Plastic Recycler
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Release status: Concept
| Description | HDPE Recycler
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Introduction
The Plastic Recycler is intended to allow HDPE milk jugs to be recycled into usable plastic filament. The design here is heavily based on the Lyman Extruder.
General Design
- A 5/8" (0.625" diameter) Wood Auger bit will move the plastic.
- 1/2" SCH 20 pipe will form most of the remaining tube. (ID 0.626")
- The nozzle will be a cap with a hole drilled in it.
- Heat the tube will be heated with NiChrome wire.
- Fiber glass cloth will be used to electrically insulate the brass tube from the NiChrome.
- The frame will be made of plywood and 2x4s
- The drill bit will be driven by a windshield wiper motor.
- The hopper will be made from plywood.
- Power will be supplied by an old/cheap PC power supply.
- The whole setup will be controled by an Arduino Nano v3 microcontroller.
