This 3d Printer Is MASSIVE (Comgrow T500)
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
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The Comgrow T500 is by far the largest 3d printer I have ever tested out. At a 500x500x500mm build volume this printer assembled will not fit through a standard door (trust me). As I test out what this printer is capable of I would love to know if there are any specifics you are interested in seeing. Also! If there are any large models I should check out or print let me know in the comments.
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I think you should print out the smallest item you can find
haha I started with a benchy which is pretty small. It comes with some large nozzles but it has a .4 on for now. I could do a few regular sized prints at the very least before going big.
@@ModBotArmy I noticed the benchy, and I thought it was a funny touch to the short. Would have been nice to see a zoom-out to compare the benchy to the monster
Can I have one? 🙂
Might as well use the surface area, so an army of small items would work.
@@ModBotArmyuse the biggest nozzle you got an print the max size 3d benchy😄
"This is a large 3d printer"
30 seconds later:
* prints tiny ass benchy *
PLA isn’t free
@@xl000it is dirt cheap
@@xl000but it is cheap 🤔
Ahh I’m buying this printer to see how benchy sized objects would print on it. Good thing they didn’t show me a full bed print or else I might’ve considered the printer.
Does printing a benchy in the center some how show the printers ability to print within its full constraints?
@@xl000you’re right that’s why I only print benchys on big format style printers. Good thing the big format of it wasn’t actually reviewed. I guess it’s up to the buyer to actually review the machine unless they were only buying it to print benchys….
Not going to lie, if I ever for some reason needed a printer that has this build volume, i would 99.9999% go with a RatRig vcore 3.1
That thing is what ? 3 Grand ! This one is 700$ hahaha you could by two and still have plenty of money for bulk fancy filament
@@MrTheklman11 i almost certainly will never need let alone have room for a printer this size, but if i did i am fairly sure the ratrig is worth the additional price
@@francisnitsch-jones5908based on what?
@@MrTheklman11the VCore 500mm is actuall 1600€. No Idea where the 3k are coming from.
As someone who has one, a bed slinger with that build plate size is nuts. You really have to push speeds for prints not taking forever. A bed slinger will wobble all over the place when you do that.
@@steilkurbler4973I liked your comment, for what it's worth, but since most prints are either circular or long in one direction, if you slice with long edge along the gantry, you could get way better performance, and arcs have vibrations which are easier to compensate for.
This actually makes me wonder if someone has thought up a method for anisotropic print speed for these bed slingers, to increase print speed along gantry travel axis
A huge globe with all of the continents embossed!
I want you to make the worlds biggest 3D printer possible
It's time for the Giga-Benchy
lol being the benchy fan I am believe me there is some temptation to do this. However, I am trying to print things I can give to neighbor kids or friends and I am not sure the giant benchy will be easy to pass off.
@@ModBotArmy That's true hahaha, another thing that could be cool to see in a printer this big is maybe something articulated, like an octopus or a snake
This comment sure aged well! (Elegoo Giga just came out lol)
You could print an actual boat hull using this. Not all at once obviously, but in sections, that would then slide together tongue-and-groove style, with glue in the join so they become one piece. The sections could also be designed to fit onto aluminum extrusion beams to give them strength. The printed pieces could actually have a negative form of the extrusion bar that would grip it precisely.
Ooh ooh ooh. Print,
Wait for it...
A full sized Ender 3
I would love to see that huge space utilized to make something big, like a Mandalorian helmet!
I would love to see LW-PLA plane kits printed on this. Usually they are pre-cut for Ender-3 sized machines. It would be awesome to see some parts printed in one piece.
The bed has a 500w heater? That's a little under what I'd expect for that size lol.
I suspect they're bumping up against the 15A (1500W) that a standard receptacle breaker will provide before tripping. 1500 watts into the unit, conversion losses, then outputting 500W for the bed, then the controller, steppers, hotend, and fans, you would be eating up that 1500 watts pretty quickly.
@@CarbonKevin In fact not. Look at the Bambu, has a 1000W bed, runs at most 1100-1200W, heats up speedy as hell. And in the US the bed turns into like 500W because of the lower voltage. So no, in fact they are NOT bumping up that limit. Also keep in mind EU limit is much higher than US, our sockets provide 3500W.
even with klippers input shapings, its still a bed slinger. bed slingers dont go well with large volume and im confident that long time consistant use will obviously show this. id love to see how well it manages a large model like a helmet with higher speeds, considering that since it has a high flow hotend its made for high speeds. looking forward to new vids!
I run 2 cr10 max printers and they each have well over 4k hours of print time on them and they are still producing very accurate prints that weigh up to 3kg each. Bed slingers if built well can last a very long time with miner maintenance. I have worn out about 2 bondtech bmg extruders on each machine though.
@@olahf8490 2 questions:
are you print at 150mm/s avg? (the hf hotend clearly indicates its made for faster printing)
where those bmg extruders clones? because if not then wow thats surprising!
@@Charlotte_Be_Like No I print at around 50mm/s because I use a .8mm nozzle for all of my larger prints but a .3mm layer height to maintain great print quality. Pluse the mass of the build platform with 3kg plus 3kg of plastic really isnt designed for speed. The Hf hotend is mainly used for larger nozzles to help maintain a steady flow of plastic with larger nozzles. The Bmgs are 100% real. The issue is the small bearings wear out over thousands of hours of print time and once the bearings wear they start to wear a groove into the back side of the rear cover causing slipping and clogging. The main issue is they do not really make any more noise when they wear out and can go straight to failure of prints. The rear cover and new bearing will run around 25 dollars but can be tough to find in stock.
@@olahf8490 thats a good point, but we will see what comgrow will end up trying to do with it. Ive never used anything above a .5mm nozzle so high flow with larger nozzles didnt cross my mind.
and wow, Im surprised they werent clones :P
I wanted to buy some clones for a project and I was wondering how they compare to the real thing. thats quite disappointing lol
@@olahf8490I also have a Cr-10 max and an S5 and they both keep creating consistent quality parts.
Machines this scale struggle to get flat bottom parts, and when printing things other than pla often also struggle to produce warp free prints of their build volume. So I would try testing that. Some of them also struggle with reliability, just how practical is it to print something that mostly fills a 5 00mm square build volume? And how long does it take? The primary reason to have such a large printer, in my mind anyway, is to print very very large things. For scale production with minimal turnover time of many smaller models, one of the printers with a conveyor belt bed will beat something like this with a large print volume. For that matter, with scale comes new problems and so I think a farm of several smaller printers will also probably beat one large printer at producing many small parts quickly. So, again, that's why I believe the only real use case for something this large is to print things that are quite large. Something like, say, the pressure vessel of a small shop vac. (It would be really cool to finally integrate one with a centrifugal dust separator/collector)
Just my 2c. And thank you for going through the effort of doing all of this testing for us. :)
I ordered one so I can print one of Mr. Baddeley’s full size R2 astromech droids of off Patreon. I watched the Comgrow stream last night and they said the 1.0 nozzle is very stringy which is why they aren’t including it when the unit ships. Retraction too difficult. You would think a vase mode object would work. Hence the joy of 3D printing capability discovery.
Looks awesome, hope your family and you are well!
A 500mm bed slinger.... so it needs at least a full meter of clearance? Wild
Use wood filament to print a guitar body
Yes that would be awesome
Print a rectangle 5mm high covering the build plate to test for warping
Wow! Absolutely insane build volume!
Well, you don't have to worry about heat temps !!😂😂😂
What he meant to say was: "I don't usually test out large form printers, but I was sent one for free so I made an exception." 😭😂
Actually not the case I get offered larger printers often and typically say no. There are some things about this one that made me make an exception for those looking for a larger printer on a tighter budget. Specifically the frame and linear rails used on all axis along with it taking advantage of klipper.
@@ModBotArmy Hey I totally understand! I don't think there's anything wrong with getting products from a company in exchange for a review/exposure to your audience!
Was just leaving a friendly reminder that a review isn't completely unbiased unless you disclose that part though lol
I like your videos though! 👍
Would love to se some 70cm strips printed diagonally, for example some led strip housing (would be very handy in my house renovation)
Do you mean for like what would be underneath kitchen cabinets? Printing diffuser strips?
Just been looking into getting one looking forward to your deep dive
I think i'd print one of those articulated dragons as big as I could stretch it, just to swing around at work to show off to all the people that bought them off me already
Try TPU with the 1mm nozzle
Yeah like shoes or something flexible
For a printer this big i think they need to include a way to only heat the bed in the areas you are going to be printing in.
Pls make video for eddy coil installation for non voron
For me it's a no-go when i hear inductive probe. I got bad exeperience with those due to their temperature sensitivity
Print body-sized forged carbon fiber molds for chopped carbon fiber clamped or vacuum-compressed molds for plate inserts into form-fitting elastic plate carriers and a trenchcoat.
Lmao, that took a left turn
Honestly the biggest thing I want to know is how it holds up on flow rate and if the hotend is proprietary. With a huge format like that, if it can't push put massive amounts of plastic quickly, nothing else really matters
They include a few different nozzles up to 1mm I believe. I will definitely run some tests with the preinstalled .4 and larger nozzles to see what it can hit.
You should print some Go-cart wheels and tires!
Unfortunately a bed slinger that size won't get good accel
Can you print out a giant 🪦 with glow in the dark lettering, for Halloween. It'll be great for the yard ( or porch if PLA).
I will look to see if I have any glow PLA. I think I have some somewhere :)
Are you going to do a follow up video
Yes absolutely
@ModBotArmy im pretty excited for this printer
Wait. Is it 500 mm³ or a cube of 500mm on each side meaning it's actually 125,000,000 mm³?
Not even a competition for the orange storm giga
Enjoy your videos..Can you recommend an affordable 3d printer for tpu filament and what brand tpu filament? Thanks in advance.
Maybe try printing furniture or a large picture frame?
How thick is the bed? It doesn't look very thick and I wonder how long it will last till its warped and unusable.
Scale up that Benchy! But, where are you planning on putting that one? Your room is already packed
I know exactly what you need to print. Our 5KG enclosure for Spools. It will fit perfect on that bed all parts at once in a single print job.
Do you have a link to this enclosure you mentioned?
Looks great though the bed seems a bit thin for such a large printer. I would not have room for such a large printer.
Oh, now you peaked my interest!
When can we expect your review to be uploaded?
That's absurd for a bedslinger. The only time I've seen one that large is in Ivan Miranda's videos. At his has an ultra-high flow hotend he can use for giant parts.
oh i know what id print with that!,
dnd mini figures and maybe the occasional tree
I had this, you have to run it so slow if you’re going big, the build plate shakes the print so much otherwise
I really want to see how this compares to the ratrig 500mm.
RatRig v500 should have higher performance due to its frame and it being a corexy. But it is a full build and I would need to see how cost breaks down on both.
That is almost twice seized in my printer. I have the Anycubic mega X. Can you imagine t p u you could actually print it home basketball
did you ever do this review?
How does this compare to the Kobra 2 max in terms of speed and other things?
a "roman" helmet but a benchie instead of the tassel on top!
I think if I had this, it would have a 1mm nozzle & mostly print practical things.
Wow... I think this is awesom.. I need to buy A1 mini
Wish they were welded...
Fast printing is pretty new eventually you will learn a welded frame is REQIRED for high speed printing.
Welds vs beefy screws.
one stays square forever the other will never be.
Get them to send you enough filament to do a 100% build volume print with normal infill settings. Make a big ol box!
Let's see a review on it. Looks interesting.
If like to see it's print speed and quality vs. Other large format printers like the sovol, and prusa xl.
500w heater for a 500x500x500 bed ?!
Thats sooooo undersized holy fu-
My Voron with a 350 bed has a 1000W heater o.O
I'd love to see any type of helmet or maybe even something furniture related like a lamp or lampshade?
Helmet is definitely happening. Lamp would be freaking awesome. A .1mm nozzle single wall would be pretty strong and very cool looking.
Very cool.
I can bet 2 bananas that the "screen" is just reshelled Creality sonic pad. If thats the case, an interesting choice.
Jeez that's a beefy screen my printers screen is too small after seeing how big of a screen I could have had
Try PA6 material
Build volume was never important to me, never needed to print anything that large, nor had the patience to. The 256^3 on my X1C is good enough for me.
What about elegoo neptune 4 max or elegoo orange storm?
Woah woah, u just ordered a 3d printer from them (on black friday) I was told it was an official ender 3, my mom encouraged me to "go ahead and get the nice one" unaware that the "nice ones" can get more and more and way more expensive. So I just grabbed that one.
My problem now is that it hasn't arrived yet. And I have no idea if or when it will, or it will arrive before christmas, my problem is that the company I ordered it from was named comgrow. So I was wondering if anyone else ordered stuff from them on Amazon and could help me better understand what kind of wait I'm in for and if I should just get a different one. (It also probably doesn't help that it was also the Amazon 1# bestseller).
Also ps, I ordered it along with some monster high dolls and some filament, most of the dolls came, but the filament and draculaura specifically is said to be arriving in early January (though at least luckily just in time for my birthday)
Would u suggest this as a replacement over the anycubic chiron?
I have high hopes for this printer!
I would print myself some ultralight size 14 camp shoes
I'm concerned are they planning a t1000... That might be a wrap people 😂😂
Aaannd... no price announced. LMK when it's announced and has 6months of usage under it's belt(s). I wanna know how reliable it is.
Time to show off 1:1 scale models with LuBan!!!
How many benchies?
is it core-x-y?
I would have increased that Benchy to 600% or more and then crank up the speed
0.4mm nozzle on non-standard extruder
That's going to need a much bigger hot end to be even remotely usable. Not just a bigger nozzle, but a 24V 80-100W heater cart with 100mm³/s flow
300mm³ requires at least a 0.6mm nozzle. That monster needs a 0.8 or 1.0mm standard
Swap to a 0.04mm nozzle print a *_really tiny benchy_*
Kromgrow reinvented the CR-10 S5
Why don't they combine a cnc with a 3d printer and a laser engraver? This would be the endgame tool
This is a big boi
The name sounds like a terminator model designation.
Custom Soccer Foosball teams for a Foosball table.
How many dollar bucks are these going for?
I noticed ypu said you give some stuff away to your next door neighbours kid. Print them a helmet. Star wars or DC or similar. I'd love to see helmet printed in one piece
Print a Black Panther helmet please!
Is there a specific artist/version of it I should look at??
@@ModBotArmy DO3D makes some of the best models I've seen around
Awesome, I will check them out. Thank you :).
@@ModBotArmy no problem! I can't wait to see what your final opinion is of these beast and how good it prints. I'm already planning on owning one if it prints as good as a Neptune 3 Max
Can you make w Gumboc
What's the print speed
Jeepers Cripes! Price point?
They didn’t give me exact when I asked a couple of months back. It sounds like target is sub $1000. I am curious if that includes shipping because this thing is massive and heavy.
print a full scale skeleton in rd glow in the dark filamnt
Print something like a chest plate from the free iron man suit on do3d
Hulk hands!
What size nozzle? Please don't say 0.4mm!
Print the 'Gyroid Lampenschirm' from Cults in a transparent material.
Talk to Hexibase. I'm pretty sure he's finding something to use the whole Volume that show what the Printer is capable of....
Make a dust pan. I have a 300*300*300 mm printer and I still can't quite print a dust pan.
What is it going to cost???
Sounds like target is under $1000. I don’t know if shipping is included in that.
Print a cube 500x500x500
4 months later, he's probably still printing it! 😂
ELEGOO OrangeStorm Giga (800x800x1000)
hah! Filament roll looks so tiny 😅
They are available now for 699$.