Dude you have NAILED it! I love the lattice's that the raft and support off cuts make. I can see this working great for a recycling workshop with kids - adult controlling the heatgun off course. ;)
now here's a thought: could you make some molds or cut pieces for a printer (the structure at least) out of this? thatd be a neat series: a recycled printer to an extent...
Hello! I am a teacher (french as main language so apologies for grammar mistakes...) I started in 3D printing at school and I find a way, inspired by your video, to make no plastic waste. The answer is pretty simple in fact: silicone mold. Can do jewelry, légo bloc, vase, pot for pen or flower, little trash... You can buy mold online or buy your own silicone and make a mold of whatever you want (can 3dprint a thing mold it in silicone and do other copies of it melting your leftover PLA. I hope this comment will help other people looking to make useful things!
I only have a laser engraver at the moment.. not really designed to cut through plastic. I will be assembling a stronger laser though, maybe it will be up to the task!
Creative work. I actually did some research a little while back on how to recycle plastic, and I found a few people who would use sandwich makers to melt down HDPE plastic, and use parchment paper on top and underneath it so they wouldn't stick. I don't know how different the melting temperatures are between the different plastics, but I think you should try this out, if you get the chance :) There's a video on it, too, but I can't remember the name of it. I'm sure it's not too hard to find.
FilAsians general PLA will melt around 190 degrees centigrade depending on the brand. overall it's between like 170 and 220 degrees centigrade. However it will get soft and pliable a bit before that and the thinner the strand the sooner it'll be effected.
These turned out AWESOME! I really loved watching you prototype and not give up, and finally arrive at something really unique and cool. Excellent work man, you have a really positive and inspirational work ethic!
Really love your workflow of refining your approach and documenting the different results along the way. Since I got my 3d printer I kept holding on to the leftovers and failed prints in hope I would find something to make use of it. This video has been very inspiring.
Great video. Started out with questionable results but like you said, the quick prototyping lead to faster improvements in technique. The final picks came out beautifully!
I wish I was this creative. Truly, your mind is absolutely amazing! Please donate it to science when you're... done using it! It's remarkable and beautiful and just *swoon*
Great idea & I love your designs! I agree the white & primary colours are the most iconic looking. You do cool stuff that is great to see put out into the world! Just a thought but I wonder if you blasted a finished guitar pick with the heat gun (or possibly better yet a lower heat took such as an embossing gun or even a hairdryer) around the edges you'd get rid of that slightly rough edge. Where you sanded it not quite smooth? It's just those little bits of thin stragglings that are making them look not totally professional to me. But that might be cos I'm a picky crafter not a 3D printer lol!!
Very cool! You should see if you can get a review cnc milling device and try that on the big sheets of melted plastic to carve out some amazing things!
If you use the oven method again, try using a silicone baking mat for release. Plus, there are some companies that make guitar pick punches to help speed up the process.
How about making a concrete or metal mold of a 3d printed thing so you can use it like injection molding? For example a fidget spinner printed with a 3d printer. Then creating the mold around it. Remove the spinner and start mass production with recycled plastic
Amazing man! experimenting and think out of the box it is one of the best things that we can do with this technology, thanks for sharing your experiences! best regards from Buenos Aires, Argentina
@make anything great video. Some different things to try to get different effects, pressing the mirrors straight with no movement, sliding in one or more direction either straight lines or other motions, or straight down and rotating the top one. You can also put shims between the mirrors for consistent thickness but just don't press too hard.
There's a craft product fairly similar to this called HAMA beads, where you place plastic beads in a pattern on a grid. Then you lay some baking parchment over the top and use a hot iron to melt the beads together into a surface. Sandwiching the bits of plastic between two layers of baking parchment, or a mirror and baking parchment and melting it with a hot iron could be a good way of doing it.
I wonder if you were to put a sheet of thicker smooth metal (or heat proof glass) on top of the plastic in the tray weighted down all into the oven from the start you'd get a more consistent form which is smooth on both sides. Will need plenty of release agent of course.
I think that would work pretty well, although it might cause a lot of bubbles on the top surface from trapped air depending on how the plastic is broken up. Guess I've gotta find a thick chunk of steel
Of course the issue with this is that you would need to let the whole thing cool down before you could release the plastic, so it will make the process slower.
going the charm/earring route you can use cookie cutters and the heat gun to make shapes. just do the smoosh, then heat again until pliable, push in the cutter, let cool then push out the shape.
You could also make these sheets of plastic, cut some shapes and join them with a 3d pen to make some 3d objects (maybe even boxes or something like that)
if you still have that pan with plastic at 2:30 and wan to remove it, I think you can try adding more stuff and do it again, it'll just add extra layer and will thicken it and you will be able to get it out
This is super awesome. You've convinced me to spend a bunch of money on colorful filaments so I can do this by the end of the year when I have a nice supply of scraps =). Hopefully by then you'll have another video out where you found an even better method of doing this.
You should build a vacuum forming machine to cast the the PLA sheets. They are pretty simple to make from what I've previously seen and i bet would yield some wild results.
If you place a mirror with the mirror side facing down and melt a sheet of plastic over it, you could then cut the plastic to make it into a hand held mirror. Have you attempted to make bowls again, but using the heat gun this time?
Is there a way to take the failed prints and melt them together into a sort of mixxed multi colored fillament to use in a printer, it would be cool to see if you can reuse the fillaments to make some crazy 3d printed sculpture
I have been debating recycling, what if you put a 1.75 hole in your metal tin, use your heat gun to heat said metal tin. Have a fan directed at exit hole to cool the falling fillement, the reel it up.
Hey Devin, this is Cris again. After your first melting the bottom is flat but the top is not. Would it work if after taking your melted piece out the first time, just flip it over and put it back in the oven for a little bit should flatten the other side too? I had the same idea but just used aluminum foil a little Pam sprayed first. Awesome guitar picks. Favorite coaster is the one that looks like the world from space. Have you ever made a Stainglass window? with transparent filaments? I remember my mom got us these kits that comes with the metal framework and you put different colored plastic beads in different spaces, stick it in the oven, it melts it and comes out Stainglass. Be kind of fun just to use the 3-D pen to fill in the different areas. Keep exercising your imagination there's a Lotta good stuff comes out of it.
Primary colours on white is my favourite. Maybe you could cut some voids in the white sheet and then put the colours in them? That way you could see the design on both sides.
Would ABS resist the temperatures of the heat gun ? Coz if so you could make molds out of ABS to shape your PLA into! It'd let you make much more complex shapes I bet
Guitar picks are such a great idea! You should see if anyone you know has a pick press so you can just punch them straight out of the plastic sheets instead of cutting and sanding.
I checked your store and was hoping to find actual guitar picks... My boyfriend is a signed musician and I really wanted to find him some unique and awesome picks!
these are great! maybe 'shred' the filament purge bits in an old coffee grinder before melting them. the tray/toaster idea sounds great, through. maybe baking the shreded stuff in a mold in the toaster would yeild more consistent results. also, there ARE guitar pick pinches on amazon. theyre made for punching the pick shape out of old credit cards etc.
How about applying heat from the top, by using a dry iron and a Teflon sheet, to turn the stringy mess into a flat sheet? Putting it on cold and turning it on letting gravity work might be interesting
Whoa! -- I just realized; this means you can fuse PLA prints together with a heat gun. -- I spent so long trying to glue a part together, when I could have just used the damn heat gun!
I wonder if you could use an iron.. like maybe layer wax paper or something between but it could be a way to flatten it and warm it at the same time. 😅
For cutting small things on the bandsaw, make a sacrificial insert by cutting into a piece of MDF or similar dense material. clamp the piece to the machine and then cut your small items in top of that. Then you end up with a "insert" with no more opening than the track the blade made.
So cool! Everything should be recyclable. Us humes are just punks in the history of this planet, yet we've taken so much out of her in such a short time. No question that we should be pushing hard towards total recycling.
Dude you have NAILED it! I love the lattice's that the raft and support off cuts make. I can see this working great for a recycling workshop with kids - adult controlling the heatgun off course. ;)
Thanks! I forgot to recommend gloves... I was too lazy and cooked my knuckles a bit >.
haha! yeah molton PLA is maybe just a bit too similar to napalm... gloves are a good plan.
Make Anything // 3D Printing Channel what kind of 3d printer do you use?
He has several. I don’t own one myself so I don’t look for these types of videos but he probably has one about good printers.
Just watched this, Fishing lures popped into my head. I'll save my discards.
You should make a lathe blank out of recycled filament and send it to Peter brown
Yes, absolutely.
PLEASE DO THIS
That'd be awesome. It'd just need to me melted together really well or the air-gaps would cause it to catch and break on the lathe.
Yeees please do it :D
now that is a great idea!
if you flipped the mirror, in your first "error", the leaks would do a pretty awesome frame for it, just attach a handle and... voila!
Diego Ib lel
Diego Ib I was thinking the same thing
I love that you show us your tests / experiments and not just the final results. It's.... inspiring ❤️ good day
the melted circles could be coasters
Raquel Wood anything could be a coaster as he said in his last video
only problem is that it would stick to your glass so you would have to add ridges or something
now here's a thought: could you make some molds or cut pieces for a printer (the structure at least) out of this? thatd be a neat series: a recycled printer to an extent...
That would be pretty wild :D
who needs to sleep when you can watch make anything?
I hate how relatable this is
implement the 3d pen drawing into this technique and see what you can do..........
Just watching the process evolve from beginning to the end made this a most enjoyable video to watch.
Hello! I am a teacher (french as main language so apologies for grammar mistakes...) I started in 3D printing at school and I find a way, inspired by your video, to make no plastic waste. The answer is pretty simple in fact: silicone mold. Can do jewelry, légo bloc, vase, pot for pen or flower, little trash... You can buy mold online or buy your own silicone and make a mold of whatever you want (can 3dprint a thing mold it in silicone and do other copies of it melting your leftover PLA. I hope this comment will help other people looking to make useful things!
MAN!!! What road did you find that toaster? It looks like it was well taken care of.
The things people toss out, right?!
Make Anything // 3D Printing Channel why not a set of injection molded dice or parts parts
his facial har makes him look like a french musketeer
Alli Villa l😂l
All for one and one for all!!
And also kinda like rdj
Alli Villa who
Alli Villa that is an amazing description
My Fav, is the white chocolate Strawberry pick!
Wouldn't your laser cutter help with making the pics? Cut up the plastic and have it shape out the pics for you, then do smoothing after if you need.
I only have a laser engraver at the moment.. not really designed to cut through plastic. I will be assembling a stronger laser though, maybe it will be up to the task!
Oh ok cool, can't wait for the stronger laser!
Rarely have I seen on UA-cam someone just getting joy from creating and being creative. Loved the video.
Creative work. I actually did some research a little while back on how to recycle plastic, and I found a few people who would use sandwich makers to melt down HDPE plastic, and use parchment paper on top and underneath it so they wouldn't stick. I don't know how different the melting temperatures are between the different plastics, but I think you should try this out, if you get the chance :) There's a video on it, too, but I can't remember the name of it. I'm sure it's not too hard to find.
Thanks for the tip!
FilAsians general PLA will melt around 190 degrees centigrade depending on the brand. overall it's between like 170 and 220 degrees centigrade. However it will get soft and pliable a bit before that and the thinner the strand the sooner it'll be effected.
Parchment, my thoughts exactly!
Mirrors were a great option though.
Some of these picks turned out surprisingly beautiful, I really like the black and white marbled ones. Great job Devin. :)
You are downright the most creative person I've ever known! Love your creations
These turned out AWESOME!
I really loved watching you prototype and not give up, and finally arrive at something really unique and cool.
Excellent work man, you have a really positive and inspirational work ethic!
Really love your workflow of refining your approach and documenting the different results along the way. Since I got my 3d printer I kept holding on to the leftovers and failed prints in hope I would find something to make use of it. This video has been very inspiring.
Your failed prints video was the first video I watched. This is what got me interested, so I really love this video too!!
Great video. Started out with questionable results but like you said, the quick prototyping lead to faster improvements in technique. The final picks came out beautifully!
I loving this series of videos. Brilliant work, Devin!
I wish I was this creative. Truly, your mind is absolutely amazing! Please donate it to science when you're... done using it! It's remarkable and beautiful and just *swoon*
I love those patterns! Started experimenting myself, so far I have two small abstract pieces of art...
These are incredible. Just beautiful. My favorite is the green and gold.
I wish there was a way to super like og like this video multiple times. this was honestly my favorite video of yours, so awesome!!!
Great idea & I love your designs! I agree the white & primary colours are the most iconic looking. You do cool stuff that is great to see put out into the world!
Just a thought but I wonder if you blasted a finished guitar pick with the heat gun (or possibly better yet a lower heat took such as an embossing gun or even a hairdryer) around the edges you'd get rid of that slightly rough edge. Where you sanded it not quite smooth?
It's just those little bits of thin stragglings that are making them look not totally professional to me. But that might be cos I'm a picky crafter not a 3D printer lol!!
I LOVE the black and white spider web pattern :D that is amazing
I'm so jealous of your creativity! You are one of my favorite 'Maker' on youtube Devon!
You could make clip boards or picture frames with the big sheets.
This is human creativity at one of its finest
You could've used an iron and parchment paper to remove the ruff edges
Wow! These are incredible Devin! I don't know what to say! The gold and blue ones are just great, as well as the white/primary coloured ones.
Very cool! You should see if you can get a review cnc milling device and try that on the big sheets of melted plastic to carve out some amazing things!
Wax paper. Works great. I recommend the info that Precious Plastic has on their channel and Peter Browns channel.
If you use the oven method again, try using a silicone baking mat for release. Plus, there are some companies that make guitar pick punches to help speed up the process.
Dude I would literally PAY for some of those space picks. Awesome.
I've notice you really like Radiohead, that makes me like you and your channel even more, keep up the great work
I have been looking for uses for leftover pla for ages. You should try making moulds and casting it.
How about making a concrete or metal mold of a 3d printed thing so you can use it like injection molding? For example a fidget spinner printed with a 3d printer. Then creating the mold around it. Remove the spinner and start mass production with recycled plastic
Amazing man! experimenting and think out of the box it is one of the best things that we can do with this technology, thanks for sharing your experiences! best regards from Buenos Aires, Argentina
I'm so jealous of your creativity! You inspire me every time! Please never stop being creative! :D
i love this video. i could watch this over and over and always get the same feeling!
@make anything great video. Some different things to try to get different effects, pressing the mirrors straight with no movement, sliding in one or more direction either straight lines or other motions, or straight down and rotating the top one. You can also put shims between the mirrors for consistent thickness but just don't press too hard.
Just a thourght for the disks you made. Why not coat the top with a heat stable resin and use them as costers? that would be amazing
There's a craft product fairly similar to this called HAMA beads, where you place plastic beads in a pattern on a grid. Then you lay some baking parchment over the top and use a hot iron to melt the beads together into a surface. Sandwiching the bits of plastic between two layers of baking parchment, or a mirror and baking parchment and melting it with a hot iron could be a good way of doing it.
I wonder if you were to put a sheet of thicker smooth metal (or heat proof glass) on top of the plastic in the tray weighted down all into the oven from the start you'd get a more consistent form which is smooth on both sides. Will need plenty of release agent of course.
I think that would work pretty well, although it might cause a lot of bubbles on the top surface from trapped air depending on how the plastic is broken up. Guess I've gotta find a thick chunk of steel
Of course the issue with this is that you would need to let the whole thing cool down before you could release the plastic, so it will make the process slower.
maybe a vice setup with the chunk of steel to gradually add pressure
these look all so amazing I've never seen cooler guitar pics
Apparently, you can run a fairly successful Etsy shop from failed projects. Mind-blowing .
going the charm/earring route you can use cookie cutters and the heat gun to make shapes. just do the smoosh, then heat again until pliable, push in the cutter, let cool then push out the shape.
You could also make these sheets of plastic, cut some shapes and join them with a 3d pen to make some 3d objects (maybe even boxes or something like that)
if you still have that pan with plastic at 2:30 and wan to remove it, I think you can try adding more stuff and do it again, it'll just add extra layer and will thicken it and you will be able to get it out
This is super awesome. You've convinced me to spend a bunch of money on colorful filaments so I can do this by the end of the year when I have a nice supply of scraps =). Hopefully by then you'll have another video out where you found an even better method of doing this.
These are beautiful. My favourite of your videos are always the more artistic ones :)
So creative!
The spiderwebby and "Piet Mondrian / Crayola Factory Explosion" ones are my faves.
I don’t own a printer but have watched your vids for a while. That’s why I got a pen recently and it’s been fun to create stuff.
You should build a vacuum forming machine to cast the the PLA sheets. They are pretty simple to make from what I've previously seen and i bet would yield some wild results.
I figured you were just going to use a guitar pick punch on sheets of the melted metal. But cutting them by hand worked! Respect.
So cool to watch your iterations!!!
If you place a mirror with the mirror side facing down and melt a sheet of plastic over it, you could then cut the plastic to make it into a hand held mirror.
Have you attempted to make bowls again, but using the heat gun this time?
Is there a way to take the failed prints and melt them together into a sort of mixxed multi colored fillament to use in a printer, it would be cool to see if you can reuse the fillaments to make some crazy 3d printed sculpture
for the rings you could use a ring sizing rod to use to make a full connected rings
This was really rad man!
I'm stoked to have something to do with all my rafts & supports!
Thank you
I have been debating recycling, what if you put a 1.75 hole in your metal tin, use your heat gun to heat said metal tin. Have a fan directed at exit hole to cool the falling fillement, the reel it up.
Hey Devin, this is Cris again. After your first melting the bottom is flat but the top is not. Would it work if after taking your melted piece out the first time, just flip it over and put it back in the oven for a little bit should flatten the other side too? I had the same idea but just used aluminum foil a little Pam sprayed first. Awesome guitar picks. Favorite coaster is the one that looks like the world from space.
Have you ever made a Stainglass window? with transparent filaments? I remember my mom got us these kits that comes with the metal framework and you put different colored plastic beads in different spaces, stick it in the oven, it melts it and comes out Stainglass. Be kind of fun just to use the 3-D pen to fill in the different areas.
Keep exercising your imagination there's a Lotta good stuff comes out of it.
Very cool. Did you think about making sheets then vacuum thermoforming them into other shapes?
Primary colours on white is my favourite. Maybe you could cut some voids in the white sheet and then put the colours in them? That way you could see the design on both sides.
9:00 you have blown my mind with the space look😮
4:21 I see the smallest things...
THERES A BUG ON THE RULER THINGY ;O;
I use silicon forms for backing, no hassle with sticking to the form
Would ABS resist the temperatures of the heat gun ? Coz if so you could make molds out of ABS to shape your PLA into! It'd let you make much more complex shapes I bet
Thanks for continuing these videos! If you want to make some recycled PLA coasters, I'll buy them!
I honestly can't pick a favourite, they're all so good
If you can make a sheet of plastic, maybe you could try vacuum forming?
You should buy a filament recycler. It makes the plastic back into usable filament and you can adjust the size of the strands.
Can you try making the scraps into new filament and printing some 20 sided dice?
You're incredible Devin!!
Love you vids even tho I don't have a 3D printer or pen
Guitar picks are such a great idea! You should see if anyone you know has a pick press so you can just punch them straight out of the plastic sheets instead of cutting and sanding.
I checked your store and was hoping to find actual guitar picks... My boyfriend is a signed musician and I really wanted to find him some unique and awesome picks!
What timezone are you in devin.?! 😂 It's so late
these are great! maybe 'shred' the filament purge bits in an old coffee grinder before melting them. the tray/toaster idea sounds great, through. maybe baking the shreded stuff in a mold in the toaster would yeild more consistent results. also, there ARE guitar pick pinches on amazon. theyre made for punching the pick shape out of old credit cards etc.
I love it. I'm started my own plastic bin.
How about applying heat from the top, by using a dry iron and a Teflon sheet, to turn the stringy mess into a flat sheet? Putting it on cold and turning it on letting gravity work might be interesting
Guitar pic guard! A nice center piece that could use a big chunk for a good purpose all at once for those large piles of scrap.
how funny is it that I just rewatched that video and kind of wished for more...
How are you not rich?? The designs and ideas you have are gold
This deserves more views!
Whoa! -- I just realized; this means you can fuse PLA prints together with a heat gun. -- I spent so long trying to glue a part together, when I could have just used the damn heat gun!
Hey, I save purges too. I put mine in a glass jar. I think it looks really pretty. :)
I wonder if you could use an iron.. like maybe layer wax paper or something between but it could be a way to flatten it and warm it at the same time. 😅
good idea, that could probably work!
How is your BMW emblem going???
I wonder if you could make small blanks to turn on a lathe into pens
Could you carve a guitar body from that sheet? Or a heart shaped ukulele? I wonder how this stuff would respond to a laser cutter?
Use a clothing iron and parchment paper you will get smooth shinny surfaces if you hit both sides
BENDING SHARP METAL WITH YOUR HANDS?! You, Devin Montes, are one confident man😂
For cutting small things on the bandsaw, make a sacrificial insert by cutting into a piece of MDF or similar dense material. clamp the piece to the machine and then cut your small items in top of that. Then you end up with a "insert" with no more opening than the track the blade made.
Gotcha.. is that for a cleaner cut?
So cool! Everything should be recyclable. Us humes are just punks in the history of this planet, yet we've taken so much out of her in such a short time. No question that we should be pushing hard towards total recycling.
if you run the cut edges down a carpet,it can give a polished rounded edge better for playing guitar