size of a cigar.
Wouldn't I wouldn't be able to put. I might be
able to fit two of those spools in my biggest
humodor back here, if I were to use a box
that size, So del Fergus, can you start in a
sealed bag? Yes, some of the cheaper stuff don't. They

(46:42):
don't come with bags. Two of the roles that I
got did come with a zip block seal on top
of the bag, so yes, you could do that. But
I still think you probably want to put one of
one of those. I'm in a climate controlled environment in here,
so I'm not overly concerned about it. I don't. I
haven't had that problem yet except for that one time.

(47:04):
And I think that there was something gacked up with
that spool. I don't think it was a moisture issue.
I don't think because it was just this spool. It
happened two or three times with this spool, and it's
not happened with any other spool. So and in that
one time, when the heat the print bed. The heatbed
was needed to be washed, but neither one of those
incidents are from it being too moist.

Speaker 3 (47:26):
Of watching the heatbed. And that was the first time
I heard of it.

Speaker 1 (47:30):
That's what he told me to do, So that's what
I Yeah, that's what I've and I've only done it once.
I've only done it once because I took it out
it was nice and sealed, and I printed a Benchie
on it. Once I finally got I've got a video
with all the setup and I ran into like two
or three snags when printing my first print, and I
talk about that in the video, So you guys will

(47:52):
have to watch that. Hopefully that'll post this week. James
Roberts says, get the vacuum bag, So tell me what
to search for. Where do I get vacuum bags?

Speaker 3 (48:02):
Also a vacuum itself.

Speaker 1 (48:05):
Like a vacuum like a like a food sealer bag.

Speaker 3 (48:08):
Yeah, like a food sealer bag or one of those
space savers.

Speaker 1 (48:11):
You go, Yeah, that seems like a lot of That
seems like a lot of trouble for something that you're
potentially going to open up again the next day or
sometime later that week. If you're going to put it
in storage. Yeah, if you're doing longtime storage, then sure, okay, sure, sure,
but yeah.

Speaker 3 (48:28):
Ron says he uses parcel spills with h zip long
bags and.

Speaker 1 (48:36):
A descant pack. Yeah. So yeah, that's the descant pack. Yeah.
So go v dehumanded fire in the shack. You will
love it in the summer. That's an ideal. Okay, okay,
I'll look up some of that all right while we're waiting. So,
so this print is going. You can see it going
right there.

Speaker 3 (48:57):
It's about a quarter inch.

Speaker 1 (48:58):
Yeah, half it's got. It says it's forty three forty
four percent done. Now once it once it, once it
preheats the bed and cools the chamber. If it doesn't
cool the chamber every time, but sometimes it does. Once
it preheats the bed, cools the chamber, and levels the bed,
you're like fifteen twenty percent into the print before the
print head ever starts, and then it cleans the print

(49:18):
head and then it starts to print and you're like
twenty percent into it. You're like twenty percent. So it
calculates that whole thing, all of that bed leveling and
preheating and temperature correction. It's like when it tells you
it's going to be forty five minutes, it's actually forty
five minutes because it includes all of that prep time
upfront before the print head actually starts to print. And
I thought that was pretty cool because then you're talking about, Okay,

(49:40):
well it took fifteen minutes to get it all leveled
and heated and blah blah blah, and then it took
forty five minutes to actually print. No, that's not how
the bamboo slasher works anyway. Uh.

Speaker 3 (49:52):
Gika Part says drying the filament would probably cure your pl.

Speaker 1 (49:56):
And that that makes sense from what Glas told me.
But that to me, it seemed like the filament was
too dry. That's why it was brittle. But maybe I'm
thinking of it wrong. Maybe, I mean because I'm not
experienced with three D printer filament, so that's I mean,
they're probably right. KB five U t why says o

(50:19):
VV three D filament storage bags thirty pieces plus? Okay,
are those on Amazon? I gotta add those to my
Amazon shop.

Speaker 3 (50:26):
Guys.

Speaker 1 (50:27):
Okay, Boom can't says, turn up the speed.

Speaker 3 (50:37):
There we go.

Speaker 1 (50:38):
Uh, you know what, I haven't tried. I think there's
a way you can do that. I haven't tried that.
I've just let it. I'm not in a hurry. I
just wanted to go correctly these right here, Dave, I
assume yeah, because there's okay, sweet, I'm gonna add those
to my shop. I'm gonna pick some of those up
and include those in a video upcoming. Hello, come on

(51:02):
there we go. Good, Okay, cool, thanks Dave. Uh let's see. Okay,
we got a little bit more on our gigaparts auction
sixteen thirty five now ends in eight minutes. Guys, Wow,
that was a fast hour. I talked too much. So okay,

(51:25):
sixteen thirty five ends in eight minutes. Here's a link
once again gigaparts. We have some poly dryer docks and
boxes on the way. Sweet okay, good good, nice good
good good. So we're working out of thing, Gigaparts and
I and a few other thing people I think are
working out a thing to get some discount codes on

(51:49):
more stuff. So more to come on that later. I
know that they've been working hard. They're revamping how their
discount codes work. When you go in onto my page
and see all the stuff on my page and can
use a case five HWB for five percent off. They're
redoing a lot of that and it's going to work
on more stuff, so.

Speaker 3 (52:07):
It'll be good you though, you don't have to put
the code in at.

Speaker 1 (52:11):
Checkout, or you're still gonna have to use the code.
That's the only way that can differentiate between all the
influencers that they work with, because you know how supportive
they are of all the Ham radio community, not just me.
So no, the discount code still has to be there,
but there would be more items that the discount code
applies to. So yeah, more to come on that. Hopefully

(52:34):
that won't take too much longer. I know they've were
working on that for a while, so good. Okay. So
I wanted to ask you guys, So the basically the
four places, so Bamboo Labs the slicer is connected somehow
with maker World. In fact, Bamboo might own maker World.
I don't know. I have found a lot of stuff
on maker World. If you go in here and you

(52:57):
just search Ham Radio and you you can come up
and it here's a bunch of Ham Radio stuff in here.

Speaker 3 (53:08):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (53:08):
I think Adam K six r K has his stuff
on thing Verse, thingy Verse or whatever. This is called yeah, yeah,
Thingy Thingy Verse. That's that's another one. So Ham Maker
World Thingy Verse. Uh and uh. And then this this
is the newest one I've found right here, which is

(53:30):
print Well Princibles. Not that's not the newest one I've found.
Principles is where I get all this uh, where I've
gotten all this honeycomb storage stuff. Uh. But there's another
one called uh Chut five A or something like that.
I forget the I forget the name of that one,
but but it was talking about there was I found

(53:52):
some Ham radio stuff on it. So if you guys
have a besides, I think think everyone's pretty much heard
of Thingy Verse, Maker World and Printibles. I think, so
if you guys have heard of another good place to
get Ham radio type stuff, let me know. In the

(54:12):
Chat sketch Fab Colts that's it, Todd, Thank you, Todd. Colts.
That's the Yeah. But it was like Colts five or
something like that. But I think that was maybe maybe
that was the the creator on there. I don't remember.
Colts is one I found Colts sketch Fab. I haven't
heard that one. Ken says make a World is Bamboo Labs.

(54:33):
All those models will be the phone app Bamboo handy. Yes,
Yeggy is an aggregator. Okay, Yeggy, I haven't heard of Yeggy.
What is that an aggregator?

Speaker 3 (54:53):
Maybe it shifts.

Speaker 1 (54:54):
Through several of these sid Oh so you mean so
by an aggregator you mean I can search Yeggy and
it will prove pull stuff up from multiple sites. Is
that what you're talking about?

Speaker 3 (55:03):
Maybe that's what aggregator means to me?

Speaker 1 (55:06):
Is that what aggregated means?

Speaker 3 (55:08):
Okay, okay, Hank, Well it might, it might stay on
the site.

Speaker 1 (55:15):
It says our index contains seven million, two hundred and
forty three printable three D models worldwide. That doesn't mean
that it's from multiple sites.

Speaker 3 (55:27):
But Hank says yes.

Speaker 1 (55:32):
Steve says, Yeggy is a search for all. Okay, Yeggy?
Oh good see, there we go. This is why, this
is why a livestream night for you.

Speaker 2 (55:40):
For you guys.

Speaker 3 (55:41):
I see card holders for game cards.

Speaker 1 (55:45):
I'm just gonna search for cigar okay. And there's those
those those Bovetta bags. There's I've found several holders for those.
You can print a holder, so you just set it
in in your humidor and then you could set it
on top or set it on the bottom or what ever.

Speaker 3 (56:00):
And cigar clips, I'm not crazy about cigar boxes without
researching more of than plastic.

Speaker 1 (56:08):
I agree with you on that. I agree with you
on that, yes, but there's a lot of other stuff
besides just there. I found zipple holders and cigar holders
and some really cool ashtrays. I would totally do an
ashtray and put a logo on it, right, So put it.
I mean, like like what you were saying, like this
ashtray wreck here, totally put a logo on that. So

(56:35):
are you going to start an Etsy shop?

Speaker 3 (56:36):
No, but.

Speaker 1 (56:38):
I have my I have my own website. If I
if I put anything for sale three D printed, wise,
I will they will go on grape Vine Amateur radio
dot com.

Speaker 3 (56:47):
So oh look at that skull smoking.

Speaker 1 (56:50):
Yep, yeah they have stuff like that too. Very Kate
Kate MRD like, oh, that's on colts right there.

Speaker 3 (57:00):
Or send it, just send the print to him. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (57:03):
Yeah, he's got his own printer, although he was saying
that he doesn't.

Speaker 3 (57:06):
He was he was having issues with it. He haven't
had successful prints in a while.

Speaker 1 (57:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (57:12):
Yeah, maybe that will get him to get it going again.

Speaker 1 (57:15):
Maybe maybe maybe it will.

Speaker 3 (57:19):
See question could you build a cigar cutter if you're
able to get the blades?

Speaker 1 (57:29):
Yes, I've seen that. There's there was a plans for
a box cutter that I found. I was just kind
of poking around. I turned on the TV one night,
let a movie played I already seen, and I spent
like three hours poking around inside of printables and and
maker World and a little bit and thing not so
much in thinging verse. I found some stuff on thinging Verse,
but mostly on printables in maker World, and you could

(57:51):
just I mean, it's like a freaking rabbit hole, man,
you could just totally go down there. But yes, I
have not seen a cigar cutter, but I've seen box
cutters and knives and stuff like knife handles that you
just add blades to. So I don't know why you
wouldn't be able to do a cigar cutter. Yeah, yeah,

(58:14):
totally totally could do that one minute thirty seconds on
the auction. Let's see, they used to tell you who
the high bitter was. I see, Oh you know what
I'm not signed in. That's why.

Speaker 3 (58:30):
Okay, molding stands yeah, and clips for cigars mm hmm,
and weird.

Speaker 1 (58:40):
There's all kinds of stuff. Yeah, weird ashtrays. Yeah, yep, absolutely,
and it's uh all kinds of stuff. So and you
gotta be and I, uh somebody at the beginning of
the stream and I got distracted. I apologize whoever it was.

(59:01):
It said that you found something, some kind of cover
for the FTD the FTX one. There's a bunch of
crap for the seven o five out there because seven
o five has been out so long. But can you
print the face plateate mount for the icy twenty seven thirty?
Tim if I haven't found a file for that, But

(59:24):
if you find a file for that, send me a
link to it and I'll print it. Yeah. Twenty seconds on,
I've rubbed my eyes. Oh ditch, no, where do you go? Duds?

Speaker 3 (59:35):
For an hour, almost two hours, I was not able
to do it, and I just did it absent mind.

Speaker 1 (59:40):
Delete five seconds. Here we go. Sixteen hundred and sixty
dollars for all that. Oh that hurts, all right, that's
the final. There we go, sixteen hundred and sixty dollars.
Charity Auction proceeds go to Yeah yeah it is it's
good price. Proceeds go to the QR ZED one Start program.

(01:00:00):
Thank you. Guys for paying attention to that.

Speaker 3 (01:00:03):
Tom, I ask, if I'm cooking at Huntsville the beans,
maybe I need to talk to Kyle. We'll do that
here sorely.

Speaker 1 (01:00:14):
Kyle was going to join the live stream tonight night.

Speaker 3 (01:00:16):
Are you cooking beans in Colorado? Jeff, I haven't been asked.
If I am asked, I'll be happy to do it.
This take radio melting. My eyes are burning now.

Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
Absolutely you should actually yeah, just okay, I'll ask you, Frank,
can you cook your beans in Colorado?

Speaker 3 (01:00:33):
Okay? Yeah, we'll figure out how to do.

Speaker 1 (01:00:35):
It, because guess who's refrigerator is going to take all
that stuff to Colorado?

Speaker 3 (01:00:38):
For ye in college. I wanted to tell this story
on my story, but I forgot all right. First time
I was cooking with hobby narrows, I was just cutting
them with my hands, wipe the blade, white the blade,
and and and I made this great hobbin narrow. I

(01:00:58):
forgot whatever it was. It was amazing. Probably spaghetti. I
love hobby narrow spaghetti. Wash my hands multiple times throughout
the whole process. Wash my hands multiple times throughout the day.
No issues. I want to go take out my context,
just not even.

Speaker 1 (01:01:13):
Taking oh, my God.

Speaker 3 (01:01:19):
And yelling and my eyes are just watering. Roommates come up.
I'm like, what's going on, Frank? I'm like, my eyes
are burning. They're like what I was like, it's the
Hobbit narrows. And then they fell out laughing and I
was like, why are you all laughing so much? They're like, Frank,
have you taken out your other eye?

Speaker 1 (01:01:38):
Just taking out your.

Speaker 3 (01:01:39):
No, and they're like, come on, do it, come on,
take out your other context, take the other one. And
eventually I was like pop. It was the worst feeling.

Speaker 1 (01:01:56):
And a YO says, there's another member on this trip.
I vote Frank makes beans.

Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
You go okay, well we'll work it out. We'll probably
do it with some Hamburgers or something.

Speaker 1 (01:02:07):
Dave, did you win the auction? Dave? Did you win
that auction? Because it didn't show me I wasn't signed
into eBay. I think KB five U T Y might
have won that auction, no way, Yeah, I think so.
Gigapart said it was KB five d A, but I
think they might have mistyped it.

Speaker 3 (01:02:27):
Oh so you were trying to make a lighter bowl
ass tray d bowl sight holder.

Speaker 1 (01:02:36):
Are you talking about this right now? Yeah, yeah, so
this was this was the yeah, this was the this
was what this was the size of it, which was tiny,
So I printed. So once this fouled up on me,
I expanded, I scaled it up and I printed a
larger one and it printed, and I printed that metallic pla,
that metallic green pla and that it was a beautiful print.

(01:02:58):
But he's got a dumb out saying on the side
of it over here, and I gotta figure out how
to take out indenture indented text and printed again. I'm
not gonna say with I'm not gonna say what the
saying is. It's stupid. I'll tell you later, okay, But
it's it's just it's like a it's like it's like
one of those Camaro mullet guys that it's something that
would have on a bumper sticker on the back of

(01:03:19):
their car or something. So it's just dumb. Uh. So yeah,
So I didn't and you can't really see that in
the print, and it comes out and I'm like, this
is a great looking astray except for that little print
on the side of it over there.

Speaker 3 (01:03:30):
So oh, this ass trades meant for cigarettes, and then
the sluts is for a.

Speaker 1 (01:03:35):
Big yeah, I guess, but I've never seen a cigarette
ash tray with with that point in the middle.

Speaker 3 (01:03:42):
But you know what to knock the ash off?

Speaker 1 (01:03:45):
Well, the do you do that with a cigar too?
I searched for cigar and it did bring up some
cigarette stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:03:51):
It did.

Speaker 1 (01:03:51):
It bring up like a little box that you put
a pack of cigarettes in and stuff like that. I
thought it was a cool I scaled it up. I
thought it was a cool looking design. Guild it up
and I thought like, oh this is this is really
kind of kind of fun. But you know, I was
just more than anything. I was just printing crap to
see what would print and how I liked it, and
how to experiment software in this all the other kind

(01:04:11):
of stuff. So I wasn't really trying to, uh, you know,
get something one hundred percent useful.

Speaker 3 (01:04:18):
So this is talking about printing. Do you have any
issues with fumes in your office for when that's printing?

Speaker 1 (01:04:24):
Ralph is as king, Nope, no issues at all. Now
I believe correct me if I'm wrong on this. There's
a filament called abs, which which I don't under and
I'm just now learning about filaments. And one of the
reasons I want to do this live stream. Was to
bounce ideas off of you guys. Okay, congratulations Dave. Dave, Yeah,

(01:04:46):
he says he did win that auction. Nice at least.
eBay says, I want I just paid for it, so cool, Dave,
thank you for the support. That's that's awesome. Dude. The
next time we poted it together, you're gonna have to
bring that radio. I forget where I was going with that.

(01:05:07):
So I wanted to bounce ideas. Yeah, I wanted to
bounce ideas off of you guys and get some feedback
and whatnot. But I'm told that ABS is a filment
that has a bad scent to it. When you print it.
You have to have a special print head for some
of the softer and some of the harder filments, which
I'm told the print head on this X one echo

(01:05:28):
is will handle just about everything so and it will
handle ABS specifically. But why would you want to print ABS?
I don't know if it's maybe it's extra special tough
because pet G and PCTG, as far as I know,
are basically the toughest ones out there. I think there's
some that are a little bit stronger. Uh, Paul Okay,

(01:05:51):
So Paul says ABS has a nasty off gassing. Look
at ASA. Make sure the X one e has a
filtering as well. So why would you want to use
ABS or ASA? What is the what's the benefit of
using that over let's say pet G or pet G

(01:06:11):
carbon fiber or something like that. What's the benefit.

Speaker 3 (01:06:19):
Mm hmmm. I've just bet as different properties than the
material that maybe go weather better or right.

Speaker 1 (01:06:27):
Well, and that's my question. You know what properties in
that material make it better? So ABS is one of
the first filaments, requires heat, fumes, bad, holds up to weather. Okay,
so probably be ABS I believe is a is a

(01:06:48):
cyan cyanidic gosh, stop scrolling cyon uh whatever that means cyanide,
but as a higher temperature range thermal resistance with ABS
and ASA okay, more so than pet G. Is it
better than pet G?

Speaker 3 (01:07:10):
Looks?

Speaker 1 (01:07:10):
Sorry, our print is done, so let me go grab it?

Speaker 3 (01:07:12):
Oh ohh nice? Nice. ABS is better for heat resistance.
Typically outdoor waterproofing, you a resistant than heat resistant. So
it's just different properties for different materials. What's environment are

(01:07:35):
you going to use it more in?

Speaker 1 (01:07:37):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (01:07:40):
Dude, your smile was like awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:07:42):
I was like, yes, much better than pet G. Okay, well,
you know what, I live in Texas. I don't know
if you guys, I don't know if I've ever mentioned
that to you guys or not. But I have left
pet G printed material in the truck. I've melted PLA
just leaving it in the truck in summer in Texas,
it melts. But I've left pet G material in the
truck for months on end and never had any problems

(01:08:03):
with it. So, unless you're living like on the equator,
is it. Yeah, PLA does get stopped stopped in cars, Yes,
PLA does, but pet G pet G. It's tougher than
pet G. So could can it like hold more weight?
Can you like make a car ramp out of it?
I don't know. It's cookies are done Texas drink in

(01:08:28):
e Yo, Okay. Gigabarts abs has a lot of advantages
over pet G. Not all printers will print it, but
the xt one x x one E will. Yes, okay,
I would like to have I would like to find
a detailed breakdown, like a chart, like a spreadsheet almost
of all of the filments and what the benefits and

(01:08:49):
what the pros and cons are to all of them.
I haven't searched for This is just something that just
now popped in my head. I have not searched for it.
I don't know, but if anyone has a link for
that or maybe I'll just google it later. All right,
So this is my print bed. I just took the
whole thing out. These the dog bones are glowing the
dark obviously nice. Turned out beautifully. And it always, for

(01:09:12):
whatever reason, it always prints this extra crap on on
the front of the bed right there.

Speaker 3 (01:09:17):
That's just getting the head ready.

Speaker 1 (01:09:18):
I think that's just Yeah, I think you're right. I
think that's just getting getting a head up because you
always have to peel this stuff off because it's always
on there. So fill your I think trash can up
with that stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:09:30):
I think I found the thing you were talking about,
the rechargers.

Speaker 1 (01:09:35):
I was like, yeah, yeah, do.

Speaker 3 (01:09:38):
You want because recharge them takes forever.

Speaker 1 (01:09:41):
Well, it wasn't a recharger, it was just a holder
that it would you would you would put the Bavetta
pack in a holder and then put it in your
humidor so that it's not actually touching the cigar.

Speaker 3 (01:09:50):
Well, this is a chargers, so I think you just
put distilled water in it and it's holding it above
the distilled water, so exorbing it slowly.

Speaker 1 (01:10:02):
Okay, okay, okay, good sweet, Okay. There's one Bamboo Labs
dot com filment guide. Oh it's a good thing that
gigaparts has a mod privileges on my channel, because they
wouldn't be able to print or posted U r L otherwise.

(01:10:26):
Here we go. Okay, okay, so we're gonna yeah, p
l A pet g h F A B S A
s A PC really PC. I assume that none of
you Matt guys want to use a filment called PC.
I don't know though, P c F r T p
U eighty five TPU ninety. Wow, there's a lot of

(01:10:48):
crap in here. P l A c F pet g CF.
This is great. I like this. Okay, so I'm gonna,
I'm gonna, I'm gonna do some studying later.

Speaker 3 (01:10:58):
Dude.

Speaker 1 (01:10:58):
That's a good guide. Yeah, thank you. I don't know
if that's uh Jeff or Robbie or one of the
other guys up there. I assume it's probably not Jeff,
but I don't know. Maybe it is. Yeah, thanks for
the chart. That is really cool.

Speaker 3 (01:11:18):
I like that, pollycarmonate.

Speaker 1 (01:11:23):
Oh and you can all of the different types up
here and in checkboxes you so you can compare them
all at the same time, or just compare two or
three of them at the same time. That's kind of fun. Robbie,
thanks for joining, buddy, appreciate that. Thank you for answering
my text today earlier. So all right, so the so

(01:11:45):
the Yeah. So that's how easy it is. And these
bamboo printers are freaking cool. Look at the three D
fuel PCTG. If you can get the filament profile, doalgyan. Okay,
don't touch the build plate print service with your fingers.
You will leave oils on it.

Speaker 3 (01:12:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:12:06):
I talked about that earlier. Tim, I already did it,
so I don't care. But all you do is wash
it with soap and water. Don dish washing detergent and water.
It washes off very quickly. And uh, I'm gonna I'm
gonna do this because Tim told me not to do this.
So this is why I'm doing this. You see this, Tim,

(01:12:26):
This is what I do when you tell me not
to do something. Okay, guess what. It doesn't hurt it
because I can wash it. Yeah, yeah, it's hard to
get out of that. The magnet that holds that thing
in there is strong, so sometimes you can and you gotta.
You gotta kind of bend it a little bit to

(01:12:46):
get the print off it, because you don't wanna you
don't want to break the brittle carbon fiber stuff. So
I'm kind of getting in there and I'm going put
my fingers all over it. It's fine. I haven't had
any problem. Well, I had one problem. I had one problem.
I washed it in a the problems always fine, so
not a big deal. But any soap with a degreas

(01:13:06):
or yeah, yeah, any soap with thereaser Tim says, damn
it stop.

Speaker 3 (01:13:14):
I had one touch goober.

Speaker 1 (01:13:20):
So okay. So, anybody that has cool Ham radio stuff
or something that you just would think would be like
really fun to print, or something that you could you
think that you think I would like, you know, hit
me up. I did create a channel in my Discord

(01:13:42):
server called three D printing. Uh. Let's see. Yeah, if
you go to a Ham Radio two dot com forward
slash discord, it's open invite to everybody like that. If
you go to the the Ham radio section, which is
the fourth section down and three D printing is right there.

(01:14:05):
There we go. I just pinged everybody in there, right
now here, livestream peeps.

Speaker 3 (01:14:10):
So.

Speaker 1 (01:14:11):
Send me some, send me some. In fact, the picture
I forgot I put a picture of my Benchi. I
lost that bench. I don't know where it wentw It's
it's somewhere. I've got it somewhere, but it's printed in
that metallic That metallic pla green is just I wish
it was pet G because that's just a beautiful It's
just a beautiful filment. I really like it. I gotta

(01:14:34):
find out what other metallic colors Bamboo has, and I'm
gonna try some of the cheaper One video I want
to do is to try I found three different brands
of filment on Amazon during Prime Day that we're on
sale for like fifteen bucks a roll, which the Bamboo
stuff is like twenty five to thirty bucks a roll. Now,

(01:14:54):
like everything in life, you get what you pay for it.
The cheaper stuff may or may not be as good.
I somebody told me at one point in time that
either the Bamboo Labs or the American Filment were the
best ones out there. That's probably a matter of opinion,
but those are probably both really good. So I'm gonna
have fun trying out new filments and kind of tinkering

(01:15:16):
with stuff and seeing kind of what works and what doesn't.
And supposedly the X one Echo printer will handle just
about anything, and so I'm gonna have a lot of
fun trying out some of those Amazon brands as well
and seeing and make a video about it, saying, you know,
stay away from this one, but this one over here
worked great. So that kind of thing. So any additive

(01:15:42):
to the film, it changes its layer adhesion properties, I
would imagine, So yeah, yep, okay code or Jim, yeah,
I saw you mentioned that earlier, printed an enclosed for
my seven oh five and am good. Yeah, I would

(01:16:05):
like to find some FT I did a search on
one or two of the websites for ftx one stuff
and I didn't find much. That radio is pretty new,
but I imagine you're gonna start to see a lot of that.
Didn't you get the sampler of filment color with your
printer sampler?

Speaker 3 (01:16:24):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:16:25):
Yes, I did, Yes, I did. What it's a it's
just like a little color squatch thing that will show
you all the different colors that are available. But I
was but instead of looking. I glanced at that when
I first opened it, but rather than that, I was
actually looking and seeing what was actually in stock in
inventory at gigaparts. But yes, I did get that.

Speaker 3 (01:16:49):
Someone asked the direct link. I just posted the direct link.

Speaker 1 (01:16:52):
Discord hemradio two dot com for slash discord. That's what
it always is. Greg says that there are about five
different PLA metal filments on the Bamboo Labs website. Yeah,
I've found. I found like two or three others. I'm
not sure if gigabarts carries them all. I think they do. Okay,

(01:17:18):
so there's gigabarts. Let's arrange a tour of the American
Filment production facility on one of your next fixits. Oh
so they're in Huntsville. You know what. Glenn probably told
me that and I forgot. Absolutely, Yeah, let's do that.
Let's do that. Absolutely, let's do that. We could. That'd
be fun forty trap for a forty eighty dipole. Yeah,

(01:17:43):
that'd be fun for a mestastic. The best fitting print
I've had was the Ali Kat TD one Lilyo T
deck case. Will you send me a link to that,
Sean in discord, because I have of a T deck
that I got. I have it. I have another, have

(01:18:04):
a another T deck. I have three T decks. I
think I have another T deck. I got one for Laura,
a p R S which I think is on four
hundred megaherts, not on the nine hundred megaherts meshtastic frequency.
So yeah, Ali Cat Designs has amazing cases. Okay, Ali Cat,

(01:18:30):
Uh is that stuff you can download or you're just
buying those? Cool? Okay? Yeah, So I'll be interested to
uh talk with you guys and figure out what you
are doing and what what you think works and doesn't
work and get kind of okay. So now now there's

(01:18:52):
people talking in the in the three D printer channel.

Speaker 3 (01:18:56):
Yep, it started, Yeah started.

Speaker 1 (01:18:59):
I That's what I want to I want to keep
going with it. So you guys, let me know what
you like, what you what you found with what you
found it maybe doesn't work, you know, if you found
something that you say, stay away from this, it doesn't work. Okay,
let me know, but let's keep this going and see
what we can do. All right, Frank, what uh what

(01:19:21):
are you doing this week?

Speaker 3 (01:19:24):
Honestly? I got like probably three interviews coming up this week,
and I'll know that. I know that wasn't your direct.

Speaker 1 (01:19:30):
Question, but yeah, no, that's okay, that's okay.

Speaker 3 (01:19:33):
Like I have five places kind accorded me right now,
and I feel like the bell of the ball. I'm
not going to get too excited about it. I'm i
several interviews and here and there, and people could disappear
on the drop of a hat. It's just this is
fun coming up on the channel.

Speaker 2 (01:19:54):
Though.

Speaker 3 (01:19:55):
I don't think there's a video between us and leaving
for Colorado, so I might try to get one ready.
I got to look at the schedule. I do have
a video shot with an alpha antenna, and that's gonna
be fun. I used that at field day and it
was I really did enjoy to envis greatly during a
field day. I'm a free agent, yes, I am not

(01:20:20):
by choice. Other than that we're going to be going
to Colorado and we got a meeting coming up tomorrow
meet you and Robert. So that's kind of all yes,
coming up on the channel, and my mouth and lips
are finally calmed down. They're not burning, but.

Speaker 1 (01:20:40):
All right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah good.

Speaker 3 (01:20:44):
I was gonna ask for a second, I thought that
was one of my tank radio blackout shirts.

Speaker 1 (01:20:49):
No, no, that's not It's just a regular black shirt,
nothing on it. But yeah, yeah, looking forward to Colorado
trips starting next Saturday. Gonna be doing a Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:21:02):
Is it Robert in the chat? No, I didn't see him.

Speaker 1 (01:21:04):
I haven't seen Robert tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:21:05):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:21:05):
I turned from him in like several weeks.

Speaker 3 (01:21:07):
I text him back and forth.

Speaker 1 (01:21:09):
I know that he's he was well, he was in
a couple of my Amazon chats this last week, so
I know he's out there. I know he's been busy
with family stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:21:16):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:21:16):
That's cool. He's doing what he needs to do. It's cool. Yeah,
I'm gonna try a different type of video on the
on the trip next week. And uh, I think Kyle's already.
I think he said he was gonna make it to
the Denver area tonight. He was going to join the
live stream. I guess maybe he did, he got delayed
or something. I don't know. Yeah, he was gonna go

(01:21:38):
up there. He was gonna go up there and see
his sister for a few days or a week or so.

Speaker 3 (01:21:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:21:42):
Yeah, cool lives out there.

Speaker 3 (01:21:44):
Cool. So yeah, I'm looking forward to this trip. It's
gonna be fun. Ye yep, I need some nature time,
go out there experiencing nature, and and I will be
doing the video blogs of the trip. I haven't quite
figured out what the format would be. They're not going

(01:22:04):
to be every day, but there might be getting out
there having fun than us being out there. So maybe
maybe one of us getting out there and then the
main video will be fun.

Speaker 1 (01:22:19):
Yeah, it could be.

Speaker 3 (01:22:22):
So that's that's all coming up. Good, This is awesome.
I want this. Let me share it out and get
this scene up. Scotch just showed me this over in discord.
M hmm what he three D printed? Oh yeah, I

(01:22:44):
want ha smart with the Martian man.

Speaker 1 (01:22:48):
Oh of course. Yeah, you're just looking at it, of course, Yeah, yep, nice,
nothing wrong with that. That's good.

Speaker 3 (01:22:59):
The trip is next week.

Speaker 1 (01:23:01):
We leave a week from Saturday, and we'll talk about
times and whatnot when we're on our call tomorrow. But yeah, yeah,
we leave a week from Saturday. We'll be at the
campsite on Sunday. Yep, yep, yep, totally all right, guys,
thank you for joining tonight. Looking forward to seeing what
else you guys have to say about three D printing.

(01:23:22):
This seemed to be a popular topic, so we will
do it again. I'm going to bumble my way through
this printer and do some more videos about it, and
then once I find a couple of things that I
want to talk about again, we'll do another live stream
as well. So cool. Thanks for joining, appreciate everyone's time
once again. Thank you for using the Amazon links during

(01:23:42):
Prime Day this week, and be watching the be watching
the email list for more stuff with the sales at
Gigaparts and the three D printer stuff that we're working
with them on as well. So seventy three guys, see
y'all next time. Audios, Bye later, M

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