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Reusing plastic as 3D printing Filament Machine

Mo morietschel

Reusing plastic as 3D printing Filament Machine

19/03/2019 at 15:43

hey Community!So I’ve been wondering why local plastic recycling combined with 3D printing isn’t a thing yet. There are already consumer level machines out there than turn old/failed 3D prints back into filament for the printers.This would allow for the production, use and recycling of a product to happen locally. And of course, cut waste!!Now, some students at Michigan University released open source plans for what seems to be the best filament producer to date: https://www.fordblueovalnetwork.org/plastic-recycling-3d-printer-filament

anyone have any experience with this? Wanna try building one? Turning waste into filament would allow to create all sorts of models, no molds needed!

Cheers, Mo

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hero
20/03/2019 at 05:40

There is several people who has tried this (me included) but its not a simple task. Each plastic behaves differently and needs specific tunning for a proper extrusion with thight tolerances.

Here you can find more topics about recycled 3D printing filament: http://onearmy.world/community/forums/search/filament+3d+print/

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