Re: A box of some sort of plastic pellets - free to good home

[Robert Stürzbecher]

Hi Garry,

I have a Makibox (http://www.makible.com/products/makibox-a6-1) on order that eats pallets to make it's own filament. So I might be interested but I don't yet have my printer.

Also if the plastic has been sitting a while depending upon what type it is it mast likely needs treatment before use (was told that ABS pellets are hygroscopy so you have to cook them for 3hrs @60C before use) or you will get crap prints.

[rob]

On Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:25:56 UTC+10, Garry Stone wrote:

reposted from reprap forums, probably should have gone here in the first place, thinking of coming to the next printing night, can someone send me the location...

 

When we moved into our house many years back there was a large box of plastic pellets that were probably used for injection molding under it. basically it has sat there for the last x years as i didnt have any use for it, but you dont throw out good stuff like that. Is anyone in melbourne experimenting with extruding there own fillament and would maybe like to give this a go, I am considering coming to the next 3dprinter night and could bring it along, dont expect anything for it, just nice to know it will finally get used, but if you were to hand me a small spool of filament down the track i wouldnt complain either. If anyones interested Im sure there was a sticker on the box outlining what sort of plastic it is, but need to crawl under the house to read it.

btw the box is probably to big and at this point brittle to post, and if its inconvenient at all to give away may as well stay where it is, so this isnt an offer to post it around the state, country or world. but if it would help out someone local more then happy to oblige.

GaZ