3D un-printer

[Allen Brown]

Tyler McNaney's 'Filabot' will break down failed projects as well as
many other plastic items from traditional manufacturers, turning
them into a filament you can then feed through a 3D printer.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=13/01/18/2138219

http://www.wired.com/design/2013/01/filabot-plastic-recycler/
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[Brian Wilson]

I'd love to be able to print stuff from plastic trash. We also need the matching machine that takes metal shavings from our CNC routers and makes aluminum bar stock from them. That would be called... "alabot"?

Or maybe we could grind the chips up and use them in a home laser sintering printer.

I am reminded of Mr. Fusion

(And _no_, I don't have a CNC router! Just wish I did. I do have a printer on order.)

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[Bob Miller]

Chips to billet 'bot: Billebot. It happens to sound like the natural
recycler, Billygoat.

Which printer did you get?

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Brian Wilson <br...@wildsong.biz> wrote:
> I'd love to be able to print stuff from plastic trash. We also need the
> matching machine that takes metal shavings from our CNC routers and makes
> aluminum bar stock from them. That would be called... "alabot"?
>
> Or maybe we could grind the chips up and use them in a home laser sintering
> printer.
>
> I am reminded of Mr. Fusion
>
> (And _no_, I don't have a CNC router! Just wish I did. I do have a printer
> on order.)
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Allen Brown <abr...@peak.org> wrote:
>>
>> Tyler McNaney's 'Filabot' will break down failed projects as well as
>> many other plastic items from traditional manufacturers, turning
>> them into a filament you can then feed through a 3D printer.
>>
>>
>> http://hardware.slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&type=story&sid=13/01/18/2138219
>>
>> http://www.wired.com/design/2013/01/filabot-plastic-recycler/
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[Brian Wilson]

I think I have 5 more weeks to wait. I am the patient sort so I don't consider this a problem. And they have not charged my card yet, I consider this a good sign.

I ordered a Replicator 2 -- no not "2X" and no doubt there will be a "3" by the time I get my "2".

2 does PLA only.

2X does PLA and ABS and has 2 extruders and costs about $600 more.

3D printing feels like an oncoming freight train to me... even more than the Internet did in 1990. Get on board or get out of the way... To add another metaphor, I wanted to wait for the arrival of the Model T but who knows when that will happen? Can't wait any longer. 

I feel a need to make impossible things, preferably at least one a day, before breakfast.

Brian

[Fairyguts]

When I worked at Oremet, we collected and prepared the ingot turnings from Melt and what not from Mill Processing, washed them in cement mixers and just called it all "chip" until it was melted into another ingot... your suggestions are cooler!
:D

[Bob Miller]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Brian Wilson <br...@wildsong.biz> wrote:
>
> 3D printing feels like an oncoming freight train to me... even more than the
> Internet did in 1990. Get on board or get out of the way... To add another
> metaphor, I wanted to wait for the arrival of the Model T but who knows when
> that will happen? Can't wait any longer.

I know what you mean. I have had ready access to a printer for about
six months now, and it's useful for all sorts of mundane stuff. It
makes lots of formerly hard stuff easy.

Tonight I'm planning to print this. It's a ridiculously complex,
ridiculously custom bracket to keep some wires neatly tucked away.
But it will take less time to make than to think up. Before printer,
I'd have done something with tape and heat-shrink tubing that would
have looked like crap.

[John Sechrest]

Hey Bob,

What tool are you using for building up the files that you print?

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[Bob Miller]

I "drew" that in OpenSCAD. OpenSCAD is a text-based modeling
language. I exported an STL file. I will load the STL file into
ReplicatorG on the PC that drives the printer. ReplicatorG will call
Skeinforge to generate G Code from the STL. I am not sure which
firmware is installed on the printer's Arduino to interpret the G
Code..

Here is an OpenSCAD snippet. It describes the three bore holes that
are bigger at one end to hold screw heads. Code elsewhere subtracts
this volume from the piece.

// Screw bores 2-56 w/ head at bottom
SCB1_X = 1.000;
SCB1_Y = .150;
SCB2_X = SCB1_X + 0.700;
SCB2_Y = SCB1_Y;
SCB3_X = SCB1_X;
SCB3_Y = SCB2_Y + 0.700;
SCB_R1 = 0.200 / 2;
SCB_D1 = 0.090;
//SCB_R2 = 0.120 / 2;
SCB_R2 = SWB_R;

module screw_bores() {
translate([SCB1_X, SCB1_Y, -TOL]) {
cylinder(r=SCB_R1, h=SCB_D1 + TOL);
cylinder(r=SCB_R2);
}
translate([SCB2_X, SCB2_Y, -TOL]) {
cylinder(r=SCB_R1, h=SCB_D1 + TOL);
cylinder(r=SCB_R2);
}
translate([SCB3_X, SCB3_Y, -TOL]) {
cylinder(r=SCB_R1, h=SCB_D1 + TOL);
cylinder(r=SCB_R2);