On today's episode we're going to take a look at the latest Creality CR 10 this
is the CR 10 version 2 - I'm going to go through all the different features give
you my opinion of it all on today's Filament Friday. Filament Friday is
brought to you by these patreon supporters this is my collection of CR
10's so I do have a background with this machine. this is my original CR-10
I've had this for over two and a half years it's one of the first, it is the
first created machine I've ever used and it's one of the first CR tens because I
was one of the early reviewers of this machine and I loved it I still to this
day love this machine prints beautifully I use it often this one is a CR 10 s
this was the upgrade to the CR 10 it incorporated things people wanted like
dual threaded rods it's got a filament run-out sensor a little plastic thing
it's got 256 K memory inside this in a boot loader so you can upgrade it
overall though this machine never really worked well for me I could never really
keep a good level and it just didn't print as good as the original CR10
this guy is the CR 10 s Pro I reviewed this a little while ago this has Auto
level and incorporated electronics in the base has the higher end electronics
plus it has the TMC drivers so it's very very quiet so this 10 s is really where
this new CR 10 v2 comes in because it shares a lot of features with this guy
right here CR 10 v2 is just like all the other CR
10 is very easy to assemble you can have this thing together in printing in about
an hour it does come with a printed manual and it covered most of the
assembly it did not cover the rubber feet or the Z stop switch on the side
that's kind of bad if someone's really new there is a code here that you can
connect to their website and get the latest assembly instructions so it may
be covered but I followed the manual and it didn't have it in here but they have
ever every other step like making the connections setting up your leveling
your bed setting up the slicer so it's a pretty good manual just missing a few
things the only real major addition that I saw over the assembly of the other
ones whether these two rods and these two rods you have to
screw them together there's hardware to attach there's brackets here they're
designed to really stiffen this thing up but my only argument is I don't see it
on a pro version and I never used that on my original CR ten
I've never had an issue a vibration on these things has never been a problem I
guess if you're printing really tall and fast and maybe a problem so I really
don't know why they added these they're there if you want them but I don't want
them so I just put them there for the picture I didn't install him and I didn't
print with them so let's take a look a few of the features it's got a filament
run-out sensor very similar designed to the CR tennis pro it has a metal
extruder which is a really nice upgrade because the CR 10 s and C R 10 are
plastic so this is a good upgrade it has a different hot end now it looks like an
e3d v6 but it isn't the PTFE tube goes all the way down to the nozzle just like
all the other creating machines to prove it I shoved PTFE tube all the way
through after I took the nozzle out and it goes all the way through so it's not
an all-metal hotend it's not a E3D v6 although it's shaped like it it does
have a better fan for cooling and a better duct work so a dual duct work
underneath and then the blower fan is on the side to blow across the fins so
that's a different hotend set up I'm just not sure it's better it does have dual
threaded rods and dual stepper motors like the CR 10s or CR10s pro but
it does have a glass bed with a ultra base type finish or you can flip it over
in its pure glass I like that better than the aluminum and buildtak set up
on the CR 10s pro the rest of the changes are inside the electronics box
which is separate like the original CR 10 not built in like the CR 10s pro
it does have a meanwell power supply 24 volts so it gives you a little more
power for heat in the bed in the hot end it does have a newer motherboard and it
has a 256 K just like to CR 10s it's got a boot loader and it's got a
standard LCD not the separate modular to CR 10s Pro so this is actually
easier to upgrade or hack if you're into that the connections themselves come to
two cables and then one main one for the hot end these two cables come to a
single connection so a large one here at the top and then
a breakout board and then one at the bottom to a separate breakout board for
the wires similar to what to CR10S pro so what it does it makes it
easier to assemble and there's less connections going to the machine but
there's actually more connections because of the breakout board
it definitely has hardware improvements over the CR 10 but does the print
quality improve well let's print some stuff and see how it does the first file
I printed was their sample cat file this is the same file I printed in my
original CR 10 review and it looks good this is their filament they're sliced
you know a sample file looked really good so then I printed my CHEP cube
only I upsized it to 200% to pronounce the letters more and I wanted to see how
well that cooling would do as far as bridging for the letters and frankly
it's it's no different than any other printer I got so I don't think it's
doing that much I also want to see how bad the ringing was with the bed a glasst
bed will typically give you more ringing on the side on the y side and there's
definitely ringing or ghosting on the Y so that's typical but nothing unexpected
dimensionally it was really good so then I printed a couple practical prints big
ones like this this is a mount you mount it screw it to the wall and it'll hold
your RYOBI tool like that so if it's good the dimensions fit good another one
like this for screwdrivers and things like this this actually some of these
are on Thingiverse I could put a link to it in the description below but they
printed really good really nice and the quality is decent for a point two eight
layer height just printed at a point two eight it looks good I printed these
cones and this is actually for a project I'm working on it got all kinds of
stringing between these guys so I changed the settings increase the
retraction I still got stringing so I don't know if to relate it to the PTFE
tube being too long or the hot end but I'm definitely seeing a lot more
stringing on this machine than I am on either one of my other CR tens so I think it's a
decent printer the question is is it worth the price $499 is the retail price
of this machine right here now you can get an auto level sensor there's even a
mounting spot for it over here and you can get a direct drive unit to go on top
of those those are options that will cost you extra but you can get it on
this machine I didn't get those so I couldn't review them so four hundred
nine hundred dollars is a unit that I reviewed now for about a hundred dollars
more you can get the CR 10 s pro with the incorporated electronics and auto level
already there if you want to spend less for about a hundred dollars less you can
get the original CR ten although banggood has it for 349 right now which
is a really good deal but typically it's about a hundred dollars less than this
guy so this fits in between the two which is what the CR 10's did so that's
why I'd say this is a CR 10 s upgrade not just a CR 10 upgrade so it's
it's a nice printer it's a 24 volt system just like the Ender three so if
you're looking upgrade from Ender three you might consider it I don't know it's
really your call if it fits for $499 I think it's a good machine I think it's