DABCHICK got SCAMMED 

even disassembled dabchick is still a threat.

At least the seller was nice enough to send you his homework folder.

Ebay has pretty good buyer protection, you don't have to get approval from the seller for a refund if the item arrived in a condition it was not advertised as in.

You know it's bad when our overlord dabchick scolds you when he's just a head

I don't have any advice on 3D printing, but I do know that I'm super pumped to see the rest of this series! Ily🥵

Are the metal bits going to stay? I think it'd be a shame if his eyes were no longer metal, because we'd lose the michevious metallic glint in his eyes.

So sorry to hear you got scammed, that guy’s a jerk. But thanks so much for showing you can fix and clean these machines, that’s really good to know (you saved my anycubic from the donation bin :) just now)

The fact that he was ballsy enough to scam you even with his home address on the package… yiiiikes

I love the resolution from resin prints but yeah, HATE the mess and fuss and that's without being sold a lemon! You can coat the parts in UV stable paint and that will help a lot, OR give an industrial process like MJF or SLS nylon a go. It's not great for painting but similar resolution (powder based so a bit rough) and super durable and lightweight. Here for the new dab !

You could consider taking silicone moulds of the printed parts, then casting with much more durable epoxy or urethane resins? Would be significantly more expensive though

Hey mate! As someone who has been 3D printing since 2015 and does professional pre-support work on the side for a number of years, if you would like some assistance getting Dabchick pre-supported and squared away, I would be more than happy to assist. Anything so that my daughter can watch the "funny bird videos on RU-vid" again. Thanks for all the laughs!

It looks like the UV times per layer may be incorrect. As a resin Print person hope Dabchick gets well soon and if need help let me know

Increase the UV exposure time per layer and use a higher quantity of lighter supports. A higher number of lighter supports will more evenly distrubute the force being applied to each layer as its pulled up from the FEP film (which is supposed to be a consumable component and needs to be replaced regularly) and will removing the supports cleaner when the print is done.

My phone is shattered and glitches out but I wouldn't miss this for anything.

…an ad cued just at “and send us a refund you little c-“ which honestly is the best timing RU-vid has had in years 😂

Lil bit of a shot in the dark here. But I have an elegoo printer I bought and never used... If you still need one mate. Unopened bottle of resin and all 😅

Very unfortunate about getting a dirty printer, glad you got it working though! And as for the fails, I’ve used that exact resin and also find that it tends to split easily, even after it’s been cured and outside it’ll randomly split. So I’d recommend a different resin as one variable for getting successful prints

How dare one scam our Dabchick Overlord !

I CANNOT BELIEVE THERE WAS FUCKING H E N T A I IN THAT SHIT ARE YOU KIDDING ME

how DARE they scam our avian overlord!

As a faffing around borderline resin 3D printer owner, thank you for sharing your honest trials and tribulations. Resin 3D remains my preferred choice of 3D printer for small, high detail objects, just the faffing to deal with. Keep up your amazing and inspiring work and avian hugs and cusses to the indomitable DABCHICK.

2:48 is the timestamp for dabchicks rant if anyone wants to replay it a few times 😭

I can’t wait for Dabchick’s resurrection, I hope Karma come for that seller. And I believe in your ability to bring back Dabchick. Sending applause and hugs to you Barnaby 😂💕

I like the fact you're close to a Chick of Theseus situation. Ever slowly Dabchick is gaining a clone army in the real world all the while his body lives on in cyberspace. What truly is the essence of Dabchick...

your print head might be to too tight against the screen when you did your leveling causing elephant foot (and over-sticking) to the membrane, make sure your calibration card can move around under the build plate, when you are doing your calibration. another thing you need to do is put a small oil heater near your machine while its printing, resin printers fail if the work room is cold. A brewing belt wrapped around the resin bath works also. I just got the elegoo Saturn 2 for my birthday and the rook chess piece printed perfect first test print. anyways best of luck, I actually made a dab chick inspired puppet myself called chomper, who pretty much looks like a checken leg dragon from golden axe, the yellow ones that can you can ride in the game. anyway, best of luck.

Well, if nothing else, that successful print makes for a good eldritch cyber-horror if you leave Dab's face on the supports.

In my experience with the Resin printing, opaque resins require quite a bit more exposure time, I've had the exact same problem you did, and only managed to fix them by increasing the exposure time. It may, however, shrink a bit more than expected

You could also use the 3D printed pieces as masters to make silicone molds for a material maybe more flexible/tolerant of use. One thing to note, if using 3D resin prints as masters, DO NOT use platinum-based silicone. the UV resin inhibits the platinum based silicone from curing, giving you a sticky mess on your master and an unusable mold. You can use tin-based silicone instead OR coat the pieces of Dabchick's masters in an epoxy (2 layers preferable) to prevent the inhibition with a platinum silicone, which is cheaper than tin-based silicone. Coating with epoxy does remove some detail though... I got a resin 3D printer a couple weeks ago to make my own molds for things and I just went through this discovery and mess in the last week. The 3D printer having binding issues could be based on the leveling of the device first. I struggled with this too for a couple prints. With a used printer, I don't know if something regarding levelling was damaged or the resin you're using isn't the best or the UV lights are inconsistent across the print... Could be a lot of things. If you want to stick with a 3D printer, I'd look at getting a new one. I have been using the Elegoo Mars 2 Max and have been loving it. Occasionally, a print fails or layers don't bind... I think it is just the nature of the beast for some prints to fail at times.

Just a thought... Use the prints as masters for casting in epoxy. You can then paint the casting with acrylic paints and that should hold up for a while. (You can also people who paint miniatures for more info on the latter half)

I have been a fan for years, I'm glad your still doing well my friend, you and dabchick stay blessed

I would highly recommend looking into the crafsman - steady crafting who has very recently done a small scale mass production using injection molding, could be an alternate avenue for you to look into (with the molds being 3d printable) but also may give more materials that adhere more to dabchicks rough and ready lifestyle. He has details many different materials and processes that could help you in bringing that bird back to life

Dude... The music @5:34 - 6:09 was truly mesmerizing... I could listen to that all day

I’m so sorry you got scammed, it sucks when this happens, D: but we’re glad you’re still making your effort to fix him!

As someone who has only recently gotten into resin printing myself, I feel for you. With every print I'm learning more and getting better, but even a month in I'm still averaging more failed prints than successful ones.

What a jerk! That is so annoying but I have to say great to see you bring it back to life. As for you material concerns for a final parts you could look at SLS printing using Nylon-PA12 (rigid) or TPU (flexible). Could give you durability your looking for. I love your projects and would be really neat to help you if want a hand with some SLS Printed parts. Excited to see Dabchick back and kicking.

I'll really miss Dabchick's brass beak and eyes, they added a lot of texture and character to him, I hope you figure out a way to make him not 100% out of resin or do a banger job painting him up! :D

Different resins may need the settings in your slicer tweaked so I would check either on the bottle or where you bought it from to make sure you're getting that right. Undercured resin may not be bonding as well to each layer and sometimes a slightly longer exposure time is worth it even if it adds another hour or two onto the print time. For the sticking to the film layer I had a friend who recommended PTFE based lubricant which may help you as it won't react weirdly with the resin. Also always wear gloves when handling the resin and uncured parts! It's very toxic! I would know, I ended up with a harsh chemical rash on my hands after handling prints too many times in a row without gloves (I had run out). For that same reason, the finished parts should be washed in an alcohol bath and once the alcohol is no longer effectively cleaning the parts, let it evaporate and dispose of the residue properly. As far as durability goes, most UV resin is pretty hard but brittle. There are some resins that supposedly work like more flexible plastics but I haven't had much luck with them. Also you didn't show a curing chamber in the video but I assume you know about them. If not, there are commercially available cleaning and curing stations but where budgets are involved you can make one out of a cardboard box, some tinfoil, glue, a cheap UV light, and a rotating display for like baubles, also cheap. The printer itself doesn't fully cure the parts it just cures them enough to harden them on each layer. The full cure comes afterwards by being exposed to UV light for a good day or so. The cheapest way to cure parts is to leave them somewhere in the sun and just make sure to rotate them every now and then. The thicker the part the longer the cure time as the UV needs to penetrate further in to cure everything. I don't know what slicer program you're using but Chitubox is free and has a lot of functionality like good automatic support generation, part hollowing, a simple repair tool, all while being user friendly.

I have this exact printer! You will definitely need to have a very long cure time and maybe 4-6 layers (maybe overkill) for the print to stick to the build plate, you will also want to set a longer cure time per layer so that each layer will be less likely to stick to the resin reservoir. You can also look up cure times for your specific brand and color of resin and see if it is documented somewhere. In all, it's a bit of trial and error. Good luck with Dabchick's recovery!

Just a thought, maybe use the resin print as a tool to create a cast metal version or use silicone and resin outside of a 3d printer to cast using a pressure pot or vacuum chamber?

This was my first video of yours, and caught up on the Dabchick lore, I'm subbed and belled, and very excited to see the progress of this project. This charming chap needs to be reborn in the in the modern age! We have the technology to rebuild him. He'll be better, faster, stronger, and somehow even more entitled, (the little prick), and ready for another round of adventures!

"Then send us a refund, you little cant." Malicious giggling is heard.

Yeah you for sure need to look at the exposure times for your prints and resin. The gaps, stuck pancake head, and separation can all be caused by supports not being cured hard enough to hold the print, or the print layers not fully curing before the bed moves and peeling the layers from each other.

You can make silicone molds of the successful prints after you clean them up, and then you can make infinite dabchicks (theoretically)

Print Dabchick in resin wax and metal cast him! That would be so METAL!

Possible new material to make dabchicks body "sugru" so sugru is like a play dough mixture at first but if you mold it and leave it for 24 hours its will harden into a strong rubbery mixture that won't break apart as easily

Yk when you talked about 3d printing dabchick my first reaction was "well just build him like before and do this again when it's broken". But the fact that you took dabchick, a beloved project of yours, to better yourself and to experience new things? Absolutely beautiful, i hope dabchick gets better lol

I’m starting to think that we need a GIANT DABCHICK in addition to the replacement bird

Love your videos and I'm very sorry to hear that you were scammed. I've been printing with resin a few years now an have picked up a few tricks for dealing with resin leaks that may be useful. 1) Test your vat for leaks with water before putting any resin in. Just fill it about halfway, place on a paper towel and shake it around. If it's leaking you will get wet spots on the paper towel. 2) As a temporary fix you can use clear packing tape on the bottom of the FEP sheet to plug the hole. Just don't rely on this for too long - it could eventually tear if you aren't careful. Make sure you cut the tape and not tear it off because you don't want the jagged edge distorting the exposure. Keep in mind the FEP sheet is considered a consumable so you may want to keep a spare on hand. 3) You can use a super sticky duct tape like gorilla tape to pull off cured resin from your LCD without damaging it by cutting off a thin strip and quickly "blotting" it against the screen at the edge of the cured resin (making sure to touch the tape only on the resin and avoiding the glass of the LCD). It will peel and pop off the sections if you are lucky. The blotting angle seems to be critical, something like a 45 degree angle after you touch and before you pull your finger off seems to work best. I may make a video showing this trick later. 4) If your machine has a "vat cleaning mode" use that before every print. You put in a little strip of paper in the corner of the vat filled with resin, make sure one end of the paper strip is laying flat against the screen and the other end sticking partly out, and the mode does a full exposure for 10-15 seconds. When that's done you grab the paper "tab" and peel off the sheet of cured resin. This makes sure you have nothing stuck to the FEP the next time you print which could cause a puncture or worst case damage your LCD. 5) After every print you really should filter your resin if you are reusing it to make sure you don't have any floating bits that could damage your FEP or crack your LCD. I use disposable paper paint strainers and a funnel to drain the vat and do a quick visual inspection for damage/leaks after every failure. That's about all I got. I'm sure some other chaps will chime in with advice for getting the settings dialed in properly to get your models coming out better. Best of luck to you and I'm really looking forward to more videos ❤

Dabchick is one of my favorite characters. I'm happy to see he's being reinvigorated and given new life. For alternate materials, once you have successful prints of Dabchick, you can make silicone molds of the body pieces, and then you can cast those pieces in a more appropriate material. I'm sorry you were scammed. It's a wonder you've gotten then prints you have so far after all the cleaning your done. VIVA DABCHICK!!

To be honest, I just really gotta appreciate how Barnaby is just trying to only get the current design of da chick because it’s what we found in the first place and we all enjoy that design in our everyday lives

2:47 - 3:43 even though he’s still broken, this is still very much threatening and very funny.

dude he can't get away with that, then everyone thinks it's ok

I think a heavy metal Dabchick is in order ! Silicone mold, lost wax casting. Solid bronze, iron, silver, gold or even adamantium !!

Some small part of me would love a pancaked Dabchick head to display in my home to the dismay and confusion of guests. Hopefully Dabchick makes a recovery soon! Good luck Dabchick and Barnaby!

A possibility you could do is casting the resin parts in silicone, making wax molds, casting said wax parts in plaster, and making the dab chick out of aluminum. Or, skip the silicone/plaster steps and cast the resin parts in sand. Pour the metal directly into the sand mold and cast them that way. It’s less perfect that way, but it’s faster, and cheaper. The sand can be reused again and again. The plaster molds are one time use, and are broken apart to retrieve the metal part.

Dear Dabchick, we miss you and sending well wishes. We have faith in Barnaby that he will come up with a clever solution soon. Be well to you and Barnaby. 👍🏻💪🏻🤘🏻♥️

a note for print failures, temperature can play a large part in it as well. most Resin likes to be around 23-25 degrees c, if it is in a cooler room you will have a significant number of fails. We got one and didnt realise this either until our printer which is in our garage which gets too cold half of the year.

Everybody chilling until' dabchick becomes angry

Oh man, I have a love/hate relationship with resin as it indeed is a pain to deal with! A few tips to lower the chances of failure: -shake the resin well! You probably already know this but the stuff inside of it separates rather quickly! -hot resin flows better, 30-35C is good -the FEP film is a consumable! (Easy to damage too) -try not to touch the film with the yellow spatula (or anything at all), it's quite a soft material and it will scratch, microscratches mean more adhesion and more adhesion means more failures! Tissue paper scratches it too. -in that refard, to remove a failed print stuck to the film don't go at it with the spatula, but use the "tank clean" button: it cures a whole layer of resin so that you can pick it up easily from the corners (where you can gently lift the layer up with the spatula causing less scratches). It also cures around small bits and pieces of fallen off cured resin so it's not in the resin and it doesn't puncture the film -while replacing the film (do it when it's scratched or when it's hazy), install a frequency analyzer app and lightly tap the film, tightening it up until it's at the "correct frequency" (like tuning a drum). The right pitch is different vased on tge size of the vat, you can find it in the forums. It's more of an art than a science, so experiment a bit. Tension of the FEP film really causes trouble when it's not right, as it needs to flex enough to release the prints preventing suction but not too loose or it will stay attached and won't lay flat again afterwards. -some resins are a lot harder to print than others! It looks like yours is pretty "soft" when cured, so it will be slightly trickier to get right. -tinker eith the curing times, speeds, and other settings. I'm not an expert at all on this, but playing around sometimes makes it worse, sometimes better. I then stick to what made it better :)

You could have him 3D printed and then use the parts for lost resin casting to make a full metal Dabchick to last you a lifetime!

Smosh is back and so is dabchick,kind of

I hope his recovery goes well!! I'm not one to get attached to characters easily but you've done a phenomenal job of doing just that.

I originally thought Dabchick was carved out of wood. For a future version maybe this might be something to look into, since it is durable, not too heavy, environmentally-friendly and can handle uv-light quite well

Good luck to you man! I've toying with resin printing for years and still learning new techniques to refine the process 😁

I did not expect the rebuilding of Dabchick to be this intensive. But of course its all an investment in a puppet that will last a long time so I'm sure its worth it.

Those supports look fine. You may want to really play with your exposure times for your bottom layers if they're coming off completely , or the normal layer exposure time if you're getting some splitting. The splitting can also be caused by your supports pulling on the print because of the layout of the supports and tensions from that. Its a whole messy thing! Then you have to worry about your weather when printing!

Dab chick was a monster since his birth he won't hesitate to dox people

"Play around with scale" sent me straight to visions of a human sized Dabchick, walzing into pubs and drinking up people's booze against their will :lol:

That print is like eldritch Dabchick, beak full of tentacles! XD

Let me know if I can help you with your resin printing journey. A few tips 1. Z Mud is horrible resin to work with/try and print with. 2. Siraya Tech Fast / Elegoo ABS like / Anycubic ABS like resin are the way to go 3. Model splitting is usually due to exposure settings needing to be refined. Crazy excited to see more progress on your rebuild!

Snorting strange substances, scuffing mushrooms, and staring at cat’s buttholes is my pastime. We NEED Dabchick to lead the way towards a better life! I’ve said it before and will say it again. Barnaby is so cleaver. He’s a master puppeteer, as well as great at presenting his ideas and creations in an enjoyable way for all. I have no idea how creating such things are possible, but seeing others learn and present there findings motivate me to try new creative endeavors.

Local man starts researching 3d printing to resurrect his 2nd personality's physical body.

Oh wow.....that was THE most informative regarding laser printing.... I couldn't understand it up until your description!

Loved the overlord line. You need to put that on a shirt. I would pledge to our overlord.

That moustache is quite something. I like it! I found you through some of the early dabchick videos and I am so excited seeing him getting a new life! Perhaps for the "final" version you should look into some of the industrial 3D printing stuff I think those should be much more durable and maybe some company would be happy to do a collab?

Make a silicone mold from the printed geometry and then you can make cast polyurethane duplicate parts that are custom pigmented as desired. Polyurethane resin is strong, comes in a range of hardnesses so you can get the amount of flex you want, is UV stable, and impervious to water and many liquids.

I'd recommend a service that could print those parts for you but it would probably be too expensive at this point. Hoping you have better luck in this project my friend and keep up the good work 💪

An ad perfectly censored the word the dabchick said the C word

His revival arc is nearly complete. Soon, Dabchick shall grace this land once more.

I had a layer separation issue that was caused by bad bearings. I solved it by carefully cleaning the linear tracks they run on and applying bearing grease to them and running the carriage up and down until it stopped making a crunching noise while traveling.

As a furry watching this at Anthrocon, I Love seeing this end of performance art, 3d printing is starting to come up in fursuits along with cast bases for people that don't want soft only foamy. 3d printed details are slowly becoming standardized like horns and teeth and eyebrows attached to pivot points

I will be 100% watching the next episodes, I have watched every single episode that you have ever made, I'm sorry that you got scammed.

Mate, your sense of humour is spot on! Love the other side of the benefit of the doubt board...really funny, can't wait to see dabchick again.

"Do your little danc- THERE you go :D" Pure seratonin

If you ever need 3D Printed parts just give me a call you beautiful bastardo ! Also great job with the printer

5:40 reminded me of the reveal of the great condor in the mysterious cities of gold haha

good luck man! new person into the world of 3d printing starting off with a reson printer

I feel like Dabchick at this point has become a sort of mister Hyde to Barnaby. What an absolute menace!

Admit it.... you actually loved taking it apart, tinkering with it and putting it back together again, didn't you. I would have had to thrown it away and cried in the corner. You're mechanical know-how never ceases to amaze :)

There's a good chance that you may hear this tip by the next episode, but one thing I may suggest is that you angle the object on a second axis so that the cross sections of the layers don't create too much suction. I was having a lot of printer trouble, and that was one thing I learned. Hope that helps!

The splits are also a result of the print sticking to the film, it just gets picked up again later by another part of the print. Other people have said it already but more smaller supports, add some redundant ones as well.

Way to keep in good spirits Barnaby. Keep ya head up, we’re all very much looking forward to Dabchick’s revival, no matter how long it takes.

Increase you lift time slightly. The cracking is probably the resin not flowing back fully. It really depends on the viscosity of the particular resin.

When did Dabchick start falling apart???? I discovered this channel back in 2019 after a really bad breakup, and the little puppet brought me so much joy in a dark time. Godspeed on his restoration!

I do hope that you keep the actual metal of the beak and the eyes, it just adds a lot of character!

Man the algorithm has really fucked you. You have some of the best content on RU-vid and this is the first video i have seen from you in years. I hope to see more of you.

Regarding the failed prints there's a great video by " Once in a 6 Side " that goes into supporting and printing your own models. But from my own experience for resin printing it seems your lift speed is set to fast and your exposure time might not be calibrated correctly for the model and resin your using you might also want to reduce the size of the supports attached to Dabchick and use hot water to make the removal of supports far easier

As a fellow resin printer fella, there will be ALOT of failed prints. luckily there's subreddits to help out with those. I reccomend getting a good slicer (lychee slicer is pretty good) getting some easy release FEP and playing around with the acceleration and curing times for the print itself

That was a highly articulate, and much needed outburst on behalf of the chicken puppet! There have been times we all could have done with his support on Ebay! Sincerely, good luck with the refund!

Yeah dialing in the first layer exposure time and speed is a bittttch. But once you get it right it's such a nice result. Props to you for taking the deep dive on repairing and cleaning a printer. Hope the seller gets their karma