Plastic shredding/ recycling machine?

[brenly]

Hello, I just joined up and didn’t see a plastic shredding/ recycling machine? I saw the machine that produces filament but not a machine that produces just raw shredded plastics, like the beads/ flakes?

Like this:

Reason. I’d like to create clear shapes without spending too much resources on resin.

[jast]

See this thread for some discussion regarding shredding capability.

Recycling Failed Prints

Now that the filastuder is working I would like to start collecting all of our waste prints ans supports so we can make them back into filament. If anyone has a bin or box we could use to collect the prints it could go next to the filastuder. We would also need to keep our old spools. If we want to do this we would need to get a shred strong enough to screed plastic. If anyone is interested in starting this let me know.

@nclindberg was the person behind it, as well as instrumental in getting the Filastruder working, and might have some input…

[nclindberg]

I am working on a small one now just waiting for some parts. If you want to use it with the filastuder it will need to be run through a few times. This is just temporary because after we expand we hope to establish a plastics committee that could host the precious plastic machines or similar ones.

[Nate]

Make a tiny wood chipper?

[brenly]

Which brings me to my second question. Are there ovens for plastic baking?
Are there epa / fume concerns regarding this type of stuff?
@nclindberg

From my tons of Youtube it looks like people are getting great results using pyrex trays inside simple toaster ovens or regular kitchen ovens at ~400 F. Nothing too extravagant or intensive, I just don’t want to get the space in trouble if there’s already work being done on licensing for fumes or what have you.

I’m thinking to just make a plain block and shape it after the fact at the moment