26 Reply by TheGreenEngineers

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Re: Kickstarter For Plastic Shredder

As the Kickstarter comes to a close and i have done a lot of work on it since i have gone on break i have been able to drop the price. I have been able to drop the price down to 125$ from 350$. This is because now i am going to mill it out instead of waterjetting. This will basically drop price of machining down by 3 times but increase time of machining by 3 times.

I have them on sale on my website right now. here http://www.thegreenengineers.com/store/ … -shredder/

also keep up to date on my dev blog for the reclaimer http://www.thegreenengineers.com/blogs/ … -dev-blog/

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Re: Kickstarter For Plastic Shredder

Nice! Needs a motor though. I get the liability issues, so perhaps just provide a way to connect one without too much fuss. Maybe have the hand crank held on to a square or hex drive perhaps? 1/2" socket wrench adapter? Just some thoughts that might help you sell more of them without opening yourself up to liability issues. If I do something stupid like attach my impact wrench to it, that's not on you. smile

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Re: Kickstarter For Plastic Shredder

I bought one on pre-order (emailhere=spam), looking forward to when it will be starting producing in February. It would make my reclaiming of failed prints a lot easier.

edit: wardjr helping keep your inbox spam free smile

29 Reply by TheGreenEngineers

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Re: Kickstarter For Plastic Shredder

Yea i saw that, thanks. keep up to date with the dev blog on my website for the shredder and i hope to get more prototypes and also those expansion modules for the funnel and the motor designed and priced out. any other questions about the project just ask thanks.

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Re: Kickstarter For Plastic Shredder

Lots of these shredders are really expensive.  Precious plastics is great for getting ideas on designs, but even with its relatively low costs, their shredder isn't always affordable by maker spaces, schools, people who just wanna mess around at home, etc.  But you can build a shredder with washers, plywood and a few basic things you can get on CL or at Home Depot, for under 100 bucks, and the main cost is a used gear motor.  But, if you make small blades, you don't need a giant motor; even 600 in-lbs or a bit less torque will work.  Check out this video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv72UHO-0c8 for how to make one.  Hope it helps some of you who want to make one.