Making a Coffee Table from Recycled Plastic | DIY HDPE Sheet Pressing

A few videos ago, we made a beam out of recycled plastic and ever since then we've been thinking about scaling it up to make a SHEET of HDPE! We built our mould using scrap aluminium and plywood, and heated all of our milk bottle tops in our panini press. Once all the plastic was hot, we transferred it over to the mould and used our hydraulic press to flatten the sheet. Voila! A sheet made from 100% recycled plastic, made using a DIY plastic sheet press.

There are so many things that could have failed with this project, but we are SO happy that it didn't. The sheet looks like a beautiful map of the world and the hairpin legs really finish it off nicely. The cabinet scraper also worked a treat at flattening the sheet. When we get a chance to, we're definitely going to go back and swap out the reinforcement for some more of our DIY plastic beams to make this a fully recycled plastic top.

The real question is...
A - Nails DOWN a Chalkboard
B - Nails ON a Chalkboard

#BrothersMake #RecycledPlastic #DIYSheetPress #CoffeeTable #PreciousPlastic #HDPERecycling #HDPE #RecycledPlasticBottles #PlasticExtrusion #PlasticRecycling

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[Raycefan]

FYI, my wife hates you guys because you’re teaching me how to make stuff I never knew I needed till I see your videos. Keep up the great content!

[JerryPaulTreeCreations]

The end result is fantastic. You two are doing a great thing, not only by recycling all of that plastic waste, but by inspiring others (like myself) to do the same.
Well done!
Cheers, from Saskatchewan, Canada!

[michelledianatarotarts]

I love how the end result looks like a bright, clean Earth viewed from above. I just found your channel, and I'm 100% here for all of this! Thank you for being the change while bringing functional beauty into the world! <3

[aeristiffany]

Imagine businessmen (or even anyone who has the capability to attain the materials used) getting inspired with their videos and actually start making these diy projects. Then sell them off to people with the intention of earning funds that will be donated to environment projects. Oh how lovely would that be for our planet❣️ Wake up people! Let's encourage people to take care our mother earth! If we don't change our ways that are environmentally harmful now, it will be too late for us and for all the animals in this world.
#LetTheEarthBreathe

[Jenniepoo]

I would absolutely love to have a sewing/craft table made from plastic. Love your projects!

[pat_link_]

Brilliant outcome. The sheet press mould worked like the box section supports to spread the pressure.

[MrJayOkane]

Dude that design is very topographical. <3 Please keep creating!

[terretulsiak]

And don't forget that you can also use plastic directly- such as bottles stacked for an indoor garden, or cutting up for drawer separators, etc, as well as upcycling other items instead of REcycling. I love this process as well, and it gets people thinking about all the plastic we use, and waste.

[KMF]

What great ideas you guys have. We need more people doing this kind of recycling.

[rylee]

I love how it came out. The result is beautiful

[jonm]

Looks great, I love how it looks like a world map! Good work guys!

[taina]

Esse certamente é um dos vídeos mais satisfatórios que vi nos últimos tempos. ❤

[pe]

I. love this table top you've made. I can't wait to see what else you come up with.

[louise]

Another beauty video. I am thinking that kitchen cupboard doors could be made used this technique.

[ijcarroll]

Have you guys ever thought of using heat tape a router and aluminum sheets on the top and bottom of your molds ( the molds you really like ) to essentially make a giant one step panini press?

[derekwright]

Looking great guys and the new space is going to be fab!

[KujiArgisia]

You guys still inspire me to do my own. So far all I have are still plastic bottles of one color but my bottlecaps amount is slowly rising.

...and there's also copious amount of bottlecaps/bottles that I'm not sure if they're HDPE or not (as in they lack the recycle symbol with number), I'm keeping those, but not planning to use them yet, at least until my respirator arrives.

[zenberryflood]

Absolutely marvelous, that is like my dream coffee table, you guys are so talented with hdpe, and if it wasn’t for you guys I wouldn’t have realized how useful hdpe is to make guitar picks!

but I just thought,
Could you build an acoustic concert ukulele from HDPE?
The neck being made from a different color than the body, of course adding nickel frets, then 4 tuning machines!
That would be quite an interesting challenge, I know it’s possible since a ukulele has nylgut strings which cause a lot less tension and if someone can build a HDPE steel string guitar successfully and not have anything bend, then I bet it would work, but if the ukulele HDPE neck is too difficult or nailing in the frets is too hard you could just make an acoustic body for the ukulele neck prebuilt!

[robinbrooks]

You made me smile today. Seeing someone showing wonderful ways to practice the three R's of being green to help reduce pollution instead of just throwing things away is something I love seeing. You have given me an idea for making part of the roof for my shop. I would like to ask one thing have you ever tried melting candy wrappers into your plastics. When I was in the Navy we had massive machines that created large disk by melting all the plastics to include candy wrappers together into large disk about the size of stepping stones. Sadly those just go into landfills.

[melhendershot]

I think you guys might benefit for larger projects like this to get one of those heated tables that candy makers use. I think that would save you so so so much time and headaches.