 Garret just broke our brand new X-Tool P2 conveyor system. And I'll show you how I did it for right now. What is up? Welcome back. Do you like to do it, Builder or make it? So do we. And we have a new video each week. This week, we're going to take our X-Tool P2 desktop laser to its length limits. We're really excited. We got the new riser base and conveyor system for the automatic pass-through in. And so we have to test out a new porch leaner, something that's really going to showcase that 48 inch length. At least that's what our leaners are. But this thing will go infinite in its length. So I'm really excited to try it out. Yeah, it's like 20 inches wide by whatever. In infinity and beyond. Whoa, and beyond. Oh, for God's sake. Step one. We're going to add the risers and conveyor belt. My understanding is the only way to use this conveyor belt is with the risers. So we're going to install both right now. Lickety split. I hope. Yeah, we're good. We literally just set it right in the spot. I got tall real quick on this guy. Right, look at the feet. Make sure we're going to be in tune. Yeah, that's where my feet are. And those little slots are like little slots for feet. All right, now we're going to do the conveyor belt part. Yeah, it comes up to your nose. So after we added the risers and the conveyor belt, this thing is now eight foot three inches by 16 inches tall and sitting on our counter here. This thing is like chin height. Right. I mean, you wouldn't keep it on a table this tall. Yeah, you might need a lower, longer table. But you are going to need at least eight feet of space. And this is for a four foot board. If you have a longer board, you're going to need more space than that. And this is 40 inches wide. So you're going to need 40 inches by eight foot by 16. And I don't even know how tall it is when I open the lid. It's over six foot tall. Well, no, that's because you have it on this really high table. Yeah, on this countertop height table. She's a biggie. A little guy turned into the big guy. All right, let's make our first cut. We're going to gather all of our supplies. We needed a piece of quarter inch MBF. This one is 21 inches wide by 48 inches long. It will cut up to a half an inch with the automated pass room. We also needed a one by 12 by 48. And then we're going to need some paint, stain and glue. We're going to make all of our cuts. We're going to load our board in and set the pressure feet. We're going to use the grid on the conveyor belt to make sure we're aligned and we're even. We're going to line the front of our board up with the white line at the top of the grid. Then we're going to set our pressure feet. There is a guide inside your user manual here that does show you material, its thicknesses, and then what type of pressure. We're using MDF. So we're going to set this like it's fiberboard, six millimeter, which is saying heavy pressure, high pressure. We're going to make sure all of the feet touch the board. There's five feet or feet on the top and we're going to make sure each one is on the board so that we don't get a skew. And there's a grid in here like a cricket mat. And you're just going to line it up to that. Okay, so this one wanted high pressure. So we're going to red. Yes. Oh, where do you see that? The center foot has a little pressure gauge on it. Oh, great. All right, we're red. We're red, all right. I'm going to use this bottom knob to actually see if it's feeding the material through. Oh, look at that. It is. Oh, beautiful. All right, great. I think it's a little bit crooked. It looks like out there it's not aligned. Okay. Give it a little loosen it a little bit and tap it over. Man, those feet really got a grip. Now come back. Yes, perfect. Right there? Yes. Back to the pressure. Then there's the pressure board. It pops it up a little bit. Boom. Looking good. All right, yeah. All right, well, we will meet you in creative space. Inside the X-Tool creative space. First things first, let's go to the top left and hit settings. Now we're going to go to imported image too large for canvas and we're going to select keep its size. That way when we import something large, it won't automatically shrink it. Back over to the top left, we're going to select image and then I'm going to double click my SVG and now it should come in the size that it was meant to be. Now back over to the right. I'm going to select conveyor feed for my cut type. And it's really small now. But you'll see that my SVG is normal size. It should be 46 inches. Let's zoom in a little bit. And I'm going to align the top of this image with the top of that board that you see in my bed right now. I'm going to give it a little bit of space at the top. While everything's selected, I'm going to select processing type cut. I'm going to go 100% power and I think I'm going to do like 7 speed. This is some thick MDF. I'm going to put my tabs on. I'm going to keep the tab size 0.5 millimeter and video showed four tabs. So let's go four tabs and 50, 25% power, 25% power, 50% power. All right, let's go. Let's do a let's refresh real quick. Just want to see it make sure. Okay. All right, let's do a double check. Everything's looking good. Let's double check my image. Just tweak it. All right, everything's looking good. Let's hit start and let it process. Oh, I got to do my distance. Let's click on the crosshairs over here on the right and now select a piece of the board so that it will measure and tell me how far away it is and how thick the board is, the focus. All right, 2.834 looks good. Let's hit start and let's hit start. Now let's go hit the button on the machine. That's my favorite part. Attempt number one, our Z-Axis was too close and when the head hit the board, it gave me an error assist error. So I'm just going to use the 6 millimeter MDF presets inside creative space. That way I don't have to manually measure the board. Attempt number two, our board was too short because when we start to use the conveyor belt system, the Y-Axis moves, but the head really just moves on the X-Axis back and forth. It kind of works like a big cricket at that point. So the wheel... But it stays right here. Yeah, the head just stays like right here. It doesn't move back and forth and all over like it normally does. It literally just stays right here. Kind of like a cricket works, how it moves the vinyl back and forth and the head just moves side to side. Yes, that's how this is operating now. So the wheels being further from the head, we ran out of board. So I'm going to try to duct tape this board onto this board to give it a little more room so those feet have something to grab onto. I only have eight inches between this board and the wall though. So I just made an eight inch board. We'll see if it works. Had a little fire. So I didn't have enough tabs on all of the things. So a welcome fell through and got stuck against the side of the risers and the board stopped moving and the head stopped moving. Had a little bit of fire. We had a laser-kept fire. So it didn't know that welcome was jammed. So this time I'm going to add a lot more tabs to the word welcome and then I'm pretty sure the home will fall out too. So I'm going to add a lot more tabs to home and we'll try it again. Let's give welcome some tabs for didn't cut it. So let's bump these up to 20. And then for the home piece, let's give that 30. It's got a lot more corners, a lot more things hanging out. I think 30 will hold it. Alright, everything looks good. You know what? Let's bump the speed up to a nine millimeters per second. I was getting some flame on the back. Hopefully I'll just get through. Alright, let's kick this sucker off. Attempt number four, the duct tape that we used was too thick. Those pressure wheels couldn't get over the duct tape and it just kind of stopped again. Well, it kept going but the board stopped. So I'm going to try to use some packing tape between the two boards to keep the two boards together. So it doesn't have to try to get up over that home. Step number five, our board is still too short. You can see that the board actually shot out from the wheels and I actually moved like a good six to eight inches and then kind of sat there. Well, luckily I had my eye on it this time. Alright, so that tells me we are at a room in this space here. Right, there's a wall here and there's a wall there. I don't have enough room to put a longer board in here. I mean, the little eight inch extension that I tried, that was as long as we could fit in this room before we hit both walls. So we tested it. We're going to have to move somewhere with some more space and use a much longer board. Right, so this time we're not going to add an extension. We're going to add, so we've done a little measuring from the point where the laser moves to the outside of these wheels is about 12 inches. So we're going to add at least 12 inches to the end of the board where our design stops to the end of the board. It's going to be an additional 12 inches of space so that the wheels can hold onto the board through the whole design. Yeah, through the whole design. So we're not going to try to tape an extension. We're just going to rip a nice long board and we'll meet you out front. Attempt number six was also a fail and that's because I think I broke it on attempt number five. It could have been number four. I don't know, there was a few fires and six fails. But this is user error. This is totally user error. We do have another one ordered and on the way. So we're going to have to make this part one, part two video. We will complete this project and really show you what the tool can do now that we've figured it out. Some of the lessons that we learned are material length. Your material needs to be at least 12 inches longer than your design that you're trying to cut out. And again, that's because the laser stationery just moves along the x-axis and you need enough space so that the material feeds all the way to the bottom and where you're going to cut but yet still have enough length to hold on to the wheels to bring it back the other way. Yeah. We also learned what tabs are used for. I kind of knew what they were used for and now I found out just how important those tabs are. Yeah, but you know what, we can see here we did have a cut that was almost complete. So close to being complete here. So close. You can just pop them out. Yeah. Those tabs work great. I was a little hesitant to use the tabs because I didn't want to mess up the project but it really does just very easily pop right out of there. Yeah. But yeah, at the same time it holds on while you're feeding it back and forth. It's a good way not to mess up your laser. Use tabs. Space. This thing was eight foot long or wide. I guess it's long. And you're going to need more than that if we're trying to feed an eight foot board through. So you're probably going to need like... Well, here's what we noticed in the X-Tool video and you're probably going to have to do something similar unless you've got a really big room. I noticed that X-Tool was doing their demo video on the floor and I think that's because you might have more room to stretch your board and your risers especially for us we were using an eight foot board and then the length of the risers was close to eight feet. So we didn't need a full 16 feet but at least... It's probably like 12. Probably 12 foot of space. And in this room we have about 10 from wall to wall. So it's a pretty shallow room and we just didn't have room to add an eight foot board with the length of our room. So now going into this when you do purchase the conveyor system and the extended rails to do a really long cut if you think you're going to do that then you're going to need that space to do that. Too much pressure I think attempt number five I really cranked that dial down to make sure it was grabbing that wood and when I ran out of material I think that's when the actual break happened. Yeah, I think it's shot... You know how something is really really tight and I think it shot that board out and something inside the springs. It's basically now it won't clamp the board and the pressure is there but the rollers are no longer working. The rollers are free rolling. They're just doing their own thing. Or nothing. They're actually just sitting there really. So that's our... That's what we think we did to it but we can... We'll get another one. We'll show you what I can really do. Kim's already ordered one. I do really want to thank Xtool for sending us the P2 and the risers and the conveyor system. It's an awesome product. I think it really gives you some flexibility to do some really long cuts and I can't wait to really show you what it can do. Now that we've got it all figured out. And I want to give a big thanks to all of our patrons. Thank you guys for supporting this channel and if you want to support this channel it'll give you access to a super secret Facebook group all of our files and Kim and Gare After Dark After Show. And a monthly Zoom call. Oh, that's right. And a monthly Zoom call. With all your other top tier patrons. It's a group chat. Yeah, it's group chat. Super informative. And I am about at a time... I have to go set something else on fire. You have to go set something else on fire. We will see you next week when we do it, build it and make it again. Maybe.