<![CDATA[SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — "Dell" black filament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/topic/15307/dell-black-filament/ Mon, 08 Aug 2016 16:02:43 +0000 PunBB <![CDATA[Re: "Dell" black filament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/126001/#p126001 My brutish setup (woodchipper, meatgrinder and coffee grinder) works, but it is time consuming and the manual steps (shears) are physically painful.

The cost was about $200, but I wish I could improve on it.

The filament results are good and the satisfaction factor to recycle the old computer cases is awesome.

]]> Mon, 08 Aug 2016 16:02:43 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/126001/#p126001 <![CDATA[Re: "Dell" black filament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/125997/#p125997 Yeah, I'd love to recycle my failed prints, brims, rafts, etc... Sadly, there's no reasonably priced shredder out there. Precious Plastic's design looks ok, but I doubt I could source the blades for <$200. Not to mention the other machined parts. Not all of us have CNC mills and metal lathes sitting about. I could likely find/build the rest, but those parts require more precision than I can manage with the metal working tools I have available.

Even if you share a grinder, you have to be careful about contamination from other people's jobs and mislabled/sorted bits. Getting some ABS in a PLA run wouldn't work so well, for example. If your design allows for good cleaning, it's less of an issue.

]]> Mon, 08 Aug 2016 15:39:00 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/125997/#p125997 <![CDATA[Re: "Dell" black filament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/125993/#p125993 Too expensive for me. At 1/10th of the price, maybe, but so high, cannot afford it, unfortunately.

]]> Mon, 08 Aug 2016 14:18:25 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/125993/#p125993 <![CDATA[Re: "Dell" black filament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/125897/#p125897 The Filabot grinder is sweet. but at Well over $4k that is a village purchase.
https://www.filabot.com/products/filabo … 3294958148
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]]> Sat, 06 Aug 2016 11:25:30 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/125897/#p125897 <![CDATA[Re: "Dell" black filament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/125872/#p125872 "Product"

http://i.imgur.com/bhYTwki.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/XBucE4z.jpg

]]> Fri, 05 Aug 2016 02:11:13 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/125872/#p125872 <![CDATA[Re: "Dell" black filament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/125871/#p125871 First pass from woodchipper. Next step is to cut bigger pieces using shears, then use the coffee grinder.

http://i.imgur.com/pJOATIc.jpg

]]> Fri, 05 Aug 2016 02:10:22 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/125871/#p125871 <![CDATA[Re: "Dell" black filament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/125870/#p125870 "Reinforced" hopper. (apologies, Tim, was too lazy to print another one)

http://i.imgur.com/SjcoWuN.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/EcCCk7Y.jpg

]]> Fri, 05 Aug 2016 02:08:41 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/125870/#p125870 <![CDATA[Re: "Dell" black filament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/125856/#p125856 I was afraid you would say that sad

I need to watch the video mentioned https://preciousplastic.com/en/videos/build/shredder/ with sound, I wonder if they sell the laser cut parts kit so I could assemble it.

]]> Thu, 04 Aug 2016 18:12:07 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/125856/#p125856 <![CDATA[Re: "Dell" black filament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/125851/#p125851 kszwab wrote:
aleksi wrote:

Precious Plastics has DIY instructions for motorized shredder which makes direct pelletized material if you want to.
They say that if you do a lot of scavenging etc you can build it for less than 200$. But you'll need to do quite a bit of scavenging for that.

I am looking at it, not sure if I can scavenge what is needed. What I am looking for is a kit that I can assemble, similar to the Filastruder and Filawinder.

Tim ? smile

I don't think it'll happen - there's just too much liability involved, unfortunately.

]]> Thu, 04 Aug 2016 16:45:05 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/125851/#p125851 <![CDATA[Re: "Dell" black filament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/125849/#p125849 The scary woodchipper http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sun-Joe-14-Amp- … SwZ8ZW5nLx spews some nasty shrapnel (yes, I did have safety glasses on), but it spewed a few sharp edged ones that easily penetrated the plastic bag that I was collecting the output into.

That prompted visions of my sweaty hairy legs potentially being coated with blood. New updated collector will be a plastic bucket to contain the shrapnel.

If the plastic fed to the Filastruder is too big, it will eventually crack the input funnel and put unnecessary strain on the motor.

The filament is good, I just printed two spool sides to attach to a toilet paper core. Pics will come soon of the wonderful creation.

]]> Thu, 04 Aug 2016 13:55:40 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/125849/#p125849 <![CDATA[Re: "Dell" black filament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/125848/#p125848 aleksi wrote:

Precious Plastics has DIY instructions for motorized shredder which makes direct pelletized material if you want to.
They say that if you do a lot of scavenging etc you can build it for less than 200$. But you'll need to do quite a bit of scavenging for that.

I am looking at it, not sure if I can scavenge what is needed. What I am looking for is a kit that I can assemble, similar to the Filastruder and Filawinder.

Tim ? smile

]]> Thu, 04 Aug 2016 13:37:17 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/125848/#p125848 <![CDATA[Re: "Dell" black filament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/125842/#p125842 Precious Plastics has DIY instructions for motorized shredder which makes direct pelletized material if you want to.
They say that if you do a lot of scavenging etc you can build it for less than 200$. But you'll need to do quite a bit of scavenging for that.

]]> Thu, 04 Aug 2016 11:07:57 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/125842/#p125842 <![CDATA[Re: "Dell" black filament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/125825/#p125825 My usual brutish ways. First with an electric wood chipper (new from Home Depot), then shears and a small coffee grinder from Walmart.

All steps sucked in different ways. Woodchipper - scary, shears slow and my paw still hurts then the cofee grinder slow so I do not burn out the motor.

A good shredder would be nice sad

]]> Wed, 03 Aug 2016 23:51:13 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/125825/#p125825 <![CDATA[Re: "Dell" black filament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/125820/#p125820 MG47 is good stuff!

How'd you shred/granulate it?

]]> Wed, 03 Aug 2016 21:21:02 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/125820/#p125820 <![CDATA["Dell" black filament]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/125816/#p125816 Here is a recycled Dell Optiplex 755 which died. Black filament, MG47 material according to the stamped info on the pieces of plastic.

Started from the initial beige of the previous Dell from 2000, then gray mix, then black.

http://i.imgur.com/hRrC4nQ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ZX6DJnO.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/bnCPwuR.jpg

No laughing at the weird funnel, please.

http://i.imgur.com/yLL4p9b.jpg

Hopper cracked and needed to glue and clamp it later.

http://i.imgur.com/aOyv8sV.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/NLPV96v.jpg

Final result. Very pleased.

http://i.imgur.com/OkB4biq.jpg

]]> Wed, 03 Aug 2016 19:13:48 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/125816/#p125816