296 Putting The BEST NEW Resin TECH To THE TEST

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Right, we are back! We're back!! We are back! It feels  like it's been forever guys, it's been horrible!   I'm not 100% but I'm getting there so... but a  massive shout out to all of you who have sent   get well soon wishes it's it's been horrible but  it's been quite nice at the same time because I   have kind of shut myself away from work and I've  taken a rest and a break so but yeah thank you   to you all we are back and I didn't really want  to come in straight away with a review video but   I'm going to kind of what's the saying kill  two birds with one stone Let's Resin have sent   me two new bits of Kit one of them not so new  it's been available for a short period of time   but the other one is brand spanking new so you  know what I'm like I give you an honest review   on his channel I'm not going to lie to you and say  that I've tested these bits of kit for a certain   period of time when I haven't I I keep it honest I  haven't even opened the boxes yet this is you know   I wanted to and the plan was to do it before  I got sick but things happen don't they we're   here we're going to test these two bits of  Kit out hope you enjoy them let's see what   they are so first of all we have the new mixer  I know you're probably thinking how many mixers   do we need I mean guys if you got one you  don't need this one but I'm going to give   it a bash I'm going to give it a try and just  see what it's like now next of all next of all   next next of all it sounds right but it doesn't  sound right next we have the new resin bubble   remover machine from Let's Resin now this is supposed  to be a very powerful bit of Kit and very spacious   very spacious it's a very different design to  what we're used to and many of you have already   got one of these from a different company now  this couldn't have come at a better time after   what the previous company did to me um I can't go  into all of the details but most of you who have   been following me saw that post on the community  tab a month or two ago I would not be affiliated   with that company again but I love that machine uh  but now I have a new one one that I can actually   use without you know feeling a little bit h a  bit yeah you know what I'm saying this one I can   be proud of using so first of all we have the new  electric mixer now this is USBC chargeable get the   cable you get two ones two ones in the Box a big  one and a small one ones paddles mixing stirring   sticks whatever you want to call them there's  two of them in there we have the device itself   I haven't even turned this on so I don't know  well it's turned straight on I don't want it to   turn on yet sometimes it's really good when doing  review videos to read the instructions before you   commit to filming but there's no what's the fun  in that e what's the fun in that oh shiny I like   it so far right we have a stand I get it all set  up to the side of me and you can see it all what's   that oh look at that that's smart with the turn  of a dial you can adjust the height I like that   I do like that that is going to get covered in  resin though no doubt and we have a base it's   not very weighty compared to others that I have  used but once you got your mixing cup on there   it will weigh it down a bit silicon nice it's  going to be that simple isn't it just click   that click that into the base and there you have  it now as for the mixing ones they just slot in   like so okay so this just rests it's got like  little slots so you can have it facing you can   have it facing that way or you can turn it and  Slot it in that way it doesn't turn because it's   locked in and again we have this dial to raise it  up or lower it down into position that's pretty   handy so let's talk about the device itself we  have an LED display we have three buttons on the   side this is a direction button we have a timer  which goes up to 15 minutes which is Handy if   you're mixing a deep por resin and here we have an  AI button stands for artificial intelligence lots   of companies us using this AI feature on some of  their machines I mean it is clever it's not just   the timer I mean this this sets the device for 4  minutes but it also changes the direction every   now and again of the the mixing wand um yeah just  to make sure your resin is a bit more streak free   so you've got fre power settings at the push of  the button once the device is on and you've got   your USBC charging port there so when you first  turn the device on what this will actually do is   remember the previous setting you used when you  last mix so that's that's pretty smart so if I   was to use the AI button and then I turned off  the device when I go to use that next and turn   it back on it's going to remember that I Ed that  AI feature the same as the speed so if I turned   off the AI if I had it on the highest speed turned  that off and turned it back on again next time I   use it it will remember it's got like a memory  built in I'm loving this shiny though it's the   small things so yeah I mean it's going to do the  job isn't it so but we're going to test it out and   we're also going to apparently it makes a beeping  noise when it's finished with the AI feature so   we're going to going to leave that running just  just for the 4 minutes so we can hear that sound right any moment now it should tell  us when it is finished hopefully okay I know I know do I need to acknowledge this  does it stop on its own I've got a fridge I've got   a refrigerator at home and if you leave the  door open for too long it makes exactly the   same sound just want I'd let you know so yeah it  changes Direction every 30 seconds I noticed um   it's got a a what was it 1,800 milliamp battery  builtin takes 3 to 4 hours to fully charge but   we're going to put it to the test anyway and the  only other thing I missed out is that this silicon   base lifts out for easy cleaning which is hand it  and Pops back in but I think this is what we're   all here for let's just lift that out with one  hand hopefully nothing will fall out so there we   have the Bell Dome or the lids the top we'll get  that out in a moment and inside here we have I   don't know I really don't know you're seeing this  what's in there I presume it's the power supplyer   yes very well packaged so we have power supply I  have a US plug it's only available in the US at   the moment it is coming to the UK I will let you  know when but luckily I have a converter to plug   that into and then we have the base let's get it  all out so this is the actual base inside there   is the motor there is your valve so it sucks the  motor is inside the base so it sucks the air out   from the the the the doy thing and there's the  power so where's the vent out it's going to be   there okay so it sucks the air through there  inside the actual machine itself and it vents   out through the bottom so we have a silicon base  it's going to stop your your cups dancing around   whilst The Machine's on we have our timer button  and I think yep it's also a push button as well so   that is the base and we have a silicon gasket that  goes all the way all the ray all the way around   the outside that is going to be important to keep  that spotless guys for a good seal otherwise it's   not going to work properly but it's pretty much  the same for any vacuum machines it is important   guys that I do stress this is a vacuum machine  it's not a pressure pot this takes the air out   and basically it removes the the bubbles from the  resin of a a pressure pot basically puts pressure   into the cylinder and it shrinks the bubbles  down so that you can't see them basically this   is a vacuum chamber so this runs in negative  pressure and I do believe this is actually   more powerful yeah this one goes down to 99 kPa  which is more powerful than the other machine   that I reviewed once before again I I will not  name that company it's got a little bit more   more power to it so as for the very spacious lid  which sits on top it's very very thick and solid   it does look like a bell and at the top here  we have a handle for lifting it up and down   off of the actual base so yeah I mean that  just fits on to the base and then we power   it up but that has got a lot more space  inside and the good thing is it's flat   so I'm liking this already now this does  Apparently after running it auto vents   so you don't need to kind of release any pressure  after it's been running it does all that for you   so there it is in all its Glory I mean you can  see just how big that that area inside is now   some of you may already have this Auto mixer now  I never really did a review well I never did a   review video on this because I wasn't too keen on  the design but these cups are huge and they fit   inside perfectly which is really really good  that's a big cup and then you know just to   give you an idea of space and these are the the Le  resin cups I normally use when I mixing my epoxy   now you could fit three of these in here again  it's important when mixing epoxy that you don't   mix too much at once because they can generate  quite a bit of heat and you know flash cure so   it's handy if you're doing bigger projects to  to get to be able to get free cups in this at   the same time now all we need to do now really  is get it set up let's resin I am loving this   baby blue together these are going to sit very  very nicely on my desk here so we are going to be   using the collab resin the Le resin Daniel Cooper  collab resin which is a medium for osity wanted   to kind of keep it in the Middle with a test like  this um obviously if it's a lower viscosity it's   going to work a lot lot better so here you can  see the machine set up push the the button for   the dial to come up I say for the dial to come  up I mean the display so again you turn this and   it increases the time by 30 seconds each turn or  each Notch all the way up to 15 minutes but again   15 minutes is quite a long time for resin to  be inside something like this because it will   begin to cure so I don't think you're going to  need that sort of time we're going to go with 5   minutes just to see how it goes with the collabor  resing so once you've set it you just push the   dial and it will just begin to vacuum out all  of the air inside that chamber and it is it's   really quiet compared to the previous machine  that I've used used it's it's not moving around   as much as the previous machine that I've used  did now this one stays where it's supposed to   and that will just increase or decrease to - 99.9  kPa and the good thing about this machine is that   if you push the dial again it will drop some  of the pressure out which helps with popping   the bubbles on the surface and if you hold  the button down what it will do is it will   turn off the machine and then automatically  release or allow the the air back into the machine ready to take the lid off with the machine  that I used before you had a like a a rubber valve   at the back that you have to manually pull  out this is quite a clever machine it does   it all automatically for you the only thing that  I will say with the vacuum chamber I know Claire's   going to touch on this when she does her video I  think she already has is the worry of when you're   lifting the lid or placing the lid back over that  it could knock the the cup over so just you have   to just always lift it upwards carefully and away  from the cup that's my only concern at the moment   um that I can see with this machine well more  issues could arise as we're using it let's find   out so so again for these tests I'm going to be  using the clab resin this is a higher viscosity   which means thicker it's a thicker resin than  the standard um Le resin epoxy which you're   probably more familiar with it comes in the bigger  containers so this is slightly thicker resin so I   want to see how it works with with this one and  I'm just going to mix up a total of 4 o because   I want to use my little frog mold so there it  is just over just over 4 oz of resin you can   see there it's not been mixed see that dividing  line from the two parts ready to go so we lower down the bit of Kit before turning it on like so then going to hold down the  power button to turn the device on and   it's already gone into AI mode which is what  I previously used there's a little bit of a   wobble there but it's not it's not going to  go anywhere cuz it's locked in in this part here so I'm just going to leave that  running and go into hyperap mode okay I'm going to turn it off to stop the beeping  there we go so it is always important when using   an electric mixer to also scrape the cut now one  thing I have noticed with this particular stand   is that the the paddle doesn't go all the way to  the bottom I'd like to see it go down a little   bit more but I'm just going to leave that raised  out of the resin for about a minute just to drip   off any excess and then I'm going to scrape  the cup and just give it a quick step I want   more bubbles in there there's not enough bubbles  in there for me to do a a decent test on the the so the bottom cuz I am a you can see the streaks  coming off there this is why it's really important   see those streaks to do this even if you are  using an electric mixer because they they don't   touch the sides of the cup and if you go pouring  that without doing this you're going to end up   with uncured areas in your resin art which you  don't want because it's a waste of a whole batch   of resin so now I'm just going to mix in quite  a few bubbles just to really show the the vacuum   machine working so going to lift off our lid and  I show you the the bubbles in the resin before got   some black card here hold on there you go you  can see that a bit better now I'm going to put   that black card behind the machine as well so we  can see the bubbles coming up a bit better again   lowering that lid down care carefully onto  the top and I'm just going to set this for 5 minutes and then we will go into [Music] hyperlapse for [Music] so you will see during that process I increased  the time because there were still bubbles that   were stuck on the bottom of the cup and what  I didn't want to happen was the the machine   come to the end of the the timer then release all  the pressure so then I have to basically restart   again because it can take 2 minutes to around  2 minutes to reach maximum negative pressure   so by doing that I'm also cutting down the time  that the resin is inside the machine so you can   do that I mean I'd recommend just keeping  an eye on your resin I didn't realize it   would do that so yeah keep an eye on your  resin if it's still not as bubble free as   you want just increase it a notch and I think  that added 30 seconds per turn so yeah I mean   that's that that's pretty smart in itself as  well so I'm now I've got a couple of surface   bubbles but let's have a look again lift off  that carefully and then we can inspect the resin I mean there there's a couple in there but  it's definitely doing a very very good job those   surface bubbles I can just get rid of with some  heat yeah I mean I'm super super impressed with   that for a first run super impressed again I  just pop those surface bubbles with my torch   or long those lighter would be better so  that's to pull so I'm just going to pour   that into the mold and we will be back for the  demold so as for the paddles I intentionally   left the resin on there just to dry to see how  easy it would come off but ordinarily as soon   as it's dripped off the excess you would use  something like an alcohol wipe to remove and   clean the paddles but whe forget to do things  and and to clean things after we've used them   just it just happens but it is it is picking  off but just yeah definitely definitely clean   them up before the resin sets as with any resin  mixer I suppose just to keep it clean but it is   peeling off really easy actually I've had some  that I've had to take a a sharp craft knife to   it just weren't cleaning up but these just  don't use anything sharp because that will   scratch them and then you'll have even more  trouble cleaning it up next time so I always   find something that's made of wood works best  even like a a wooden steering stick would be   better clean up much quicker than using a pick  like I was definitely easier and as mentioned   for the mixer base made of silicon really easy  so our frog is all cured and ready to demold as   always guys give the video a thumbs up drop me a  comment if you haven't subbed hit that button for   me help the channel grow tell me what you think  in the comments as well about the two pieces of Kit let's see just how bubble free this is I did   have to pop a couple on the surface  about 15 minutes after I poured come on I'm I'm so used to just making quick and  easy jewelry pieces in my cabash mode not   used to making things in fiddly mods like this  just hope I don't ruin the mod there we go right there's a couple in there well I can see  three four but that's that's mainly because   the mold they got trapped on the underside  I should really have used my small stick to   manipulate those out but I'm super impressed  with that machine the mixing machine it's a   mixer the main thing was the the de bubbling  machine and it's a powerful powerful machine   but I can always finish this off with something  afterwards maybe add some of my glitter paper underneath do have a video coming of this some  really really good ways of using glitter in ways   that we couldn't use glitter before so keep an  eye out for that video it is coming soon so yeah   I'm I'm very impressed obviously we've got a  couple of bubbles in there but again we did   have a few in there didn't we just for the test  so what do I actually think of these two pieces   of resin Tech we'll start with a mixer shall we  which was kind of an unfair test on my part user   error I should have used the bigger paddle not  the smaller one the bigger paddle fits in this   cup perfectly I probably would have got a better  much better or would have got a much better mix   of my resin using that instead of the smaller one  in that big cup we learned from our mistakes guys   I think it's just one of those things I was too  excited to get the video filmed apart from that   I would suggest pausing again with any mixer  stopping the the mixing halfway through scrape   the sides of your cup and and then restart it  not leave it till the end like I did so apart   from that the only thing that I would change about  this device is the memory function or not even so   much the memory function I would like to be able  to turn on the machine and then select my function   before the motor kicking in the reason for this  is that I mean I don't work with epoxy much   as it is especially deep P epoxy but if I was to  use this for a deep p on a high speed for instance   um and then I forget to lower the speed before  turning off the device say a week later I work   on a different project with a higher viscosity  resin and I I lower this down and turn on the   device is going to kick in straight away at high  speed which is going to cause some resistance on   the paddles then that is also going to introduce  a lot more air bubbles into my epoxy so that is   the only thing that I would change I'd like to be  able to turn that on select my function and then   push a separate button apart from that guys it's  it's a really good bit of Kit I love the display   loving this new copper design and the baby blue  loving the Simplicity the ease yeah it's a it's   a good mixer it doesn't I've I've tested mixers  in the past that haven't got this loot design in   the top and the resistance what's happened with  some of them is the device itself turns in the   stand which can be a problem so I'm loving that  the fact that it locks in and it doesn't turn so   all in all I love the dial it's a bit clicky but  I think over time that will probably I don't know   click a little bit quietly a little bit quieter  whatever you get what I'm saying other than that   it's a really good really good mixer now for this  it is a beast that additional power that I'm not   used to makes a massive difference the size it's  it's incredible the only problem I can see is   again possibly knocking over a cut but we're  all adults we know I think we we'll make the   mistake once once and never again but yeah just  lift it up and place it back down but you know   designing something like this to have that amount  of space inside I think it's the best design that   they could have gone for to be honest with you  the dial really easy to use loving the clicking   loving the copper the only thing that I would say  is it's going to take time to get used to with the   epoxy that you're using for the amount of time  that's needed to set this to because again if   this re counts down from say 4 minutes and then  the machine Auto um basically Auto vents you then   if your if your resin isn't bubble free you then  have to add extra time and it can take up to 2   minutes to reach full 99 minus 999 kPa and that 2  minutes can be a big thing so I would say keep an   eyee on it and yeah definitely use that feature of  being able to add on an extra 30 seconds if it's   not quite ready because you don't want it to get  to the end vent out the pressure or vent in the   pressure and then have to go through an additional  2 minutes that you know we need that 2 minutes   when working with resin sometimes you don't want  to flash cure so yeah that's the only thing really   it's a really powerful machine again it's I think  this is going to sell out really really fast so I   can't find any other faults with this it's quiet  it's spacious it's good looking and yeah it does   the job really really well so I think that brings  us to the end of this there's going to be lots   more testing I'm going to have to do with these  it is early days still but there's going to be   so many videos out there on these so just go and  give them a watch people might touch on things a   bit more than what I have it's always good to get  other people's opinions before you decide if you   want to commit to something like this but all  in all I love it it's it's my new Beast I like   it I'll be using these for every epoxy project  I know it's rare on my channel because I do use   mainly UV resin but even for UV resin I can very  very quickly just pop a pot of UV resin in there   and get the bubbles out really really quickly and  I haven't got the risk of flash curum with with   UV resin because it takes light to cure so yeah  that brings us to the end of this this little   double tester with two bits of resin kit let me  know in the comments what you think if you've if   you've reviewed this and you've got a channel  yourself and I've missed anything also drop it   in the comments it would be really good and that  will also give other viewers the ability to go   and check out your content too so yeah I will  see you all all for the next one bye for now

2024-09-30

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