Bruiser demonstrates his PET pultrusion filament maker made from a razor blade, hot glue gun, and drill. 2.0 Spool Assembly: Plastic Bottle to 3D Printer Filament Series • 2.0 Spool Assembly: Pl...
I loved it because no one in the entire RU-vid explained this as well as you did. They all made it very hard to understand or get the STL files or the parts love from India, now I can make my own filament
Absolutely brilliant. Bravo. I understand the 'juice vs squeeze' comments, but am very impressed by your practical use of things much less expensive than 3d printer parts. Upcycle/recycle all the things. Great job.
Great job showing how to be more self-sufficient with material if there is an unexpected shortage. 35 bottles at 56hrs of extrusion time to produce a 1kg spool seems like a fun process improvement challenge to match Amazon cost of $28/kg
For me, it's all about the process and being able to say "this used to be a soda bottle." It's also a fun project to do with my students in middle school.
its not about the money saving :') its the fun and creativity! For example most of us here have a 3d printer and spent hundreds on filament just to print a $1 boat :')
you can't be serious you teach this for middle school? if you teach middle schoolers to 3d print i got robbed that also explains the kids in the background it looks like a woodshop class
Hello dear friend, I ask you to write to me what settings you made in the ''cura'' program to print What settings did you make I just can’t find the settings for this , so that the 3D printer prints well Thank you in advance I really liked the video and I wrote you a like
When you took apart the glue gun did you remove any internal elements from the heat tube? Some glue guns have hardware inside the heat tube that do not allow a straight path.
You can look around youtube for other videos about mending filament however it is very difficult and many people have trouble doing it. I have not seen it done during the pultrusion process because of how much tension is on the filament as it comes through the extruder head.
@@bruisersbackyard5668 yes this makes sense, I am wondering if you could make a system like how packing strips come where you can pull them one way but they pull apart the other way. Just my two cents, I am 90% ready to take on doing this soon if filament prices for PETG exceed $20
@@kocTomaxa You're a G, I came back to this idea and have been producing my own filament now. I have seen the method using PTFE tubing to weld the filaments together as to keep their uniform dimension. Now my goal is acquiring the bigger plastic jugs and start joining it in the biggest spool I can create lol.
The filament is "empty" or hollow, like an almost-closed tube. The heat gun just curls the flat ribbon into a "C"-shaped tube as it pulls the PET through. Good luck, you should be able to print (small) items with this because the filament is quite short.
please anyone who trys this with a random glue gun there is a chance there is a spring loaded ball valve inside the tip of the glue gun ( i had to drill the tip out and push the ball out from the other side) after that i tapped the tip and im attempting to use a welding tip for flux core drilled out to 2mm so far no luck but im not giving up
i did get it to make a 10 inch long segment ( pulling by hand for proof of it working) please note i did not modify the welding contact tip other than drilling the hole size to 2 mm im probably going to have to find a modified drill bit i made and drill a steeper cone for the fillament to curl through but im very limited because its copper and its already very small ( generaly a flux core welding contact has a cone in it already but its very shallow) now because its copper there is a chance it can suck the heat directly into the tip but i did get it to work once so the extra heat in the tip could help with the curling
May not be worth the hassle, usually when someone says something like that...they are incapable of recreating the experiment (or too lazy). I personally think it's pretty awesome and I'm grateful someone took the time to show me something new. Also some viewers may not have access to vendors or money to spend on filament, and this offers those folks a way to keep the projects rolling. Maybe if you didn't spend time leaving rude ass comments, you'd have time to do this kind of project and it wouldn't be a hassle. 😮
@@JustinMason-bl9se Now, now... he's right. It really isn't worth it. Neither is single-stream recycling where everything but glass and metal will be in the landfill, but yet I fill up my recycling bin every week. However, it's great for education. Students are able to do hands-on recycling and make something useful out of trash they brought from home. "It's worth it" when you see the look on the face of a 13-year-old kid wrapping their head around how a plastic bottle has the potential to be reshaped into an infinite amount of uses.
25€ for pla 1kg this is not cheap I am making my own pet filament for me it's better the pet filament have very good strength its better than pla, abs when you print it with the right equipments i am making money with this filament
