Monoprice Maker Select Plus | Unboxing, Setup & First Print / Impressions
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- My First 3D Printer! Did I choose the right one?...
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Check out my full review of this printer after 5+ Months of use!
• Monoprice Maker Select...
I searched around a lot. Read a lot of reviews and settled on this. I needed this for some specific projects and didn't want to wait for printers that ship from China, or have to spend an entire weekend building a kit. I think this could be a great 3D Printer for beginners. What do you guys think?
Unboxing - 1:00
Building/Setup - 6:30
Levelling - 9:00
Filament Loading -
First Prints - 18:30
Interface -
Conclusion - 24:20
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Parts:
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MK10 Extruder Hotend -
Gizmo Dorks PEI Sheet 8" x 8" -
Glass Bed Silicone Thermal Pad -
5x Wear Resistant MK10 Nozzles -
MS Plated Wear Resistant MK10 Nozzle -
Di3 Y Aluminum Carriage Plate -
300 Pc Snap Ring Assortment -
MS MK10 All Metal w/ Cooling -
MS MK10 All Metal -
3x MK10 Silicone Socks -
Noctua 40x20mm 12V Quiet fan -
Noctua 40x10mm 12v Quiet fan -
24v 50mm Blower Fan -
2x 12V Blower Fans -
Buck Converter -
3x 8 Diode TL Smoothers -
Nema 17 Dampers -
MOSFET -
5x 24V 40W Ceramic Cartridge Heater -
10x 12V 40W Ceramic Cartridge Heater -
M3 Stud Screw-In Thermistor -
Kapton Tape -
4x LM8LUU Linear Bearings-
Tools:
Feeler Gauge -
Tacklife SDH13DC Cordless Screwdriver -
Allen Wrench Hex Key Set 1.5-10mm -
ESD Tweezers -
Wire Brush Set -
Tekton ⅜” Ratcheting Wrench -
Deburring Tool -
2x Extra Long Needle Nose Pliers -
Multi Tool Holder Rack -
12 Piece Precision Needle File Set -
iFixit Pro Tech Toolkit -
External Snap Ring Pliers -
Internal Snap Ring Pliers -
Hardware
520x Metric Hex Button Screws -
500x Metric Hex Socket Cap Screws -
¼” Eccentric Spacers -
20x16” Parts Organizer Drawers -
iFixit Project Tray -
1.5M PTFE Bowden Tube -
Silicone ESD Magnetic Parts Mat -
Tempered Borosilicate Glass Bed -
Other:
Raspberry Pi 3 -
Raspberry Pi Camera V2 -
mSD Card Extension -
mSD to SD Adapter/Extension -
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Great video on this little printer!
Thanks for checking it out Joel!
As someone who has this printer, I must say it is great for beginners!
I recently uploaded my full review of this printer. I conlcuded the same thing.
Just got this for my kids for Xmas. Setting it up so they can use it on day one. Thanks for making this.
Very helpful. I was contemplating this printer as my first and I think I'm sold.
Thanks for watching. Glad you found it informative. There's a few facebook groups for this printers and all Wanhao i3 Duplicator rebrands. Microcenter has a rebrand now and I've seen a lot of people picking up open box deals from there. But I prefer new and just went with Amazon.
Just got mine in and putting it together within the next day or two. Nice video, it was pretty explanatory and it was honest.
I have this printer coming on Tuesday very exited!! Very informative video thank you
Nice. I'll be very interested to see what type of prints you do. If you're on twitter let me know when you get some stuff out
Will do
Great video! The instructions, in my opinion, were not clear when it came to leveling. I actually gouged the print bed because I didn't understand the process. Your video made it very clear. Thanks for that!
Awesome. I'm glad that it helped. I was fairly embarrassed and almost didn't include that I'd scratched mine. But I figured there was no way to hide it and also others might benefit from my mistake. Thanks for watching!
we have a maker select plus at work and its been performing well for about a year. Today we received two Maker Select V2 from Monoprice that were refurbished. I haven't had a chance to run them yet, i just put them together this morning. The refurbished ones were $199.99. They came with a replacement print bed film as they are used and the ones in place had scratches. They also had a little wear on the painted parts but this is an industrial application, so paint isn't important. All the parts and documents that come with a new printer were included. the two boxes were not packed the same. One was packed in foam and the other in bubble wrap. One had a quick set up guide and the other did not. I used the manual, so the quick guide wasn't needed. The only real complaint is that the filament holder that is mounted on top isn't long enough for the 1KG spool we order FROM MONOPRICE. If they work well in the next couple weeks, I plan to order one for myself.
Nice overview of the printer. Can I ask what camera you use? Your video quality looks really good.
Thanks! I'm still using my old Canon 60D. Primary lens is the Sigma 18-35 1.8 though. Expensive glass but's great for what I'm doing!
great video, thinking of buying one
I'm pretty happy with it so far!
Nice man, I would love to have my own 3D printer.
Should be pretty awesome. Think I should be able to print some pretty cool stuff for PC mods and setup cable management things. If you have any ideas let me know!
Hi Sgt Dude! Hopefully mine will arrive next week. Subs & thumbs up. I like the mini but decided to plus a couple of bucks for watching your video. I am a beginner and want to learn more of this 3D printing technology.
Cheers, Thanks for watching. Let me know how the printer is working otu for you!
Nice talking with you at NYMakerFaire. Subscribed/Liked!!!
Very nice meeting you as well! Build that new CNC! (I'm catching up on replying to comments lol)
Hey brother, thanks for the video, i have a few questions if you don’t mind. (First a statement though) I’m looking at the Monoprice maker printer, and I’ve never printed 3D before. So here are the questions. 1) How fine is the outcome of the product? 2) I heard that you can set your product in a tub of acetone (not floating, but so the fumes can reach it) and it’ll smooth it out) have you tried it? 3) For filaments, I wanted to make a funky ash tray, could it withstand it? I’d really appreciate the help!
That piece of metal is a filament cleaner for your extruder if it gets jammed.
Gotcha. Thanks for the tip and for watching!
a dipstick to check the 3D printer fluid
Thank you. I started looking everywhere to see what that thing is.
I have the mono price select mini version 1 I think I will be upgrading to the plus now
I've heard good things about the mini. Specifically version 2. I was think about getting one just so I could print a bunch of small stuff while I have bigger stuff going on this printer. THanks for watching.
What 3D Printers have you guys been looking at? What would you 3D Print first?
the wire thing is to clear a clog if you need to i have one of my own for my monoprice maker select v2.1 3d printer
Ah. Gotcha. Thought it was weird they didn't really explicitly say what it was. Thanks for watching.
Hi. I bought the Monoprice "Maker Select 3D Printer v2.1" Unpacking tomorrow! It came highly recommended by an experienced 3D printing guy at our local Makerspace.
I’m actually printing a phone case as soon as a put my select plus together. Then I’m going to try and find good files to print out stuff for comicon
you do not have to move the bed and nozzle about when leveling go to menu then there should be a feature that says level and it will move the parts about the Xyz axis while you level the build plate just FYI
I have the unit. YEs, great printer for a beginner, and the instructions are good. My ONLY real complaint: the spool holder is too small for most of the filament spools I have.
Use the Wanhao i3 profile in Cura 3.6
BH Photo has this for $299 right now. It's $389 on Amazon and Monoprice. I snagged one a few days ago. Thanks for the vid!
Do you have the cura settings
I’m thinking of purchasing one of these but know nothing about 3D printing. Are there any good guides out there?
use the wire to clear any clogs you have when the filament gets stuck in the extruder
Thanks for the tip and for watching!
My abs and PLA won’t stick to it, it the plastic folds over on itself, it just collects together when it prints nothing sticks I’ve tried tape idk what to do
That printer has a TON of addons you can add to it. Get a e3d hot end and go to thingy verse and get the frame braces will make a HUGE difference also a major upgrade should be delryn bushings dump the roller bearings. Make sure the hotend is a original e3d not a chinese knock off.
Can you assist with sourcing the Delrin bushings and which frame braces? Any other suggestions? Thanks.
For what printer i got mine off of ebay and now im building a anet a8 and ill put delrin bushings in it and a e3d v6 hot end and a pc modular power supply instead of the anet power supply. also found a aluminum bed for the heat plate.
I got the igus bushings off of ebay and the braces off of thingy verse.
Yes I've found a huge number of upgrades/mods. Initially reviewing this as an out of the box experience but will be doing a lot of upgrades to see what's worth it and what's not.
the metal hook is for unclogging
You shouted out to Linus. You've got my attention. Subbed
Edit: Serious note, good video. And I imagine that metal rod is for cleaning your extruder maybe?
Thanks for watching! Yeah Linus has been a big influence in my channel.
Yes the rod is for helping to push filament through the extruder and cleaning clogs.
Hello! My friend gave me this exact printer and he didnt give me any of the source test files. What are they or what would you recommend? Thank you!
Hey man! Great video! Just got mine today (I got it secondhand), but I can't seem to get it to print anything. The filament does come out if I push it from atop, albeit very slowly, and pressing the E axis dial doesn't do anything. Should I assume the nozzle is blocked? I assume the temp is ok, seeing as it does melt the filament. How could I know if the extruder is not working?
If you can push the filament through when the hotend is heated but using the extrude feature doesn't work that suggests there's something wrong with the extruder assembly.
You'll want to make sure the extruder motor is properly connected. At the motor, at the daughter board on the back of the Z/X gantry and the cable that goes from the gantry down into the base of the printer (remove the bottom panel and check that the JST connector labled "E" is connected to the main board correctly.
If everything is connected try to listen or feel whether the motor actually turns when you tell the printer to extrude. If it's connected correctly but the motor isn't moving that could be a bad motor (fairly easy to swap out) or the motor driver on the board is gone out (more complicated to replace the board but not that bad after you source one.
If the motor is turning but the filament isn't being pushed out that suggests that the gear and or idler that pushes the filament into the hotend might have something wrong with it. The gear should turn when the motor shaft turns. If it doesn't then it could be that the set screw on the gear isn't tight enough. You'll also want to make sure the alignment of the gear and idler are all good.
If the gear is turning but not pushing filament through make sure the gear isn't all gummed up with stripped filament. The gear is designed to bite into the filament slightly and push it through. It can strip away filament and get gummed up when the hotend is jammed.
If all that looks good it's likely a jam. I usually start by using an accupuncture need to try an clear the jam with the hot end heated up fairly high. for pla that normally prints around 210 I'll heat it to 250. Retract the filament a bit manually and then push the needle into the nozzle. Move it up and down, twist it a bit. Careful the hotend is HOT.
After that hold in the idler/tensioner bar and see if it's now easier to push the filament through. Ideally it should come through and not curl up at all. If it's coming through faster and looking good you can try to use the extrude feature and hopefully everything works.
If it's curling when it comes out retract the filament a bit and try the needle again. If there was filament other than PLA with a hotter printing temp you may need to heat it up even hotter.
If that doesn't work you can look up some other techniques for clearing jams like "cold pulls" "hot pulls" "atomic pulls" etc... Last resort is completely disasembling the hotend. There's a little white piece of bowden tube that is inside that can get burned and jammed up. If that's the case you can cut another piece of bowden to size and replace it.
Other than that you might have to replace the whole hotend.
Best of luck
Hello, just wondering if this printer is TPU capable? thanks
I got my frame braces from thingy verse.
Look up braces for the wanhao i3 plus or the i3 and they will work perfect.
Yeah Z-braces are on the list of upgrades but want to initially evaluate the machine out of the box. Thanks for watching!
Hey man! Great video! I just want to say am a student in Mexico and a guy offer me this printer in$200 but idk, maybe you don't answer my questions, but Is the printer good? Do you recommend it for beginners? Did you have some troubles with the printer?, because I want a 3d printer, but I cannot expense a lot of money, so I hope you see my comment, Nice video bro;)
I must be incredibly noob if everyone seem to be able to print except me, my nozzle just ruined my heatbed even I did the leveling and followed every steps on the manual
If you watch the full video I did very similar. Note that the bed surface is replaceable. So crashing the nozzle into it isn't great but not the end of the world if you scrape it up.
Im having a hard time getting my printer machine settings for my printer and the latest cura. can you share your machine settings?
I'll try and remember to do it tonight.
i was looking for your settings also. love the videos!
did u think about getting a cr 10 before buying this one?
Yeah it was actually really high on my list! But I needed it super fast and Gearbest, Ebay, Banggood and other sites just wouldn't be able to get it out very quickly. Standard like 2 week shipping from China.
I hear tiny-machines-3d.com has some CR-10's in the US. Might still get one from them.
can you make a video on leveling the select plus, I have seen many post on FB Monoprice select plus group with trouble doing this correctly. thx in advance for taking this question.
Hey mark. Yes I can probably do a dedicated video on this. It does seem to be a problem a lot of people have.
I do talk about it in more detail in my Review of this printer. It's around 4m. I've linked to around that time here.
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SrgntBallisticGaming Thank You so much, looking forward to it! You Are an awesome presenter of information.
hi, some body help me software and driver for monoprice make select plus.
i bougth it on ebay but no software and driver, thanhk you so much
Drivers I'm not sure about. But for software any version of Cura will work. There are videos showing how to set up a custom printer in Cura. Have to put in your build volume dimensions, nozzle diameter, filament diameter and some other things.
As far as I know Monoprice stopped doing their custom version of cura with the profiles already set up. Alternatively people download and use the profiles set up by Wanhao. But I wasn't able to get good results with those.
Can you use a phone or iPad to print with this printer?
Not out of the box. It's possible to get some wireless functionality with a WiFi SD card but no direct smartphone support
Thanks
is it possible to print with PETG?
Yeah. Check out my full review for more info on the materials I was able to print with:
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Ah Cool, thank you :)
I just impulse bought this printer on Newegg $399 2 day ship.....thank you for ur review! SrgntBallisticGaming!
Glad my video helped. I've run this thing non stop. Besides some troubles tweaking settings when switching filaments and figuring out things like first layer adhesion and support mine has been awesome. Really that's all just normal 3D Printer stuff. Eventually going to give ABS a try.
If you have twitter shoot me some photos of the stuff you print! @SrgntBallistic
can you do another pc build plssssssssss
In the works but GPU prices are making me cry right now!
what is the build volume
@1:17
Oh nice this is a rebranded Wanhao. A steel bodied Prusa essentially.
I just ordered the super budget Anet A8 a couple of days ago :)
EDIT: Oh, you say all that 3mins in :) Hahaha
Yeah no worries. I was looking at the Anet A8. I'll be interested to see what you think if it? Are you on twitter at all? If so shoot me some pics and tweets of your impressions.
Most of the best deals I saw on the A8 were Gearbest, Banggood and Aliexpress type sites that would have take a couple weeks to get hear. A big factor for me was being able to get it as fast as possible.
Fair enough. I decided to just get mine off eBay in the end. So yea, mine is a couple of weeks away. I tried to get a Cacoon Create which was being sold at Aldi for $499(AUD) Which is a rebrand Wanhao but not touch screen version but they all sold out within the first 5 minutes. Hopefully I get my head around the Anet and then I might look at a Lulzbot or Ultimaker :) I'll hit you up on twitter.
Yeah I saw that Angus from Maker's Muse was talking about The Cacoon Create quite a bit. Interesting that Aldi was offering them. At first I assumed it was like a department store but it's more of a Grocery store right?
He mentioned in one of his videos another store down there trying to do something similar.
I would love an Ultimaker! I think my next printer might be the CR 10. They have some with massive print volumes and I see really good reviews.
Might be an Australian Aldi thing, but they often have small quantity speciality items but yeah mostly they are a grocery store but then there will be a lawn edger or something on special one week. Its a bit weird, but now we're used to it.
I just returned the Anet a8, too many problems!
Now it is only $250
It your nozzle cleaner
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Damnit
yet another used car salesman turned youtuber
Who hurt you?
ain this particular instance I believe it was you! SUNDAY!! SUNDAY!!! SUNDAY!!!, Nobody wants to revisit that era of broadcast! If you could adjust that for future videos I would appreciate it.. The comprehensive approach you take to reviews is impressive and I would hate to taint this relationship so early over something that trivial.
If you don't enjoy the way I present my content maybe there's someone else out there more your taste. Maybe that TH-camr would be more likely to completely change their format because of the misgivings of a single user that insults them in the comments. But I doubt it.
is that right?
Yes. Why should I be OK with you coming to my video and calling me a "Used Car Salesman?" Why do you think this is appropriate behavior?
You could have said. "Hey I like the in-depth comprehensive nature of your videos. But I feel you're not coming across all that genuine..."
But you didn't you chose to insult me.