Wellcome to the community of reloader 3D printer “Johnny”.. I’ve doing a lot of upgrades in my reloading room since I got the Ender 3 V2 last year!!

Loving you moving into the 3D printing space, Johnny. Keep up the journey and keep us posted!

I'm glad you mentioned this in your 2022 year in review video. I didn't know you did this one. I've been on the fence for 3D printing and you are just the guy I needed to help me jump in. I can't believe the amount of content you have in this one video. It's amazing. Thank you

In my entire bloody internet life i have never watched a KZfaq video this long and i finish it from beginning to end without skipping some points, its been fun and educative now to someone like me who fall in love with 3D printing I'm likely to re-watch this over and over, great work buddy thumbs up

Great video, thanks for going through the thought process why you chose this model and being a noob myself helped me decide which one to get.

I redesigned and printed my own primer catch for my rock chucker and a couple reloading trays so far because I couldn’t find the files of ones I actually like the look of. Very satisfying to use and make your own tools or other functional items.

Fantastic video! I really appreciate the fact that you took us along from the beginning and went through all the small steps that are rarely included in such tutorials. Your questions about undocumented setup requirements, print quality differences, the Slicer, nozzle temps, file types and transfers, etc. are exactly the kinds of things that get skipped. Thanks very much!!

this was really fun to watch a first time owner work through the same things all of us have in the past. good stuff, i hope you get your moneys worth of fun and work from it.

Thank you so much for putting this video together for us. I'm sure there's ton of us who wanted to get into it, who know just enough but not enough and you made it look so simple, mistakes and all. I just appreciate not only the hours going into this video, the days you spent learning, filming, printing and sharing with us. I ordered the ghost gunner 3, 6-8 months ago still on back order. While waiting I should have ordered one of these and it might have scratched that itch, for a much cheaper price too. Thanks again for all you do, keep it up and don't blow your face off!

A Great video, thanks for taking the time to film it and thanks for your honesty. My first printer is due to be delivered in the next few days. Meanwhile I’ve been checking out Tinkercad. Yes, my skills are on a par with your first attempts. You’ve given me the confidence to persevere. You’ve covered so many good points, which will definitely help me. Thanks from across the pond 🇬🇧

When you put the "Don't blow your face off" script" on the monitor holder I had to show my wife! She says that out loud ever time I day I'm watching a new JRB video! You did a great job with this 3D video!

This was an excellent experience thank you. I think it really gave me an idea of what to expect and helped me avoid issues I didn't even know I was going to have.

This was fun to watch you go through all of the noob mistakes and head scratches I went through when I jumped into 3d printing. Couple things to make you aware of, petg absorbs some water so will need to dry it to eliminate some of the stringing and adjust the retraction distance as you stated PLA's don't really absorb much water so you won't see a big improvement drying it. PLA and PLA+ will be weaker if printed too hot or cold. So don't cook the filament even if it looks better.

You did really well for your first printer. You clearly did some research! All i can say is welcome to the club Johnny (we share that name).

WOW!! a 2hr video. This is perfect timing for me. I built a 7 SAUM on a long action and need to make wedges for the front of my mags to prevent the cartridges sliding forward under recoil. My son is getting into CAD and wants to do the drawings for me. This is PERFECT. Johnny for the win, again! Thanks!

A fun project to get into is 37 mm launchers, as both the cases and projectiles can be printed. Meaning that all you need is 209 primers and pyrodex

Excellent! Was wanting to stumble across a video like this. You nailed it!

I can't believe I just watched a 2 hour video. Love it. Had some good information in there. I'm thinking of jumping in to 3D printing and this video was very helpful.

As an Ender 5 user, I look forward to watching what you do with your printer and grow in capability and what you do with it.

Dude I'm so glad you are doing this I have been looking into it !

Absolute blast watching that. You picked up the Tinker-Cad quickly! That pencil holder is amazing.

I got my first printer on Father’s Day of this year. The kobra 2 neo, worked right out of the box after assembly. I stare at it for long periods of time while it’s going. So satisfying to watch

I have to say, this is very cool to watch! I've been 3D printing for three years already, and I was lucky enough to have some very knowledgeable friends to help me. Watching you set up on your own without help is very entertaining (and as much as the Ender is giving you headaches, I have to say, that was a surprisingly headache-free setup). I've scratch-built my two printers, and none of them were up and printing in a couple of hours. ;)

Glad to see your having so much success with it.

great video and VERY informative, taught me lots of what other 3d printer videos don't cover

This was really interesting to see your take on getting started with 3d-printing. I think you are doing a great job and are learning fast. You have lot's of good ideas.. Have been 3d-printing for three years now with my ender 3.. Designed and printed lots of stuff for reloading and additions for weapons. It is really great to have a 3d-printer around. Started out with tinkercar, but moved on to onshape, and have had good luck with that. Using Cura as slicer

When you went to print the cat i got so excited. My first print on my ender 3 was the dog. It turned out way above expectations. Ive had great luck w inland filament. You will get into the groove and get it figured out. Its fun to have the little plastic spewing robot doing your bidding while your away.

Automatic bed leveling is nice but it is a good idea to manual level the bed first then run the auto level second. Having it mechanically closer to true means less work for the auto level adjustments that happen in software. The less compensation movements that need to happen in order to stay true to the bed the better. It will result in a better print quality. Also having the limit switch installed anyway is a good safeguard even if it is set up a bit lower than normal on the machine.

Ohhhhhhh man... This is my favorite marrying of hobbies coming together in my favorite channel. I've been blown away at what 3d printing has done for the reloading community as its turned access to case feeders and collators from $1000+ to $100+

Excellent video, thank you so much. I have just bought this printer so this was so helpful!

Love your channel, I’m a new reloader and when I was just starting out finding your channel was the best thing I could’ve done I’ve learned so much thanks for doing what you do. Please do a video talking about improved cartridges the 223 A.I. Specifically, somthing I just learned of today! Thanks again.

As someone who loves 3d printing. It's very fun to watch someone exploring the hobby for the first time!

Johnny's Printing Bench. Hehehe. Good stuff, man. Printing is awesome. I've designed stuff and printed it myself when I couldn't find it in stock anywhere.

got my printer Saturday and it was surprisingly easy to set up and it print very well I'm stoked got a couple home brews going at the moment

Wonderful video! Thank you so much for making it. I don't even have a 3d printer but I'm considering buying one. Thanks again

Excellent video ! This is very unique as you're documenting every little idiosyncrasy that us newbies will encounter & are largely overlooked by the more expert reviewers with prior expertise. First class job there. Thank you. 🇬🇧

I loved this video i hope there's an update on your 3d printing journey it is an addicting hobby for sure

Pretty cool video...learning with you as you go thru the processes.

Thank you for making this video. Very helpful.

Welcome to the 3D printing family. Happy to have you with us.

You saved me a LOT of time. Thank you for uploading this video.

Thank you for this! 😊 I am waiting for my Ender-3 S1 to get delivered in the mail any day now! I am beyond excited, as that will be my first printer too! You got a follow, have an awesome day! 🙂

This video was actually very interesting to watch, good job.

Great vid, I just thought about getting into 3d printing the other day and found you also just got into it. Keep us updated on how it’s going. I’m looking at v2 printer.

Been having great luck with my ender 3 V2, picked it up 2 weeks ago and almost through my first roll of filament

God...this is awesome...I also reload and use The hornady AP LnL....and like a person that wants more headaches have been wanting to get into the 3D side of things....but wanted to find someone to walk me through is ...well your video is about as close as I could ever get....thanks so much this journey....

I’ve got a prusa mk3s, ender 3 pro, and an ender 3 s1. I’ve had my prusa the longest and I got my s1 about two weeks ago. So far, the S1 is my favorite of the three. Happy printing!

Arc Welder is another great one for speeding things up and improving quality with rounded anything.

I print PETG lowers all the time. The key to clean prints with PETG is it needs slightly more retraction distance and a slightly higher extrusion multiplier. I run most PETG around 238c and I bumped up my retraction a few 10ths. This along with a 1.1 extraction multiplier helps account for the PETG viscosity increase over PLA. Give it a shot and see what you get.

Who would have thought watching your printer was more fascinating than television? I sit in my print room and stare at the thing for several minutes with short breaks to do meaningful things.

I started watching your video just after building and calibrating my Ender3 S1. I had much the same experience. Mine came with a glass bed and I found it to be a pain so I just went with the usual one and have had no problem getting prints off it so far. I just let it cool right down and there's not too much problem. I discovered that using Blender (which is free) is good for design. There's also a built in plugin called 3D Print Toolbox which scans your build and shows any errors in the mesh such as gaps and can repair them. You have to enable the plugin in Preferences for it to show up. Thanks for your informative and entertaining video!

Good luck brother started this same process November of last year finally today I can pretty much slice and print anything first try. Print you a calibration block and check it with a caliper and watch a video on esteps for your printer make sure it’s feeding close to exact as possible will make when you or printing multiple joining parts they will be more consistent to the model.

Even at a year old this video was interesting! When you first started doing the setup and leveling/Z-offset, you should have had the bed and nozzel at the operating temp (expansion of heated parts), but you probably know that by now. LOL!! The manual should reflect that but doesn't. I've got 2 older Ender 3 v2 printers and did the BL touch & CL Touch upgrades on them. The self leveling helps alot and as I remember I think that was in the upgrade manual (too long ago). When setup is right and with the slicer tweaked the prints come out pretty good. Thank you for the video.

Thanks for uploading this, I just received my Ender 3 S1 today too and watching this vid beforehand saved me a bunch of time figuring out how to set it up and how to get my first print going. My first print (the rabbit) just finished and it looks amazing! I manually levelled the bed, and I think that helped a lot. As for getting it off, look up a video called "How to Remove 3D Prints Easily" by Mr. Volt - it helped me get the print off without scraping. Looking forward to seeing more videos from you!

After having a bullet feeder printed for my Hornady LNL I too have decided to get into this.. Have a bunch of 3D printed reloading tools .

It's hilarious watching you put that thing together on the edge of the table like i did with mine. It seemed natural if not in the instructions lol!

The struggle is real my friend! The hard part is learning CAD programs and getting good at them!

Don't stress over the print surface. The OEM surface is crap. There are loads of different and good spring steel print surfaces available on Amazon. My favourite is the dual side smooth-powder coated PEI. Get an inexpensive heat gun to quickly and easily deal with fine stringing on a finished prints. Being able to model your own parts is the key to 3D printing. It allows you to make anything you want. Get some TPU95 filament. It is one of my favourites to work with. TPU is somewhat flexible and is very strong. Printed with thick walls and high infill it produces parts that are only slightly flexible but very resistant to breakage due to their ability to flex rather than fracture, like PLA does. TPU is also super easy to print and sticks well to the print surface. Just need to adjust print speeds and combing to minimize stringing.

Great video man. Always a fan of the jrb long formats. My Prusa should be here in a couple weeks

It was "a little bit loud" when you first fired it up because you jacked the Z-axis to the top of its range. Normal operation is to lift about 12mm, then start the home/leveling process. You already had it as high as it could lift, so the noise you got was the steppers trying to do the initial lift, but bashing against the limit of its travel. Harmless if it's only a once-in-a-while thing, but repeatedly doing that is a good way to eventually break something. As far as the nozzle temp adjustment, that's built into the sliced model as part of the slicing process - If you diddle the temp "early" on the printer, the setting in the .gcode file that the slicer produces will over-ride what you set the temp to. In general, you set the temp to be used at the time you slice your model. (Ditto for the plate temp) The line under the bunny's eyes makes me think you've got some "gunk" (That's a highly scientific term - don't throw it around lightly! :) ) on the leadscrews that drive your Z axis that's interfering with smooth motion - That'd be the first place I'd check. As far as slicers go, do yourself a favor and get away from the "Creality Slicer" - Google up "Ultimaker Cura" - It's the same (but newer version) program, but it doesn't have Creality's grafitti on it. I'm not 100% certain, since I don't use it, but I *BELIEVE* the Prusa Slicer is another "rebranding" of Cura - Cura is open source, so it's easy for anybody to put their "vanity-turds" into it and call it theirs. If you're capable of reloading ammo, you should have little trouble figuring things out by "fiddling with this, twiddling that, and messing with the other"

So one thing to remember is that the spring steel bed plate is consumable. Plan on replacing it sooner than you think. Buy one now so when something chips or gouges, you have a bed on hand.

you are definitely right that the v2 would have been better because doing a few upgrades will let you get to know your printer better plus there is a huge community behind the enders.

Wow! What an awesome video! First time viewer here. I like your style. I’m not into guns and reloading but I’m hooked.

watched it like a good movie :) - good job thank you

I've been thinking about doing this for quite a while and just never pulled the trigger on it, so to speak. I just did it but went the other direction from you. I ordered a Prusa MK3S+. It's going to take about 5-weeks before it gets here not to mention the nuclear price. After doing a bunch of research the Prusa looks like the best fit.

Subed to learn reloading, watches 2hr vid on 3d printing. Love what you do keep making content!!!

Totally awesome, not knowing anything, this was great!

Liked your video, it gives me the courage to give it a try.

I have the ender V2 and love it.

Congrats! I have an Ender 3 that sat around for multiple *years* waiting for me to set it up. That would not have been the case had I had the S1.... Anyway, I finally did during a snowstorm a few weeks ago, and I have been printing nonstop, learning everything I can ever since; lots of fails and maybe a hundred KZfaq hours later... now I want to add an Ender S1 in a few months (which I didn't even know about when I started watching stuff on KZfaq). I can tinker and experiment on the older Ender as a base, and print continuously on the S1. Other commenters have said this but every mod introduces new complexities; there is a lot to be said for a built up Ender which should just be no fuss. Also, I think people who are so minded that will mod the S1 anyway, and the rest of us will benefit from that too. These flex build plates are a cheap part of the overall, I will be swapping mine for PEI soon (my build plate not the magnetic kind but it does flex, I attach it with binder clips). Oh a few things to cut down on print times: 15% infill for anything that's not needing strength (watch for instructions from stuff you are printing), use lightning or Gyroid setting in Cura (I believe the Creality slicer is just a branded instance of Cura, which is what I am using - you might want to grab the latest version, it's free). Tree supports anytime you can. Then, you learn the Cura settings even more and can tinker with stuff like layer speed, extrusion percent, line height and more. It is so fun to try out different combinations and find really great ones. My Ender 3 prints have consistently amazed me. On paper tension, I recommend *just* where you are feeling the nozzle vibrate through the paper, the faintest bit. Any less, it's kinda high, and any more, well, you might dig into that surface. The weird handle seems to be for the front drawer! I have heard multiple people wonder about that, but I read it in a comment! Messed up prints are part of the game at this stage, so, just be mindful of that. I am eager to see where this goes for you!

I can’t wait to watch your 3-D printing videos. You know Shannon you’re really selling yourself short by mostly doing guns and ammo videos and chicken videos now which I really like. I turned on my elderly parents to your chicken videos and they just love them. They say you got a very relaxed personality very interesting guy to watch. I love the shooting videos but that man is tough to make it on KZfaq in the shooting sports and reloading.

A cute kitty. A great souvenir to keep of your first print :-)

Few tips you or someone else might find helpful. In Cura you can set the areas you don’t want supports. It’s an option on the left hand side of the screen. The settings on the right in Cura are just a fraction of what the slicer is capable of. Click three lines next to “search settings” in that menu. You’ll find better options for just about everything, including supports. Also those spikes on your test towers are designed to be snapped off by hand so you can ‘feel’ the strength of the layer adhesion. Keep your first prints you think look really good. If you feel your printer is screwing up then reprint the same file and compare to the original to see if there is actually a problem.

Excellent production. My s1 pro will arrive soon and this video, among several others, will be great help and save me from destroying the machine : ). Thank you.

Get yourself a PEI sheet for the hot plate the prints come off so much easier, one thing about 3D printing you are always learning.

Coming from an Ender 5 user, the time it took to do your first print blew my mind away!!! I guess the auto levelling hardware and software has really improved and looks great!!! Congrats on your first print!

Welcome to the club, you only get more into it from here on out.

Watching the tinkercad segment brought back nightmares for me. I still say sketchup is under rated. You draw what you want, extrude as needed and you're done. Maybe it just because I've been using it for 15 years but all the other cad programs that were advised were a total PITA

Very interesting👍🏽 I just ordered the Neptune 3 last night

Legit; we're right in the middle of the Cambrian Explosion for 3D printing. So many printers and materials to choose from, and so many ways to customize them to one's own specific needs and preferences for aesthetics.

this printer is a good one. you picked right. cept maybe that build plate. you might want to get a coated glass bed. they release super easy once cool.

Found this both entertaining and informative 😁

Dang it, guns, reloading, casting and now I want a 3d printer, you are a bad influence bro lol

Borosilicate glass, not hardware store glass, works great and comes stock with a lot of printers. I upgraded my ender 3 to a spring steel magnetic PEI sheet earlier today and I am printing my first part on it right now. I am working on a 37mm launcher myself.

I have an ender 3 v2, same screen you have, and I've only been printing a month... I have already printed 4 complete glock mags using pla... they work great

While I am going to try Resin based 3D printing this was informative. The Slicer software part and tinkercad all informative

I was a noob a few months ago and I've came a long way. Hopefully you've figured out the temperature towers and all that since this video. Every time I get a new role of filament I haven't tried before I do a temp tower to find the perfect temp for the filament.

I think you'll have an appreciation for the fart extractor after this exercise 🤣. Glad to see you taking on a whole new branch of the reloading hobby

One trick to consider is printing individual parts and assembling them afterward. It might save some tricky bridging.

The build plates are consumables. They last a long time, but they are cheap enough. You can also use other materials such as glass or g-10. They all have different pros and cons for different classes of materials.

I know this sounds weird but using glue on your build plate will help you get your parts off. I just got a X1C and it has a cool build plate that I almost could not get my prints off of. Putting glue on it helped get my prints off. I started on a Creality printer the CR -10 in 2016. Welcome and you’re doing great!!!

Awesome video man. Just ordered a Ender 3 1S Pro! Looks like you had a near perfect start, after watching this video, I hope to be able to do the same! I’m already an AutoCAD draftsman, so I’m hoping that experience translates to modeling and such!

My son-in-law has 3-D printed a few things for me. I hunt with a Ruger No.1 35 rem. and was looking for a way to have a couple extra rounds handy for follow-up shots without carrying them between my fingers. I gave him the cartridge dimension and a drawing. I had some small rare earth magnets that I had installed in the holders. They just stick to the side of the action and have to rounds ready to go. Have fun with it, you can make some interesting items.

I just got a Prusa a few months back, myself. Kudos, Johnny.

This is amazing, WoW. I have to research this.

I bet a ton of people like me would love to see this long video be edited to a video where you go over the important highlights. The video is quite a mouthful. Also this is my first encounter. I promise I will watch if you make the cut down video!

Been thru so many vids….this was soooo looong, BUT as a noob, this is what we Want😊 !

I just got my 3d printer the other week. First one. I've avoided it, because I am a bit obsessive and this is a rabbit hole that is deep. But my business finally demanded one. Went with a resin printer instead of filament because it's for rapid prototyping.

this is the exact printer I'm thinking about getting this evening

For adhesion on my CR-10S I have the very flexible magnetic build surface so it is very easy to remove, just peel the item off even with the first layer squished. On the ender 3v2 I have the hard plate. I adjust it up until it is a fine bead and doesn't stick much. A light layer of glue stick holds it well and is fairly easy to get parts to release. Wide blue painters tape protects the surface to prevent buildup of PLA and messing surface finish of subsequent prints. Just plan on buying more of those build plates because you will eventually trash them