Filament
Making filament, the industrial way
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In even larger environments, there are machines called the ‘filament miles’, exceeding easily 5 meters. Such machine can cost around 35000 Euro. Here some thoughts building one from scratch.
Filament for DIYers
There is success creating filament from printer waste. Please check some of the links below :
We recommend to watch also all the other videoThere is success creating filament from printer waste. Please check some of the links below :
We recommend to watch also all the other videos of Werbewunders of Werbewunder
Not filament but this here prints recycled pellets.
]Or search the forum search ‘filament’.
Other remarks :
- Instructables: Recycle Plastic Into 3D Printer Filament at Home
- 3dseed is using grinded plastic then print it right away. The only real suitable plastic type is PET which requires you to have a good shredder (with grinder) in place
- vanplestik.nl managed to print larger diameter of PET
- There is some development to print granulate by Sam (forum link) see here the video.
Commercial Offers
- https://extrudinaire.com/
- https://www.amazon.com/Wellzoom-B2-Desktop-filament-extruder/dp/B01CNYCYAY
- https://www.qitech.de/industries/jarvis-winder
Commercial Offers - Pellet printer
Opensource projects
- https://github.com/Reiten966/Polyformer
- http://www.machinekit.io/
- https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Lyman_Filament_Winder