PP was successful in what conditions?

My Filastruder is about to arrive and I am setting the environment.

Thanks!

The amount of filament you get from the beanbag chairs will be somewhat less than expected as the pellets will shrink considerably when going through an extrusion process because of how they are manufactured.. but still if you can find one at a garage sale cheap enough might be worth a try they do have a pretty low melting point, would be curious to see how the foamed pellets go through a filastruder??? I wonder if you would have to speed up the drive or not?

true. there are expanded polystyrene pellets used in most furniture beanbags. i had a beanbag once that had more solid pellets inside, looked kinda like airsoft BBs, except lighter, air fluffed. unfortunately that particular beanbag went on the curb many many moons ago.

very interested to know more about polystryene in a SD3. you can buy huge bags of PS beads packaged as bean bag filler for very little cost compared to buying ABS pellets. hell, could probably even pick up an old beanbag at a garage sale for next to nothing and extrude miles of your own filament!

The amount of filament you get from the beanbag chairs will be somewhat less than expected as the pellets will shrink considerably when going through an extrusion process because of how they are manufactured.. but still if you can find one at a garage sale cheap enough might be worth a try they do have a pretty low melting point, would be curious to see how the foamed pellets go through a filastruder??? I wonder if you would have to speed up the drive or not?

om2804, successful test with Polystyrene (PS) extruding or extruding and printing?

Ralph

Both, there's a picture in the first post.

Ralph

PP = polypropylene.

BTW, you can typically google a plastic abbreviation + "plastic" will typically return the type of plastic and more information about it.

Yes and people can also furnish definitions and links to any references, that is just common courtesy.

Ralph

elmoret wrote:

PP = polypropylene.

BTW, you can typically google a plastic abbreviation + "plastic" will typically return the type of plastic and more information about it.

Here you go Tim... http://bit.ly/13nb3Da

lmgtfy is going to be way too popular now. Thanks for showing us that Tim.

PP = polypropylene.

BTW, you can typically google a plastic abbreviation + "plastic" will typically return the type of plastic and more information about it.

Here you go Tim... http://bit.ly/13nb3Da

parameters are the same. 
temperature changes only

What was the filament diameter variation?