Extruding PLA Filament at Home
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I'm starting another journey into filament-making. In the first video of this series, I'm extruding my own PLA filament in different colors using the 3DEVO Desktop Filament Extruder.
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00:00 Introduction
01:17 Extrusion Material
02:10 Extruding Clear PLA
05:52 Extruding Red PLA
08:22 Extruding Sparkly Blue Filament
09:34 Recycling failed prints
10:31 Pricing and target audience
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What are your extrusion or recycling ideas?
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I kept all leftovers and failed prints with hope to get or build one recycling and extruding solutions one day but checking just few days ago the those sold by the companies, not even a single one is worth the price or should I said within reasonable hobby budget if you're not printing on daily basis unfortunately.
DIY is the way I will have to dig for info on. Hopefuly I will find something interesting and with reasonable price tags.
By the way, have you seen those?
twitter.com/joshuartaylor/status/1408623749402927104?s=19
czcams.com/video/7jUVNTdU0XE/video.html
you should try extruding lego in your next video
I would like to see Copper Fill mixed with Conductive PLA. Will the copper make it more conductive? Will diluting the Conductive PLA with the Copper Fill's binder make it less conductive? Perhaps the surfaces of the copper particles are oxidised and won't conduct at all?
How about the cheap biodegradable trash bags as they sometimes can be found super cheap and I think they are in the same plastic area as PLA... But not sure at all about that...
but Yep could be fun to see if its possible to print with biodegradable trash bags as filament
"guys only want one thing and it's disgusting."
What guys want: **being able to recycle failed prints**
Gay
This is sort of true. Guys aren't ALWAYS thinking about sex. Sometimes we get really focused on projects and optimizing every little parameter to enhance the final result.
if i could recycle resin prints id be even happier
I have a bag full of supports and skirts/brims and failed prints. Wish there was a good/affordable way to recycle them into filament to use again.
imagine, it would be a great world, I cant even imagine how it could explode society if it were affordable, like everyone could be extruding their own filament so cheap that you could just make everything at home
"Clean it. Shred it. Sieve it. Dry it."
The hit Daft Punk never made.
More than ever, hour after, hour work is never over.
@@2QRh6g1I it's technologic, not Harder Better Faster Stronger
Clean it. Shred it. Sieve it. Dry it.
Feed it. Heat it. Shear. Extrude it.
I read this in the “bop it” voice.
I read this before that part of the video, and I immediately heard it in a daft punk style with some rhythm in the background xD
Failed prints -> New filament.
Every maker's dream.
Let's see if something like that might be viable in the future.
@@CNCKitchen Tons of youtubers have shown that isn't something you can do, not right now anyway. It always results in either bad filament or a mess.
'Every maker's dream.' Only makers who haven't tried it. If you have, you know it isn't even cost effective on time and materials, much less buying the machine..
@@ModelLights Do you realize that "dream" is something you wish to be possible not something that is possible? Thus for 3d-printing hobbyist who produces thus enough of the test / prototyping / failed prints affordable and working recycling system really might be a dream. Even more if he/she uses some higher quality/price filaments.
5000 dollars
Imagine how much better the world would be if these were affordable 😭
it's just a question of time, i found those greatly overpriced... what will be cool is to send back unused filament to a brand and they give you a discount on purchase.
@@youdig-detection Addnorth already does that.
"Instead of waiting on local government to establish a supply chain for separating and collecting bioplastics and petro-based plastics, use RE-ADD! We collect waste and spools from users of our filaments and reuse it separate recycled product lines."
I think that you get 10% discount and I think it's only in Sweden/nordic countries. It's a great idea tho.
It should honestly be illegal to sell these things at this price.
@@magnetwhisperer apparently those are made for company that do prototyping on material , not maker like us ... but surely it would be great to have one for maker with a way lower price tag.
@@magnetwhisperer If the demand for these machines increases then the price will decrease, the problem is you cant increase the demand without reducing the price in the first place so it becomes a gamble, you have to have the capitol to purchase in bulk to reduce production costs then produce in bulk sell cheap in the hope you increase the demand to a much greater level than your initial production run.
In the plastic injection world we usually never used 100% regrind, it was usually only about 25% at the most
This is what I was thinking. Mix the recycled with virgin to make it more consistent. Even recycling glass, they only use a certain percentage of recycled to new.
same thing i thought about, if he could test something like 20 to 75% recicled with the virgin PLA
I was thinking at most a 50/50 split, but also, I'd imagine the most virgin plastic you used, the better the outcome will be
Then I wonder why German table water sellers claim that their pet bottles are 100% made of recycled material?
PET bottles are one of the rare instances that can be properly recycled due to our deposit system.
To get more consistency when extruding recycled polymers. Make pellets first.. extrude 3mm and then chop it into 3mm long pellets
Smart!
I've thought about that too but I wonder how much reheating you can do with PLA and PETG before you degrade too much the plastic? does someone know how can I research about this?
You take the words out of my mouth. Pelletizing through a first low temp pass seems the obvious way to alleviate homogeneity issues. Amazing Stephan hasn’t tried it. 🤷♂️
Will try that because I built a pelletizer a while back.
@@CNCKitchen Are you measuring the power it uses? In the end recycling is cool, especially for shops that melt a lot of plastic into support material, but if it costs more than a new roll to remelt it... most shops are going to choose the landfill option.
I own one of these machines and I can say it is the best decision I made. I bought a pallet full of recycled PETG for under $300 and I've been making my own filament for almost year now and I still have around 60% of the pallet left to be used.
There is a learning curve sense recycling petg into filament is not that easy but I've learn a lot and now, after 1 year, I'm making my best filament yet.
How much do one of these extruders cost? Their website is devoid of any details.
7 grand@@PolygonJon
You should re-extrude the recycled filament which is bad, by chopping it up with a simple machine. The output should look like the masterbatch, and should function basically like the pellets, which should give you similar extrusions like the new ones. I know it uses more electricity, but I would like to see how much of a change it can make to the filament quality!😁😁
I built a pelletizer a while ago. Might be trying it out again!
Just use it on windy day when there is an energy overhead tho it might not really work in the south of germany
@@CNCKitchen Wouldn't recycling filament over and over again, even if using virgin pellets compromise the strength of the print? It'd be interesting to test how filament strength degrades over time using a mix of spent coupons with used filament of the same type and colour.
Side note, the master batch manufacturers would likely send you sample sets of pigment/plastics if you contact them. They're trying to get new clients and sending out small batches for testing can be common. I know of a few plastic manufacturers that will give you a trash bag full of pellets if you show up at the factory.
The trash bag definitely makes sense, but I have a feeling they aren't too concerned about ol' Stefan here as a client considering he'd buy such small batches.
I need names 😉
@@daveabittner yeah, but its probably not worth it to look up everyone you send a small bag to, the bag only costs less than 5€ probably, wich is less than a person who knows how and where to reserach brands and firms and stuff
I went on a course at this company last year. Their team is amazing. Their machines are amazing. Their facility is amazing. It is a super interesting process but you need a lot and I mean a lot of knowledge about plastics and other stuff because you've got a lot of different parameters and factors that come into play. We tried all day to extrude injection moulding grade polypropylene but the end result wasn't great. If we used 3d printing grade or a different kind of polypropylene we might've been successful. But anyway I had loads of fun and learned a lot.
dude. I am so excited for your recycling video!
Coming soon!
bro over the last week I've been researching this and been watching your old videos thank you so much for making this updated video
Glad I could help!
The first 6 minutes I slowly started thinking more and more "yeah... This thing's not gonna be affordable, is it"
I then look at the link... And FML. Didn't expect it to be *that* expensive
This is me watching any maker/engineering yt video... While it's still nice to watch those videos it is also very frustrating to see that these youtubers get the top notch machines for free... I actually enjoyed that Stefan acknowledged that, sometimes I feel that makers don't see this problem at all - I probably wouldn't either and would just enjoy my machine...
@@europhil2000 he doesn't even get to keep it, I believe :p
@@PureRushXevus oh snap
Once the Maker Space in Liechtenstein becomes reality I really hope that we will also have a setup for reycycling plastic and failed prints. At the moment I am recycling it at our local recycling center. At least we have one of these close by. Many makers don’t have, which is really a pity. Ending up in landfills is a no go. No matter what kind of garbage it is.
*Has the same desk speakers as Stefan*
I’m pretty much Stefan now.
*print fails in background*
This is definitely content we want to see. It is interesting and inspires. You do a good job of fully motivating it so everyone knows what’s up.
Oh please use PET bottles. I have access to an unlimited amount of them, so if they are usable, that would be so nice.
I also would like to suggest extruding PET plastic. I tried extruding it myself using Filastruder, but found it quite complicated due to viscosity not being high enough.
My, what a blast from the past. Back in the late '70s, early '80s i was engineering support for a process that stretched glass tubing in a very similar way. We had the additional issue of pressurizing the draw to maintain the hollow tube aspect ratio. Obviously the temperatures were much higher, and at the time this was all analog. Also obviously the oven was much bigger and more expensive.
Wooohooooo! Shoutout to DasFilament, also my go-to for consistently high quality and reasonably priced masterspool-compatible filament.
They deserve it.
Wow that blue with sparkle was AMAZING!
This is the closes I've seen to a home machine for extruding acrylic filament that I've seen so far.
I do love your videos, they're so fun and intresting. Just hope you don't leave forgoten the DIY filament extruder project. ☺️ And thank you very much for sharing all the content you do.
Hi Stefan, Really interesting to see you using the 3devo extruder, I'm looking forward to the recycling episode next.
Also it would be interesting to see how much wasted plastic / purged / flushed / contaminated you end up with by the end of the series. I think that is quite an important factor for these small batch production systems as it's then something you will need to dispose of or find a use for...
As always high quality, Danke Stefan!
I was been waiting for this!!!
This is my home setup dream 😭❤️
Failed Print Recycling would be a Massive game-changer. Love to see you win with that👍
PEEK idea is very good. You can actually "cook" your own filament. How cool is that! The price is way too high to me though.
I really Like the Natural PLA. Prints very Well.
The fact that there’s not been a decent, affordable solution for hobby level filament production and recycling either shows how hard it is to get right, or how little interest there is for it.
Although, I think interest is quite a lot higher than companies know. First to get it right will make a fortune.
Maybe the plastics industry doesn’t want it……
It is really complicated. I went on a course at 3devo and the amount of engineering that went into this machine is absolutely nuts
@@csPinKie WTF? It's well known that industry hates competition. Lumping their comment in with conspiracy stuff is quite a stretch. Go read a book.
Parents are a thing, designing and making such machine commercially is hard because you have to avoid infringing on patents or pay licensing fees.
@@Thomas-jq2im imagine coping so hard and looking at peoples channels xdd
Love the new intro!
Got one of these at work, works well 👍
Interesting video as always 👍
Yes I learned a lot
Thanks for sharing your experience with all of us 👍😀
Recycling failed prints/supports/raft/brims should be the future of 3D printing. Printers are getting more and more capable/accessible but we’re still stuck with tons of wasted plastic.
Maybe someday manufacturers will put recycling marks on their spools. Then we could turn our spools into filament too.
Or you know, just recycle them.
Can you give a roll to Tom for his filament diameter sensor?
loved the vid. keep up the great work
I played with layer height and over extrusion to really aim for transparency. I was using red and yellow translucent and it is pretty impressive how nice it can be. I basically added extrusion on the first layer and internally until bad things happenned. Basically bulging. I also switched to a mirror print bed which really makes a beautiful bottom surface. Between that and prusa ironing... which I also tuned to fill the gaps the results we pretty good. As a mostly transparent item it was very good results.
This is awesome! I can't wait to see how the recycling goes. And maybe you can also try to make some very special filaments like metal or wood filaments?
The thing that excites me the most here is material mixing. I've seen a few companies develop an "ABS/PLA" mix, and supposedly it prints easy like PLA, just at a higher temp, and has a lot of the characteristics of ABS, so it's like a "win-win" type of plastic. Something like this would be cool to try things out. Maybe a PETG-ASA mix, or even mixing in glass fibre or something
Hope you try to make pallets from the shredded material by cutting up the inconsistent filament and then send it back thru for your final filament. I bet you could use an extruder to push the stage 1 filament into a rotating cutting wheel that kicks out pallets. Might not even need drying plus the first few meters of wasted plastic could be recycled almost instantly.
Nice work with the recycling! But I'm one step ahead of you. I cut out the middle man and just printed a spool of filament. perfectly recycled.
I wish we could recycle resin 3D print material that way.
Also, imagine how cool it would be if you could toss in some old plastic soda or water bottles and get 3D filament out the other end to print new things with. I know.. not possible, different types of material, but that would be pretty cool.
Future bulgars will not steal your money or diamonds, they take your recycling bin and all the 3d prints in your home because of the raw material prices 😉
Oh yeah. Wanted to see more videos like this
Great project and nice video!
keen for the second part of this.
My first thought is can you add a step to turn the failed prints into pellets.
Second is other people have mentioned mixing recycled and new material for better overall quality.
I'd honestly love to be able to recycle failed prints/supports WHATEVER it takes because I doubt they are actually getting recycled at all otherwise (recycling is comparatively really bad in Australia, and I doubt they know what to do with random unlabelled plastic shapes)
I'm really excited about the upcoming recycling video. would be really cool if you could try recycling not only failed prints but also other items made from PET and maybe even a mix of PET and PETG. And the cherry on top would be mixing in other materials, such as carbon or maybe cotton fibers. I'd love to know how that turns out. :)
Can you make a video about clamping force degeneration of diffrent filaments? I figured out that PLA degenerates clamping force very fast and is therefor not a good material for compliant mechanisms.
Working on it.
Damn! I NEED me some 3devo in my life asap.
I have been saving failed/bad prints and scraps for years!
one or two of these machines would probably be great for someone starting up a small commercial custom 3d print workshop; the Kinko's of 3d printing if you will.
Interesting, that there's no "Creality XTRDR 10" yet. Chinese production at scale could make home made filament much more affordable.
I feel like the demand isn't there, much like DIY inkjet cartridge reloader machines or diy paper producers/recyclers aren't a thing. It's waaaayyyy easier to just purchase filament than to go through the hassle of making your own. I mean, most people only print PLA (honestly, 95%+ of my printing is done in PLA), and when I can find PLA for $10-$12 a roll, why would I waste my time on one of these? I mean, at that price, just tossing failed prints and support material makes sense, and with PLA being a corn based product, it decomposes quite quickly, so it doesn have a huge environmental impact.
Now, with that being said, despite the fact that PLA can be found super cheap, I still save all my failed prints and support material and all, so I have boxes waiting for the price of these extruder machines to reach a point where I can afford one. No really to make my own plastic, but because it's just another aspect to the hobby.
@@nathan1sixteen True. Cheap direct pellet extruder 3d printers could be more of a next big thing for Chinese manufacturers maybe.
Calculating a ROI even at a way lower price is very hard for someone who might only print 10 to 20 spools per year though this might be viable for small businesses.
There's plenty of twin screw extruders and compounders, even lab sized ones on Alibaba and other China B2B websites. I don't really see the point of using a single screw extruder if you want to go for consistency, which any business would want. Once you start to go into any kind of mixing, e.g. recycling, composite materials etc then twin is really the way to go.
@@nathan1sixteen i disagree, as the 3D printing community is currently formed mainly by makers and tinkerers, who enjoy being able to do stuff for themselves.
I for one would absolutely love experimenting, if not with different materials with colors, additives, ...
Great topic, thanks 👍
Cant wait to see what else you can do with this machine. It would be nice if you can do a recap at a later time going more into the details of the challenges of trying to make your own filaments with the various machines you have used and their pro's and con's. While possibly going into the challenges you might face actually getting virgin resin and masterbatch colors, as you mentioned buying what you got from Das can be a bit difficult for the normal person.
👉 Next video: What's stronger between recycled Lego & recycled Playmobil? 😅
I just want a way to use waste pla as support material. A dual extruder that can print the new stuff for the part, and the recycled stuff for support would be ideal.
You would need to build a whole extension like with python for that. In G-code support material is the same as normal print. It just differs in speed/amount of material. So basing on that you would need to make a parser that detects where the supports will be and offsets the print to the second extrusor. Do you see some other way to do that?
@@cambouiscom i may be outdated. I use Slic3r with Repeater and I couldn't find any option for that. What's the name of it? I want to see how it handles on the level of gcode
@@AntonySimkin Repetier doesn't expose all options (if you meant that)
@@AntonySimkin the gcode uses two different extruders. The slicer creates gcode that tells extruder1 to create the part, and creates gcode that tells extruder2 to create supports.
Not sure about main slic3r, but PrusaSlicer, which is essentially a slic3r fork has the settings under "multiple extruders" to print rafts/supports/skirts, infill, solid infill, perimeters, and support/raft interfaces with different extruders. If you had a theoretical printer with 5 extruders, you could print each of those with different extruders.
@@Crypt1cmyst1c Well this is actually awesome. I always used 1 extruder so Slic3r fullfilled all my needs. From what you explain, there is no problems at all to use recycled plastic of any type for supports. Even better... You can make supports from some kind of hard plastic like ABS so it doesn't stick well enough to PLA and detatches easier
I always save my failed prints, because i will get one of these machines in the future
I would love to see a comparison of the different pellet types, how they affect filament extrusion/material properties, and a matching of different filament brands to the closest pellet extruded match. I have been trying to figure out material properties based on material brand for my job, and to some extent color additives, but it has been a nightmare. Having a way to classify filaments in some way would be a huge help as most TDS/SDS don't list the pla composition they are using or the pigments used. Or other filament types for that matter.
Very good episode!
Hi Stefan! Awesome video! Can you try out adding a blowing agent. Similar to what colorfabb are doing?
👍👍gut gemacht
Very helpful, thank you.
I am really interested in recycling PLA Filament. Sadly, we can not mix other polymers. Mixing wrong polymers cause the wrong print.
Would you ever consider trying to make your own high performance/filled filaments like glass fill or metal composite (like the virtual foundry? )
Tip for using ground recycled prints, don't do 100% used material, use a mix of old+new material, this should help a lot with consistency
Also would love to see if you could make DIY blends with this setup, PC/ABS/CF blends maybe?
I'm looking forward to the next video. Given that you mention that it's tricky to get consistent feeding, I wonder if it makes sense to turn the first filament into pellets of a more consistent size, before doing the final extrusion.
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 is right, so I wonder if you can mix in recycled with new pellets to improve the printing quality and make feeding more consistent.
OMG, this is really evolving fast. Anyway, a cost analytics of the recycling process would be great! Shredding takes energy, not to speak about drying, and then melting the material into filament after mixing it with raw PLA… is that worth the investment? Great content as always. A cuidar-se Stefan :D
Pretty compact machine. Wondering about the two gears: doesn't the filament become a bit oval after passing through them? 3:47 video played in reverse 😁
🤫 Psssst, don't tell everyone.
How many grams of purge between color changes? How long can you run the machine?
Just curious, what is the humidity like in the room you’re in? I’ve been reading the 4043D handling documents and it’s all pretty vague, saying you NEED to have the filament at 200ppm moisture. Did you have any way to measure that?
The documentation says that it can make weaker filament if it’s not completely dry. I just bought 1700lbs of nature works PLA, and it just arrived 2 days ago. I’m a little nervous to open it all up before I know what I’m doing.
Fantastic video by the way. Love to see stuff like this covered since not many people do it
Try mixing the recycled filament with virgin pellets...
Two tricks you could try out for the next video came to my mind:
1. To eleviate the issue of shredded material being moved inhomogenously by the screw, first make your own pellets out of old prints. Use them to then extrude the "final" filament for more consistency.
2. Instead of trying to make filament purely from shredded prints, you could try to add a certain (weight) percentage to virgin pellets, basically stretching the whole mixture like cocain and baking powder ;). No but jokes aside, this would offer an opportunity to reuse at least some old material, although I bet colours for example would be a bit off compared to only using virgin pellets and dye.
Great video!
How long do you think it would take this machine to print a 1kg of filament?
will you cover the time to recycle too ? how much time and effort to recycle will play a big part in the cost, just as much as the machine. from the demo you have shown so far it looks like a lot of time and process steps for some average material so far. Like others have said mixing with new stock could help and also sorting the types of pla before hand, perhaps using this to colour the new material.
I wonder what will happen if you grind the scrap prints into a powder? I think that will take care of the inconsistent feeding problem, but will it clog the feeder?
Is it possible to feed the filament directly into a printer without a spool in between?
That way you can print basicly for ever if you have auto eject set up
In my opinion the best and biggest break through in 3D Printing would be reliable and affordable 3D Printers that you only feed directly with pellets and where the process of making spools would be skipped. This way even the environmental part of 3D printing would be much better. No more spools, no more throwing away near empty spool that don't have enough Filament for you parts and much better netto weight in shipping the pellets and ideally of course even allowing using old shredded parts.
Really hope that this will become a thing in the next ~5 years or so.
never gonna happen. It takes extreme precision even compared to a 3d printer just to extrude pellets into filament. Theses 5,000 dollar machines can barely do it with evenly sized pellets and they use an optical feedback system to precisely measure the diameter. Never gonna fit something like that into a cheap 200-2000 dollar printer. Hard enough to get it coming out at an even rate let alone starting and stopping on a whim like a regular 3d print. The stringing you'd get would be impossible to stop and like he said, heating the material for too long degrades it. Your plastic will be even more brittle than glass by the time it gets extruded if it's not turned into dust first...' Just not physically possible to melt a small volume of plastic and have it extrude evenly while also being able to prevent over extrusion during air paths. Plastic is just not the material you'd use for a pellet extruder, you'd need something exotic that doesn't degrade with heat.
Liquids would be a million times easier to work with, perhaps some kind of solvent to dissolve the plastics with a secondary solvent that instantly hardens it. a cross between fdm and resin printers but we'd need to learn a lot more about material science before something like that is possible, some kind of material that can be turned from liquid to solid and back to liquid on a whim and not degrade from melting like heating plastic. Plastic is just too hard to recycle and too nuanced, even with manufacturers stamping the material type on bottles it's still not economical. No way we'll get that for 3D printing, not when everything is decentralized and there are millions of filament producers that use their own custom blend of who knows what type of additives. The parts you'd typically recycle being small miniatures from millions of users who each have multiple different spools from multiple different companies. You'll break the bank just trying to sort through all that and have sub-par filament that's been reheated too much and it'll ruin so many prints if even a tiny fleck of abs or any different material slips in with your plastic. Just no market where anyone would pay for sub-par recycled material at 2x or even the same cost of a brand new, hinder free spool.
All the companies that try inevitably go bankrupt. We shouldn't be wasting money trying to make some magical recycling device, it's better spent trying to move away from plastic into something more environmentally friendly or at least easier to recycle. Not a matter of technology to make it economically viable to recycle, it's up to improvements to material science.
Thanks for the video. Have you tried to extrude a powder? or somthing smaller than the granules size used in this video??
I'm curious to see if TPU & PETG can be blended together for a more rigid material, kind of like PETG that doesn't snap if bent too much, just bends.
Exactly how efficient is this process? It would be amazing if huge prints could be broken down into filament, only for the remnants to be printed again in a slightly modified form.
Sparkling ...
I think it would also be useful for getting the larger spools of the materials that just don't come in 2kg/5KG spools.
The Spool bay looks fairly deep, How big of a spool can it hold?
Maybe you could mention that in your next video. i.e. if it can wind a 5kg spool.
Hi stefan! Could you share the preset with your tweaks for the temps, screw rpm and fan speeds?
How long does the extrusion process take for a full spool?
While the price tag is prohibitive for home use, I can see it viable in communal use in a makerspace or similar. Bring your failed prints, shred them, and re-extrude them into a new spool.
What a nice compact machine. I made something like it back in 2014 with my old man, its a lot bigger though and kind of a rube goldberg machine compared to this device.
You should try extruding CF/GF Nylon and report back the quality compared to commercial PA-CF filaments. If it's comparable at a fraction of the price, this can be incredibly valuable for people printing large strong parts.
Also, see if you can get your hands on MIM pellets for powder metallurgy. FabMX in Munich is making an open source MIM pellet extruder, but if you can just extrude those into filament, it might be an even better option, and also a good alternative to the face-meltingly expensive BASF Ultrafuse 316L filament.
Plot twist: 3devo's biggest customers are landscapers who are making their own trimmer string
Can you feed the line directly into a printer? So you effectively print with pellets ?
That would be a really cool tool to use when trying to come up with a high strength PLA+ for 3-D printing firearms. And honestly for those of us in the United States who are already fairly deeply adjusted in firearms in general 5000 isn't really going to break the bank. Wonder is CTRL+Pew knows about this.
dose that thing have a pack pressure gauge? ic it has 4 zone heating nice what the max temperatures?
Those regrinds are kinda interesting because they would allow you to get a somewhat consistent granulate without too much grinding
Hello, I'd have to use a filament extruder from pellet, like the 3DEVO, for industrial application bacause we'd like to buy the pellet and not the filament for the 3D printed products that we currently design in our factory.
Considering the application, the price of 5.000 € would not be a problem.
The main question is: could we consider that the output filament will be trustably constant and we won't have problems when we insert it into the 3D printers, or is this mostly a laboratory product which is suitable for experimentation but not for daily use in industrial application?
Thank you
Nice, very nice.
HEY, love downhill bike in the background! It is also one of my favorite hobbies besides printing! What model is it?
How many times can you recycle a print before there's a noticeable drop of printing quality or recovered material amount?
where can I get plastic pellets, like what you used in your video?
this would be awesome for PEEK 😎
I wanna know if regular pla+wood pla+metal pla+ any other types, if it is stronger than the other's
It would be interesting to know what type of performance you get from this. How much time does it take to extrude 1kg PLA and what is the material cost?
Can you pour carbon fibers into it or do they come in an carrier material like the pigments? Or are they not supported because of highly increased tear of the machine?
@cnckitchen would you may make a review of redetec's protocycler v3? I am looking for an all in one device (shredder&Extruder) and it seems to be similar to the 3DEvo you showed here just that i wouldnt have to buy a shredder additionally. with the x1c and ams system there comes a lot of poop waste that i would like to reuse. Is it maybe possible to use 100% of this, without additional pellet material?
To help with recycled material you could extrude at large diameter and make a machine to get to pellets and redo to help make a more consistent final product.
This is a neat exploration of an $8000 machine. Even if you hacked a "0" off it's still way above hobbyist print recycling.