Filament Extruder on thingiverse

[Lis Sampson]

I just found this filament extruder on thingiverse that apparently extrudes 1.75mm and 3mm filament from pellets. Has anyone fiddled around with this yet? I would love to know if it actually works.

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:30642

Lis

[wolfmanjm]

I'm interested too if it works.

I wanted to recycle all my PLA calibration blocks and failed prints, got to have 1/2lb of PLA in those!

[Keavon Chambers]

Sounds cool. But expensive to make to recycle just a bit of PLA. Maybe the group could all contribute and we could all use it?

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[Lis Sampson]

I heard that Aleph Objects is working on something similar. If you use a lot of filament it could be worthwhile. We would also need a way to 'grind up' our failed prints first. 

[Keavon Chambers]

Grinding them up doesn't sound too hard.

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[Keavon Chambers]

Another idea could be that one of us owns it and buys failed prints/scrap prints by weight and resells the fulfillment to the group or online, making a profit margin to break even from buying the machine.

[Bryan McCollum]

I'm interested as well, I recently threw away several pounds of pla from bad large prints that warped.  I also heard that people were experimenting with large blenders for shredding. 

[Keavon Chambers]

But will it blend?

[miloh]

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On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Keavon Chambers <kea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds cool. But expensive to make to recycle just a bit of PLA. Maybe the
> group could all contribute and we could all use it?
>
>

Been wanting to develop a grinder to bring to events to grind up all
the failThings* and consolidate chips for community projects like big
sculptures, perhaps built out of zome nodes. Chip it down and we are
starting out

* www.failthing.com
**zome nodes for community building: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:31494
everyone prints nodes for an event


-r. miloh alexander

[Bryan McCollum]

http://www.appropedia.org/Waste_plastic_extruder#cite_note-4

Reference#5 gives a bit of detail on blender experimentation