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Hey guys, how's it going?
Devon here with make anything,
and uh,
a lot of you really liked my uh, twist vases.
Understandable.
One of the most satisfying prints I've made, if I must say so myself.
And because of that fidget craze that's going around
a lot of you suggested I turn that into a little fidget toy.
And that's what I've done,
I made a little fidget twister here.
And it's super fun, it's actually
Really satisfying, and uh...
The reason I'm sharing this with you today
is because I've got a Maker Box,
that was sent to me by the folks at Maker Box.
What is this thing?
Well, Maker Box is this subscription service
where you can uh give 'em a couple bucks a month and
then they'll send you this box filled with different sample filaments
so you can try out all kinds of different stuff
without having to buy big spools of every kind of filament.
So I've got the two month box here,
it's a good option for international people who want to save on shipping,
uh but you can obviously get a box every month as well.
My plan is to try out most, if not all, of the filaments in this box
by making a bunch of these little fidget twisters.
I think they're a good little print that'll help me test out a lot of different filaments at once.
So let's open this up and see what we're working with.
Hold up!
I was promised lots of cool filament,
but I was not expecting the greatest gummy candy of them all.
Alright, looks like we're going to have to take a brief pause from this unboxing
for an unbagging.
If they include gummy bears in every box, I would definitely suggest the monthly option.
Alright, so we've also got stickers - I guess that's always nice.
And here are the filaments! As you can see...
we've got a whole lot of them.
As I said, this is the two month pack, so let's see
we've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight in here.
So it looks like you'd normally get four different spools per month
So this here's the bronze fil
and, you can see, it tells you what it is, it tells you all the different setting you're gonna wanna use to print it best,
gives you a lil information so you can learn about it
Oh "it's bronze, you can sand it and polish it". Super cool.
Not only that, every filament comes with a discount
So if you really like the sample you can get the full spool with a nice lil discount.
I don't know if I'm allowed to show those codes...
Oh well! They didn't say not to
Free discounts, everyone! Ok!
So we've got some bronze fil and - what's this?
Some old fashioned PLA.
It is a nice green colour, though.
Up next is some MG94
See, this is some crazy filament that I've never heard of
and I probably wouldn't have bought if I didn't have this Maker bundle.
And it is a high-performance ABS with less warpage ideal for smaller nozzle sizes.
This is going to be fun to test out on my EV160
to see if it can uh print some ABS type materials.
Next up to bat is some Biome 3D, or Bio-me 3D,
I think it's Biome 3D.
And this is a plant-based plastic with a silky finish,
prints similar to PLA.
Alright, worth trying out.
Oh, this one's cool! Conductive Graphite Filament
I've really wanted to play around with conductive PLA
It doesn't make too much sense to make a fidget thing out of conductive graphite, but -
maybe I'll do it just for the sake of showing how it prints,
and then later on in another video I can actually make something awesome out of this conductive material.
That's gonna be fun.
This is HD Glass, it looks like a transparent red filament.
Next up we've got some T-Line(?), it's another obscure material.
And last but not least we've got some Elixir PLA,
which I guess is a fancy PLA/polymer blend
that will help get a better shine.
That's something we'll definitely be able to tell with this fidget twister.
So it looks like in your Maker Box you would find: a handful of stickers,
a big bundle of different sample filaments,
and, most importantly, a lil bag of gummy bears.
And hey, Maker Box guys, that better come in every box,
I don't want you suckering me with sweets
I mean, do it, but... let's be real.
I'm making a big deal about the gummy bears, I really like gummy bears.
Alright, let's move on.
First of all, these sample spools all come on loose coils
so it's best if you have an old spool that you can wind this onto
or if you can print a spool-holder from online somewhere.
But, if you're lazy like me and willing to take the risk, you can just loosen these twist ties
and that'll work as a kinda temporary way to test out filaments.
The green PLA came out just fine.
Thankfully, cause that should be the easiest to print.
Next, I tried this HD Glass and I wasn't so successful.
I just could not get it to stick down to the build plate,
even following the specifications, and trying it on both my EV160 and my Replicator:
no luck.
And I had the exact same problem with this MG94.
Even with this expertly constructed inclosure of mine
the shrinkage of this plastic was just causing the parts to pop off of my print bed.
Luckily, I only had the problem with those two filaments, and all the rest came out just fine first try.
Here I am testing that conductive filament, and indeed it does run electricity through it - pretty cool!
And I also liked this T-Line(?) material, it's really flexible and tough
The bronze fil printed really great as well,
and I decided to try my hand at polishing it up to see what that would do.
So I took that to the workshop and sanded it with 180 grit sandpaper,
and then I continued wet-sanding with 320 grit, then 1000, and all the way up to 2000 grit.
Then I grabbed this metal polish that was just lying around
and I took a scrap piece of cotton and rubbed that down real good.
While the result was not a mirror finish, I was pretty darn impressed with how it came out.
I think that's a really impressive finish for a plastic part printed on an FDM machine.
Alright ladies and gentlemen, there you have it, my collection of fidget twisters.
You might think I went a little overboard but, thanks to this Maker Box,
I was able to try out all kinds of different combinations and varieties of filaments and finishes,
and I didn't break the bank! So it's pretty cool in that regard.
While it is awesome to get all these different filaments in a single box and to be able to try them out
you also have to realise that with all these different types of filaments you're gonna have different problems,
and it's nice that they have all the settings on there but
even so, two of the filaments I was not able to get a print out of because they weren't sticking down to my build plate.
If your printer doesn't have a heated build plate,
or if your nozzle temperature can't get high enough for certain materials,
you should just realise that some of these materials are not gonna work.
But you're also gonna get several that do work.
I'm very happy with what I was able to print, but
y'know, it's just something to consider.
Of the 8 filaments that I tried in this Maker Box
my favourite would definitely have to be the bronze fil.
I love the way it looks,
and after sanding it and polishing it, I would be hard pressed to recognise this as plastic versus metal.
Even when you touch it, it's got that cold feel that you don't get from plastic.
It feels hard, it's got the weight, it works really well for this fidget toy,
and...
man...
that surprised me.
As far as my design, I think the fidget twister is super fun.
I'm still learning all the different ways that it can be fidgeted with.
Perhaps we need a...
fidget montage.
Yeah! Yeah! Let's do a fidget montage.
Fun stuff, right?
If you're a fidgeter, you should definitely check out these toys,
I'm gonna have them available in my shop - link in the description.
And I will also have a link to the Maker Box if you're interested in signing up for that.
Alright guys, time to pack it up.
Until next time: I'm Devin, this is Make Anything,
don't forget to stay inspired.
I really could use more of those gummy bears right now.