Hello, 3D Printing Friends! Today on the BV3D Channel, we'll be taking a look at
the Alien3D UFO Mystery Box. This is the April 2019 edition.
Stick around, we'll open it up, and see what's inside, right after this. I'm Bryan,
and you... are watching BV3D.
Hey everyone, welcome back. Alright, so this was waiting
for me in my mailbox the other day, the April 2019 edition of the Alien 3D
UFO Mystery Box. I think it was running a little bit late; I think there were some
issues getting the box out with the Midwest RepRap festival and all that
going on, and Alien 3D's attendance at that event, but no matter! We've got it
now. We'll open it up and see what's inside!
Well, first off, we have a note from Alien 3D, basically apologizing for things
being late this month, having to do with the Midwest RepRap festival and such like that.
So, looks like the brochures for this month have been misplaced. We're probably
gonna have to go check out the URL there and see what is included here. We have a
Old School Monsters comic book... Kind of odd for Easter, but OK.
We'll set that aside. We have ...look at our filament first; get some of these things out of the way.
We have some FilamentOne Aqua color PLA. This is nice, I like that kind of pastel blue.
We have a "Whiz-Works" or "Wise-Works" PLA chocolate
that's a nice chocolatey brown color.
This slightly different shade of a pastel blue; this is a Cerulean Blue PLA
from Tianse.
And we have a peachy color, 3D Passion PLA Perfect Peach.
That's actually kind of nice. Why don't we set that aside right here.
Ah-HAAA! We have a JAYTEE sticker!
By the way, if you have not watched the JATOG stream,
JAYTEE And That Other Guy, where JAYTEE and Ivan Miranda hang out for about an hour
and just generally act silly, that is something that you should check out.
I will put a link for that in the description.
This is DynaPurge 3D Clean purge material for FDM extrusion printers; this
I think is little snippets of cleaning filament. Yeah, these are little
pre-measured rods of cleaning filament that you can use to purge one color out
of your extruder in preparation for running another color through. Let's
set that aside over here. And we have a USB powered thing, I think it's a water pump
we'll have to check the URL and we'll see what these things are for. So, let's...
Let's get into that!
All right, here we are. This is going to
serve as our brochure, so we can see more information about the stuff that's in
the box and find out about that project. So, we have our filament providers, we
have FilamentOne.com; we have WhizWorks (or WiseWorks, I am not sure of the
pronunciation of that); we have Tianse, and we have 3D Passion. Okay, here is some
information about the April 2019 UFO Mystery 3D Printing box.
It's Easter, themed but we noticed that. We have Ashcan Comics pub providing
the comic book, which seems a little odd for Easter, but that's okay. I think that
it'd be a little more appropriate for around Halloween. And Dan—AlkeshOne
designing the 3D printable project parts. Well, I want to read more about
that in a bit. And it looks like Nick– BoldCity3D on Twitter–won the
mothership box this month. It included two rolls of Alien Ooze PLA from
IC3D. That is cool! That's some cool-looking filament. Alright, here's
information about our filament samples. Let's see we've got. Our FilamentOne PLA
Pro Select Aqua. Josh says, "I wanted to go with soft colors for the April box, and
the Aqua had just the right hint of green." That's awesome. Then we have our
PLA Chocolate from WhizWorks (or WiseWorks). I'm gonna keep saying that both
ways, because I don't have a pronunciation guide. We've got our printing
temperatures and our bed temperatures. Can't have Easter without chocolate!
Let's see your chocolate bunnies and eggs! Well, you know, I've got some
chocolate bunnies to print out, so I think I will do that. We have our
Cerulean PLA from Tianse. This is a great sky-blue color could make some
great eggs! And our 3D Passion Perfect Peach. Josh says, "I haven't done a peach
color yet, and thought this was a very pretty color for Easter." So, there we go.
Now, here's our bonus accessory, that Dyna- Purge 3D Clean cleaning and purging
filament. Clean your printer's hot end and nozzle with Dyna-Purge 3D Clean. It's a
non-chemical, non-abrasive thermoplastic for purging and cleaning. Safe for both
the operator and the 3D printer. Alright, so these are cut
in eight-inch segments, and they are ready to use, so just run them through
the printer at 230 degrees unless the material that you're purging out
requires a higher temp. That's cool. Ah! The bonus project! The Alien 3D water
fountain and/or water wall. April's known for its showers, and I thought a water
fountain would be awesome.Not a lot of people like water and 3D printing, but
AlkeshOne has done an amazing job, not just with a water fountain, but also a
water wall. The UFO includes a water pump to go along with the 3D printed parts. The alien
mascot is printed separately from Thingiverse. Print it at normal size
with zero infill and two or three walls, and then just cut a hole out of the
bottom to fit around the water out pipe. Alright so that would be the water wall,
and that's the fountain. That's actually pretty cool looking. Me personally, I
think I like the water wall look, and I will probably print that.
Well, that's the contents of the Alien 3D UFO Mystery Box for this month. I'm looking forward to
printing with some of the filament samples that are inside, and also
printing out that water wall. And that's about all the time we have for the
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that. You print something cool too, and I'll see you next time!