Make your own filament from plastic scrap. FilaMaker
Description
This hight pressure can be use for plastic molding when you need more pieces in a short time.
FilaMaker use powerful hand driven mini grinder from Tool steel what can grind all types of plastic products and if necessarily can deal with aluminum cans or Electronic products like circuit boards. With FilaMaker you are not any more limited to one type of plastic. Special high pressure design of extruder allows easy replacement of different types of plastics without mixing them togother . In practice, this means that after processing ABS plastic, you can begin to process PP or PE without any intervention to ektruder It works with plastic pellets or with crushed plastic. This system is being developed for future expansion to a Plastic Moulding Machine and also is in plan to produce Plastic micro pellets or plastic powder using Rayleigh Disturbances.
Instructions
facebook.com/FilaMaker
On this page you can see the progress of this project and actual status.
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You can build this for you but you cant sale it without me permission.
1st. video: youtu.be/xOw2zNY9lg0
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And the best test : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
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1st test of the new version : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
2th test : http://youtu.be/lBuTqE0Kqtk
So, this project have STOP, but I have good news, I work now on filabot, and making new shredder for it. The new shredder is different from this one, it is silent and without vibrations. Updates come.
This is 1st video, you can see here the crusher for plastic.
I have made for test the holder from wood and Screws for wood to show how easy it go.
The drilling machine is running at 2500 rpm and it is small 450 W drilling machine.
So, the schredder is done, testing have made me a lot of fun. Now is time to make the extruder. When is the extruder done, than I will make some videos How to make filament from plastic scrap. :-D
Today is the day when I build the shredder 1st time together and test it... :-D :-D :-D
Hi, I have made a page for this project, you can see there how it go further. ;)
http://www.thymark.com/#!__fil...
If the link dont work correct than copy and paste to your web browser.
You may want to have a look at Filabot (http://www.kickstarter.com/pro..., it's already funded and being produced.
Hi, I have see this "Filabot" but I do not believe that they build it faster than I and I have a bad feeling about that project. They are on start and have a lot of work ahead. I make this things otherwise, I build a working prototype, show that it work and then I make a Crowd-funding action to raise money for new tools and bringing the price more down.
Please add this to the Plastic Recycling wiki page: http://wiki.makerbot.com/plast...
One of these days it will be worked out. Personally, I think pellets might work better because the filament width issue is eliminated. Of course pellets have their own challenges... :-P
Here's an interesting blog post on creating a custom formulated ABS filament: http://haveblue.org/?p=841
I have also been working on some plans to get a filament extruder going. Still a while off, but I will publish here on Thingiverse when I have something to show.
Most of my work focused on the filament width control.
I am really looking forward to having something like this.. I have even started to collect all my dead prints ready for recycling :)
Oh I was making a similar machine to make filament, but I can't get consistency in the width right now :(
I'd be interested in recycling plastic into new filament, but that consistency is going to be a killer. It's hard to make inconsistent filament work well, and given how much variation I see in some of the commercial filament I have to think this is a hard problem.
You can watch the progress and learn how to do it. Do you have some link to your experiment or you have not published it yet. ;)
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