Mine is apparently 10kg a week
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10 kg a week? What are you printing? I have heavy months and lower months, but I would be surprised if I managed to hit 5 kg in one of my heavy months. Granted, all my prints are for myself or friends and they’re 95% functional.
At the moment, sculptures. They are between 200-300g per print. I am kicking off prints twice a day, for three printers.
Selling them I take it? That’s a lot of sculptures.
Ideally. Right now, I feel like I am just building a knowledge of art history.
If I had a bambu I would too probably. I have a cheap fucker of a printer and already do a lot, with a multi color bambu I would buid a house
Not as fast as I’ve been spending 😇
I would feel so bad for using so much plastic. I already feel like this when using a spool every couple of months.
I do use rPLA from 3dJake. Not really sure how much of it is recycled and where the material is sourced from though.
I am not opposed, assuming there isn’t a severe quality concern. I would rather like a way to recycle my waste plastic. There isn’t really anyone local that will recycle PETG or PLA.
@Rutty there is a way first cut the plastic then use a blender on ice crush but be sure its normal plastic second it has to be sorted by thermodynamics & shade of color
Yes! They do exist. It’s about $20k USD to get a system that will recycle filament.
I’ve also looked at the idea of using pelletized plastic and molds to make other products, like dominos for example.
@Rutty correction PET & PETG is commonly used in water bottles in Canada if i am wrong you can correct me & i will do re-evaluation
PET is used in plastic water bottles, PETG is considered a contaminant and typically not part of the recycled waste stream, at least in the US. Same for PLA.
Although as you noted to pelletize plastic a blender would be a good place to start. The question then becomes what do you do with the pellets of plastic?
From my understanding it takes a system like this https://www.filabot.com/products to produce filament from waste plastic. That’s not to say you can’t used the pellets in some other way.
@Rutty kind Sir i kindly ask which time zone are you from i am Canadian from the eastern time zone
I am in California so PST
The cost of having a fast printer ☺️ . I have an x1c now and my filament expenditure is way up. It’s also so easy to print from the AMS.
