Dear bros; Can you experiment with making perfectly straight stripes? I've been trying for a while and it keeps ending up wonky. It'd be really cool if you figured out how to make precise patterns too like checkers or dots. Also, have you guys considered making jewellery/ornaments/keychains? I'm a jeweler and jewellery maker and after watching your videos I've been trying to make jewellery out of my homemade HDPE sheets. Hand sawing it with a jewelers saw Is just too tedious and time consuming so I did research into more effective methods that could cut down on time. I came up with using leather cutting steel dies (but only on thin sheets). It cuts down on sanding down the edges after sawing or cutting and is much cleaner. However it's not perfect because I don't have a die cutting press and the edges still need a little sanding before wear. I've hand sanded but it still is very time consuming to get the desired result compared to metal especially since I can't use my flex shaft because it can accidentally cause damage too quickly. I'm now considering sanding each piece to as close to a final result as I can and then I might experiment placing the pieces in my rock tumbler (in the extra fine grit barrel) with the final grits and polishes and hope that does the trick. I still have not managed to sand them enough (including wet sanding) to get them as shiny as I'd like. However... I was wondering if you guys would be willing to test this out for me as quite a few of my pieces have fine detail and I've spent hours hand sanding them and I'm afraid I'll ruin them... Also, I've been making a list of all product bottles and objects I've discovered that are HDPE. I'm just not sure where that list went at the moment... I will say that the majority of my plastic has come from shampoo and conditioner bottles and laundry detergent and softener bottles. Oh! And I've accidentally discovered that if you leave some sharpie on the plastic and bake it...the colour will bleed into the plastic! (Especially more translucent white plastic... for example: a drywall mudding bucket) I've been experimenting with creating patterns and ombres. I've discovered these colours work: . Standard black sharpie . Dark royal blue (though it won't fully bleed through) . Dark purple (bleeds as fuchsia) . Fuchsia . Red (becomes a pinkish red) . Yellowy green I haven't found much purple or pink plastic so I've been making my own! Note: after baking in the colours you must remove the sharpie film or the plastic won't weld.

@@amandasnider2644 1) Congratulations on your jewelry success so far! 2) Patterns would be awesome! 3) Regarding your list, if I gave you a name brand for a milk bottle cap, then would you be able to confirm with proper research that that specific brand cap is HDPE? 4) How do you know that the ink is safe at that temperature? 5) Speaking of ink, maybe coloured ink could be used to create those patterns that you want. Draw even lines, and then heat? Please, oh please, let me know the results, if you try this.

@@amandasnider2644 regarding fuchsia, I think that our milk bottle caps are that colour. [edit: why don't you test out your sanding and polishing technique using scrap HDPE?]

@@eugenetswong well that explains one reason why I don't have many colour options... I don't drink dairy. Lol As for "ink" I don't know what sharpies have but I don't think regular ink would work because it's more water based and likely would only pool on top of the plastic. As for determining what kind of plastic is appropriate, I don't take chances unless it's clearly labeled.

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Your English is good! Well done for getting started collecting!!

Your English is fine. You have only misspelled the word tools

your name seems like you are from an Arab country, is that true? where are you based? which country? my name is Mariam, I would love to know if in case we are from the same country, I would definitely support your small projects !

Sunglasses are on our list!

Desk orgaizer is a great idea. How about an in out mailbox. Make it a matching color set of purple marble.

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Thanks Haley! We've actually had picture frames on our list for a long time 🙌

That’s awesome! Glad to hear the video helped :)

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Thanks! Definitely fun to play around and experiment

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So sorry to hear this Gary. We certainly try not to take for granted the time we have together. Wishing you well 👍🏽

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Oh cool process! This is kind of like that on a smaller scale I guess

@@BrothersMake wish i had a workshop and tools to try and make stuff currently all i can do is melt the stuff into sort of blanks to take up less space. got quite a bit i use those disposable foil baking trays and just recycle them after plastic cools and toss the rough blanks into a bucket. perhaps someday when i get a house again apartment city life is no fun lol.

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@@backalleyent8755 don't know ask Dodge lol. i only worked at a factory that made products that went under the hood ;) and that was a long time ago.

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Hey dude how're you doing today i love ur projects make wrist watch with chain link plastic

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I have used a plastic welder with hdpe many times. Works great.

Speaking about plastic weld gun/extruder I was wondering about the high cost of an industrial extruder plastic welder, wich is made of a drill and a hot air gun combined...

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That could be very interesting to test!

That would be great!

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We have a video on recycled plastic flower pots on our channel!

Thanks! And good ideas, we'll see what we can do 🤙🏼

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Interesting ideas! OR - you could just melt the edges on a £3 charity shop sandwich press :)

flower/plant pot

We’ve got one coming up!

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We did think this, but was concerned it would take too long to connect it all together after the plastic turns soft. May be tricky to do in the narrow window of heat. But worth a try!

Dovetailed HDPE would look awesome, and you could use the heat gun to fuse the jointery together!

You’re not wrong with the concept, it will work, but won’t be strong. The correct way to weld HDPE is to heat to its fusion temp with the correct amount of pressure at each interval, then as fast as possible push together and hold for a certain amount of time before letting go and allowing full cool down. Quite different to other techniques for plastic welding. Source - I’m trained and licensed on ISO21307 hdpe butt fusion.

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Yeah that’s probably not a bad idea. The dust port is never 100% effective on these machines. We make sure to pick up all the small pieces that don’t go into the bottle. Thank you so much!

Haha we’ll work on something orange soon! Saving up! Yeah tempted to get a mould made up to batch produce these

Yes most likely!

That’s a good idea!