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Bought over 2 years ago now, and in that time I've found a lot of minor gripes and swapped several parts. with some relatively inexpensive upgrades its a decent printer, but out of the box leaves a bit to be desired.
TL;DR Overall this printer has been a labor of love and while I don't regret paying the money I did for it at the time, I'm not sure I could justify paying almost $500 USD for it today.
Having spares of certain parts is nice, but those have sat mostly untouched as they aren't the parts likely to need replacement.
size is the major selling point, along with the glass lattice bed. a 300mm x 300mm bed is large enough to print just about anything you want in one piece, and the bed texture is surprisingly adhesive, I've never had to resort to any replacement surfaces to get parts to print well, and most prints will detatch from the bed easily once below 40C.
That's where most of the positives end however. The extruder is a clone of a reversed titan, built with much cheaper materials than the real thing. the tensioning screw, idler lever, drive gear, and hob gear are all injection molded plastic instead of steel, and I've had to replace all of these with metal parts after they've stripped or otherwise broken. the heat block is cheap cast aluminum, which has long since stripped out the threads. the nozzle and silicone sock are of decent quality, but have also worn out in my time of use and needed replacement. I've decided to remove the casing from the extruder motor and its PCB because its just gotten in the way with how many times I've had to take apart the head, and only serves to trap heat near the board and add more bulk to the head.
Moving away from the print head, most of the electronics above the base are exposed, and the wires for the bed heater crimp over time in the fire resistant sleeve because it folds in the same place every time.
All the brackets are either extruded or plasma cut aluminum, which wouldn't be an issue if the ones for the belts were at all adjustable, I've had to replace them with aftermarket tensioner brackets to keep my belts tight over time.
The gantry is only held to the base with 4 bolts, and because of the spool needing to be placed on the top, has some shake issues during rapid printing. Combined with my Z screws being slightly bent, it makes a noticeable amount of noise when moving the head during rapid moves and leaves slight banding on prints every 20mm due to the wobble. Unless controlling the printer remotely, you have to use the runout sensor as a filament guide, and the switch inside often doesn't activate when flexible filaments are ran through it.
The base of the printer is relatively well built, and has USB 2.0, SD card, and USB-B (printer cable) ports. the included flash drive is 1GB, which is plenty for storing GCode files. The included direct connection
USB to USB-B cable is far too short unless you can set your printer directly to the left of your computer, and I've found the port on the printer to be pretty loose.
The printers firmware is marlin-based, and old enough to be missing features like heating the bed and hotend at the same time, pause and resume at height, and other conveniences found on more up to date printers, but does have power outage recovery and filament runout detection, as well as built in bed leveling, filament changing, and manual extrusion control.
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April 19 2021Well, this is the third time I've tried to purchase this printer and the second time from this particular listing. This time it arrived with the top belt looking like someone cut it with scissors. It literally just came in and I hadn't even started putting it together yet.I will try again in about a month. I really want this printer - if the first one hadn't had that error, I'd still have it.April 7 2021Update. In both the test prints for the benchy and cube I got the message:error checksum mismatch last line (with numbers)The prints didn't stop and they seem to be complete. Cube was printed from the USB drive that came with the printer. Benchy was printed via USB connection to my laptop.I printed two bigger projects: WW tiara and the door angel and got the same error message but the prints finished. However at the end of the angel print I saw a message (forgot to take a pic) that said something about overheating. I powered the printer down and will be contacting the company for a replacement.It seems this is not a new issue with the older models, but this is supposedly the newest. Artillery knows about it and put a post on theit Facebook page about contacting them for a new motherboard repair kit- which I would have to install. Not being tech saavy in that way, I'm not sure I want to attempt to replace hardware and possibly ruin the printer further beyond a repair or replacement.In all, this is a great printer though. I've only ever used the Flash Forged brand before and it didn't seem to be as easy to get started as this one. I'm hoping to get the hornet and genius - once I settle the issues with the sidewinder.April 6 2021Maybe a premature review, as I just received this printer yesterday and set it up today. However, I did not see a recent review posted for 2021 and figured I'd get that started for anyone looking to purchase this printer: Auxillery Sidewinder X1 V4 - newest version.This is a sturdy, well-built 3d printer. I currently have it set up on my kitchen counter running a few test prints with PLA. It was easy to assemble and start using. Took me about 30-45 minutes. I saw on YT where people said they had it running in 10. Good for them. It too me longer because I've never owned a 3D printer before.A tip if you're like me: the manual is pretty easy to follow until you get to that first print. There is no instruction as to how to load the filament - which I'm sure sounds like a noob thing to say but I'm a newbie at this. So, head on over to YT, there are a few people out there who have made videos detailing everything from unboxing to set up. I found YT tutorials to be more helpful than the manual. Also, if you want to print from your computer/laptop, you can do that. I am currently running the benchy test print off the computer using Cura.Seriously, if I can figure this out, anyone can figure it out.
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April 19 2021
Well, this is the third time I've tried to purchase this printer and the second time from this particular listing. This time it arrived with the top belt looking like someone cut it with scissors. It literally just came in and I hadn't even started putting it together yet.
I will try again in about a month. I really want this printer - if the first one hadn't had that error, I'd still have it.
April 7 2021
Update. In both the test prints for the benchy and cube I got the message:
error checksum mismatch last line (with numbers)
The prints didn't stop and they seem to be complete. Cube was printed from the USB drive that came with the printer. Benchy was printed via USB connection to my laptop.
I printed two bigger projects: WW tiara and the door angel and got the same error message but the prints finished. However at the end of the angel print I saw a message (forgot to take a pic) that said something about overheating. I powered the printer down and will be contacting the company for a replacement.
It seems this is not a new issue with the older models, but this is supposedly the newest. Artillery knows about it and put a post on theit Facebook page about contacting them for a new motherboard repair kit- which I would have to install. Not being tech saavy in that way, I'm not sure I want to attempt to replace hardware and possibly ruin the printer further beyond a repair or replacement.
In all, this is a great printer though. I've only ever used the Flash Forged brand before and it didn't seem to be as easy to get started as this one. I'm hoping to get the hornet and genius - once I settle the issues with the sidewinder.
April 6 2021
Maybe a premature review, as I just received this printer yesterday and set it up today. However, I did not see a recent review posted for 2021 and figured I'd get that started for anyone looking to purchase this printer: Auxillery Sidewinder X1 V4 - newest version.
This is a sturdy, well-built 3d printer. I currently have it set up on my kitchen counter running a few test prints with PLA. It was easy to assemble and start using. Took me about 30-45 minutes. I saw on YT where people said they had it running in 10. Good for them. It too me longer because I've never owned a 3D printer before.
A tip if you're like me: the manual is pretty easy to follow until you get to that first print. There is no instruction as to how to load the filament - which I'm sure sounds like a noob thing to say but I'm a newbie at this. So, head on over to YT, there are a few people out there who have made videos detailing everything from unboxing to set up. I found YT tutorials to be more helpful than the manual. Also, if you want to print from your computer/laptop, you can do that. I am currently running the benchy test print off the computer using Cura.
Seriously, if I can figure this out, anyone can figure it out.
Well, this is the third time I've tried to purchase this printer and the second time from this particular listing. This time it arrived with the top belt looking like someone cut it with scissors. It literally just came in and I hadn't even started putting it together yet.
I will try again in about a month. I really want this printer - if the first one hadn't had that error, I'd still have it.
April 7 2021
Update. In both the test prints for the benchy and cube I got the message:
error checksum mismatch last line (with numbers)
The prints didn't stop and they seem to be complete. Cube was printed from the USB drive that came with the printer. Benchy was printed via USB connection to my laptop.
I printed two bigger projects: WW tiara and the door angel and got the same error message but the prints finished. However at the end of the angel print I saw a message (forgot to take a pic) that said something about overheating. I powered the printer down and will be contacting the company for a replacement.
It seems this is not a new issue with the older models, but this is supposedly the newest. Artillery knows about it and put a post on theit Facebook page about contacting them for a new motherboard repair kit- which I would have to install. Not being tech saavy in that way, I'm not sure I want to attempt to replace hardware and possibly ruin the printer further beyond a repair or replacement.
In all, this is a great printer though. I've only ever used the Flash Forged brand before and it didn't seem to be as easy to get started as this one. I'm hoping to get the hornet and genius - once I settle the issues with the sidewinder.
April 6 2021
Maybe a premature review, as I just received this printer yesterday and set it up today. However, I did not see a recent review posted for 2021 and figured I'd get that started for anyone looking to purchase this printer: Auxillery Sidewinder X1 V4 - newest version.
This is a sturdy, well-built 3d printer. I currently have it set up on my kitchen counter running a few test prints with PLA. It was easy to assemble and start using. Took me about 30-45 minutes. I saw on YT where people said they had it running in 10. Good for them. It too me longer because I've never owned a 3D printer before.
A tip if you're like me: the manual is pretty easy to follow until you get to that first print. There is no instruction as to how to load the filament - which I'm sure sounds like a noob thing to say but I'm a newbie at this. So, head on over to YT, there are a few people out there who have made videos detailing everything from unboxing to set up. I found YT tutorials to be more helpful than the manual. Also, if you want to print from your computer/laptop, you can do that. I am currently running the benchy test print off the computer using Cura.
Seriously, if I can figure this out, anyone can figure it out.
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