PET-Machine, make Your own 3D printer filament from plastic bottles at home (DIY!) 

I have edited a little bit since I don’t want to use support blocker. Should I send you via Twitter or somewhere?

@@Psych0h3ad Sure! Please send me to my email tylman.design@gmail.com . Thanks a lot!

@@TylmanDesign Okay I’ll do that later :)

@@TylmanDesign Sent you an Email :)

what if you have this set up to make the 2.8 filament and then weld it and then run it and decrease the size to 1.75 filament for a stronger joint and bigger rolls of filament

It's worth to try my friend! We don't have to collect them from the oceans, If every person will take care just about their local closest environment world will be a better place! Thanks for your comment!

@@TylmanDesign absolutely 💯. A few machines set up in small shops that can sell the filament and pay locals per bottle a few.

plastic doesnt really go in oceans much

But then what do you do with all the discarded Benchys?

Teamseas is actually doing exactly that you can buy filament from them made form ocean waste

It's an amazing small filament factory at home haha Yeah, I already made this kind of slicer and works great! You can check my IG reels or YT shorts where I create for example Coca-Cola bottle from Coca-Cola bottle (bottleception haha) using this upgrade. I slowly develop my project and just a small step left to make your idea happen! Worth to try for sure! Thank you for your support!

wow hacksmith, wasn't expecting you there hah

Bottle out too

​@@TylmanDesignquero comprar

He actually mentioned in this video that he was thinking of integrating a bottle cutter on the machine. 2:32

Thank you! Exactly, it's smooth and ready to print right after processing!

Thank you very much!

the RPM is a static 30RPM due to the motor used.

it is not an rpm controller that need to be used but a feedback loop with a sensor that mesure thickness of the strand and adjust motor speed. It increases cost but is a needed feature to be able to use different pet bottles without problems.

Hello! Thank you for your great comment! Yes quality of the filament will be better, but cost will be 5-10 times higher. I prepare my project especially to be affordable and easy to make for even the beginner.

@@TylmanDesign Hmmm... What if you will make the grinder +*mechanical*+ ? Like... hand cranked?

@@AVMMM That's an idea, but moving the flakes through the hot end/nozzle is tricky and that's what makes it a bit more expensive. In the plastics business (I'm going back 25 years ago, when I was an embedded systems engineer for the plastics industry), we'd use a screw extruder to push pellets, or flakes of ground up product (that was at a dairy, where gallon jugs that failed in production could be re-used). The best way to feed is pellets, of course - some consistent shape provides the best movement. The whole process was a big bigger in scale, of course. The key to reclamation is in the extrusion system.

The green vase looks perfect as the print lines make it look almost iridescent! For the clear one, have you tried using a heat gun to smooth out the lines, and see if that increases transparency? Would be interesting to test

i would think melted plastic fumes would be most unhealthy

Thank You for Your amazing comment! Yes, I'm aware that bearing cutter is better, but I was designing my machine to allow for majority of 3D printing community can do it easily. Blade cutter is really easy to implement compared with bearings that we have to modify. In the future for more demanding audience I will prepare for sure bearing cutter with electric regulation of the string height, but for now I focused to create the most affordable and simple device. Coca-Cola bottles are the least demanding bottles, they are almost smooth. Some of the water bottles are really "wrinkled" that cutting it in this state will be impossible. I will check these mig welding nozzles, it interested me a lot!

@@TylmanDesign Mig contact tips 1.7mm can be bought for dirt cheap in local welding stores (bout 10$ for 10 pack) they also have the same thread MK8 as 3d printer nozzles and require no drilling (exiting filament expands a little), as for blade cutters, i had lots of problems with them like filament being stuck, in was really annoying so i made bearing cutter with a simple microdrill (angle grinder can also work but its a bit harder). I have entire uniformity test performed on some of my videos about filament diameter variance.

Thank you so much!

Thank You so much, it's motivating when people comment in the way as You do guys! Improvements can never end haha Later when version with cutter and removable spool will be ready I will try to make it totally automatic, cutting connecting plastic string and so on. Even inteligent checking what's the thickness of the wall will be implemented, basing on that information cutting blade will change cutting height. But it's a future...I have plan for it, but first things first. Let me quote myself from other comment: Now I'm working on the cutter module, I have to make it the most simply as I can, that all people even without special tools can make it easily. Yes, that's my next biggest challenge, to connect many plastic strings, wind on a bigger spool and process it all! Connection have to be strong enough and not too thick to not affect on filament diameter in these parts. When I will figure it out how to connect plastic strings efficiency, next useful thing will be removable spool, now when we process just one bottle, even really big one removable spool is not that important, but later will be necessary.

Great idea

@@TylmanDesign you might be able to do intelligent checking mechanically

Glueing the strip made from several bottles somehow, to make more fillament at once. For bigger prints e.g. mechanical parts later.

@@TylmanDesign This is amazing, I'm considering to build one with my daughter (10 yrs) to motivate her on how to recycle plastic. It's a perfect demonstration. It'd be great finding out how to connect filaments so that we can create bigger spools. Did you consider selling the required parts that cannot be printed?

Thank you so much! Never too late to start this 3D journey!

@@TylmanDesign السلام عليكم ينفع تقولى اجيب الماكينه دى ازاى مصر 🇪🇬 عايز ماكينه لبدء المشروع فى مصر بجوار ابو الهول والحضاره المصريه

@@TylmanDesignokay… here we go: I ordered my first 3D printer ever. Looking forward to it! Thanks for the inspiration 😅

Thank you very much for your comment! 🙌🏻

Thank you!! :)

I'm so happy that you like it, project is especially prepared for other people to creat it easily at home! Thanks for your comment!

My pleasure Ahmad! Thank You for comment, wish You all the best!

Yes! Especially that I print a lot of prototypes that will go to the trash anyway... But even using it for any other stuff works great!

Thank you for your wonderful comment! Yes I love this kind of DIY! I prepared this project especially for begginers, everything is designed to make it easy! Yes I was really impressed of the print quality, I hope everyone will see it in their home!

My pleasure!

Thank you so much!

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annesi ve babası türktür, adı Igor'muş çünkü :D

Thank You! Yeah, I spent so much time on it, but I had so much fun haha

Dziękuję bardzo!

Thank you so much! I really appreciate it!

I read what you wrote with great pleasure and pride. Knowing that you appreciated these increased my motivation even more. thanks a lot!

Thank you so much for your comment!

Thank You so much bro, I really appreciate it!

Glad you like it! Thanks

Thanks bro for comment and support 🙌🏼 Im working on ready to assembly kit, but it need some time to be accomplished! All the best!

@@TylmanDesign I don't throw plastic bottles for years now , I badly need your kit Mr Igor you are a hero and a genius so please may you sell me one ASAP?

Dziękuję, bardzo mi miło! Udanych wydruków!

@@TylmanDesign Where are you actually from in Poland?

Hej, też chce kupić. Ale najpierw drukarka. Jaka najlepsza do 3-4k, która wykorzysta filament z butelek?

@@Seba_World właściwie każda współczesna drukarka da radę drukować tym filamentem 😊 w tym budżecie możesz celować w coś od Creality np: S1 pro (jest podatna na modyfikacje, dość tania ale dzięki temu zostanie więcej na filamenty)lub Prusa (droższa ale teoretycznie bardziej niezawodna)

Thank You so much! Yes, I tried to make easy to assembly design that everyone can creat it and have fun from.

Sale is starting December/January 🔥💪🏻

Thank you so much! Affordable and beginner friendly - two main assumptions of this project!

Hello Chris. I'm so glad you appreciate what I do. I really aimed to create a simple and affordable machine that anyone could easily build and use. Thank you for your nice words and subscription!

Thank You so much!

Thank You my friend, Your suggestions are very accurate. Im currently working on the cutter for the machine, the next thing is what You talking about, I will try to connect two string into one to be able to process many bottles at one, but it's a little bit challenging. In this case removable spool is neccesary to implement, but now when we procees one bottle, even if its super big removable spool is not that important.

@@TylmanDesign Thank you for your answer. So do I understand right, that if I buy your manual, ... foryl your idea/product now I will get your improvements your working (new .step files, manuals, ...) on later on for free?

@@photelegy That's right! All updates included. I wish there will be many practical ones!

Thank you!

Thanks You sooo much!

Thanks!

Thank You so much, it motivate me to make even more for You guys!

Thank you very much! You can send an e-mail to me for a collaboration. igor@tylmandesign.com

Thank you bro haha I'm just a simple guy printing "things".

Thank You so much for Your great comment. Yes I was aware that in some countries it's not worth it to process the bottles in this way, because there is "return system", but many countries don't support this system and instead of throwing away the bottles we can recycle it in so efficient way taking into account we make it at home!

Germany changed the system to every plastic bottle i think?

@@curryking7663 Yes you can return every bottle but there is still a lot of non reusable bottles that get taken back just to be destroyed. You return them just to seperate it more from the common trash.

and also unfortunately even the returned once are often burned for energy instead of recycled. there is a good arte documentation recently, can recommend to watch it. really sad that even exported plastic trash to other countries is considered "recycled" in the eyes of the law in germany.

Literweise Saft zu trinken deswegen macht aber auch irgendwie keinen Sinn ;D

Thank You! So don't hesitate buy a printer and be the part of this community haha! It's amazing adventure.

@igortylman: little question out of interest: Wich 3D printer do you use? I would like to get one, but there is so much choice on the marker today, that i don’t know wich one to get… I don’t have any experience with 3d printing at this point 😅!

@@robbydenys1126 I use Ender 2 Pro and Ender 3 V2. If you are looking for budget printer I recommend you Ender 3 V2, the best value for money. If you are looking for something more reliable and better Prusa i3 MK3S+ or Bambu Lab X1 C will be amazing! Cheers!

@@TylmanDesign thx!

So glad to hear these Jaime, thank you!

Thank You my love ❤

Thanks bro! For sure it is, specially when I create many prototypes and parts are going to the bin so frequently, so at least I can give one more life for a bottle haha

@@TylmanDesign definitely bro. Just you need to work on a bigger model than this. And it might be a game changer for industries

Good point! Thank you so much, I love this kind of feedback, thanks to it I can grow! All the best for you!

Printing temperatur of the HDPE(polyethylene) vary from 230 to 260 celsius degrees, so quite the same like PET. I think processing this kind of bottle in my machine could be possible, but I will need to make some tests. At the earliest opportunity I will try to do it! Thank You for Your comment and making me curious!

I just got HDPE bottle yesterday, soon I will test it 💪🏻

PE bottles can't be cut the way he shows, because it's too weak, and stretches like bubble gum.

I made some tests, HDPE is more soft and ductile. It was more demanding during cutting, but it was possible to make it, further processing due to material characteristic is almost impossible. Like @7CConstitution said, it's like bubble gum.

@@TylmanDesign You need to shred and inject it through an extruder, because pulling it deforms the filament diameter. When I pulled PE through a knife, it stretched, but I didn't know about the bearing cutters at the time. So that would cut better. But what's the point, it stretches too much in pulling extruders. PVC, the same. PP might work, but it's hard to find. Nylon might work, but you can buy that at the weed wacker supply. But screw extruders will always work. Try RepRap 3D Printer RecycleBot.

Thank You so much! Some friends of mine are welding this filament after processing and using it exclusively for everything!

@@TylmanDesign How are they welding together? Open flame in pliers?

Hello! We will announce and put PETwelder on sale very soon. You can follow my Instagram account to follow the progress about it: instagram.com/tylmandesign

I'm very happy to read these! Thank you.

Thank you so much for your support, i really appreciate it!

Thank you so much! Yes it's possible, I tried to do it using iron solder but it needs some more tests! It will be amazing to wind one big spool with strip and then just process it...

Thank You for Your words, they are really supportive!

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Thank You so much, yeah I want the same! Some upgrades later will be really friendly to use, already many people are finishing.their own machines, I hope there will be snowball effect 🙏🏻😌

Thanks man! For now yes haha

Thank You so much for Your comment. Good point! I will try to make it asap! Coz it's a big saving of time and material, small improvement but really profitable.

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Hello, really good point! Before it didn't have any comments, now I see that people receive 240V version not like in the title of the announcement 110-240V. I'm so sorry for it, Im not able to check every seller, I will change this link tomorrow and find reliable one! Thank you one more time and so sorry for this!

I'm glad to hear these. Thank you!

Dziękuję bardzo!

Yeah, still very hacky but on the right track 👍

I like Your way of thinking! It's my next milestone in this project, I'm currently working on the cutting module for the machine, next I will make research/experiments with connecting unprosessed plastic strings to create one big spool!

Ya estoy trabajando en ello. Si te interesa te lo explico. Básicamente observa cómo se hacen los cables de acero.

@@TylmanDesign well I’d definitely love to see a video on your findings when you get around to testing it. Also, I’d like to find out after if it didn’t effect the material if it was then possible to recycle multiple colour bottles of the same plastic into a sort of “colour change” spool without effecting integrity. It would be awesome to make a custom colour change filament!

@@DelforTecnoPrint3D.6730 ¡Sería genial saberlo cuando termines de probar!

Hello! We will announce and put PETwelder on sale very soon. You can follow my Instagram account to follow the progress about it: instagram.com/tylmandesign

Aryan çok güzel icecek hahahah

Thanks bro, I hope I will improve it to make it more and more efficient and easier to manage! We can make this world better together!

I was measuring temperature of the screws and it was about 65°C. PETG withstand max "just" 80°C unlike 100°C for ABS, I always liked to have wider safety range. You can try to print heater base using PETG and see if it won't melt/damage, but I don't give a guarantee. Maybe try to ask someone from 3D printing community in Your area to help You to print these elements from ABS. I think probably PETG will work, but will "wear" much faster, specially during the pulling proccess there are strong forces that can permanently deform the "soft" PETG.

@@TylmanDesign pla won't work at all :(?

@@CN-dh3ge unfortunatelly PLA for sure won't work :(

@@TylmanDesign could the heater base be made of wood?

@@ericthecyclist like I mentioned in the previous comment, temperature in the end of the screws is about 60-70 degrees, so wood should stand it.

Thank you my friend 🙌🏻

Thank you very much for your comment!

Nerdeymiş? Yapıp gönderiyor mu? Vaktim yok sadece.. ama aynısından bulsam keşke..

@@volkanyaprakci3865 yapıp gönderdiğini sanmıyorum basit bir makine parça ayrıntılarını paylaşmış zaten sende yapabilirsin

Evet kanka. Im a Polish who lives in Istanbul. Cok tesekkur ederim 💚

​@@volkanyaprakci3865 Ileride hazır versiyonunu da satmayı düşünüyorum kanka. Takipte kal

@@TylmanDesign seni takipteyim druga.. o zaman stl’leri gönderebilir misin yavaş yavaş bastırayım madem.. wolna wolna 😅.. ben de doktoramı polonyada yaptım warszawa’da.. o yüzden jestem polak da sayılırım 😂..

Worth to try!

Super, że poszło w eter haha Ooo ciekawe, ile masz drukarek? Drukujesz dla siebie czy pod klientów? Co do cięcia to właśnie kończę moduł, tnie się wstępnie krótki kawałek ręcznie potem zapłata do bębenka i potem już samo ciągnie i tnie. No potencjał do rozbudowy i zautomatyzowania jest spory, ale będzie to wymagało ogromu pracy i to już pewnie dla zespołu. Hahhahahah tak, w końcu kupiłem. Pozdrawiam!

Zazdroszcze firmy. Rok temu kupilem sobie Pruse i jestem zakochany w tym hobby. Totalnie ...

Można zgrzewać więcej budelek żeby mieć dłuższą spule?

Thank you very much!

Glad you liked it!

Oooo thank You so much for Your comment, I'm really happy to hear it!

I'm glad to read that! Thank you Marco🙌🏻

Thank you very much!

Just a guy making plastic "things" haha

As You wish! hahah I will do it at the next opportunity and post a video on my YT "shorts". Thanks for Your comment!

Hey man! Im so glad to read these. Thank you!

​@@TylmanDesign do you live in turkiye?

Oh thank you bro!

Yes kanka, I'm polish AyranMan in Turkey dajshdfjkasbfh

@@TylmanDesign I came into the comments to ask the same thing. it's been almost 20 years since I saw Ayran or Uludag. I'm super excited, I am about to buy this and build it

​@@crazyturk6936 I'm happy that You like my project, don't forget to share Your work with Us!!! Good luck kanka!

@@TylmanDesign helal olsun be abi ya