7 Ways to Make Stuff from Recycled Plastic | From Tin Cans to Wazer Waterjet cutting!

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For our last video of 2022, we thought we'd show you all a load of different ways that we've used to recycle plastic for our projects. These range from super simple DIY-friendly methods such as a tin can with a heat gun, all the way up to some of the tools and machines we use to run our small business. Hopefully there's something for everyone and that you get something from this video :)
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@lihtan Жыл бұрын

Timestamps: 0:22 - Method 1 - tin can and heatgun 2:07 - Method 2 - pannini press with silicone baking sheet and cookie cutters 3:52 - Method 3 - wooden moulds with hydraulic press 6:00 - Method 4 - sheet moulds with hydraulic press 7:29 - Squarespace promo 8:22 - Method 5 - CNC machining 10:08 - Method 6 - injection moulding 13:30 - Method 7 - extrusion 14:55 - Outro and thank you 15:55 - Christmas sweater

@koutaconnor9453 Жыл бұрын

Would love to see a sword or shield mold from recycled plastic.

@frosty-tg1me Жыл бұрын

What do you put the Panini press to to melt the plastic for the cookie cutters?

@happysunnyrain1531 Жыл бұрын

You guys are great! 😃👍

@nonyabusiness9747 Жыл бұрын

Hey yall saved the best for last but didn't go into enough detail on your massive plastic melter injector maker thing. Could you do a follow up vid showing it in action?

@greenspiraldragon 11 ай бұрын

Always make sure your in a well ventilated area, plastic gives off toxic fumes when heated. Always keep a fire extinguisher nearby as plastic can catch fire if the flash point is exceeded.

@amydavis4945 11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for showing us the first couple of "inexpensive" methods for those of us that are interested in making stuff from recycled plastic, but don't have thousands of dollars worth of machinery (or the skills to use them). You guys are amazing and very appreciated!

@stizelswik3694 7 ай бұрын

LOL I couldn't have said it better myself. lol ... inexpensive, my foot! lol

@aicram62 11 ай бұрын

Love that you're catching the flyaway pieces. Treat Plastic like Asbestos.

@deafsetter Жыл бұрын

Love to see the low budget "home" DIY recycling. That is something I can actually do/make.

@BrothersMake Жыл бұрын

Absolutely! Thanks for watching :)

@ChandanaRanasinghe Жыл бұрын

How.. 😐

@oriawik Жыл бұрын

@@ChandanaRanasinghe *whispers* panini

@jerrykovis5417 Жыл бұрын

Uh, the tools used in this aren’t really low budget

@MaryAnnNytowl Жыл бұрын

@@jerrykovis5417 uh, yeah, they are. Everything except the very last one ate verg low-budget, with a little luck. Find a used toaster oven, a used panini press, and buy a heat gun and a few silicone baking sheets, used if possible, too. Aside from that, there's nothing you can't just do by hand. You don't HAVE to have a router table or a plane, and that bottle jack press is DEAD simple to make, LOL!

@macelius 7 күн бұрын

I love the idea of making lasting things, like the stool top, out of disposable bottle caps etc.

@stupid4President Жыл бұрын

This is the first time in my life that I feel that I have not enough plastic to recycle....

@BrothersMake Жыл бұрын

Lovely problem to have! But I assure you, there'll definitely be plenty out there if you ask around! ♻️

@ELIMM-wg5ky 5 ай бұрын

😂😂😂 best comment

@ivibivivgig6425 4 ай бұрын

@BrothersMake can you use PET for these projects too. Or only HDPE? If only HDPE, how can I get me some? :p

@moejotuber Жыл бұрын

Found you guys on a random surfing session. YOU DA MAN , uh MEN !!!!!! Awesome. And I thought I was doing good by reusing sandwich bags, milk bags and plastic wrap. During the pandemic i started making sourdough bread. Made 376 loaves of bread using the same piece of plastic wrap to cover the proofing bowl. Used the same 2 resealable plastic storage bags to keep the loaves fresh. I like to think this has saved a lot of seabirds, turtles and fish. They too often fatally see floating plastic bags and film as a jellyfish meal. The milk bags are resealable with a homemade hotwire.

@aminakishk6571 Жыл бұрын

That melted pieces looks just like the earlier bowls my Mom bought when plastic first came out, back in the 1950s !

@shumailriaz9204 Жыл бұрын

Wow, that bench is a great idea, how cool to collect all the waste plastics from a beach and take it back in the shape of a bench

@malaineeward5249 9 ай бұрын

I was thinking of making some beach toy molds like buckets and shovels 😄

@baybabe95 Жыл бұрын

I’ve been using the cookie cutter method at home to make jewelry, and it works great! I use a Dremel tool to add small holes for jewelry fixings, and I squish the sheet with some heavy books after I cut through it with the cookie cutters.

@BrothersMake Жыл бұрын

That’s so cool!

@eugenetswong Жыл бұрын

Sasha, thank you for sharing your experiences with us.

@brantgoose Жыл бұрын

Can you please let me know what press you use? I've been looking for one in thrift shops. But now I might try to get one on eBay or Amazon.

@eugenetswong Жыл бұрын

@@brantgoose You are asking the brothers, right? They created a video showing us how they made it themselves. They used a car jack, if I recall correctly.

@hawkeyescoffee6399 Жыл бұрын

@@eugenetswong I think Brant was talking about the panini press.

@meetv7700 Жыл бұрын

I always wondered how strong that recycled bench was, experiencing zero flex while holding 2 person load without any support in middle section. I love your videos and I hope more people start recycling.

@unitedwestanddividedwefall2073 Жыл бұрын

At 1 time I was recycling but when aluminum got too cheap to sell I was done with saving cans

@maxx23AK Жыл бұрын

@@unitedwestanddividedwefall2073 😔

@MaryAnnNytowl Жыл бұрын

@@unitedwestanddividedwefall2073 what the _~bleeping bleepety bleep~_? It's not about the money as much as keeping that shyt OUT of the landfills. I don't get paid a solitary penny for recycling glass, for example, but I damned well DO, because I care about what kind of planet our grandkids and great grandchildren will have to live on. Do YOU want to live on top of a landfill, a figurative ticking time bomb, with methane leaks that can catch fire, toxic chemicals that can leach into your drinking water, and the like? THAT is why recycling is important. I mean, for crying out loud, find someone that will pick up your bin of cans every so often! There's a ton of folks out there that would do so. It's incredibly sad that you only do something if it pays YOU. 😔

@JohanlastZa Жыл бұрын

I am more concerned about the heat the plastic stores....which will be transferred to your umm behind when you sit on it.

@Eduardo_Espinoza 11 ай бұрын

@unitedwestanddividedwefall2073 Will u be making a machine gun out of those soda cans?

@Cybertruck1000 Жыл бұрын

Had a bit of a go with melting and shaping a few years ago. A lot of stores have plastic wrap put over their delivered pallets. It's easy to come by and melts really well and is incredibly hard, worth giving that a go. The whole idea is interesting and I guess you could make some small scale items or art. It looks pretty prohibitive considering the cost of electricity. The bench, like I say interesting but it would be useful to give a breakdown of all costs to produce it.

@Eduardo_Espinoza 11 ай бұрын

Good eye at pointing out the electric cost! Heat especially is costly for electric appliances.

@1chumley1 11 ай бұрын

What if you used a solar collector dish to heat it?

@Apostate_ofmind 11 ай бұрын

@@1chumley1 unreliable, tricky, not very precise, and it risks burning the plastic instead of melting it

@peterpan4038 11 ай бұрын

@@Eduardo_Espinoza Yes, electricity isn't cheap in most places. But plastic sheets aren't cheap either, unless we are talking about super thin stuff like cling film. The shown methods already save a ton of money if you actually intent to DIY something out of plastic. With the added benefit of actually re-using old plastic garbage. Just don't expect the absolute maximum material quality, but that's barely an issue at all for most puposes.

@balloney2175 6 ай бұрын

@@1chumley1 Perfect suggestion.

@E-hab 10 ай бұрын

The last one is the best because it recycles the largest amount and is the most useful.

@ItsLaurenE Жыл бұрын

I still marvel at how far you've come with your channel, your workshop, and endless creativity! Just watched your plastic bag wallet episode, i was into making stronger reusable bags with them using the same ironing method some ten years back. This was also when my kids were younger and drinking capris sun and i really loved making juice pouch wallets. * I find recently as i build my stash of hdpe plastics so many bottle caps don't say what type of plastic it is which makes things complicated. I'm in the US , i did find a brand of bottled water made with recycled materials, is recyclable and caps are hdpe! YAY 🙂 For now I've used cut bottles and plastic bags as fillers for other crafts I enjoy.

@FuriousAquarian Жыл бұрын

I'm really inspired by you guys and my mind is exploding with ideas already. I'm already a scrapper by nature. I was wondering if you'd share how to deal with the piles of things that were going to be trash or might be something else. The potential materials. How you store them, how you decide what is worth the effort and space to keep and what you go ahead and dispose of (recycle or throw away). How did you handle that as you've grown? As an aspiring maker I have a hard time keeping my little space from being overrun and ending up turning into a hoarder with no hope of finding anything and no room to begin a project even if the overwhelm of the chaos didn't discourage me.

@justklampfing1140 Жыл бұрын

story of my life :D Best tip i have for saving space: get rid of air. air takes up valueable space. if you collect bottle caps, cut them up. if you have lots of scrap wood, glue them together and make new sheets or blocks, disassemble cardboard boxes. use your ceiling to store thin materials. also in general: don't keep ressouces laying around for too long- do something with them before they do something with you

@vne-seti 11 ай бұрын

И ни слова про нагрев на костре... меня терзают смутные сомнения 😀 парни молодцы, скамейка впечатлила!

@danielDayne-hn3nm 2 ай бұрын

This is the type of content, in which the language is not a barrier, because it is practical, simple, didactic and ingenious. Thank you guys for the content you share, which is great, and thank you for contributing your knowledge to this entire community.

@davidbwa Жыл бұрын

Soup can method would probably be easier if you didn't use a pull top can (which has a ridge). A standard can opened with one of those no sharp can openers gives a nice smooth surface at the lip

@M1N43 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for doing this guys. Honestly love that I just found this channel and learned about these recycling techniques that the two of you are using to clean the planet. We need more people like you!

@MaxGiganteum 6 ай бұрын

"...recycling techniques that the two of you are using to clean the planet...". If we as humans were actually smart, we wouldn't be producing all the plastic that we do. Oh, how... oh, how..., oh how... did we ever get along without plastic? We got along just fine. We should go back to some of those ways and save ourselves the trouble. Not polluting the planet in the first place negates the need to clean it up. Perhaps we should adopt that ideal and change our ways. 🤔 👍🏻 - Max Giganteum

@malaythakkar8772 5 ай бұрын

@@M1N43probably a scam

@lchristoffer 11 ай бұрын

Wow! I love this channel - I found you by accident. And I’m glad I did - I’m fascinated by the stuff you do and I love learning about new machinery, etc available to make stuff. I have been a word worker for years (among other things) and I only wish I could get a 3d builder. In any case, I’ve subscribed! Thanks so much

@juliahelland6488 Жыл бұрын

Thanks again for sharing! 💯 ❣️ In the USA, a grocery chain has shoppers bring in their recyclable plastic bags and they have a company turn them into benches similar to yours. They should just agree not to use plastic bags in the first place. That won't happen until the government bans plastic.

@AlexVieiraDaSilva1972 Жыл бұрын

Hello guys , greetings ... Sou daqui do Rio de Janeiro e trabalho como coletor de lixo e todo santo dia centenas de toneladas de variados tipos de plástico são jogados fora , porém aqui no meu país infelizmente não há uma campanha do governo para incentivar a reciclagem de tais materiais . Aliás , faz pouco tempo que devido ás condições financeiras , que várias pessoas estão recolhendo e vendendo em ferros - velhos para ganharem uma renda extra . Não só o plástico , como o papelão , alumínio , ferro e outros materiais são vendidos aos montes . Gostei e achei bem interessante o trabalho de vocês ao mostrar ( e provar ) que muita coisa pode ser feita com o plástico , além de auxiliar a limpeza da mãe -natureza . Um abraço aos dois !!!!!

@stevenmccrickard1401 Жыл бұрын

Recent sub, I had no idea it was so "easy" to reshape plastic into new products, thanks for the content.

@BrothersMake Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@MaryAnnNytowl Жыл бұрын

I just love what you do, and while watching this, and with a teensy hint of an idea from another comment here, I think I may do a bit of experimenting with interlocking puzzle piece shapes. I think it would be really cool to put them together for a tabletop or countertop, with a nice coat of epoxy over the top! (If anyone copies this idea and makes any money from it, I want a cut, LOL!)

@zoroslostagain1695 Жыл бұрын

fantastic, I want to acquire these tools to start crafting from recycled materials like this. I already make tcg storage boxes from cardboard junk, but this is much more involved and I think it would be more rewarding. Awesome stuff

@jonathanyoung5780 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely brilliant and so glad to see so many ways to reuse plastic. Hope your business grows by leaps and bounds 🙂👍

@walek7885 Жыл бұрын

Как же это красиво, практически из мусора делать такую красоту.

@jonnaborosky8836 5 ай бұрын

I can't find a word that's good enough to describe how much I love this channel...!!!!!

@jgoldwhite Жыл бұрын

Great demo and insight on what appears to be a smartly designed improvement/upgrade for the weakest tonal link in the Fender offset model wiggle-bar proposition. I'm quite impressed with how much better the bridge helped your guitar transmit mid to low frequency information, and seemed to add overall to resonance and note duration.

@joepeanut6827 Жыл бұрын

UM WRONG Video, are you lost??

@trustyourforce4041 Жыл бұрын

I've been using oven safe molds to make pendants from the scraps of PLA plastic from 3d printing.

@bebechat811 Ай бұрын

J'apprécie beaucoup votre travail vous me donnez des idées merci .

@francyssaint8417 4 күн бұрын

Its very good I am here in brazil.

@2megalott358 Жыл бұрын

You both are simply awesome and amazing. Thank you for the inspiration!

@wafflebeaver Жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas guys. It’s like a summary of a bunch of your methods. Very nicely packaged!

@BrothersMake Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it :)

@Mozes8 7 ай бұрын

Love y'all work keep helping turn plastic into better ideas.

@BrothersMake 7 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@vectric Жыл бұрын

Awesome video guys! Love all the inspirational ways you can recycle plastic 👏👏👏

@-MacCat- Жыл бұрын

Love your work guys. Keep it up into 2023 and beyond. I'm off to melt some plastic!

@joaopauloalbano686 Ай бұрын

Obrigado por existirem!!! Um abraço forte aqui do Brasil!

@zitafatima3941 Жыл бұрын

You are Great generation that help me to understand plastics recycling in the simply way. Thank you. Go on brothers

@nevilpan520 Жыл бұрын

You men are brilliant. I usually feel depressed when I think of myself as a human being but watching your video makes me proud.

@patriciagraham4786 Жыл бұрын

I am so glad I stumbled upon your video. I've been saving water bottle lids for some time, but didn't really know what to do with them. So, I threw a bunch out (gasp!!!). Now, I will start saving again and search for a thrifted panini press. My mind's wheels are turning now. Thank you.

@1pcfred Жыл бұрын

The lids are low density polyethylene. They're kinda crappy. I'm not sure why they use LDPE to make lids with. The bottles themselves are HDPE. If they're not PET.

@Oktokolo Жыл бұрын

What really holds plastic recycling back is the manual labor required for sorting the source material.

@chariddawn6663 Жыл бұрын

I think that would make beautiful floor tiles with the blue Pepsi lids.

@Beatlefan67 Жыл бұрын

Yeah! Great vid you blokes! The thing that crossed my mind, apart from the fun of making stuff (always good in my book) the lack of hardwood these days means it's difficult to get hold of wood to make decent bats for the ancient game of Bat and Trap. However, I'm sure they could be made from recycled plastic to the correct spec. Brilliant! I'll have to slot this in, along with all my other projects...!! Thanks, chaps - liked and subscribed!

@ChristopherSchreib-yn1vu 10 ай бұрын

Dear Sir, there’s a new kind of flooring made out of a color-dyed fiberglass filiament and plastic, which is PHYSICALLY INDESTRUCTIBLE, but EXPENSIVE. It’s not that cheap extruded plastic beams used to replace beachside wood broadwalks (which unlike the insulated wood broadwalks, increments solar heat and will melt the sandals off your feet) but a composite material of lengths of fiberglass threads compressed and melted together. After a homeowner hires someone to construct house floors or patio porch’s out of this material, dyed to look like wood, they always have shortened cut off pieces they usually put on the curb for garbage pickup. If you could ‘cur shop’ those pieces, you could repurpose them into unbreakable baseball bats and unbreakable plastic artifacts, using diamond-edged buzz saws and a LOT of work. EOJ

@havoc158 Жыл бұрын

With the book mould if you mount a round piece of aluminium to the top or bottom plate you'll have less waste and less work to do to make the page spreader and with the extrusion machine if you heat the mould you'll get a smoother finish

@JvdBos 5 ай бұрын

Nice stuff 🙂 As a LARPer and cosplayer, this makes me curious to think what I might do for that kind of thing. My current train of thought leads me to think of thick sheets to make sci-fi armour parts out of.

@stormyeffects4795 Жыл бұрын

I really appreciate this video. Thank you for showing us all the levels

@BrothersMake Жыл бұрын

You’re very welcome :)

@Dimdi6310 2 ай бұрын

Just amazing ! Thank you for your great work and time you've spend doing this video. Love it!

@BiscuitWaite Жыл бұрын

You could also use your extrusion method to mass produce interlocking bricks. I've toyed with the idea after reading an article about a company doing just that and thought it would make a great DIY project that could potentially save me a bunch of money in building supplies. I would (as well as y'all) have to look at the relative strength but I'm sure it would work in non load bearing applications.

@MaryAnnNytowl Жыл бұрын

Yanno, it might, with some epoxy poured over the top, be pretty cool to make interlocking puzzle piece shapes and use them to make a tabletop, a bar top, or even a countertop! That's a VERY intriguing idea! 🤔

@roberthardy2013 Жыл бұрын

Aluminium dust (tiny pieces) in the molten plastic look great

@JayWithAJ Жыл бұрын

Excellent choice of t shirt. Fellow Deftones enjoyer, here.

@TechsScience Жыл бұрын

You are great guys You taught us the simplest way to recycle plastic

@nesikhah Жыл бұрын

Brothers make, you are fantastic. Can we have some ideas for repairing plastics? Example I see a lot of laundry baskets thrown out because of cracks, could we have a video something like that? Thanks so much :)

@julia1999rene Жыл бұрын

Love that these are assessable

@olivehennings8770 11 ай бұрын

Very impressive. I like it. I never knew one can DIY. Especially the handmade ones. Thank u for sharing👍

@FernandaSantos-ek5sb Жыл бұрын

in japan one thing they use little balls as a hole they put together a design iron it. based on this there is a way I use it is using 2 sheets of aluminum foil is the lids of the bottles in the middle of the sheets of aluminum foil is a sheet of paper on top is to place the iron on top of the sheet and then wait 5 minutes. then let it run out .

@magnussteinbru5298 Жыл бұрын

I've actually really been wanting to start recycling plastic. Instantly subscribed!

@9catlover Жыл бұрын

i love the mallet and the bench!

@gmamah9559 Жыл бұрын

What a great hustle to take right to the beach! Have people bring their own caps and charge a small fee for labor or bring different colors and make custom!

@OPTIMUS2082 Жыл бұрын

EXCELENTE VIDEO AMIGOS. Gracias por compartir.

@makeitkozi Жыл бұрын

Very nicely done and explained. Thanks for the tips and tricks!

@BrothersMake Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

@andromakss_user63 Жыл бұрын

Молодцы ребята👏👏👏👍👍👍👍💪✌

@BrothersMake Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@boon7564 11 ай бұрын

Y’all the future keep on keeping on

@hernan16th Жыл бұрын

Great video, guys! Thanks for sharing all this tips 🤜🤛

@BrothersMake Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! 🤙🏽🤙🏽

@26debsterdots Жыл бұрын

I love that you are showing folks to recycle. And the things you make are amazing and exciting. The wheels in my head are turning ! Trying to get husband on board. If not I will do it all by myself hahaha

@1pcfred Жыл бұрын

I've melted a lot of HDPE stock and it can be a handy material but there's limits with what you can do with it. Pressing it like they're doing creates internal stresses in the plastic which makes it impossible to make anything precise out of it. The stuff warps and springs when you cut it. Relieving that stress is something I never figured out how to do. It also takes a lot of time and energy to melt the plastic. So you're not really saving the planet doing it.

@coololds4464 11 ай бұрын

@@1pcfredYes, there are for sure going to be limitations with this for the majority of us (especially if you only focus on bottle caps) who can only basic DIY it, which means realistically most of us will be contributing via crafts and upcycling, but I mean, you're still diverting waste from landfills and keeping it out of the environment. It's not perfect, but it's better than doing nothing? It's easy to get stuck in the "but I'm just one person" mindset, but if enough of us join up we have strength in numbers and I don't think we should dismiss how that could eventually lead to major change via legislation after educating those around us through our products and hyping others to join or even just helping spread the information.

@starvingartist733 Жыл бұрын

You guys inspired me to start melting down and recycling my own plastic, thank you!!!

@ifur Жыл бұрын

Exacly, other from panini how can we transform our plastics to 3d printers

@BrothersMake Жыл бұрын

HDPE isn’t a great candidate for 3D printing filament unfortunately. But so happy we got you started!

@hojo70 Жыл бұрын

When you inhale plastic fumes, you’re exposing yourself to a number of toxic chemicals that can damage your lungs and cause a variety of respiratory problems. Some of these chemicals like dioxins and benzene are carcinogenic.

@db7059 Жыл бұрын

These guys got me keen as well. It's just taking me alot longer to get going.

@BrothersMake Жыл бұрын

Key word you said there was ‘fumes’. We know our plastics and control the temperatures very carefully. We never burn plastics of any types. With HDPE, that means no fumes

@tharakaseneviratne6843 Жыл бұрын

Wow !!! THANK YOU !!! I learnt a lot from your video. I plan to put this knowledge to good use.

@giovannacasadio9600 Жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas to you to. Thanks for everything.

@BrothersMake Жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas to you too, Giovanna! 🎄

@The411 10 ай бұрын

What wonderful toys you guys have!

@aware2action 6 ай бұрын

Beach Benchy was way too cool!❤👍👍. Might need some assistance, in rolling a project out!. Look forward to more....😊

@BrothersMake 6 ай бұрын

Thanks so much! Good luck with the project ♻️💚

@rustyshackleford7288 Жыл бұрын

Amazing!!! We need this across the world 🌎!!

@1pcfred Жыл бұрын

We'd be better off burning plastic to generate energy. Melting plastic takes energy. Burnt at a high enough temperature there'd be no hazardous byproducts.

@projectrebuild908 Жыл бұрын

Great to see your progression over the years in on Great video. Have a fantastic festive period and hope to see you in the new year.

@BrothersMake Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! Happy holidays to you too!

@kati1017 Жыл бұрын

Love the bench! So cool!

@markzambelli Жыл бұрын

You gotta love Bournemouth🥰... oh, and HDPE

@marcianorris6147 Жыл бұрын

Love the bench.

@BrothersMake Жыл бұрын

Thanks. The bench loves you 💚

@ElCanaldeJGRV Жыл бұрын

Congratulations! You are very PRO recyclers!

@eugenetswong Жыл бұрын

Brothers, thanks for the great ideas! It was really helpful to see the ideas in 1 place. Here are my favourites of this video's suggestions. 1) Cookie cutter! Maybe we can make custom cutters out of tin cans? 2) That single piece of wood mold. I never thought of that. 3) The page holder. I bet that if we set up a public library event, where we offered them for $1, then we could raise awareness and funds for our recycling causes. Have you ever thought of making an HDPE boat?

@BrothersMake Жыл бұрын

Hey Eugene, thanks for your feedback and some nice ideas in there as always! And funnily enough a boat/raft is actually on our list to build and make a video on this summer - so watch this space! ♻️

@eugenetswong Жыл бұрын

@@BrothersMake Good to know. Thanks for the info. I'm interested in making a custom laundry basket, by fastening pieces together instead of melting them. Do you have any suggestions? Maybe cut out some flat pieces from a milk jug, and cut them in a way that allows them to interlock? Maybe ice pop sticks or disposable chopsticks could be use to fasten them together? Actually, that might work. The plastic is flexible enough to fit in small shaped holes, and then sticks could used to keep the inserts from wiggling free. Does that sound right?

@eugenetswong Жыл бұрын

@@BrothersMake By the way, I suggest making a toy boat that is scaled to what you want. This way, you could film both using a forced perspective, and it might make people laugh. Also, by the way, you mentioning the raft makes me think that we can create a snow sled out of HDPE. That would be a great use, I think. Speaking of sleds, there is a sled shovel, which allows us to move snow by pushing a sled shaped shovel, so that nobody has to lift a lot of snow. This might be a nice project. How hard is it to recycle biodegradable plastic? I ask, because I am hoping that the microplastics from wear & tear from using them outdoors are less harmful than HDPE fragments.

@whitelion7976 Жыл бұрын

Give the book page holder a bird shape as reading gives you wings !

@purple-jz6od Ай бұрын

great ideas could be school businesses as loads of kids to collect the plastic

@hevchip741 10 ай бұрын

Absolutely fantastic.

@balloney2175 6 ай бұрын

Very creative, innovative, and environment conscious inventors.

@tgh965 Жыл бұрын

...love what you guys do!

@user-jl2tb1jx3b 3 ай бұрын

Братцы, вы очень вдохновляющие! 🚀🔥

@katehirst6046 Жыл бұрын

Wow, l loved watching this... The outro is hilarious! 🤣 That bench is wonderful.

@BrothersMake Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it ☺️

@paulfernandez2695 Жыл бұрын

Xtraordinary way to teach. Congratulations friends.

@cabzun1572 Жыл бұрын

Cool ideas, very inspiring! 👍👍👍👍

@rcisneros8567 11 ай бұрын

Blessing. Great Job.

@sniper31013 Жыл бұрын

Good job mash'Allah

@peterxyz3541 7 ай бұрын

CLEVER!!! YOU are what’s right about the world!

@BrothersMake 7 ай бұрын

Haha thank you! 🌎🌎

@Pet-Memorials-Markers-Urns Жыл бұрын

Great work! Very interesting, keep it up!

@symbolikarts Жыл бұрын

Brilliant! Can’t wait to make. Thanks for sharing ✌️😎👍

@BrothersMake Жыл бұрын

Good luck with it all!

@ConscienciaSuprahumana 7 ай бұрын

just discovered your channel, wonderful! thanks a lot, love the ideas, I was looking for something like this since many years ago. Blessings!

@tinysmallfryskitchen8610 Жыл бұрын

Excellent video. I can’t wait to have a play with this.

@crisc9280 7 ай бұрын

This is why when local municipalities say that they can only recycle certain types of plastic, I don't understand what their excuse is. You just showed how it's done Excellent video

@ZERODESTRUCTION 11 ай бұрын

I logged on to finish watching Leon the Lobster shed his shell. I'd just come back from the supermarket full of sadness after visiting with the lobsters in the seafood dept. Yet, I was mesmerized by the cute Brit Bros ironing plastic bags. And, I missed the link to find Kevin the upholstered! Can someone send me the link? Thank You! Liz

@k.hussain360 Жыл бұрын

I'm definitely going to be setting up some plastic recycling for the Hackspace, our giant book press would become much more functional as a result.

@BrothersMake Жыл бұрын

Oooh that sounds like a perfect sheet press option!

@RiniDiamandis Жыл бұрын

soo cool!! i found you guys cos i was looking up craft uses for a heat gun cos i wann buy one! tysm for all the ideas! instant sub

@BrothersMake Жыл бұрын

You're more than welcome, glad you found it useful!

@NullaNulla 10 ай бұрын

I'd LOVE to have the workshop space and money for them CNC machines and the mould injection equipment!!! Oh the possibilities even just from recycled milk bottles.

@shannfranics8931 Жыл бұрын

Method 8: sculpt out of clay a mask, mould it in silicone that can withstand up to 300c, cut milk carton HDPE in to 1mm x 1mm shreds then once ready, remove the clay, clean out then pour ina thin layer of your HDPE n blast it with a paint stripper gun, (if youve used polymorph plastic beads this will seem familiar) and using scrap HDPE or i use neoprene (wet suit material) press the plastic in to the fine details of the mould n rinse and repeat till its basically casted allow to cool and remove from mould. you can paint HDPE but its tricky the Rpf have details on that from general motors and their hard hats that are made from you guessed it HDPE. There have been some accounts of people using 3d printers to make their designs from HDPE but not sure what that process is to get it to the right sizes n printer commands but worth a look if youre keen.

@BrothersMake Жыл бұрын

Yes we will definitely be doing a video on silicone moulds in the near future! 3D printing with HDPE is a nightmare. Too much shrinkage takes place when cooking, making uniform cross sectional diameters impossible

@shannfranics8931 Жыл бұрын

@@BrothersMake you guys once mentioned that it's near impossible to paint HDPE but I noticed that in its melted state it glues itself to almost everything ever tried adding a pigment n mixing through your twisting air bubble removal technique? In any case before this channel I was wasting money on polyurethane, now I'm cost saving n being environmentally accountable, from Australia I wanted to say thankyou n merry Xmas.

@1pcfred Жыл бұрын

I want to see you pouring thermoplastic. Make a video now. I'd sooner believe molasses can run uphill in January.