Comment on Artme-3D filament extruder

OZFive@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Am assuming it’s for making filament out of pellets which can be purchased for significantly cheaper price. But the price of extruder alone makes this completely a pointless effort as you’d have to use more than 600kg of plastic to get event in terms of price difference.

  Had the screw been bigger it could be used for recycling used plastic but at that point you’d need mill for plastic as well which adds to price.

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  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How consistent does your feedstock have to be? If you’re using PLA and just want to not landfill your supports and brims and so forth, you can pulverize it in a blender from the discount store. You’ll wind up with all different granule sizes, though.

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    • MrSlicer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t think buying all this equipment is better for the environment than just burying the scrap material in a landfill.

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      • lemmyman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        But it might be more fun.

        Or more tedious 😀

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• Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes that is the intention.

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