Thank you so much. Yes, I also wish that I would have saved more of my filament waste in the past. But it’s never to late.

Hello dear Steve. Thank you so much 😊 I’m glad you like it. It’s really satisfying to turn the trash into new filament. I’m really surprised that it comes out in such a great quality. And it has zero stringing.

Yes, it’s really great that it works without virgin material. Initially I was really sceptical if that would be possible!

Thank very much buddy. Yes, it’s so satisfying to turn the scrap into new filament.

It really is. It’s so satisfying being able to turn the waste filament into new one. 😊

@@choschiba I know.... I was collecting my failed prints but didn't find a solution that was cost effective and would fit in my office

The footprint is really small. What’s rather big is the required shredder if you want to use recycled material.

@@choschiba we'd like to perform the complete process, collecting, shredding und then make filament out of it. We don't have room but we have ideas - so perhaps in the future we'll be able to achieve that goal.

@@U.10.makerspacethat sounds great! Keeping fingers crossed that you will be able to realize it soon.

Yes, it really is.

Thank you very much 😀

Thank you so much. Hug 🤗 back

The machine is totally open source. So you can definitely do that.

Thank you very much for your compliment. The price does show up on his web-shop: artme-3d.myshopify.com/

Thank you so much. It really is.

Thank you very much

Thank you so much. Yes, definitely. In the beginning I was a bit confused and thought that I would have to adjust everything manually. But then I learned that the automatic mode takes care about everything. You just have to choose the right temperature and fan settings. The only thing that I still have to adjust is the tension of the filament winder. It doesn’t work properly. But David, the owner of Artme3D told me how I can adjust and therefore solve the problem.

I am part of the „Precious Plastic“ movement. I have created a mark on the Prusa recycling world map: world.prusa3d.com/user/cat3d-16272 So once in a while users are sending me their 3D printed waste. So I really have enough material that I can extrude.

I can give it a try

It smells as if you are printing the filament with your 3D printer. As you might not know how others respond to the smell of the melted plastics, I would not recommend to set it up in an office environment. The place I have set it up at is at our Makerspace. It is a huge open space where I can open up the window. As we are also shredding and injection molding other plastics as PP, PE and HDPE we are going to buy a mobile filtration unit, as those kind of plastics smell even stronger than PLA and PETG. Maybe such a filtration system would be an option for you too. But it's not that cheap.

It depends how well you have dialed in the process.When you are using shredded material Ii’s very important to have an even particle size. Otherwise the material can’t feed into the extruder evenly, which would cause an inconsistent material flow. The accuracy on my side is between +/-0.02mm & +/-0.03mm. The quality of the parts that I have printed with the material so far is really excellent.

I guess it depends on what your raw material is made out of. In this case it’s a mixture of Prusament and Purefill PETG. So I don’t really see any reason why it shouldn’t work. Unluckily I don’t own any Bambu Lab printer. The one that I created a video about was loaned, so I could give it a try.

@@choschiba Thanks for this information. I would like to use PETG pellets. I can see from the video you used shredded pellets of PETG and it came out awesome.

@@maina_irungu_ pellets will work without any problems. Please buy the same kit as I have. It contains both extruder spindles.

Please do yourself a favor and buy what you need from www.artme-3d.de

Yes, that’s the plan when you buy the kit. You will have to 3D print lots of parts in advance.

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You will have to weigh the granules. What you add in to the reservoir will be the amount of filament that you make.

The ruler belongs to the Makerspace. I also have one at home, which I bought during one of my business when I used to travel to China. If you search the internet for: „Metal ruler inch and cm“ you can find them easily. I like them much more than the plastic ones. If you want to run an exacto knife along it, you don’t have to worry that you shave a piece off of it.

@@choschiba Thanks for your reply. I have many steel rulers myself and the longest I have is 2000mm. It was the one with the thin width I was refering to. I suppose it's about 10-15mm wide?

The next time I’m at the Makerspace, I will take a look to find the one you are looking for. I‘ll check if there is a company name written on it. The smallest one we have there isn’t longer than approx. 200mm

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The shredder is from a company called „Plastic Preneur“

@@choschiba very nice how much ?

Hallo Martin. In dem Video handelt es sich um den MKI. Mittlerweile gibt es aber den MKII. Bitte erkundige Dich bei David Pfeifer (Besitzer von Artme3D) welches Netzteil Du kaufen musst. Leider habe ich alle Teile für den Upgrade im Makerspace, daher kann ich nicht nachschauen welches Netzteil ich gekauft habe. Ich hatte kürzlich einen Schlaganfall. Deshalb hat sich das Upgrade verzögert. Ich muss auf meine Gesundheit schauen. Daher bin ich jetzt etwas langsamer unterwegs. Ich werde demnächst nämlich meinen Extruder auf die neue Version upgraden um up to date zu sein. Ich shreddere erst mit dem grossen Shredder. Allerdings sind die Partikel dann noch zu gross. Als Blender solltest Du einen Mixer benutzen der einen Glas Behälter hat. Meiner ist von der Marke Kitchen Aid. Der Vorteil ist, dass man bei denen auch Ersatzteile bekommt. Vor dem Extruden musst Du das Shreddergut unbedingt für mindestens 4 Stunden auf einem Backblech im Ofen trocknen. Ansonsten hast Du zu viel Feuchtigkeit im Material. Das gibt dann Luftblasen im Filament.

puh da musste ich erst mal schlucken .. das tut mir leid das dir das passiert ist ich hoffe dir geht es dementsprechend wieder besser, da vorab schon mal gute besserung.danke für die schnelle Rückmeldung. wegen dem netzteil frage ich im shop mal nach. schönes wochenende

Manually use a cheese shredder idk

👌🏼🤣

That will be the next video.

A heavy duty blender does the trick usually without much effort

@@jakestavinsky3480that’s exactly what I am using. But only when it comes to refining the already shredded parts to a finer particle size. Our shredder creates a diameter of 5-8mm. The filament extruder needs 3mm. The thickness of the 3D printed parts that we are dealing with wouldn’t allow to use a blender. It would be damaged in no time!!

also kannst du einen weg empfehlen fürs schreddern

Es gibt Videos hier auf KZfaq wo man sieht wie es getestet wird. Aber das reicht nur für ganz, ganz dünne Teile. Also Brims oder dünne Stützstrukturen. Für mehr reicht die Leistung nicht. Wir haben bei uns im Makerspace einen total robusten Shredder mit einem starken Motor und Stahl Messern von der Firma Plastic Preneuer. Selbst der müht sich bei dickeren 3D gedruckten Teilen manchmal echt ab. Das geschreddert Plastic darf nicht größer als 3mm sein, sonst rieselt es nicht richtig in die Extruder Schnecke. Du könntest mal auf der Webseite von Precious Plastic nachschauen. www.preciousplastic.com/solutions/machines/basic

Ich habe den Set mit beiden Extruder Schnecken gekauft. Die Schnecke mit der hohen Kompression habe ich momentan für recycelte Materialien im Einsatz. artme-3d.myshopify.com/products/extrusion-screw-for-the-original-desktop-filament-extruder-e1-7 Hier findest Du die Beschreibung.

I‘m not doing this for a profit. It’s a different approach.

I can really recommend it. It’s really helpful that you assemble it by yourself. It helps you to understand how it works. And the filament that you produce is really great 👍🏼

So good, incredible. How long does it take to make one kilogram of consumables@@choschiba

@zhiyonglv www.artme-3d.de/produkte/ Please read the documentation. I am using the MK1. In the meantime they are selling the MK2 which might be different than mine regarding the speed.

I have set up the filament extruder at our local Makerspace. We are a Precious Plastics recycling point. We shred HDPE, PE and PP using a heavy duty plastic shredder from a company called Plastic Preneur from Austria. We also have an injection and extrusion machine from them. At the moment I will focus on extruding PETG and PLA, as I have a big amount of 3d printed waste. Once I have processed that, I would give HDPE a try. But not PET. It tends to crystallize really quickly if it isn't extruding permanently. And the temperature window it is liquid at is very narrow. If you are not spot on it immediately clogs your nozzle and extrusion screw. Once it is crystallized, it's hard and you can't get it out anymore. So the risk of destroying your gear is quite high. That's why the PETBot onky deforms the pre-cut PET strip instead of extruding it from molten plastic. When printing with PET filament, your temperature has to be spot on.

Ja, das verstehe ich natürlich. Ich habe das Video im Makerspace aufgenommen. Dahin nehme ich meine Katze natürlich nicht mit hin.

You will buy it directly from the producer. He is located in Germany. Please look 👀 for the link under my video.

Please visit the website www.artme-3d.de The language can be changed from German to English on the lower right.

I don‘t sell anything. If you want to buy the Artme3D extruder, you have to visit their website.

Could you please write an entire sentence, so I understand what you mean? Please read what is written underneath the video.

Perfectly. I have created several spools of filament. I can really recommend it.

Yes, I will for sure. I‘m printing all the parts for the MK2 version at the moment. As soon as I am finished, I will record the upgrade process. Luckily I can use lots of the hardware parts of the MK1 for the upgrade to the MK2.

mine is all most done now finding pellets is the hard part@@choschiba

@@jamessmallwood7448 hey cool. Why don’t you buy them from David Pfeifer? He is selling them at his Artme3D store.

If you watch my video, you will see what I think about the machine.

Hey, 👋🏼 liebe Grüße zurück. Du kannst uns ja gerne mal im Makerspace besuchen kommen. www.makerspace.li

@@choschiba Hey Cool....wusste ich garnicht, also was ich im Video gesehen habe bei Dir hat es was mit Hilti bei Hilti zu tun😊🫡

Hallo Roy. Bis auf den Winder und dem Mechanismus, welcher das Filament hoch zieht, bin ich mit der MK1 Version total zufrieden. Da ich mit meinem Kanal jedoch up to date sein möchte, bin ich gerade dabei auf die Version MK2 upzugraden. Wenn Du jetzt einen Kit kauftst, so erhältst Du sowieso automatisch die Version MK2. Bei der wurde the Aufwickeleinheit und der Mechanismus welcher das Filament hoch zieht deutlich verbessert. Das sollte nun also absolut keine Probleme mehr bereiten.

@@choschiba Danke viel mals für Deine Antwort.😊 Denke ich muss so einen haben, das macht sinn. Habe noch eine Frage.....wie shredderst du das alte Filament, bzw mit was? Grüsse

" @TOYSrROYS Unser Makerspace ist ein "Precious Plastics" Recycling Stützpunkt. Daher besitzen wir einen sehr stabilen Shredder von der Firma "Plastic Preneur" aus Österreich. Dieser ist jedoch sehr teuer. Ausserdem erzeugt er eine Partikelgrösse von 8-10mm Durchmesser. Für den Extruder benötigt man allerdings einen Durchmesser von maximal 3mm. Momentan behelfe ich mir mit einem Smoothie Mixer, welcher ein Glas- anstatt einem Plastikbehälter besitzt. Damit kann ich die Korngrösse auf 3mm reduzieren. Da ich jedoch sehr viel Filament in der Zukunft herstellen möchte, werde ich nach einer Alternative Ausschau halten, welche gleich einen Durchmesser von 3mm erzeugen kann. Dieser wird dann nur noch für die Filament Herstellung und nicht das Shreddsern von Plastik Abfällen aus HDPE, PP und PE. Der Shredder ist das teuerste Gerät in diesem Prozess. Kaufts Du billig, so wirst Du zwei Mal kaufen müssen. Ich weiss auch noch nicht, welcher Shredder es sein wird.

@@choschiba Danke für die ausführliche Antwort, dachte du hast da trick 17 schon 😅 .... bin eben schon länger am ausschau halten wegen shredder etc...😆

Yes, I will. But first I want to work a bit more with it. So far it has worked really great. I‘ve already printed with the filament and works and looks absolutely nice!

Feel free to source all the parts by yourself. The machine is totally open source. For me it’s worth every penny.

@@choschiba wait I thought if I bought the full kit it would come with all the parts. I didn’t realize I’d have to 3-D print anything. I don’t even have a 3-D printer. I need to remind myself to not buy from you guys then if that’s the case where it doesn’t come with all the parts in the kit.

@@rachinc why do you want to have a filament extruder when you don’t have a 3D printer to use the filament once you have produced it?

@@choschiba if I can teach myself how to make filament from recycles (successfully) then I can substantiate buying a 3d printer.

I’m buying milk at the grocery store at least once a week. I always take the #2 HDPE milk cartons to a recycle place afterwards. But I hear that these recycles are sent overseas and sometimes dumped into the ocean. So I would love to be able to recycle my #2 HDPE milk cartons into 3d printing filament. (Yes I've heard it's a material that is tough to print with). and then I can use the filament to print things for around the house. Here are the issues I'm running into: CAN I BUY A MACHINE? I'm finding it difficult to find a reasonably priced pre-built 3d filament extruder machine on the internet that can handle HDPE. I tried reaching out to Fixtruder to ask if they sold a machine that could turn my milk cartons into 3d printing filament. I was told: "This issue has been discussed in the 3D printing community for a long time. This type of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plastic shrinks a lot, does not stick to the table, clogs the nozzle, and due to the high shrinkage it has virtually no interlayer adhesion. The extrusion production method is universal. In principle, this can be done with our extruders. You will have to experiment because the properties of different plastics are not clear. You will need to dry it well and experiment with temperatures and cooling." So now I’m asking them to recommend a good machine that can handle this. CAN I BUILD THE MACHINE? You'll come across websites like Precious Plastics that say here are the blueprints to make one of your own. So I start looking through the files and I don't know how to use CAD or do any of this stuff, so building my own might be tough. I tried watching a bunch of “DIY” youtube videos. Some of the videos made me realize that I’d have to buy a whole bunch of tools that I don’t know how to use to perform tasks like welding. (Tools that i’d probably never use again). Other videos didn’t include full blown step-by-step instructions. Some don’t even have a talking voice, just visuals that don't fully explain it in a way that caters to someone like me who doesn’t understand what they’re doing in the video. There were some videos with talking, but they flash a quick image on the screen of an electronics diagram and don’t go into full detail about how to build it. Is there a website I can go to, to get someone to build the machine for me? CAN I USE SOMEONE ELSE'S MACHINE TO RECYCLE MY MILK CARTONS? I tried googling programs where I could turn in my plastic milk bottles to recycle companies in exchange for 3d printer filament. The closest I found was but I believe they only collect my filament waste, failed prints, supports and brims. I don't think they accept #2 HDPE milk jugs. I'm located in Georgia and I tried to use the Precious plastics map to see what was around me. I saw a recycling symbol in South Carolina which took me to the website of Anchor Shred & Recycle Co. I'm reading their website but I'm confused about what they can do to help me recycle my milk cartons into 3d printing filament. Ok so I don't know how to build a machine, I don't see any reasonably priced machines to buy and I don't see any recycling places nearby that would exchange my milk cartons for 3d printing filament. Are there services out there that I'm not aware of, that could help me accomplish any of these tasks? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm new to the world of 3D printing filament. @@choschiba

What extrusion system are you using? I bet it’s at least 10x the price of what I am using here.

I have only ran industrial extruders Egan and Davis Standard for lamination molding to smaller medical extruders for medical tubing and silicone mandrel. I also have ran injection molding machines. Very interested in 3d printing and possible filament production on a smaller scale

You should discuss if it is technically possible to ramp it up. But I guess then the extruder would cost 10x more.

@@choschiba What prevents you from taking a larger diameter pipe and drill? Accordingly, the heater is more powerful. I think the price will be more reasonable.

@@nikphermer824 as I said, please ask Daniel Pfeifer, the owner of Artme3D personally.

That's 3.6kg per day, do you really need more ?