AnkerMake M5 Review coming soon - what would you like to see?
Angus Deveson
Angus Deveson
Creator, owner and chief tinkerer of the Maker's Muse YouTube channel.
Mar 9, 2023
Hey all,
The next printer review is the AnkerMake M5! It's a crazy fast i3 style machine that everyone's curious about. What would you like to know about it? Are there any models you'd like to see tested? Let me know :)
Couple of comments from someone who has been using it for months now. First off, don't using their slicer for anything but sending gcode to the printer, it's shite. Use Prusa or Cura with the profiles now available on github, you'll get much better results. This also turns off the annoying AI that isn't really there yet.
For the most part, adhesion with PLA/PLA+ hasn't been an issue with the bed, a brim has helped on some topheavy narrow builds.
As I've mentioned, the thing that makes all the warts worth it is the blazing speed with pretty darn good accuracy. I've printed a ton of things (including multiple functioning firearm components) with excellent results. I'd love to see how it does with the clearance castle at 250mm/s! Also, I haven't tried TPU or PETG in it yet, love to see how they print for you.
Also, at least for PLA, print HOT! I've been printing PLA+ Tough at 230.
Sorry to hear that Anker has been a PITA, for what it's worth they are very responsive and open in their Discord (although the color changer a lot of us paid for has been a bit of a black box as far as progress, and has been delayed.)
For me, the killer feature is the ability to test things out and iterated so quickly. I've mainly been using it for gun stuff, and being able to spit out multiple handgun frames in a day to test design tweaks is amazing. It's also been rock solid with no failures that weren't bed adhesion related.
James Turner
For the most part, adhesion with PLA/PLA+ hasn't been an issue with the bed, a brim has helped on some topheavy narrow builds.
As I've mentioned, the thing that makes all the warts worth it is the blazing speed with pretty darn good accuracy. I've printed a ton of things (including multiple functioning firearm components) with excellent results. I'd love to see how it does with the clearance castle at 250mm/s! Also, I haven't tried TPU or PETG in it yet, love to see how they print for you.
Also, at least for PLA, print HOT! I've been printing PLA+ Tough at 230.
James
James Turner
For me, the killer feature is the ability to test things out and iterated so quickly. I've mainly been using it for gun stuff, and being able to spit out multiple handgun frames in a day to test design tweaks is amazing. It's also been rock solid with no failures that weren't bed adhesion related.