Hey yall saved the best for last but didn't go into enough detail on your massive plastic melter injector maker thing. Could you do a follow up vid showing it in action?
Always make sure your in a well ventilated area, plastic gives off toxic fumes when heated. Always keep a fire extinguisher nearby as plastic can catch fire if the flash point is exceeded.
Thank you so much for showing us the first couple of "inexpensive" methods for those of us that are interested in making stuff from recycled plastic, but don't have thousands of dollars worth of machinery (or the skills to use them). You guys are amazing and very appreciated!
This is the type of content, in which the language is not a barrier, because it is practical, simple, didactic and ingenious. Thank you guys for the content you share, which is great, and thank you for contributing your knowledge to this entire community.
@@jerrykovis5417 uh, yeah, they are. Everything except the very last one ate verg low-budget, with a little luck. Find a used toaster oven, a used panini press, and buy a heat gun and a few silicone baking sheets, used if possible, too. Aside from that, there's nothing you can't just do by hand. You don't HAVE to have a router table or a plane, and that bottle jack press is DEAD simple to make, LOL!
I’ve been using the cookie cutter method at home to make jewelry, and it works great! I use a Dremel tool to add small holes for jewelry fixings, and I squish the sheet with some heavy books after I cut through it with the cookie cutters.
@@brantgoose You are asking the brothers, right? They created a video showing us how they made it themselves. They used a car jack, if I recall correctly.
Found you guys on a random surfing session. YOU DA MAN , uh MEN !!!!!! Awesome. And I thought I was doing good by reusing sandwich bags, milk bags and plastic wrap. During the pandemic i started making sourdough bread. Made 376 loaves of bread using the same piece of plastic wrap to cover the proofing bowl. Used the same 2 resealable plastic storage bags to keep the loaves fresh. I like to think this has saved a lot of seabirds, turtles and fish. They too often fatally see floating plastic bags and film as a jellyfish meal. The milk bags are resealable with a homemade hotwire.
Thank you for doing this guys. Honestly love that I just found this channel and learned about these recycling techniques that the two of you are using to clean the planet. We need more people like you!
"...recycling techniques that the two of you are using to clean the planet...". If we as humans were actually smart, we wouldn't be producing all the plastic that we do. Oh, how... oh, how..., oh how... did we ever get along without plastic? We got along just fine. We should go back to some of those ways and save ourselves the trouble. Not polluting the planet in the first place negates the need to clean it up. Perhaps we should adopt that ideal and change our ways. 🤔 👍🏻 - Max Giganteum
Had a bit of a go with melting and shaping a few years ago. A lot of stores have plastic wrap put over their delivered pallets. It's easy to come by and melts really well and is incredibly hard, worth giving that a go. The whole idea is interesting and I guess you could make some small scale items or art. It looks pretty prohibitive considering the cost of electricity. The bench, like I say interesting but it would be useful to give a breakdown of all costs to produce it.
@@Eduardo_Espinoza Yes, electricity isn't cheap in most places. But plastic sheets aren't cheap either, unless we are talking about super thin stuff like cling film. The shown methods already save a ton of money if you actually intent to DIY something out of plastic. With the added benefit of actually re-using old plastic garbage. Just don't expect the absolute maximum material quality, but that's barely an issue at all for most puposes.
I still marvel at how far you've come with your channel, your workshop, and endless creativity! Just watched your plastic bag wallet episode, i was into making stronger reusable bags with them using the same ironing method some ten years back. This was also when my kids were younger and drinking capris sun and i really loved making juice pouch wallets. * I find recently as i build my stash of hdpe plastics so many bottle caps don't say what type of plastic it is which makes things complicated. I'm in the US , i did find a brand of bottled water made with recycled materials, is recyclable and caps are hdpe! YAY 🙂 For now I've used cut bottles and plastic bags as fillers for other crafts I enjoy.
I always wondered how strong that recycled bench was, experiencing zero flex while holding 2 person load without any support in middle section. I love your videos and I hope more people start recycling.
@@unitedwestanddividedwefall2073 what the _~bleeping bleepety bleep~_? It's not about the money as much as keeping that shyt OUT of the landfills. I don't get paid a solitary penny for recycling glass, for example, but I damned well DO, because I care about what kind of planet our grandkids and great grandchildren will have to live on. Do YOU want to live on top of a landfill, a figurative ticking time bomb, with methane leaks that can catch fire, toxic chemicals that can leach into your drinking water, and the like? THAT is why recycling is important. I mean, for crying out loud, find someone that will pick up your bin of cans every so often! There's a ton of folks out there that would do so. It's incredibly sad that you only do something if it pays YOU. 😔
Wow! I love this channel - I found you by accident. And I’m glad I did - I’m fascinated by the stuff you do and I love learning about new machinery, etc available to make stuff. I have been a word worker for years (among other things) and I only wish I could get a 3d builder. In any case, I’ve subscribed! Thanks so much
I am so glad I stumbled upon your video. I've been saving water bottle lids for some time, but didn't really know what to do with them. So, I threw a bunch out (gasp!!!). Now, I will start saving again and search for a thrifted panini press. My mind's wheels are turning now. Thank you.
The lids are low density polyethylene. They're kinda crappy. I'm not sure why they use LDPE to make lids with. The bottles themselves are HDPE. If they're not PET.
I'm really inspired by you guys and my mind is exploding with ideas already. I'm already a scrapper by nature. I was wondering if you'd share how to deal with the piles of things that were going to be trash or might be something else. The potential materials. How you store them, how you decide what is worth the effort and space to keep and what you go ahead and dispose of (recycle or throw away). How did you handle that as you've grown? As an aspiring maker I have a hard time keeping my little space from being overrun and ending up turning into a hoarder with no hope of finding anything and no room to begin a project even if the overwhelm of the chaos didn't discourage me.
story of my life :D Best tip i have for saving space: get rid of air. air takes up valueable space. if you collect bottle caps, cut them up. if you have lots of scrap wood, glue them together and make new sheets or blocks, disassemble cardboard boxes. use your ceiling to store thin materials. also in general: don't keep ressouces laying around for too long- do something with them before they do something with you
These are really gr8 ideas! I’ve been researching ways to make small items cheaper bc resin is so expensive! I’m a newbie at creating to make some extra cash on the side Thank you, this was very helpful! 😊❤
I just love what you do, and while watching this, and with a teensy hint of an idea from another comment here, I think I may do a bit of experimenting with interlocking puzzle piece shapes. I think it would be really cool to put them together for a tabletop or countertop, with a nice coat of epoxy over the top! (If anyone copies this idea and makes any money from it, I want a cut, LOL!)
Great demo and insight on what appears to be a smartly designed improvement/upgrade for the weakest tonal link in the Fender offset model wiggle-bar proposition. I'm quite impressed with how much better the bridge helped your guitar transmit mid to low frequency information, and seemed to add overall to resonance and note duration.
I adore all things gadgets…lol. But cannot of course afford to purchase all these. So I’ll just watch these really cool machines and comment on how . Hope you are having fun recycling stuff. It looks super fun.
You can get a pretty decent heat gun kit with case and nozzles for $25... even less just for the gun, Most craft stores have $10 embossing heat guns, but they have less control and you'll still end up around the same price since you'll probably want an infrared thermometer, too, if you go that route, which runs around $10. I think my Panini press I use exclusively for crafting was only $5 from Goodwill.
I love that you are showing folks to recycle. And the things you make are amazing and exciting. The wheels in my head are turning ! Trying to get husband on board. If not I will do it all by myself hahaha
I've melted a lot of HDPE stock and it can be a handy material but there's limits with what you can do with it. Pressing it like they're doing creates internal stresses in the plastic which makes it impossible to make anything precise out of it. The stuff warps and springs when you cut it. Relieving that stress is something I never figured out how to do. It also takes a lot of time and energy to melt the plastic. So you're not really saving the planet doing it.
@@1pcfredYes, there are for sure going to be limitations with this for the majority of us (especially if you only focus on bottle caps) who can only basic DIY it, which means realistically most of us will be contributing via crafts and upcycling, but I mean, you're still diverting waste from landfills and keeping it out of the environment. It's not perfect, but it's better than doing nothing? It's easy to get stuck in the "but I'm just one person" mindset, but if enough of us join up we have strength in numbers and I don't think we should dismiss how that could eventually lead to major change via legislation after educating those around us through our products and hyping others to join or even just helping spread the information.
When you inhale plastic fumes, you’re exposing yourself to a number of toxic chemicals that can damage your lungs and cause a variety of respiratory problems. Some of these chemicals like dioxins and benzene are carcinogenic.
Key word you said there was ‘fumes’. We know our plastics and control the temperatures very carefully. We never burn plastics of any types. With HDPE, that means no fumes
Yeah! Great vid you blokes! The thing that crossed my mind, apart from the fun of making stuff (always good in my book) the lack of hardwood these days means it's difficult to get hold of wood to make decent bats for the ancient game of Bat and Trap. However, I'm sure they could be made from recycled plastic to the correct spec. Brilliant! I'll have to slot this in, along with all my other projects...!! Thanks, chaps - liked and subscribed!
Dear Sir, there’s a new kind of flooring made out of a color-dyed fiberglass filiament and plastic, which is PHYSICALLY INDESTRUCTIBLE, but EXPENSIVE. It’s not that cheap extruded plastic beams used to replace beachside wood broadwalks (which unlike the insulated wood broadwalks, increments solar heat and will melt the sandals off your feet) but a composite material of lengths of fiberglass threads compressed and melted together. After a homeowner hires someone to construct house floors or patio porch’s out of this material, dyed to look like wood, they always have shortened cut off pieces they usually put on the curb for garbage pickup. If you could ‘cur shop’ those pieces, you could repurpose them into unbreakable baseball bats and unbreakable plastic artifacts, using diamond-edged buzz saws and a LOT of work. EOJ
fantastic, I want to acquire these tools to start crafting from recycled materials like this. I already make tcg storage boxes from cardboard junk, but this is much more involved and I think it would be more rewarding. Awesome stuff
Brothers, thanks for the great ideas! It was really helpful to see the ideas in 1 place. Here are my favourites of this video's suggestions. 1) Cookie cutter! Maybe we can make custom cutters out of tin cans? 2) That single piece of wood mold. I never thought of that. 3) The page holder. I bet that if we set up a public library event, where we offered them for $1, then we could raise awareness and funds for our recycling causes. Have you ever thought of making an HDPE boat?
Hey Eugene, thanks for your feedback and some nice ideas in there as always! And funnily enough a boat/raft is actually on our list to build and make a video on this summer - so watch this space! ♻️
@@BrothersMake Good to know. Thanks for the info. I'm interested in making a custom laundry basket, by fastening pieces together instead of melting them. Do you have any suggestions? Maybe cut out some flat pieces from a milk jug, and cut them in a way that allows them to interlock? Maybe ice pop sticks or disposable chopsticks could be use to fasten them together? Actually, that might work. The plastic is flexible enough to fit in small shaped holes, and then sticks could used to keep the inserts from wiggling free. Does that sound right?
@@BrothersMake By the way, I suggest making a toy boat that is scaled to what you want. This way, you could film both using a forced perspective, and it might make people laugh. Also, by the way, you mentioning the raft makes me think that we can create a snow sled out of HDPE. That would be a great use, I think. Speaking of sleds, there is a sled shovel, which allows us to move snow by pushing a sled shaped shovel, so that nobody has to lift a lot of snow. This might be a nice project. How hard is it to recycle biodegradable plastic? I ask, because I am hoping that the microplastics from wear & tear from using them outdoors are less harmful than HDPE fragments.
This is why when local municipalities say that they can only recycle certain types of plastic, I don't understand what their excuse is. You just showed how it's done Excellent video
Soup can method would probably be easier if you didn't use a pull top can (which has a ridge). A standard can opened with one of those no sharp can openers gives a nice smooth surface at the lip
I'd LOVE to have the workshop space and money for them CNC machines and the mould injection equipment!!! Oh the possibilities even just from recycled milk bottles.
Brothers make, you are fantastic. Can we have some ideas for repairing plastics? Example I see a lot of laundry baskets thrown out because of cracks, could we have a video something like that? Thanks so much :)
You could also use your extrusion method to mass produce interlocking bricks. I've toyed with the idea after reading an article about a company doing just that and thought it would make a great DIY project that could potentially save me a bunch of money in building supplies. I would (as well as y'all) have to look at the relative strength but I'm sure it would work in non load bearing applications.
Yanno, it might, with some epoxy poured over the top, be pretty cool to make interlocking puzzle piece shapes and use them to make a tabletop, a bar top, or even a countertop! That's a VERY intriguing idea! 🤔
Then the world just needs bigger problems. But don't worry the present administration has got you covered. Nuclear holocaust will be a real doozy, don't you think? They're working hard on it now.
I logged on to finish watching Leon the Lobster shed his shell. I'd just come back from the supermarket full of sadness after visiting with the lobsters in the seafood dept. Yet, I was mesmerized by the cute Brit Bros ironing plastic bags. And, I missed the link to find Kevin the upholstered! Can someone send me the link? Thank You! Liz
We'd be better off burning plastic to generate energy. Melting plastic takes energy. Burnt at a high enough temperature there'd be no hazardous byproducts.
Hi, I'm Elham from Egypt, I was looking for a way to increase my income, and to save the world too! Yesterday before watching this video I tried to melt some plastic but it was a bad idea 😅, now I'll try to use the hot gun method, so I bought tuna cans for lunch 😂 It's been a while now trying to come out with a safe and (homey) method to recycle plastic, with my kids around. And I found ur channel so thank you ❤
Nice stuff 🙂 As a LARPer and cosplayer, this makes me curious to think what I might do for that kind of thing. My current train of thought leads me to think of thick sheets to make sci-fi armour parts out of.
Thanks again for sharing! 💯 ❣️ In the USA, a grocery chain has shoppers bring in their recyclable plastic bags and they have a company turn them into benches similar to yours. They should just agree not to use plastic bags in the first place. That won't happen until the government bans plastic.
What a great hustle to take right to the beach! Have people bring their own caps and charge a small fee for labor or bring different colors and make custom!
Hello guys , greetings ... Sou daqui do Rio de Janeiro e trabalho como coletor de lixo e todo santo dia centenas de toneladas de variados tipos de plástico são jogados fora , porém aqui no meu país infelizmente não há uma campanha do governo para incentivar a reciclagem de tais materiais . Aliás , faz pouco tempo que devido ás condições financeiras , que várias pessoas estão recolhendo e vendendo em ferros - velhos para ganharem uma renda extra . Não só o plástico , como o papelão , alumínio , ferro e outros materiais são vendidos aos montes . Gostei e achei bem interessante o trabalho de vocês ao mostrar ( e provar ) que muita coisa pode ser feita com o plástico , além de auxiliar a limpeza da mãe -natureza . Um abraço aos dois !!!!!
Impressive idea about the chair made by plastic... I wish I can make it for my own used... But still have the machine like that to make the block and assemble it...
Outstanding! Now I'm gonna have another hobby! But first, I gotta scavenge all of the plastic out of my recycling bins before heading to the recycling center!
Timestamps:
0:22 - Method 1 - tin can and heatgun
2:07 - Method 2 - pannini press with silicone baking sheet and cookie cutters
3:52 - Method 3 - wooden moulds with hydraulic press
6:00 - Method 4 - sheet moulds with hydraulic press
7:29 - Squarespace promo
8:22 - Method 5 - CNC machining
10:08 - Method 6 - injection moulding
13:30 - Method 7 - extrusion
14:55 - Outro and thank you
15:55 - Christmas sweater
Would love to see a sword or shield mold from recycled plastic.
What do you put the Panini press to to melt the plastic for the cookie cutters?
You guys are great! 😃👍
Hey yall saved the best for last but didn't go into enough detail on your massive plastic melter injector maker thing. Could you do a follow up vid showing it in action?
Always make sure your in a well ventilated area, plastic gives off toxic fumes when heated. Always keep a fire extinguisher nearby as plastic can catch fire if the flash point is exceeded.
Thank you so much for showing us the first couple of "inexpensive" methods for those of us that are interested in making stuff from recycled plastic, but don't have thousands of dollars worth of machinery (or the skills to use them). You guys are amazing and very appreciated!
Love that you're catching the flyaway pieces. Treat Plastic like Asbestos.
This is the type of content, in which the language is not a barrier, because it is practical, simple, didactic and ingenious. Thank you guys for the content you share, which is great, and thank you for contributing your knowledge to this entire community.
Love to see the low budget "home" DIY recycling. That is something I can actually do/make.
Absolutely! Thanks for watching :)
How.. 😐
@@ChandanaRanasinghe *whispers* panini
Uh, the tools used in this aren’t really low budget
@@jerrykovis5417 uh, yeah, they are. Everything except the very last one ate verg low-budget, with a little luck. Find a used toaster oven, a used panini press, and buy a heat gun and a few silicone baking sheets, used if possible, too. Aside from that, there's nothing you can't just do by hand. You don't HAVE to have a router table or a plane, and that bottle jack press is DEAD simple to make, LOL!
Wow, that bench is a great idea, how cool to collect all the waste plastics from a beach and take it back in the shape of a bench
I was thinking of making some beach toy molds like buckets and shovels 😄
I’ve been using the cookie cutter method at home to make jewelry, and it works great!
I use a Dremel tool to add small holes for jewelry fixings, and I squish the sheet with some heavy books after I cut through it with the cookie cutters.
That’s so cool!
Sasha, thank you for sharing your experiences with us.
Can you please let me know what press you use? I've been looking for one in thrift shops. But now I might try to get one on eBay or Amazon.
@@brantgoose You are asking the brothers, right? They created a video showing us how they made it themselves. They used a car jack, if I recall correctly.
@@eugenetswong I think Brant was talking about the panini press.
Found you guys on a random surfing session. YOU DA MAN , uh MEN !!!!!! Awesome. And I thought I was doing good by reusing sandwich bags, milk bags and plastic wrap. During the pandemic i started making sourdough bread. Made 376 loaves of bread using the same piece of plastic wrap to cover the proofing bowl. Used the same 2 resealable plastic storage bags to keep the loaves fresh. I like to think this has saved a lot of seabirds, turtles and fish. They too often fatally see floating plastic bags and film as a jellyfish meal. The milk bags are resealable with a homemade hotwire.
I greatly admire you gentlemen, your initiative, your creativity, your spirit.
The last one is the best because it recycles the largest amount and is the most useful.
You are Great generation that help me to understand plastics recycling in the simply way. Thank you. Go on brothers
Thank you for doing this guys. Honestly love that I just found this channel and learned about these recycling techniques that the two of you are using to clean the planet. We need more people like you!
"...recycling techniques that the two of you are using to clean the planet...". If we as humans were actually smart, we wouldn't be producing all the plastic that we do. Oh, how... oh, how..., oh how... did we ever get along without plastic? We got along just fine. We should go back to some of those ways and save ourselves the trouble. Not polluting the planet in the first place negates the need to clean it up. Perhaps we should adopt that ideal and change our ways. 🤔 👍🏻
- Max Giganteum
@@M1N43probably a scam
I can't find a word that's good enough to describe how much I love this channel...!!!!!
That melted pieces looks just like the earlier bowls my Mom bought when plastic first came out, back in the 1950s !
I love the idea of making lasting things, like the stool top, out of disposable bottle caps etc.
Had a bit of a go with melting and shaping a few years ago. A lot of stores have plastic wrap put over their delivered pallets. It's easy to come by and melts really well and is incredibly hard, worth giving that a go. The whole idea is interesting and I guess you could make some small scale items or art. It looks pretty prohibitive considering the cost of electricity. The bench, like I say interesting but it would be useful to give a breakdown of all costs to produce it.
Good eye at pointing out the electric cost!
Heat especially is costly for electric appliances.
What if you used a solar collector dish to heat it?
@@1chumley1 unreliable, tricky, not very precise, and it risks burning the plastic instead of melting it
@@Eduardo_Espinoza Yes, electricity isn't cheap in most places.
But plastic sheets aren't cheap either, unless we are talking about super thin stuff like cling film.
The shown methods already save a ton of money if you actually intent to DIY something out of plastic. With the added benefit of actually re-using old plastic garbage.
Just don't expect the absolute maximum material quality, but that's barely an issue at all for most puposes.
@@1chumley1 Perfect suggestion.
I still marvel at how far you've come with your channel, your workshop, and endless creativity!
Just watched your plastic bag wallet episode, i was into making stronger reusable bags with them using the same ironing method some ten years back. This was also when my kids were younger and drinking capris sun and i really loved making juice pouch wallets.
* I find recently as i build my stash of hdpe plastics so many bottle caps don't say what type of plastic it is which makes things complicated. I'm in the US , i did find a brand of bottled water made with recycled materials, is recyclable and caps are hdpe! YAY 🙂
For now I've used cut bottles and plastic bags as fillers for other crafts I enjoy.
I always wondered how strong that recycled bench was, experiencing zero flex while holding 2 person load without any support in middle section. I love your videos and I hope more people start recycling.
At 1 time I was recycling but when aluminum got
too cheap to sell I was done with saving cans
@@unitedwestanddividedwefall2073 😔
@@unitedwestanddividedwefall2073 what the _~bleeping bleepety bleep~_? It's not about the money as much as keeping that shyt OUT of the landfills. I don't get paid a solitary penny for recycling glass, for example, but I damned well DO, because I care about what kind of planet our grandkids and great grandchildren will have to live on. Do YOU want to live on top of a landfill, a figurative ticking time bomb, with methane leaks that can catch fire, toxic chemicals that can leach into your drinking water, and the like?
THAT is why recycling is important. I mean, for crying out loud, find someone that will pick up your bin of cans every so often! There's a ton of folks out there that would do so. It's incredibly sad that you only do something if it pays YOU. 😔
I am more concerned about the heat the plastic stores....which will be transferred to your umm behind when you sit on it.
@unitedwestanddividedwefall2073
Will u be making a machine gun out of those soda cans?
Recent sub, I had no idea it was so "easy" to reshape plastic into new products, thanks for the content.
Glad it was helpful!
Wow! I love this channel - I found you by accident. And I’m glad I did - I’m fascinated by the stuff you do and I love learning about new machinery, etc available to make stuff. I have been a word worker for years (among other things) and I only wish I could get a 3d builder. In any case, I’ve subscribed! Thanks so much
I am so glad I stumbled upon your video. I've been saving water bottle lids for some time, but didn't really know what to do with them. So, I threw a bunch out (gasp!!!). Now, I will start saving again and search for a thrifted panini press. My mind's wheels are turning now. Thank you.
The lids are low density polyethylene. They're kinda crappy. I'm not sure why they use LDPE to make lids with. The bottles themselves are HDPE. If they're not PET.
You guys are rocking! I wish I had a brother too!
Thanks Jesper! Ah, you're very welcome to borrow mine 😅
I'm really inspired by you guys and my mind is exploding with ideas already. I'm already a scrapper by nature. I was wondering if you'd share how to deal with the piles of things that were going to be trash or might be something else. The potential materials. How you store them, how you decide what is worth the effort and space to keep and what you go ahead and dispose of (recycle or throw away). How did you handle that as you've grown? As an aspiring maker I have a hard time keeping my little space from being overrun and ending up turning into a hoarder with no hope of finding anything and no room to begin a project even if the overwhelm of the chaos didn't discourage me.
story of my life :D Best tip i have for saving space: get rid of air. air takes up valueable space. if you collect bottle caps, cut them up. if you have lots of scrap wood, glue them together and make new sheets or blocks, disassemble cardboard boxes. use your ceiling to store thin materials. also in general: don't keep ressouces laying around for too long- do something with them before they do something with you
Merry Christmas guys. It’s like a summary of a bunch of your methods. Very nicely packaged!
Glad you liked it :)
Love y'all work keep helping turn plastic into better ideas.
Thank you!
These are really gr8 ideas! I’ve been researching ways to make small items cheaper bc resin is so expensive! I’m a newbie at creating to make some extra cash on the side
Thank you, this was very helpful! 😊❤
I just love what you do, and while watching this, and with a teensy hint of an idea from another comment here, I think I may do a bit of experimenting with interlocking puzzle piece shapes. I think it would be really cool to put them together for a tabletop or countertop, with a nice coat of epoxy over the top!
(If anyone copies this idea and makes any money from it, I want a cut, LOL!)
Absolutely brilliant and so glad to see so many ways to reuse plastic. Hope your business grows by leaps and bounds 🙂👍
Great demo and insight on what appears to be a smartly designed improvement/upgrade for the weakest tonal link in the Fender offset model wiggle-bar proposition. I'm quite impressed with how much better the bridge helped your guitar transmit mid to low frequency information, and seemed to add overall to resonance and note duration.
UM WRONG Video, are you lost??
By the way I am Linda my husband passed away last year so I decided to learn to make something out of melted plastic thanks for your video
I adore all things gadgets…lol. But cannot of course afford to purchase all these. So I’ll just watch these really cool machines and comment on how . Hope you are having fun recycling stuff. It looks super fun.
You can get a pretty decent heat gun kit with case and nozzles for $25... even less just for the gun, Most craft stores have $10 embossing heat guns, but they have less control and you'll still end up around the same price since you'll probably want an infrared thermometer, too, if you go that route, which runs around $10.
I think my Panini press I use exclusively for crafting was only $5 from Goodwill.
I love that you are showing folks to recycle. And the things you make are amazing and exciting. The wheels in my head are turning ! Trying to get husband on board. If not I will do it all by myself hahaha
I've melted a lot of HDPE stock and it can be a handy material but there's limits with what you can do with it. Pressing it like they're doing creates internal stresses in the plastic which makes it impossible to make anything precise out of it. The stuff warps and springs when you cut it. Relieving that stress is something I never figured out how to do. It also takes a lot of time and energy to melt the plastic. So you're not really saving the planet doing it.
@@1pcfredYes, there are for sure going to be limitations with this for the majority of us (especially if you only focus on bottle caps) who can only basic DIY it, which means realistically most of us will be contributing via crafts and upcycling, but I mean, you're still diverting waste from landfills and keeping it out of the environment.
It's not perfect, but it's better than doing nothing?
It's easy to get stuck in the "but I'm just one person" mindset, but if enough of us join up we have strength in numbers and I don't think we should dismiss how that could eventually lead to major change via legislation after educating those around us through our products and hyping others to join or even just helping spread the information.
You guys inspired me to start melting down and recycling my own plastic, thank you!!!
Exacly, other from panini how can we transform our plastics to 3d printers
HDPE isn’t a great candidate for 3D printing filament unfortunately. But so happy we got you started!
When you inhale plastic fumes, you’re exposing yourself to a number of toxic chemicals that can damage your lungs and cause a variety of respiratory problems. Some of these chemicals like dioxins and benzene are carcinogenic.
These guys got me keen as well. It's just taking me alot longer to get going.
Key word you said there was ‘fumes’. We know our plastics and control the temperatures very carefully. We never burn plastics of any types. With HDPE, that means no fumes
Very creative, innovative, and environment conscious inventors.
I didn't know that I need someone to call me a bloody legend. Thank you, that was great
Thanks for watching til the end!
I wanna be like you guys when I grow up
You are great guys
You taught us the simplest way to recycle plastic
Yeah! Great vid you blokes! The thing that crossed my mind, apart from the fun of making stuff (always good in my book) the lack of hardwood these days means it's difficult to get hold of wood to make decent bats for the ancient game of Bat and Trap. However, I'm sure they could be made from recycled plastic to the correct spec. Brilliant! I'll have to slot this in, along with all my other projects...!! Thanks, chaps - liked and subscribed!
Dear Sir, there’s a new kind of flooring made out of a color-dyed fiberglass filiament and plastic, which is PHYSICALLY INDESTRUCTIBLE, but EXPENSIVE. It’s not that cheap extruded plastic beams used to replace beachside wood broadwalks (which unlike the insulated wood broadwalks, increments solar heat and will melt the sandals off your feet) but a composite material of lengths of fiberglass threads compressed and melted together. After a homeowner hires someone to construct house floors or patio porch’s out of this material, dyed to look like wood, they always have shortened cut off pieces they usually put on the curb for garbage pickup. If you could ‘cur shop’ those pieces, you could repurpose them into unbreakable baseball bats and unbreakable plastic artifacts, using diamond-edged buzz saws and a LOT of work. EOJ
You men are brilliant. I usually feel depressed when I think of myself as a human being but watching your video makes me proud.
Wow, l loved watching this... The outro is hilarious! 🤣
That bench is wonderful.
Glad you enjoyed it ☺️
Как же это красиво, практически из мусора делать такую красоту.
И ни слова про нагрев на костре... меня терзают смутные сомнения 😀 парни молодцы, скамейка впечатлила!
that last bit with the extrusion was amazing!!!
Thanks! We have a full video on making that bench if you’re interested :)
fantastic, I want to acquire these tools to start crafting from recycled materials like this. I already make tcg storage boxes from cardboard junk, but this is much more involved and I think it would be more rewarding. Awesome stuff
Brothers, thanks for the great ideas! It was really helpful to see the ideas in 1 place.
Here are my favourites of this video's suggestions.
1) Cookie cutter! Maybe we can make custom cutters out of tin cans?
2) That single piece of wood mold. I never thought of that.
3) The page holder.
I bet that if we set up a public library event, where we offered them for $1, then we could raise awareness and funds for our recycling causes.
Have you ever thought of making an HDPE boat?
Hey Eugene, thanks for your feedback and some nice ideas in there as always! And funnily enough a boat/raft is actually on our list to build and make a video on this summer - so watch this space! ♻️
@@BrothersMake Good to know. Thanks for the info.
I'm interested in making a custom laundry basket, by fastening pieces together instead of melting them. Do you have any suggestions? Maybe cut out some flat pieces from a milk jug, and cut them in a way that allows them to interlock? Maybe ice pop sticks or disposable chopsticks could be use to fasten them together?
Actually, that might work. The plastic is flexible enough to fit in small shaped holes, and then sticks could used to keep the inserts from wiggling free.
Does that sound right?
@@BrothersMake By the way, I suggest making a toy boat that is scaled to what you want. This way, you could film both using a forced perspective, and it might make people laugh.
Also, by the way, you mentioning the raft makes me think that we can create a snow sled out of HDPE. That would be a great use, I think.
Speaking of sleds, there is a sled shovel, which allows us to move snow by pushing a sled shaped shovel, so that nobody has to lift a lot of snow. This might be a nice project.
How hard is it to recycle biodegradable plastic? I ask, because I am hoping that the microplastics from wear & tear from using them outdoors are less harmful than HDPE fragments.
This is why when local municipalities say that they can only recycle certain types of plastic, I don't understand what their excuse is.
You just showed how it's done
Excellent video
CLEVER!!! YOU are what’s right about the world!
Haha thank you! 🌎🌎
Merry Christmas to you to. Thanks for everything.
Merry Christmas to you too, Giovanna! 🎄
Just amazing ! Thank you for your great work and time you've spend doing this video. Love it!
Pretty darn KOoL chaps...cheers from WESTERN CANADA
I think that would make beautiful floor tiles with the blue Pepsi lids.
I've been using oven safe molds to make pendants from the scraps of PLA plastic from 3d printing.
Soup can method would probably be easier if you didn't use a pull top can (which has a ridge). A standard can opened with one of those no sharp can openers gives a nice smooth surface at the lip
Love the bench.
Thanks. The bench loves you 💚
You never cease to amaze me
I'd LOVE to have the workshop space and money for them CNC machines and the mould injection equipment!!! Oh the possibilities even just from recycled milk bottles.
Brothers make, you are fantastic. Can we have some ideas for repairing plastics? Example I see a lot of laundry baskets thrown out because of cracks, could we have a video something like that? Thanks so much :)
You could also use your extrusion method to mass produce interlocking bricks. I've toyed with the idea after reading an article about a company doing just that and thought it would make a great DIY project that could potentially save me a bunch of money in building supplies. I would (as well as y'all) have to look at the relative strength but I'm sure it would work in non load bearing applications.
Yanno, it might, with some epoxy poured over the top, be pretty cool to make interlocking puzzle piece shapes and use them to make a tabletop, a bar top, or even a countertop! That's a VERY intriguing idea! 🤔
I really appreciate this video. Thank you for showing us all the levels
You’re very welcome :)
You are absolutely awesome! The biggest problem our planet is facing right now is the absolute overload with single use plastic.
Absofreakinglutely afreakingmen to that!
Then the world just needs bigger problems. But don't worry the present administration has got you covered. Nuclear holocaust will be a real doozy, don't you think? They're working hard on it now.
J'apprécie beaucoup votre travail vous me donnez des idées merci .
I logged on to finish watching Leon the Lobster shed his shell. I'd just come back from the supermarket full of sadness after visiting with the lobsters in the seafood dept. Yet, I was mesmerized by the cute Brit Bros ironing plastic bags. And, I missed the link to find Kevin the upholstered! Can someone send me the link?
Thank You! Liz
Amazing!!! We need this across the world 🌎!!
We'd be better off burning plastic to generate energy. Melting plastic takes energy. Burnt at a high enough temperature there'd be no hazardous byproducts.
Wow !!! THANK YOU !!! I learnt a lot from your video. I plan to put this knowledge to good use.
Hi, I'm Elham from Egypt, I was looking for a way to increase my income, and to save the world too! Yesterday before watching this video I tried to melt some plastic but it was a bad idea 😅, now I'll try to use the hot gun method, so I bought tuna cans for lunch 😂
It's been a while now trying to come out with a safe and (homey) method to recycle plastic, with my kids around. And I found ur channel so thank you ❤
Very impressive. I like it. I never knew one can DIY. Especially the handmade ones. Thank u for sharing👍
soo cool!!
i found you guys cos i was looking up craft uses for a heat gun cos i wann buy one!
tysm for all the ideas!
instant sub
You're more than welcome, glad you found it useful!
Nice stuff 🙂
As a LARPer and cosplayer, this makes me curious to think what I might do for that kind of thing. My current train of thought leads me to think of thick sheets to make sci-fi armour parts out of.
Obrigado por existirem!!! Um abraço forte aqui do Brasil!
What wonderful toys you guys have!
just discovered your channel, wonderful! thanks a lot, love the ideas, I was looking for something like this since many years ago. Blessings!
Yes I been melting plastic trying it out I just new some one can teach me more about it thanks for your video
Thanks again for sharing! 💯 ❣️
In the USA, a grocery chain has shoppers bring in their recyclable plastic bags and they have a company turn them into benches similar to yours. They should just agree not to use plastic bags in the first place. That won't happen until the government bans plastic.
What a great hustle to take right to the beach! Have people bring their own caps and charge a small fee for labor or bring different colors and make custom!
Congratulations!
You are very PRO recyclers!
Hello guys , greetings ... Sou daqui do Rio de Janeiro e trabalho como coletor de lixo e todo santo dia centenas de toneladas de variados tipos de plástico são jogados fora , porém aqui no meu país infelizmente não há uma campanha do governo para incentivar a reciclagem de tais materiais . Aliás , faz pouco tempo que devido ás condições financeiras , que várias pessoas estão recolhendo e vendendo em ferros - velhos para ganharem uma renda extra . Não só o plástico , como o papelão , alumínio , ferro e outros materiais são vendidos aos montes . Gostei e achei bem interessante o trabalho de vocês ao mostrar ( e provar ) que muita coisa pode ser feita com o plástico , além de auxiliar a limpeza da mãe -natureza . Um abraço aos dois !!!!!
Thanks for making this video ❤
Xtraordinary way to teach. Congratulations friends.
Impressive idea about the chair made by plastic... I wish I can make it for my own used... But still have the machine like that to make the block and assemble it...
i love the mallet and the bench!
Great job guys. I like the way you think.
Thank you, Antonio ♻️
You guys would make great additions to the Sea Bums Beach Cleanup Crew.
I'm definitely going to be setting up some plastic recycling for the Hackspace, our giant book press would become much more functional as a result.
Oooh that sounds like a perfect sheet press option!
Great video, guys! Thanks for sharing all this tips 🤜🤛
Thanks for watching! 🤙🏽🤙🏽
Great to see your progression over the years in on Great video. Have a fantastic festive period and hope to see you in the new year.
Thanks so much! Happy holidays to you too!
Aluminium dust (tiny pieces) in the molten plastic look great
Good job mash'Allah
Love the bench! So cool!
Братцы, вы очень вдохновляющие! 🚀🔥
This is fantastic. What a great way to recycle plastic.
It takes a lot of energy to melt the plastic.
You two are the best. I love it. Pls make an electric guitar body
Outstanding! Now I'm gonna have another hobby! But first, I gotta scavenge all of the plastic out of my recycling bins before heading to the recycling center!
Great video 👍
Recycling is not a myth 😜
Its very good
I am here in brazil.
Fun Fact: I have that very same blue silicone pad.
But alas, no panini maker.
Great video guys, thank you!
You guy's are genius, love your work
Thanks so much!
Excellent choice of t shirt. Fellow Deftones enjoyer, here.
Y’all the future keep on keeping on
Beach Benchy was way too cool!❤👍👍. Might need some assistance, in rolling a project out!.
Look forward to more....😊
Thanks so much! Good luck with the project ♻️💚
Love that these are assessable