How To Melt and Reform Plastic 

Too 😎 cool. I love the modified paper shredder. And thanks for the tip on preheating the mold.

Silicone baking sheets work well for me

Doing some research on melting and recycling plastic for DIY projects. I came across your video. I like what you did so i subscribed. Hoping to find more help ideas

How to melt and compress hope. That’s how my mind reads this every single time I see it in my feed, lol. Anyone else?

Excellent video. Someone should make a DIY video, making a good HDPE shredder.. Like a rock tumbler that you dump jugs etc in, and let it run overnight. Then screen to a desired particle size. Just sayin.

I would have just used a heating press (for t-shirt imprints) to compress this piece of plastic. Those things are steel, stronger than soldered tables, and can get extremely hot faster than ovens.

Thanks for explaining this, I'm just now getting into melting HDPE and looking forward to more of your videos. Subscribed.

I was looking for an easy way to melt plastics and one thing I definitely have to give you credit for is preheating the mold itself. You obviously know what you're doing as apposed to many on RU-vid.

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I'm at the stage of still using wooden push molds. They are usually at a 'warmer' temperature than steel molds. Technically though the steel mold should give a 'smoother' finish than a wooden mold. I find a sandwich press has just the right amount of heat to completely melt the plastic into a uniform blob. That piece looks to me like it still needed more melting. You shouldn't be able to see individual 'bits' like that. Also, I now use a reusable baking sheet, I'm not sure what it's made of, but it is infinitely reusable and easy to clean. The parchment paper can't be reused too often as it burns and leaves crap in your finished piece. 😁

Great video! Can you melt it a bit more to improve texture as well, instead of sanding?

Great job.

girl you are hella killing it, I can't believe how much work you put into your projects!!

I’m so interested in hearing this I have been planning on making a full-size 20 /40’ foot vessel for living on the ocean full time and plastic is definitely the backbone of the strength I have been homeless living on the streets for years now and then the cost of living just keep going up and so my life goal is to make my own boat better and Bader then ever used recycled plastic instead of using wood in the walls would be nothing else like it on the water I did little bit of research on the wall design I thought about using the polycarbonate walls from Home Depot or Lowe’s home improvement but it would cost me a little bit more time until I realize that if it made a mold that was big enough to make a one inch wall it would have one of the lightest and strongest boats on the ocean so that is what I’m looking into so my only reason I committed is to ask you something about it so is the strength of the plastic still just as strong as it was when you melted it down please let me know does it get bridal after you melt it I have tested so little things but it keep the air locked in but copping it up into little pieces is a real good idea I never would have thought about a card shredder 😮that was Genius idea

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Nice video

Very nice work!! I'd like to talk about this recycling process... Could you please help me?

greetings from Africa !!! I want to make a chest and back armor like in super heroes movies , I want to use recycled plastic , HDPE as I can see many people suggest on youtube . I want the chest armor hard , I don't have oven t melt HDPE , I want to use old pan . Can you give me any advice or tips ?

Why not just put the plastic in the mould, and put that mould in the oven right from the start? You could skip the step of melting it in that baking tray, just melt it in the mould itself. Then you would just have to take it out and over towards your jack thing and put the top plate over it, easy. Apparently a toaster oven is better as well, because a toaster oven is much quicker at heating up, so a person could easily just use the toaster oven, which you can get very cheaply anywhere. As far as shredding, it's possible to do it in a mere blender in fact, you don't even need a fancy shredding machine.

do you think that a cloths IRON would work to melt the plastic... nice and FLAT.

What temperature do you cook the plastic at ?

Good Day. Can you make a big blocks.

Do you realize how crazy you are? 😂

Which brings us to our next point Don't inhale the plastic fumes kids

What number plastic is this

Is your company actively buying any particular types of plastic? I can get tons of any type of plastic, solo, & mixed. Respond 2 this, & we'll go from there.

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Well done.