Do we have a filament extruder at DMS?

Do we have a pellet / shredded material filament extruder?

I’ve recently been experimenting with a lot of new configs due to a forced change to Slic3r for my Lulzbot and am accumulating a fair number of parts that are canceled after the first few layers. I’m looking to recycle these, as well as possibly start obtaining my plastic as pellets.

Cheers,
-Jim

We don’t have a shredder but we do have a filament extruder. We are still working on building it. The shredder I’m looking into, we would need an industrial strength shredder for scrap prints.

We also have to be concerned about contamination, dirty, moisture of the recycled plastic. 100% plastics lose their strength properties so you would have to mix virgin pellets with recycled chunks. Also you would need to make sure the recycled plastic is shredded and ground into consistent sized chunks.

I will hopefully be up there this weekend I am will try to get it working. We need to cut a new housing for it and rebuild it. I made a stand so we could mount it vertically, if we need we can put an acrylic cover over it. I have seen people use an electric shredder for shredding the plastic. I would like to start a collection bin in the 3d fab so we can create our own filament.