What are you doing with your failed/test builds plastic? Dear all, After about 40 days of plastic melting & extruding bliss, I've got a nice box of good pieces & toys, a completed Prusa Mendel, and a bag of tests/calibration/failed/experimental pieces & blobs, most of them PLA. I'm wondering what to do with them, maybe prepare a mold and put 'em in an oven? Yes, there have been a couple of "test cities" on display in Thingiverse. So I am curious what creative uses have you found for your test builds? https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,94831,94831#msg-94831 Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:02:38 -0400 Phorum 5.2.23 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,94831,94983#msg-94983 Re: What are you doing with your failed/test builds plastic? https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,94831,94983#msg-94983 Buback General Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:29:40 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,94831,94960#msg-94960 Re: What are you doing with your failed/test builds plastic? https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,94831,94960#msg-94960 Andrew Diehl General Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:38:51 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,94831,94913#msg-94913 Re: What are you doing with your failed/test builds plastic? https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,94831,94913#msg-94913 Thx for the inputs!
So it would seem there's quite some bags o'plastic in the wait.
Re-melting at some point in the future is in the prospects.
Anyone tried microwaving?

@Andrew Diehl: "Everything else gets recycled": is this through some dispositive of yours, or by using "municipal" recycling services and similar?
(here they said external services tend to put all of the plastics excepted PVC & PET bottles in a single big crushing bin and send 'em to generate calories, that is, the burner...)]]> Lanthan General Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:09:06 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,94831,94906#msg-94906 Re: What are you doing with your failed/test builds plastic? https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,94831,94906#msg-94906 NewPerfection General Sun, 21 Aug 2011 20:53:03 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,94831,94903#msg-94903 Re: What are you doing with your failed/test builds plastic? https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,94831,94903#msg-94903
Some of the larger pieces get saved to be modified as odds and ends in future projects (never know what you will need)

Everything else gets recycled.]]> Andrew Diehl General Sun, 21 Aug 2011 18:38:45 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,94831,94897#msg-94897 Re: What are you doing with your failed/test builds plastic? https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,94831,94897#msg-94897 Sublime General Sun, 21 Aug 2011 17:34:34 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,94831,94844#msg-94844 Re: What are you doing with your failed/test builds plastic? https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,94831,94844#msg-94844 Emmanuel General Sun, 21 Aug 2011 06:34:34 -0400 https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,94831,94831#msg-94831 What are you doing with your failed/test builds plastic? https://reprap.org/forum/read.php?1,94831,94831#msg-94831
After about 40 days of plastic melting & extruding bliss, I've got a nice box of good pieces & toys, a completed Prusa Mendel, and a bag of tests/calibration/failed/experimental pieces & blobs, most of them PLA.

I'm wondering what to do with them, maybe prepare a mold and put 'em in an oven?
Yes, there have been a couple of "test cities" on display in Thingiverse.

So I am curious what creative uses have you found for your test builds?]]> Lanthan General Sun, 21 Aug 2011 05:27:53 -0400