{"product_id":"filament-maker-diy","title":"Filament Maker DIY","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-color: rgb(255,255,255); color: rgb(46,46,46); font-size: 16px\"\u003eIn order to assist researchers explore the full potential of distributed recycling of post-consumer polymer waste, this article describes a recyclebot, which is a waste plastic extruder capable of making commercial quality 3-D printing filament. The device design takes advantage of both the open source hardware methodology and the paradigm developed by the open source self-replicating rapid prototyper (RepRap) 3-D printer community. Specifically, this paper describes the design, fabrication and operation of a RepRapable Recyclebot, which refers to the Recyclebot’s ability to provide the filament needed to largely replicate the parts for the Recyclebot on any type of RepRap 3-D printer. The device costs less than $700 in mate rials and can be fabricated in about 24 h. Filament is produced at 0.4 kg\/h using 0.24 kWh\/kg with a diameter ±4.6%. Thus, filament can be manufactured from commercial pellets for \u0026lt;22% of commercial filament costs. In addition, it can fabricate recycled waste plastic into filament for 2.5 cents\/kg, which is \u0026lt;1000X commercial filament costs. The system can fabricate filament from polymers with extrusion temperatures \u0026lt;250 °C and is thus capable of manufacturing custom filament over a wide range of thermopolymers and composites for material science studies of new materials and recyclability studies, as well as research on novel applications of fused filament based 3-D printing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDesign by msglabz on MakerWorld (license: BY-ND).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mymadmanlab","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67391433572656,"sku":null,"price":253.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0987\/0809\/5280\/files\/0_f9d78af7-52e9-4588-b9fd-7fd94bcd8059.png?v=1784750936","url":"https:\/\/mymadmanlab.com\/products\/filament-maker-diy","provider":"Mymadmanlab.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}