Dave Hakkens

I’m always proud when something is repaired and think we should show it more. So wanted to just weld a sheet on top of the rusted areas and don’t use putty or other chemical resin to smoothen everything up and hide the repair. Like a scar of dedication and love 🙂 This is my first time repairing a car and welding was trickier then i imagined. Very…[Read more]

Working on the outside of the van. Some very very very rusty areas. The roof was a disaster. Specially when you start digging in with a screwdriver to remove it you realise the areas around it are rusted as well. They don’t look like it yet, but underneath the paint its all rust. So removed all the rust, cleaned it up with a grinder and sketched…[Read more]

saving this topic for later, love it! 😀

I’d go for @sonik on the github approach. Nice sheet you have there! However material/scrapyard prices are different in Europe/Asia/Africa etc. . I’d say try to make a template/survey which others can fill in their amounts and crowdsource the information to get a true global perspective on realistic prices. Would love to have those numbers

Yo Guenter. It’s not that i don’t agree with your points, but your are throwing it in here very unconstructive. Just hating. Obviously we haven’t got all our shit together and there are many things to improve. Hence the Version 4 topic. We listen to feedback and try to implement as much as we can each version. You don’t need to keep repeating…[Read more]

Stripped the inside of the truck and removed unwanted stuff. Most of things came of easy and well sometimes..not. Hammer time. Not a big fan of glassfibre insulation. Dont really trust it, it says don’t touch with your hands but here you are sleeping right next to it. You guys have any thoughts? Anyway I also don’t want to waste it since its…[Read more]

Not stripping the dashboard though. That is already quite..minimalistic

The plan for the Van: Strip out the unnecessary parts from the inside, remove the wall in the middle for that spacious villa feeling. And fix up all the rusty holes. Turns out there are a bit more of those than expected 😀

Reinforced injection machine from @talleresferica in Spain. They needed more power to fill up all the little details with plastic in their impressive sunglass mould.

Cute little hopper from Praglab in South Korea

very curious to that @thegreenengineers!

Living in a Van seems to be quite sustainable, you only use a tiny space to live and you can drive it close to work so you commute less everyday. But before buying a Van I was wondering what makes more sense:

1: Buy a newer Van which is more comfortable has stuff like airconditioning higher top speed, less noise but most importantly is more…[Read more]

@davehakkens, ok, no problem but a link and promoting and developing an alternative entry point are 2 complete different worlds, isn’t ? i mean, this project is obviously bigger than doing some fancy lamps no body actually wants or needs for high prices and at huge costs, insane footprints with a very limited technology, it screams for i…

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probably not as a core feature @mc007, mainly because those tools can already be found online and will probably be better then the ones we would develop. We like to keep focus on recycling machines. That said CNC is a crucial part for mouldmaking. So it could become an ‘additional machine’ or perhaps a collaboration with an open source CNC…[Read more]

Currently Precious Plastic is just a project, from Dave Hakkens (company). Mainly because creating a legel entity for each project takes a lot of time, hassle and money to maintain,>book keeping <  Dont like this. So just to not waste our time and focus on the things we care about they are al part of 1 organisation. Dave Hakkens.  That said, P…[Read more]

haha no i had the idea in my head for years @siemenc, however it definitely provided an inspiration boost. Aiming for a better end though 😉