Suggestion: New machine type
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I respect preciousplastic project and it’s author greatly! The idea is absolutely brilliant. I want to add idea of simple machine to the project and hope it will do it’s best on the way of cleaning the planet. I found that video not long ago, but i think it is very interesting:
tutorial video
Video is in russian, but you can use subtitles in english.
Here is another version of the video and yes he gives credit to the Russian fella for the idea
This is great!
I just made the bolt and washer version today @enviro, and got some good rope out of a tonic bottle. I then tried to join two pieces of wood together by heating it, see pic. It works, but there is some lateral movement which needs addressing. Potential for new methods of jointing furniture though!
Bertie
@birdynamnam you have never been a scout I see 😉
To prevent the lateral movement, before heating, lash the rope around the existing “knot”. It would be (compared to the picture) a circle movement, under the upper piece of wood, over the lower piece. Make sure to maintain pressure on the rope untill you’ve got about 3 full circles.
Then heat it
I’ve built one of these in the past (now broken 🙁 ) but you’ve made me think back, and now I recon I could make a really easy motorised one 😀
Right, thats going to be my first P.P.P (precious plastic project) Im going to make a motorised PET bottle roper
u can make one in 1 and half minut whit just a rectangle of scrap wood whit a thin saw like coping saw(the metal blades for coping saws worck perfecteven whit out the frame) make a strigt cut in the midle of the flat face,dont go full trugth the wood (u put bottle here but latter) then a perpendicular cut tho the last one on one of the larger sides (here fits the blade. cuter etc) the space u left between the bottom of the last cut and this cut marks wire thignes. hope you could understan sorry if ther is mistakes on typing i lernd inglish from playing pokemon red and surfing the interwebs also edy murpy stuff
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