Another suggestion I forgot to mention : Use a silicone spatula on the griddle. It didn't take long for my scraper to scratch off some of the Teflon coating 😪
@@Psy_an If you mean the Teflon and Metal thing, Teflon coatings are quite toxic. When you scratch it, it becomes ore and more damaged over time releasing more and more into your food. and if you overheat the pan, the coating releases extremely toxic fumes.
Have you tried using a cutting fluid with the ultrasonic knife? I have some experience machining plastics, and something like TapFree or even just water with a little dishsoap is a must-have for cutting plastics. Just check the MSDS for anything that might interact with the plastics you're using it on.
So I see a couple people mentioning annealing, but that is actually what is causing the brittleness issue and actually what you want to do is the exact opposite... So the problem is that what gives the plastic polymer the ability to bend and withstand some stress is that fact that the polymer chains in the initial material are (for lack of a better term) randomized, meaning that they all individually point in every direction. When you heat these polymers to their glass transition temperature you are enabling the individual polymer chains to move around, and when they do they seek order in terms of polymer chain alignment, essentially trying to stack together as tightly as possible. So when they slowly cool you are allowing the polymer chains to crystalize. This is why printed material is stronger and more brittle than the raw filament, why you can anneal certain filaments to gain strength, and why the problem keeps compounding every-time you heat your plastic then let it cool slowly. So what you actually want to try to do, is shock cool your plastic. Go directly from when the material is gooey (random polymer chain orientations), to a cold temperature when that chain orientation is locked in, without allowing it to go through a cooling process where the chains crystalize. Not sure how to go about this, maybe taking a melted sheet and just spatula-ing it right into an ice water bath. Might be interesting to try. But then you SHOULD have a sheet of plastic that will be much more accepting of melting and forming for something like a bowl... Good Luck!
Nice! I had this issue home recycling plastic. I'll absolutely try this out next time, I might try to blast it with compressed air to cool it, because I don't have a way to dump mine into an ice bath lol
Plastics are made from polymers. By melting plastic, the polymers can break. you can only melt plastics so many times before severely altering the material properties. Also squeezing it through small spaces greatly reduces quality. Since it has already been squeezed through a nozzle 2 times (in the fillament factory and through the nozzle of your printer), when you start melting it again and again for these projects, quality will go down even more. I'm not saying it can't be done, I'm just saying it will be significantly harder. Btw, I'm Dutch, so excuse me if i got some of the terms wrong
@M A Q U E Z He Said that heating over and over makes it more brittle, You don’t have to say that because he already knows and tell us in the video , the other part of you comment is fine
I like how you had that hilarious instruction/safety scene was at the beginning and somehow ended with "I'm going to go around the house and start cutting random things." An artist at work everyone.
You need to anneal the plastic to relieve the brittleness. Also using the griddle to heatsoak the plastic evenly will likely be easier to form onto the molds.
Anyone else think he should use a cookie cutter and place the plastic inside the shape of the the cookie cutter to get a cool looking ginger bread plastic figure thingy?
I've always wondered if the recycled plastic would be suitable for injection molding. A friend of mine used to buy cheap pocket knives a flea markets, take their plastic sides off and then replace them with vibrant plexi panels that he would make himself. You might be able to do the same with your recycled panels.
When recycling plastic it is beneficial to use some virgin plastic (pellets) to help keeping the material up to the original specs. If your going to experiment with a filament extruded you certainly already have access to pellets.
Mix up this technique with normal 3D printing like you did but...in reverse! Use a recycled base and 3d print numbers on it to create a clock, or make light fixtures
I know this is unsolicited but I noticed that you’ve lost some weight and I just want to send you well wishes and hope that you’re not unwell. Keep making awesome projects! All my best. :)
Thanks for watching, now let's hear your ideas! What else can be made from recycled prints? What other tools and techniques can I try? *Edit* ALSO what else should I cut up with that ultrasonic cutter?
It looks like part of what you were fighting with the bowls was that the bowls were acting as a heat sink and drawing away the heat from the plastic forcing you to overheat the plastic. Maybe stick the bowls in the oven or heat them up before you place the plastic and start using the heat gun. You didn't seem to have much problem with the heat gun and the small piece you were trying to get rid of the thin strings. AWESOME looking stuff man!
Part of the forming problem is the uneven heating. You are using a "point" heat source and then moving it around which let's the plastic cool unevenly. This would allow some parts to be very brittle. Another problem is that some of your molds were able to transfer heat away from the plastic too quickly and shattering it at "the glass transition" state. You could build yourself a kiln to heat it all evenly. Something as simple as the kaowool blanket over chicken wire would likely work for the lower temperatures you would be using.
Here's an idea for an experiment. Build a solar oven (easy and cheap) and sandwich the pla grit between glass sheets in it and see if it can create similar sheets without using extra energy.
Wow, great presenter, artist, and guitar player in one! Quite the Renaissance man. Congratulations on your gifts and excellent use of them on your excellent channel. Seems like you’re a hit.
Man it's been so long since you made that video reminds me of how long I have been watching your channel keep up the great work and remember stay creative.
Glass plate, different grit sandpaper on top, you will be able to sand those rough edges down/flat and then polish your way to a nice finish. Coat of high gloss = bang! Looks awesome.
I wonder if putting the bowl on the griddle then putting the plastic sheet over the top of that would make creating the bowl easier? It would spread the heat out more evenly over the whole sheet
Nice video as always. To making that bowls, I suggest preheating that metal bowls, they take away heat from plastic really fast and that could be your problem.
Oddly enough I'd recently seen a bunch of Acrylic Pour experiments by E&K and these sheets kinda remind me of some of what they made. Made the answers is that they sheets themselves are already the final product, depending on the shape you melt them into, as wall art or boding them to some surface during the melting phase? The Pick guard and the phone case were nice though.
You should check out Davehakkens's channel, he has a lot of videos on recycling plastic into every day use items, as well as 3D printing filament. He made bowls like this in the past if I remember correctly.
I remember the first 3d print course that I taken here in Argentina ( Sept 2016 ) and when I ask to the guy that talk in the course about how to handle the failed printed, he told me "once you know how to print, you will not have failed prints" what is an huge lie, because as you say, when you are making test, it is impossible that every print stuff come perfect in the first time, and, even if you print PERFECT that is impossible, the support structure it is part of plastic waste, thanks for sharing this info.
This has given me some ideas as me and a friend have been trying to think of ways to recycle the plastic waste from 3D printing. as far as the bowls goes, what if you tried a similar method of what they do with beads and pearler beads. Instead of using plastic sheets fill the base inside of a bowl with a layer of plastic, have a inner form (another bowl) and fill the space in between with plastic, then melt... you would need to use and oven again (I suggest getting one of those counter top ones to see if that would work for something like this). Have you tired putting the chopped plastic into silicone molds yet?
I think that it's so brittle because your original pieces are so large (relative) If they were smaller (like dust or powder) the chance of it breaking when you reheat it on to the boal
How about using the shredded pieces between the two metal bowls, and heating it to make a bowl? Meaning, use the metal bowls to melt the shredded plastic, instead of the griddle. You would need an external heat source, of course.
Two questions, 1. Can we use the knife to welder two pieces of plastics together? Since you have shown that it can melt plastics, 2. Can we attach the knife to the 3D printer head to cut g-code programmed shapes out of plastic sheets? Thanks in advance.
You have to use the deburring tool in the right hand towards you and in the left hand away from you. The cutting edge is to one side of the blade, so it will only cut properly in one direction. 👍
what if you put the resikeled sheet in a pan of water (on top of your hot plat) let it worm up in there then try to shap it. also i think there is an aditive to make the plastik less britel out there, but you will need to do that when you make the sheet. the sheets are just making me think of the plastik splint/cast i had on my arm. it was some plastik that they put into hot water and cut to make the cast/splint. as for a extruder..... My dad was a inventer of something like that. if i remeber rite..... you need a larg drill bit that you can holow out and a toob to make it fite. put a heting coyill around the toob to help heet it (you may not need a heeting rod in the dtillbit depending on the size.) have a saf gard so you cant tuch the heted coill. end of tube comes to a pont. maybe abell to use a iceing pipe bag tip for that. knoow its bad writing but i hope you can get what im trying to say ^^' dislexea and welll yay...
That "Wonder" cutter thing need to have a better cooling system for the blade... Could you cut with the plastic under a shallow layer of water or would it splash too much and damage the circuit of the cutter?
to make heating more uniform and better, take the chopped up plastic bits and put them in the bottom bowl, then put a second, smaller bowl in the center (fill it with sand to make the heat distribute evenly)
The wall art via free form cuts with the sonic knife and the 3D pen are really cool. If they are thin enough to act as light filters could they be used with a motorized wheel, layered, made into a window treatment for a sun catcher that casts new cool shapes and colors across the room? Now you need to show us your sonic screw driver just like on Doctor Who :)
5:04 honestly they're so pertty you could use them as paintings! wow... I LOVED the phone case so much too. tho 3d printed phone cases always end up being horrible in my experiance.
I know a lot of my local engineering colleges have a filament recycler/extruder. I plan on asking to use that once I have enough waste. Even if there is a fee it probably would be cheaper than buying a new roll
Also, why not fill in the brittle areas with a 3D pen, so nothing goes to waste? I think the combo of new and old could bring back some of the lost flexibility.
Cutting through foam core, I've had to change blades after each individual cut in order to keep from ruining the edge and make a perfect cut. Using xacto blades was okay for that since you can buy a whole box of blades pretty cheap. The blade is a bit pricey but if you have a large enough job you'd save on time (changing blades and redoing ruined pieces) and produce less waste (of pieces ruined by an imperfect cut), I would get one. But the project has to be big with enough time saved to warrant the investment. I suppose you can also prevent injuries because you no longer have to put pressure on the blade for the tougher materials. I remember finishing a project that I spent three months on, staying to 11pm on the final push, and the following two weeks recovering because I'd wrecked my wrists.
I just saw a UA-cam video where the lady got a little food processor from Temu for like 10 bucks, it was like 3 times the size of one I see you're using to chop up filament scrap. Maybe that might be a step up for the amount you could chop up?
I just bought this ultra sonic knife today and it works great. I have used it for a couple of things now. It’s way more better then cutting plastic with a razor. I have made a DIY bench power supply and this worked great for cutting the holes.
Hey. I would like to suggest the Clover mini iron 2. It has a heated exacto knife that I would be curious how it did with cutting. I’m going to try it with my son for his school project and see how it goes. Maybe I can send you a piece.
Mixing different colored plastics like that is extremely similar to how special colored records are made. Maybe try and see if you can make something that looks crazy cool but is also playable
Regarding making your own filament without buying something. Wouldn't a metal bin that can be heated. A nuzzle that everything melted runs down into then pours into a sloped ramp. A small aquarium pump that makes water flow. Then let the plastic rapid cool in the water, so to speak. Wouldn't that work?
If you have any 3mm birch plywood laying around, I'd love to know what this does. I have a laser and would be using it when a glue layer in the plywood keeps the laser from cutting all the way through. Thanks!
Another suggestion I forgot to mention : Use a silicone spatula on the griddle. It didn't take long for my scraper to scratch off some of the Teflon coating 😪
Wow!
That is really cool!!!
Second reply and like
Why don’t you try an organic puzzle shapes from the recycled plastic
Well, now you can't eat ANY of them!
Make Anything is molten pla toxic ?
my horror at you using a metal spatula on a teflon surface can not be overstated
well aleats he isnt cooking on it or i dont thinks so
@@johandreyer617 you would hope not
Pardon my ignorance, but why?
@@Psy_an why what?
@@Psy_an If you mean the Teflon and Metal thing, Teflon coatings are quite toxic. When you scratch it, it becomes ore and more damaged over time releasing more and more into your food. and if you overheat the pan, the coating releases extremely toxic fumes.
Have you tried using a cutting fluid with the ultrasonic knife? I have some experience machining plastics, and something like TapFree or even just water with a little dishsoap is a must-have for cutting plastics. Just check the MSDS for anything that might interact with the plastics you're using it on.
So I see a couple people mentioning annealing, but that is actually what is causing the brittleness issue and actually what you want to do is the exact opposite...
So the problem is that what gives the plastic polymer the ability to bend and withstand some stress is that fact that the polymer chains in the initial material are (for lack of a better term) randomized, meaning that they all individually point in every direction. When you heat these polymers to their glass transition temperature you are enabling the individual polymer chains to move around, and when they do they seek order in terms of polymer chain alignment, essentially trying to stack together as tightly as possible. So when they slowly cool you are allowing the polymer chains to crystalize. This is why printed material is stronger and more brittle than the raw filament, why you can anneal certain filaments to gain strength, and why the problem keeps compounding every-time you heat your plastic then let it cool slowly.
So what you actually want to try to do, is shock cool your plastic. Go directly from when the material is gooey (random polymer chain orientations), to a cold temperature when that chain orientation is locked in, without allowing it to go through a cooling process where the chains crystalize. Not sure how to go about this, maybe taking a melted sheet and just spatula-ing it right into an ice water bath. Might be interesting to try. But then you SHOULD have a sheet of plastic that will be much more accepting of melting and forming for something like a bowl... Good Luck!
Very informative, thanks!
Nice! I had this issue home recycling plastic. I'll absolutely try this out next time, I might try to blast it with compressed air to cool it, because I don't have a way to dump mine into an ice bath lol
Dry Ice?
Plastics are made from polymers. By melting plastic, the polymers can break. you can only melt plastics so many times before severely altering the material properties. Also squeezing it through small spaces greatly reduces quality. Since it has already been squeezed through a nozzle 2 times (in the fillament factory and through the nozzle of your printer), when you start melting it again and again for these projects, quality will go down even more. I'm not saying it can't be done, I'm just saying it will be significantly harder.
Btw, I'm Dutch, so excuse me if i got some of the terms wrong
im a native engrish speacker i spek real well
@@ducklingwarrior thanks!
@M A Q U E Z He Said that heating over and over makes it more brittle, You don’t have to say that because he already knows and tell us in the video , the other part of you comment is fine
I like how you had that hilarious instruction/safety scene was at the beginning and somehow ended with "I'm going to go around the house and start cutting random things."
An artist at work everyone.
I'm going to cut everything.... but I'll do it with gloves and glasses ;)
@@make.anything As you've said, this thing will cut through anything, will it cut through your gloves as well? ;)
@@quentincampbell5865 yes, but it still offers protection as an extra layer!
@@make.anything That little bit of false sense of security? Just yanking your chain. ;)
I like how you inlaid it into the phone case
Just if you're wondering, this thing cost upwards of $300...
No thank you.
But it can cut anything!
@@MaximilianonMars but it's 300
@@miko8732 but it can cut anything
@@m3rcyk1ll1ng .but for 300 you could get 300 burgers from McDonald's.
@@miko8732 but if you got something you can cut anything with you could cut through a bank vault to buy even more burgers
You need to anneal the plastic to relieve the brittleness. Also using the griddle to heatsoak the plastic evenly will likely be easier to form onto the molds.
Anyone else think he should use a cookie cutter and place the plastic inside the shape of the the cookie cutter to get a cool looking ginger bread plastic figure thingy?
Hmm, interesting idea!
Then it could be used as a shape puncher of sorts
I've always wondered if the recycled plastic would be suitable for injection molding.
A friend of mine used to buy cheap pocket knives a flea markets, take their plastic sides off and then replace them with vibrant plexi panels that he would make himself. You might be able to do the same with your recycled panels.
I watched some ultrasonic knife videos yesterday from This Old Tony
When recycling plastic it is beneficial to use some virgin plastic (pellets) to help keeping the material up to the original specs. If your going to experiment with a filament extruded you certainly already have access to pellets.
Thanks for opening my fan mail!
Thanks for sending it in 😁
I ADORE that phone case! Nice job with that one👍👍
you could totally make like, wristbands/bangles out of the plastic sheets if you melt em thicker then curve them when they’re still warm
just melt it directly onto your wrist
Mix up this technique with normal 3D printing like you did but...in reverse! Use a recycled base and 3d print numbers on it to create a clock, or make light fixtures
Hmm you might be on to something
I know this is unsolicited but I noticed that you’ve lost some weight and I just want to send you well wishes and hope that you’re not unwell. Keep making awesome projects! All my best. :)
Thanks for watching, now let's hear your ideas! What else can be made from recycled prints? What other tools and techniques can I try?
*Edit* ALSO what else should I cut up with that ultrasonic cutter?
You could make phone cases using these recycled prints by using the phone as a template as you did for the 3d printed phone cases!
Friend of mine is a guitar maker. We are melting down my waste plastic into a pickguard for his next guitar build.
I was thinking you should try to make a replica of stary night with recycled prints. It would be really cool. Love your channel by the way!
a puzzle would be cool
you could make a real cool lookin hair comb
$385 for the ultrasonic knife... Like it, but not that much. Looks like its really aimed towards the foam cosplay makers. Neat stuff. Great video!
Usually when recycling plastics, you would add a percentage of virgin material in bead/pellets/powder form to overcome the problems you encountered.
Try vacuum forming the sheets
The inlay idea creates gorgeous results! 😍
I loved the phonecase, ill gonna try that some time! Thanks!
Make anything is my favorite channel! Keep up the good work, Devin!
Finally a big creator addressing the elephant in the room. You’re very quickly becoming my favorite channel!
It looks like part of what you were fighting with the bowls was that the bowls were acting as a heat sink and drawing away the heat from the plastic forcing you to overheat the plastic. Maybe stick the bowls in the oven or heat them up before you place the plastic and start using the heat gun. You didn't seem to have much problem with the heat gun and the small piece you were trying to get rid of the thin strings. AWESOME looking stuff man!
Idea: Ultrasonic knife on a swivel mount attached to the print head for a CNC ultrasonic knife.
Dang that could be interesting
Part of the forming problem is the uneven heating. You are using a "point" heat source and then moving it around which let's the plastic cool unevenly. This would allow some parts to be very brittle. Another problem is that some of your molds were able to transfer heat away from the plastic too quickly and shattering it at "the glass transition" state. You could build yourself a kiln to heat it all evenly. Something as simple as the kaowool blanket over chicken wire would likely work for the lower temperatures you would be using.
Here's an idea for an experiment. Build a solar oven (easy and cheap) and sandwich the pla grit between glass sheets in it and see if it can create similar sheets without using extra energy.
I like your thinking!
you're making me so excited for my 3d pen im getting tuesday
Edit: NVM IM GETTING IT TOMORROW IM SO EXCITED
Is it cool?
@@anacerdas5983 oohhhh my god, yes. one thing i didn't know about printers and pens is that when you use pla, it smells really good. fun fact
Thank you, I was wondering if buying one was worth it
@@anacerdas5983 it takes a little bit to get used to but I just made a glow-in-the-dark mushroom out of abs and it was really fun
@@MyceliumNebula Thanks, do you know where they are sold at Costa Rica?
The phone case inlay looks really nice. Keep exploring!
Your creativity never ceases to amazing me. Your 'coral' thing is radical.
Wow, great presenter, artist, and guitar player in one! Quite the Renaissance man. Congratulations on your gifts and excellent use of them on your excellent channel. Seems like you’re a hit.
I love that phone case, super unique
Man it's been so long since you made that video reminds me of how long I have been watching your channel keep up the great work and remember stay creative.
I know right! So many things to revisit and so little time
Just imagine the smell when he was melting that plastic
It would be amazing. The smell of melting PLA is actually pretty nice
PLA isn't too smelly, but I definitely didn't stand around while it was cooking
Somewhere between syrup and candy smell lol.
Like cotton candy actually
Glass plate, different grit sandpaper on top, you will be able to sand those rough edges down/flat and then polish your way to a nice finish. Coat of high gloss = bang! Looks awesome.
I wonder if putting the bowl on the griddle then putting the plastic sheet over the top of that would make creating the bowl easier? It would spread the heat out more evenly over the whole sheet
i like how you pronounce the word sheets. that knife looks awesome and im glad there are new ways to recycle the failed prints
My school recycles failed prints and leftover scraps from our vacuum former I think our school is awesome
Could you cut the plastic in a half inch of water or so as to not damage the cutter but also avoid the melting?
Nice video as always. To making that bowls, I suggest preheating that metal bowls, they take away heat from plastic really fast and that could be your problem.
Oddly enough I'd recently seen a bunch of Acrylic Pour experiments by E&K and these sheets kinda remind me of some of what they made. Made the answers is that they sheets themselves are already the final product, depending on the shape you melt them into, as wall art or boding them to some surface during the melting phase? The Pick guard and the phone case were nice though.
You should check out Davehakkens's channel, he has a lot of videos on recycling plastic into every day use items, as well as 3D printing filament. He made bowls like this in the past if I remember correctly.
Nothing more Nothing less THAN A BEAUTIFUL VIEW
I really like how much you experiment with recyling plastic!
I remember the first 3d print course that I taken here in Argentina ( Sept 2016 ) and when I ask to the guy that talk in the course about how to handle the failed printed, he told me "once you know how to print, you will not have failed prints" what is an huge lie, because as you say, when you are making test, it is impossible that every print stuff come perfect in the first time, and, even if you print PERFECT that is impossible, the support structure it is part of plastic waste, thanks for sharing this info.
This has given me some ideas as me and a friend have been trying to think of ways to recycle the plastic waste from 3D printing.
as far as the bowls goes, what if you tried a similar method of what they do with beads and pearler beads. Instead of using plastic sheets fill the base inside of a bowl with a layer of plastic, have a inner form (another bowl) and fill the space in between with plastic, then melt... you would need to use and oven again (I suggest getting one of those counter top ones to see if that would work for something like this).
Have you tired putting the chopped plastic into silicone molds yet?
You got the wrong deburring tool. You need a ceramic one designed for plastics. The one you have is best on metal.
whoops! thanks :)
I think that it's so brittle because your original pieces are so large (relative) If they were smaller (like dust or powder) the chance of it breaking when you reheat it on to the boal
How about using the shredded pieces between the two metal bowls, and heating it to make a bowl? Meaning, use the metal bowls to melt the shredded plastic, instead of the griddle. You would need an external heat source, of course.
I just started using my 3D printer right before Christmas and I can see why you would need something to recycle your filament with.
12:37 - I never knew Bjork liked freestyle dancing to acoustic guitars with 3D printed picks. ;-D
Could you make more of the necklaces? My friends and I loved them!
Two questions, 1. Can we use the knife to welder two pieces of plastics together? Since you have shown that it can melt plastics, 2. Can we attach the knife to the 3D printer head to cut g-code programmed shapes out of plastic sheets? Thanks in advance.
For making a bowl do the double bowl thing but for the top bowl put hot, boiling water, and for the bottom, keep it in boiling water
You could try using less plastic and make coasters for cups
I use me rafts for that, hehe
And then sell them on Etsy -- or I guess you have your own merch site!
Extremely beautiful art you created!
my god the tech manual action was one of the coolest moves I've ever seen in a video!
Make a Puzzle with the organic shapes as the pieces. you can experiment with that in illustrator like you did in the 3d puzzle video
A laser cutter would probably work well for that. I agree they would make nice abstract puzzles :)
You have to use the deburring tool in the right hand towards you and in the left hand away from you. The cutting edge is to one side of the blade, so it will only cut properly in one direction. 👍
you can get a piece of 1 inch glass to use as a cutting mat, i use to work in a leather shop and we use that as cutting mat.
hope this help you!
what if you put the resikeled sheet in a pan of water (on top of your hot plat) let it worm up in there then try to shap it. also i think there is an aditive to make the plastik less britel out there, but you will need to do that when you make the sheet. the sheets are just making me think of the plastik splint/cast i had on my arm. it was some plastik that they put into hot water and cut to make the cast/splint. as for a extruder..... My dad was a inventer of something like that. if i remeber rite..... you need a larg drill bit that you can holow out and a toob to make it fite. put a heting coyill around the toob to help heet it (you may not need a heeting rod in the dtillbit depending on the size.) have a saf gard so you cant tuch the heted coill. end of tube comes to a pont. maybe abell to use a iceing pipe bag tip for that. knoow its bad writing but i hope you can get what im trying to say ^^' dislexea and welll yay...
Because of you I got my CR 10 mini and it is awesome
That "Wonder" cutter thing need to have a better cooling system for the blade...
Could you cut with the plastic under a shallow layer of water or would it splash too much and damage the circuit of the cutter?
Are you going to MRRF ? there is going to be so many interesting people their this year would love to see you there!
No plans as of yet. I'm not a big crowd person but it would be fun!
to make heating more uniform and better, take the chopped up plastic bits and put them in the bottom bowl, then put a second, smaller bowl in the center (fill it with sand to make the heat distribute evenly)
And I really love watching the 3d printed fabric video. Did you know that others have employed this technique, including NASA?
I really like that black and purple sheet, it looks like a nebula.
The wall art via free form cuts with the sonic knife and the 3D pen are really cool. If they are thin enough to act as light filters could they be used with a motorized wheel, layered, made into a window treatment for a sun catcher that casts new cool shapes and colors across the room?
Now you need to show us your sonic screw driver just like on Doctor Who :)
how about using it as a seal for important letters, you can use the anti stick spray on some metal seal ring to stamp your logo on it
u can try make a marble pattern by having a white base with some black parts, the black and white one looks very cool
5:04 honestly they're so pertty you could use them as paintings! wow...
I LOVED the phone case so much too. tho 3d printed phone cases always end up being horrible in my experiance.
the things you make are literally so amazing
I really loved these ideas. I think if you sold those phone cases - assuming the case made zero plastic waste - you could sell quite a few of them.
I know a lot of my local engineering colleges have a filament recycler/extruder. I plan on asking to use that once I have enough waste.
Even if there is a fee it probably would be cheaper than buying a new roll
you should try and vacuum form the larger pieces to make bowls and other things
what if you cut the recycleplastic panels into (nearly) perfect circles and *then* use it as abstract wall art?
Did anyone count how many time he said „although“? If so tell me plssss
maybe try heat up the bowls so they don't cool down the plastic?
And put hot water in the uper one
Also, why not fill in the brittle areas with a 3D pen, so nothing goes to waste? I think the combo of new and old could bring back some of the lost flexibility.
If you added some fibreglass insulation into the tray it would make the top and bottom layers more similar
Cutting through foam core, I've had to change blades after each individual cut in order to keep from ruining the edge and make a perfect cut. Using xacto blades was okay for that since you can buy a whole box of blades pretty cheap. The blade is a bit pricey but if you have a large enough job you'd save on time (changing blades and redoing ruined pieces) and produce less waste (of pieces ruined by an imperfect cut), I would get one. But the project has to be big with enough time saved to warrant the investment. I suppose you can also prevent injuries because you no longer have to put pressure on the blade for the tougher materials. I remember finishing a project that I spent three months on, staying to 11pm on the final push, and the following two weeks recovering because I'd wrecked my wrists.
The wall art you made reminded me a lot of Subnautica plants..
suppose there's an attachment to that ultrasonic knife to make it weld PLA parts together? could be better than friction welding? :o
I just saw a UA-cam video where the lady got a little food processor from Temu for like 10 bucks, it was like 3 times the size of one I see you're using to chop up filament scrap. Maybe that might be a step up for the amount you could chop up?
Have you tried vacuum forming the sheets?
I just bought this ultra sonic knife today and it works great. I have used it for a couple of things now. It’s way more better then cutting plastic with a razor. I have made a DIY bench power supply and this worked great for cutting the holes.
Hey. I would like to suggest the Clover mini iron 2. It has a heated exacto knife that I would be curious how it did with cutting. I’m going to try it with my son for his school project and see how it goes. Maybe I can send you a piece.
For the freehand cuts, do you think that running over the sheet with a fine grit sandpaper would remove all the burrs then pull the shapes apart
I figure that could work, but it might hurt the glossy surfaces... and I just avoid sanding in general whenever I can 😜
Mixing different colored plastics like that is extremely similar to how special colored records are made. Maybe try and see if you can make something that looks crazy cool but is also playable
Regarding making your own filament without buying something. Wouldn't a metal bin that can be heated. A nuzzle that everything melted runs down into then pours into a sloped ramp. A small aquarium pump that makes water flow. Then let the plastic rapid cool in the water, so to speak. Wouldn't that work?
There's very little room for variance in the filament diameter, so it's easier said than done
1:56 cookies ‘n cream plastic
Love the "wheeeeep" every time you showed it starting on vid.
I would absolutely buy the melted sheets of plastic and hang them on my wall as decor. They just look so cool!
Ok but if the recycling machine and the laser cutter are really “pricey”, how much was the wonder cutter?
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Girls: **vibrates 40 thousand times a second** I need one
If you have any 3mm birch plywood laying around, I'd love to know what this does. I have a laser and would be using it when a glue layer in the plywood keeps the laser from cutting all the way through. Thanks!
Inlay piece for the phone is the coolest thing here IMHO.