Purchased this FlashForge AD5X from West3D over Labor Day Weekend and as a newbie to 3D printing this was a great choice! I’ve had absolutely no issues with it, or the Ambrosia filament I also purchased! I expected a steep learning curve but set up and printing could not have been easier. Thank you West3D!
We uses there on a Prusa MK3/Mk4/Core Ones and they work great. All the benefits of the Satin plate i.e. don't need to cheat sheet to know what filament you can use, but at a more affordable price.
Will not work on a Core One Gen 2, as the extender profile of these plates covers the Nozzle Wiper.
We throw a lot of filament through our nozzles, after 100 spools at plenty of that being ASA-CF and other filled material, I see zero wear or degradation in performance.
I have built a decent number of printers over the years, West had a deal on a CoreOne that meant it cost the same as the kit.
I could get used to unpacking things and them just working. Assembly meant popping on the LCD, removing some packing cardboard, unloading the test filament, a quick shakedown and then straight into use at our MakerSpace.
CoreOnes rock, the print fast and well, PrusaConnect works great and I love the Nextstruder compared to our old and tired Mk3 and Mini extruders.
Very cute toaster. I have the Space Pi x4 and I use the filament toaster to save spool, while the Space Pi maintains spool that's actively being used. The beeping alarm on the toaster is excruciatingly loud that I taped over the volume holes. It helps, but wow, there should be a way to disable that
As advertised. It's my new set and forget catch-all nozzle. If only there was 1mm or .8mm
I run CryoGrip plates on all my printers, and for PLA & PETG, have had zero problems with adhesion using them!
Broke within a week of installing
Glad they come in 200 pack, these things just seem to disappear
I love West3D’s community involvement
When it comes to machined parts for Vorons, Mandela Rose Works is top of the line. Super tight tolerances from panels and Ultraflat beds to their Kinematic mounts. Legit premium quality. They aren't just machinists either, they're printers just like us and active within the community. Same goes for West3D, both of these companies deserve credit. West3d goes above and beyond. I'm just curious when Shopify is going to remove that spammer who wrote a negative review on every product on their website. Who even has that much time on their hands? Poor guy.
Using PETG for an Arthas cosplay, prints came out amazing. The price is right, the filament is great. Ambrosia is becoming my #1 filament of choice.
The pictures in the listing don’t do a great job showing the defects so I’ve attached some photos pointing them out on mine. The most visually obvious is the layer misalignment on the right side of the rail, but if light is shining on the rail it blends in.
The silver top weave looks good and has a nice metallic sheen. Amazing value and definitely worth it if you are willing to overlook slight visual defects for performance.
I had some adhesion issues on my Micron with my previous PEI plate that weren't helped with NPA or glue. I figured for $30 this would be worth a shot, and worst case I could use the bare steel side with adhesive to really fix my issues. I have not had to do any of that because this plate works so well with ABS/ASA. I definitely have to let the prints cool to room temp to release, and the texture is definitely different, but if I want smooth, I can again use the back side with glue. Great product, I'll eventually get another for my second Micron.
These heaters are great. The wires are a little thinner than most, so routing them is easier. They are still rated well, so no worries there. I have one in my Chube Compact, obviously, but these are also the right size for Dragonfly and maybe old Dragon hotends.
It's a fuse, hopefully never need it. Seems to be fine so far and hasn't tripped at 135C
After receiving and unboxing it, I was really impressed with the build quality. However, I initially ran into an issue with the plate warping due to PA-CF printing. I assumed my magnetic plate was simply poor quality. I ordered a Graviflex plate from Germany—considered the best one among the Voron Discord community. It took a long time to arrive, but the resulting disappointment was immense: the warping problem persisted. It looks something like this: delamination causes the plate to pull away from the magnet, and the bed starts to twist and shift. The metal likely needs to be thicker so the plate doesn't deform so easily. I am very disappointed; I do not recommend this for the Voron Zero.
I am a huge fan of glass fiber reinforced filaments — purchased this in black, and it is the worst one I've used. It is extremely brittle, and however its been formulated leaves the surface finish extremely uneven and very difficult to post-process.
It's alright if you're printing large, simple, parts — like the sole reviewer with the photos did. Anything small, thin, or with complex meshes and it is an abject disaster. Circular patterns? Yikes.
And it warps and absorbs humidity in a manner that seems flabbergasting for something reinforced with glass fiber — I'm no plastics engineer, but its almost like instead of creating an actual resin with fibers to extrude into filament, they just threw some into their ASA and hoped for the best.
The surface finish has that cheap 'frosted' look to it — the kind you get from Tinmorry or Elegoo, for half the price. Incomparable to actual high-quality glass-fiber formulations (the blue/white in my photo are from Protopasta vs. the black from Phaetus.
Attempted on Diamondback 0.4mm and ObXidian 500 0.6mm HF nozzles — fully calibrated like everything else I use. It's a $10-15/kg filament, not a $30/kg one.
Purchased the black matte ABS 'Filament of the Gods' — which I now take to mean 'requiring divine intervention — foolishly drawn in by the Pantone 7C color and the idea of a matte ABS.
It is, in no uncertain terms, the worst filament I have ever used. After spending the whole 1kg spool, I came out with a grand total of ONE print that didn't end in absolute disaster.
Only after looking around online to see if there were reviews outside of West3D did I realize that this is the in-house filament. Not sure if the other reviews are paid, fake, or otherwise — but the lack of photos should have been an indication.
I regularly print extremely difficult materials (eg, 3DXTech PC-CF, Nylon-CF, HTPLA-GF, ASA/ABS-GF) along with the standard stuff. I print through AMS HT's, never reaching 10% humidity, using a Diamondback 0.4mm or ObXidian 500 HF 0.6mm nozzle. I calibrate and optimize temps, flows, bridges, retraction, and speed for every filament I use. Didn't matter with this.
The 'matte' formulation seems to be some bizarre fully white material that's co-extruded inside the exterior, and will appear on your print no matter what — you'll see it on various parts of the spool itself where its already cracking through. Brims or supports? Good luck removing them and not getting full on white marks from the material removal. Any form of post-print processing is completely out of the question.
The worst part? Bed adhesion. It will invariably lift, doesn't matter if it's a textured plate, high-temp plate, or if you cover it with multiple coats of glue. I made the mistake of trying a large print overnight, and woke up to see the detached part, a full spaghetti monster, and the nozzle clogged, which was a recipe for literally blowing the front-cover off the toolhead (and breaking it).
For the filament itself, for those few moments where it doesn't completely dislodge, it has the most inconsistent extrusion imaginable, defeating the purpose of anything 'matte'. Layer lines are visible, the cornering and seams are absolute trash. And strength and durability? It will snap at the slightly bend, revealing its ugly white underside. Who knew you could ruin ABS this profoundly.
Save yourself from being bamboozled like I was — the cheap stuff on Amazon outperforms this. If you want actual premium ASA/ABS, go somewhere like Coex for their ASA Prime instead of wasting your money on stealthily marketed garbage by the folks at West3D.
I've been using the gates idlers and pulleys on a few 3D printer builds. Yes, they cost more than what you typically find on amazon, but I've used these for years and have never had a failure.
Pheatus rapido hf nt 104 thermistor
I got this up and running pretty quickly. Very nice quality. It actually makes it nice to work on toolheads without even running StealthChanger. That's the end goal though. Moving to tap for Z offset is a nice side effect too.
still in construction. easy install. would recommended ordering the solid Z blocks as well so your not waiting on parts to finish.
