the creality ender 3 max is the best large 3d printer in 2021
for your budget why do i think that let's find out today my name is jim and this is the edge of tech
so right in the beginning of this video i'm gonna say i do believe that this is the best large 3d
printer in 2021 for your budget right now at the time of this filming this printer is only
299. that is absolutely awesome for a 300 by 300 by 340 print volume i tell you i started
with the basic ender 3 and this is like the big brother you never knew it had this thing prints
absolutely great just like the ender three always did for me and it pretty much resembles just a big
version of an ender three assembly is super easy it is eight bolts total i believe it's two in each
side and yes it's in the sides of this one they don't go up from the bottom which is really cool
two for the screen two for the power supply then you plug in your cables and you're good so as
far as assembly goes 15 minutes tops once you get it out of the box it's very very fast so without
further ado let's go through the features that i believe make this the best large 3d printer
in 2021 so i've been using my ender 3 max for a couple weeks now and i gotta say i really like it
the bed size on this is 300 by 300 by 340 and it's perfect for almost all the projects that i choose
to do now it does come with this creality stock glass here and i got to tell you what this is the
flattest glass that i've seen creality come out with yet it is super flat very level and just
some awesome awesome glass a matter of fact i saved the best part for you guys and here you go
it has the metal extruder with the filament run out sensor so you don't have to worry about
your filament running out or breaking because this will definitely catch it
and the benefit of the metal extruder on this one is that cheap plastic arm on the plastic extruders
won't break on you the only thing i don't like and i wish they would do a little bit different
on these is put in a removable bowden coupler right here because this one right here doesn't
appear to be removable and if that ever goes bad we'd have to get a whole new extruder the upgraded
hotend features dual cooling fans here each with their own fan duct underneath which is great for
cooling those prints and a silicone sock right here to keep that filament off of your hot end
from underneath another cool thing that they added to the ender 3 max here is this anti-backlash nut
i believe this is the first ender 3 that actually comes with a backlash nut built in from creality
and that's really cool because that's going to stop your gantry from falling all the time
even if i put pressure on it like this with my fingers it's not just going to fall down
one of the things i really loved about the cr6se was the spool holder it came with and creality
sent that same spool holder now with the ender 3 max i absolutely love this spool holder i think
these are the ones that should be with all their printers that have side mount spools like this it
does come with a 350 watt meanwhile power supply so that is great power for this machine another
great thing it comes with is the yellow upgraded springs that is really awesome because that means
the springs are going to be stiffer and it's going to hold your bed level for longer in true ender 3
fashion it comes with the basic reality screen i really like the ender 3v2 screen but this one
is good too it has a lot of functionality and when you do the firmware update on this it'll
actually make it easier because you don't have to upgrade this screen i saved this for you
the silent 32-bit board with 2208 drivers sits right under this panel right here and
this machine is very silent so the first print i did was the reciprocal vase by clock spring 3d
now i had to disable the power loss recovery feature in marlin to make this work right
and i'll link a video below to brian vines who walks you through that step it's pretty simple
this vase came out absolutely amazing and it's done in translucent dark red from alien 3d if i
zoom in here you can see just how beautiful this vase really did turn out naturally the
second print i went to was the brand new hot makes clock spring 3d torture toaster and i printed this
in prusa galaxy black as you can see in the back clock spring 3d hot makes the logos came out
absolutely awesome there if we spin this thing around you can see inside of there this actually
fell out the .05 peg and i lost it so i'll have to find it to put it in there but they do move
which is very awesome the printer really did a great job printing this with just that default
profile from prusa slicer if we spin this around this way you can see the overhangs and the cooling
those dual fans really really help with your overhangs up in here the the cooling on that
just is awesome for prints like this on a torture test and last but not least yes the toast does pop
but this is the ender 3 max and while this is an absolutely awesome torture toaster it came out
very very good it's time to go bigger so we amped it up to 225 percent this one came out absolutely
awesome as well if we spin this around you can see again the logos in the back came out great
of course everything is blown up so the tolerances are not going to be the same it's not exactly a
torture test when you blow up all the tolerances as well but everything moves it opens up you can
move pretty much all of them all the way almost down to the point one and i didn't want to break
it but all of these move in here i did have some weird layer issues in this one it's kind of hard
to see that but i'm not sure what happened there kind of a weird layer issue there but
other than that this thing came out really good if we spin this thing around and open this door
again you can see those overhangs in there came out awesome uh the circles everything
in here came out really nice at this size now this is 225 percent and yes the toast does pop
got to do that but to give you an idea if i bring this one in that is the 100 percent
torture toaster and that sits very well inside of the 225 percent torture toaster now this did
take just about four days at .02 layer height and it was worth every ounce of that filament
i used a coax 3d mystery filament it happened to be yellow i liked that a lot because of the color
it was very bright and all of the links for the filaments i used will be in the description below
next thing we need to talk about is the profile so all i did is i went into prusa slicer and i
used prusa slicer almost exclusively now unless i have to use something different and i grabbed
the ender 3 v2 profile that is stock in prusa slicer i changed the bed size to 300 to 300 to 340
and saved it as the under 3 max under that name that is the only changes i made uh for the profile
on this printer so far and as you can see we just got really awesome results so far i think that if
this thing is dialed in you're going to get just amazing results now that you've seen everything
you can probably see why i think this is the best large 3d printer in 2021 now why do i keep saying
large well i tell you what that's because the word large is subjective to whatever you think it could
be now i have a producer mini which i absolutely love as well but it's relatively small build
surface this compared to a standard ender 3 is a pretty good size build surface almost everything
i print will go on here now there are going to be some people that need their really large
build surfaces i'm talking like 400 400 by 500 or something like that and that is kind of the
outlier i think a lot of people could get by with something like this so i think 95 or more
percent of everything you print will probably never take up the full area you actually have
to print on this printer which is really cool i mean if you think about it the cr-10 is just a
little bit bigger and that's because it's taller than this and it's way more expensive than 299. so
if you're looking for a second printer if you're looking to get another one and maybe you already
have an ender 3 or an ender 3v2 and you want another printer to add on i'll tell you what
take a strong look at the ender 3 max you could do tons of different upgrades to it as you can
see on the one on my right i actually already have the th 3d tough tube in this one here we're gonna
do some videos on firmware we're gonna do some videos if you want on the tough tube and i got
new flex plates coming for both of these because i absolutely love the th 3d flex plates with all of
the features packed into this thing i really think for 299 actually i think 329 is the price normally
uh even that is outstanding for what you get here if you have any questions about the ender 3 max
don't hesitate to put it in the comments below i'd love to hear what your questions are or comments
if you have one of these i hope you guys learned something today and as always keep printing
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