Building a recycler

[akka69 0]

What about designing a recycler which would melt failed prints or even pellets and extrude filaments?

That could be a valuable option for any 3D printer specially for beginners, knowing the price of the stuff.

[joergen 2]

What about designing a recycler which would melt failed prints or even pellets and extrude filaments?

That could be a valuable option for any 3D printer specially for beginners, knowing the price of the stuff.

Like the filabot:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/roc ... ment-maker

?

[akka69 0]

Didn't know about it...

That's the idea.

[Daid 306]

That could be a valuable option for any 3D printer specially for beginners, knowing the price of the stuff.

25E ~ 30E per kilo? that's not terribly expensive really for a hobby ;-)

BUT. I like the recycle idea. I don't think there need to be a lot of these recyclers. I'll happy turn in my scraps for half the weight in filament. But a consistent thickness is important. Also, go environment!

PLA recycling should be quite painless as it has a pretty low melting point, and doesn't seem to "lose" a lot of properties/material (no nasty fumes) when heated.

My main problem with making a recycler is that you cannot build it with a 3D printer

There is also

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:12948

 

[antiklesys 3]

If anyone is up to start another kickstarter or indiegogo campaign about this I'm up for funding it

[frodeheg 0]

FYI: The filabot wee was just made public open source a week ago, you can find all the plans and part lists on the filabot forum or thingiverse:

http://filabot.com/forum/topic/design-links-and-video/

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:24583

I am wondering if I am going to build one myself...