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Scrap filament usage

Posted by N314 
Scrap filament usage
October 03, 2013 08:21PM
So i've found that I have collected a bunch of short (couple meters) lengths of filaments. Many are too small for a print, so I was wondering if there was any way to bond them together for a single print.I have loaded filament during a print, but is annoying.

Anyway, does anyone know/have any methods for "welding" two pieces of filament together, to be loaded as a single filament.

If there is I think it would produce very cool prints, and put use to scrap/sample filament.


-Nick
Re: Scrap filament usage
October 03, 2013 10:19PM
Have not used this but saw it posted in some other thread...

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Re: Scrap filament usage
October 03, 2013 10:26PM
If it is ABS, maybe just glueing it together with acetone?


Yvan

Singularity Machine
Re: Scrap filament usage
October 04, 2013 05:02AM
Sell them on eBay to 3Doodler backers. They can only use short lengths (of 3mm filament).
Re: Scrap filament usage
October 04, 2013 10:33PM
I was just wondering a similar thing as I was removing a bunch of support that I accidentally printed... Any reuse cases for that?

But I just got an idea... Perhaps some kind of vertical feed/Bowden tube that you could just drop the short pieces into and then gravity would pull them into the feed drive would work?
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