Great project my friend! It is very good to make people aware because not only do you get a better price for the filament, but you also reduce plastic waste by approximately 70%.
Está interesante el video que hiciste pero falta un par de cosas que saber, como por ejemplo de donde sacar el motor y como hacer que vaya a esa velociad, el modelo del engranaje y el video no está completo. Tambien tenés esparcidos otros videos parecidos pero usás agujereadoras de banco que yo sabria usar porque estoy yendo a una escuela tecnica pero no tengo la oportunidad de usarlas.
The amount of education that this will provide just from accessibility is unmeasurable and priceless even for myself as only having an interest in 3D printing but has held myself back due to the costs involved, this has renewed much interest - thank you.
This is peak humanity. Period. An open source project that makes development and autonomy more accesible by recicling? I physically can't fit more beautiful words in that sentence this is too good
love from sudan .. u just gives us hope we were about to surrendr our dream on 3D printing due to the cost .. love you guys and to pay back we will make our models available for the world for free
thinking about building a few these, and a few other similar machines, this could help me save a lot of money that i could be spending on more important things.
Great stuff, in progress converting an artillery based on your build, now I have something to do once thats done. Not sure on electrics cost or availability in Rwanda but they must be up there considering the filament example . Make me curious if the elecs could be done via basic ramps and shield setup if easier to access and cheaper? Again good stuff!
Im thinking of making the lite. Then using filament from that to make the bigger one. Is there a way to splice together the plastic strips to make a full spool?
Nice one. Is it possible to create a continuous filament with bottles of different colors? For example, alternate colors of green Pet with transparent Pet, etc. And thus form a spool of 1kg.
Hey Swal, I'm currently working on creating your conveyor belt printer. Along with that, I'm making my own pet bottle to filament machine, that feed directly into the printer (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uoHukwkupF8.html). I have heard that when you make your own filament this way, it may not always be exactly 1.75mm. I have found an example on how to make a filament diameter sensor (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RYgdLPe_T0c.html) but I'm not sure how to go about trying to hook this up to my Artillery Hornet. As it looks pretty hard to access the electrical and computing components inside the printer. I'm wondering if you would have any if advice on how to go about this. Thank you, I love what you're doing. Your conveyor belt printer is what convinced me to get a 3d printer.
I have been trying to do this for 2 weeks. They don't say the exact size of the tape in the videos. They don't say the thickness is right. or they don't say the temperature right. every video is the same. they don't say the main thing is that it's a pity. what do you think is the reason?
@@JT-rl4ki Of course, but it is not so difficult to say small projects. Sooner or later, I found it, but for 2 weeks, my nerves were strained due to inaccurate information in this format. this is envy)))
@OSHE Hi, please check out the discord link: discord.gg/Z2XpPyb3. Here you can find all of the information you need to build a polyformer, along with a large community of people that will help you with your build! The videos are just meant to promote/explain the project. Maybe in the future we can do a build video if enough people want one?
@@JT-rl4ki we were both inspired by recreator3D and Joshua Taylor who personally advised us on PET bottle recycling. There are many innovations in Polyformer from the adjustable bottle cutter, to the sinusoidal drivetrain, to polyformer-lite. I encourage you to checkout the discord for more info on the unique design: discord.gg/Z2XpPyb3. This is an open-source project so we absolutely want people to take the design and iterate on it for new machines!
@@JT-rl4ki respectfully it is a bit harsh and dismissive to say there is nothing new here. We have put in significant engineering work to make this project possible. As this is an open-source project, we want other people to take these designs and push them even further! Like it would be cool to make a smart adjustable bottle cutter that automatically measures bottle thickness and adjusts the strip cutting depth accordingly.....
La idea es muy buena, ya tengo la maquina, pero lo malo, muy malo es la falta de intrucciones para su armado, el kit viene sin ensamblar, de verdad que uno cree que es sencillo pero sin instrucciones es muy complicado
Hi sir! Yes we have always given credit to all other PET bottle recycling projects, as shown on our Hackaday page: hackaday.io/project/185304-polyformer-ideal-filament-recycler/details and JDA entry. In particular, we are thankful to Joshua Taylor from recreator3D who spent a lot of time directly advising/mentoring both Reiten and me. This is the beauty of open-source projects! Over the past year, we have seen an explosion in PET bottle recycling machines because all of these projects are contributing to and improving each other. There are lots of cool design improvements with Polyformer and Polyformer-Lite and we hope they improve future bottle recycling machines in the pipeline!
@@JT-rl4ki yes of course this is already part of our plan! We want to compensate all of the community members that built the early version of the Polyformer. This project is only successful because of strong community support.
