Extruding PLA Filament at Home

I'm starting another journey into filament-making. In the first video of this series, I'm extruding my own PLA filament in different colors using the 3DEVO Desktop Filament Extruder.

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Chapters
00:00 Introduction
01:17 Extrusion Material
02:10 Extruding Clear PLA
05:52 Extruding Red PLA
08:22 Extruding Sparkly Blue Filament
09:34 Recycling failed prints
10:31 Pricing and target audience
11:51 Squarespace Integration
13:14 Summary

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[CNCKitchen]

What are your extrusion or recycling ideas?
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[mattgavioli]

"guys only want one thing and it's disgusting."

What guys want: **being able to recycle failed prints**

[makes]

Failed prints -> New filament.
Every maker's dream.

[jayphone]

"Clean it. Shred it. Sieve it. Dry it."
The hit Daft Punk never made.

[rushilkisoon]

Imagine how much better the world would be if these were affordable 😭

[JavierCamacho]

I own one of these machines and I can say it is the best decision I made. I bought a pallet full of recycled PETG for under $300 and I've been making my own filament for almost year now and I still have around 60% of the pallet left to be used.

There is a learning curve sense recycling petg into filament is not that easy but I've learn a lot and now, after 1 year, I'm making my best filament yet.

[Nitram_d]

To get more consistency when extruding recycled polymers. Make pellets first.. extrude 3mm and then chop it into 3mm long pellets

[harkrits.nagpal]

You should re-extrude the recycled filament which is bad, by chopping it up with a simple machine. The output should look like the masterbatch, and should function basically like the pellets, which should give you similar extrusions like the new ones. I know it uses more electricity, but I would like to see how much of a change it can make to the filament quality!😁😁

[kylek]

Side note, the master batch manufacturers would likely send you sample sets of pigment/plastics if you contact them. They're trying to get new clients and sending out small batches for testing can be common. I know of a few plastic manufacturers that will give you a trash bag full of pellets if you show up at the factory.

[eightmantis]

In the plastic injection world we usually never used 100% regrind, it was usually only about 25% at the most

[emielv]

I went on a course at this company last year. Their team is amazing. Their machines are amazing. Their facility is amazing. It is a super interesting process but you need a lot and I mean a lot of knowledge about plastics and other stuff because you've got a lot of different parameters and factors that come into play. We tried all day to extrude injection moulding grade polypropylene but the end result wasn't great. If we used 3d printing grade or a different kind of polypropylene we might've been successful. But anyway I had loads of fun and learned a lot.

[KeeDel]

bro over the last week I've been researching this and been watching your old videos thank you so much for making this updated video

[ChristianOhlendorffKnudsen]

Shoutout to DasFilament, also my go-to for consistently high quality and reasonably priced masterspool-compatible filament.

[robertmyers]

My, what a blast from the past. Back in the late '70s, early '80s i was engineering support for a process that stretched glass tubing in a very similar way. We had the additional issue of pressurizing the draw to maintain the hollow tube aspect ratio. Obviously the temperatures were much higher, and at the time this was all analog. Also obviously the oven was much bigger and more expensive.

[dPrintCreator]

Oh please use PET bottles. I have access to an unlimited amount of them, so if they are usable, that would be so nice.

[choschiba]

Once the Maker Space in Liechtenstein becomes reality I really hope that we will also have a setup for reycycling plastic and failed prints. At the moment I am recycling it at our local recycling center. At least we have one of these close by. Many makers don’t have, which is really a pity. Ending up in landfills is a no go. No matter what kind of garbage it is.

[TheToelle]

dude. I am so excited for your recycling video!

[ChazBword]

Wow that blue with sparkle was AMAZING!

[xbzuzuj]

PEEK idea is very good. You can actually "cook" your own filament. How cool is that! The price is way too high to me though.

[brodyweaver]

Recycling failed prints/supports/raft/brims should be the future of 3D printing. Printers are getting more and more capable/accessible but we’re still stuck with tons of wasted plastic.