recycleBOT

Hey,

Sorry i had to leave today.

Jeon bin has been researching with extruding a few different types of plastics and heaps of colours for the maker bot up at kelburn . He said he had some PET extruded and it could be a good insight into the process and see whats really required for us.

I'm not sure what was talked about but i will just put my two cents in.

For initial trials any PET will work - and then extruded, but re-use of the PET from bottles could be more challenging. They need to cleaned, washed and de-labeled and possibly flaked. It could be a good idea if people bring down a couple of bottles for tue's and see if we can start the re-use process soon. I assume different colors wont mix in recycling clear might be easier for a start.

A quick experiment could be to use the press in the workshop and see if we can extrude some plastic through a pipe and a die, Pet melting point is around 250 ish and shouldn't be hard to do.

An iron might just have enough heat for we need but it could be easier to have indirect heat such as a microwave oven or ..an oven so we can heat the die, hopper...ect all at once and cool individually as needed either outside or inside the "heater"