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Monday, November 24, 2008

Chemically grinding ABS scrap


It appears that acetone can be used to reduce ABS scrap to a fine powder for reprocessing into new filament... do you want to know more?

2 comments:

  1. Dear Sir,
    My name is Mahmoud,I'm from Egypt,I'm student in baclori stage of "Benha Higher Institute Of Technology",and I want to build an machine of RP (FDM).

    But I have a problem about the extruder part,so I'm asking your help about the extruder part( how to build it?, what I need to know build it).

    I hope this mail can have some of your care

    thank you
    Mahmoud

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  2. Mahmoud,

    Here is the section on the extruder. It is pretty extensive.

    http://www.reprap.org/bin/view/Main/RepRapOneDarwinThermoplastExtruder

    You can either buy a kid of the parts or make them yourself. Extruders have been made out of all sorts of materials. About the only part that can be a bit difficult to obtain is the PTFE thermal break.

    If that isn't helpful, tell me a bit more explicitly what it is that you need.

    Forrest

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