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Robo3D R1 Review / Extruder Repair Video 1

This video is both a review of the Robo 3D R1 (purchased in November 2014) and the beginning of the replacement video series for the leaking extruder and bad fan. This video overviews what lead to the need for the repair and the final results of the repair. Videos 2 thru the first part of video 5 cover the ACTUAL REPAIR. Note that I have looked at many printers over the last year+ including Makerbot, Makergear, Isis3D (dont ask), Robo3D, DaVinci, EZ3D, g-Max, Type A machines, Fusion3Ddesigns, Solidoodle, Airwolf, Cubify (GREEDY filament RIP OFF@!), Plastic Scribbler, ORD Solutions, Ultimaker, Taz, Afinia and Rigidbot to name JUST a few. The Reason I Took the Risk This is due to the fact that the specifications were superior to the only real alternative in my budget range. The alternative was XYZprinting's DaVinci. Robo3D has superior build volume (even to Makergear's M2 I believe); has no chipped cartridges (like ANY products from friggin Cubify or the DaVinci whose cartridges supposedly develop tangles in the filament and will also fall apart); they wont brick your machine if you try to use other software or hacks like XYZprinting supposedly will; you don't have to calibrate it all the time; and it can use a LARGE array of other filament types and filament from other manufacturers (again no chipped cartridges). For example, I am using a $20 one kg spool of red filament from Hatchbox I bought on Amazon and I have used most of the spool with NOT A SINGLE PROBLEM. But I knew there were risks, however I figured for the $800 price, if I had problems with it, I could return it to Amazon and (again for the same price) get a DaVinci AND several spools of chipped filament. I figured that I will probably buy another printer next year when I have a better budget so the filament I purchased for the Robo3D could be used on the NEXT 3d printer (so it wasn't a waste of money to purchase several spools of PLA/ABS for the Robo3D). This was the first 3D printer I have actually had my hands on (or seen in action in person for that matter), and after over 350 hours of research on 3D printers since the middle of 2013, and for the price, I was AT LEAST looking for a starter printer to get some "hands on" experience. I figured that even if I sent the Robo3D back, I at least would get experience with this printer before exchanging it for another (ie DaVinci), thus giving me a frame of reference for the DaVinci at least. In the end, I was FULLY COMMITTED to sending the damn thing back if I had a problem of ANY KIND when I made the Robo3D purchase. Keep in mind that the competition is heating up and they know it. The first couple of years of business in this would break most people, but they have kept going and I think they deserve to have some tolerance given what they have achieved. They REALLY do have a good product here and one that I believe is suitable for a newbie to this area. Given my own experience in better days as a new company and manufacturer in the mid '90's in the booming field of LED lighting technology targeted at signage (the real origin of the stuff), I feel a certain kindred relationship with these guys and the 3D printing industry in general...so it was time to figure all this social media junk out and spend some (long) hours giving them a fair review. I love this thing so I hope you might give them a fair chance (given all the bad reviews and perhaps dubious good reviews... I know, I had thought the same thing!).