Printing screwdriver holders for the workbench, designed to clip together to make a larger stand. Two more to go.
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This is promising to become like large-scale carbon capture, only for plastic !
VB
Nice deck 
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I just ordered a 3D printer.
￡182.23 28%OFF | CREALITY 3D Ender-3 V2 Mainboard with silent TMC2208 stepper drivers 4.3 Inch Touch Lcd Carborundum Glass Bed 3D Printer
For £180 it was entirely irresistable; I went with the WiFi module for an extra 90p, although I think it may not get used. I’ll print some horns for the 2461s (they’re small, probably fit in a single print), and I might do some much larger ones for the 2441s in pieces.
In between I’ll be printing small climbing holds and unicorns.
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The market for ‘tiny broken plastic bits that render expensive items useless’ could be huge… gears for CD players, clips on toys etc etc . I guess getting the models to print from is the challenge there.
My teac t1 was repaired with 3D printed metal cogs. Not cheap, but since the factory no longer make them, far cheaper than nothing (or a new unit).
But does it work with a Raspberry Pi ?
Smart money won’t be buying these machines, they’ll be buying machines to sort, process and extrude recycled plastics into coils that can be fed into these machines.
The HP printer ink economic model , joy
I was thinking economically and environmentally sound, but spin it as you wish.
No doubt it’s long-since gathering momentum irrespective.
It will always be about the consumables… let’s hope you’re on the mark but history puts the odds against you
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A lot of the filaments have recycled content. PLA the most popular material is a bioplastic so can be produced from renewables. It is still a plastic though so I’m not convinced any of it is especially environmentally sound as such.
I do think on balance though 3d printing had the potential for more good than harm.
Best thing we can do is carefully and sensibly re-use the plastics we’ve already made. I’m unconvinced by so-called bioplastics, by the time you’ve engineered them to have the same properties as petrochemical equivalents, you have materials with the same environmental infiltrational and dwell problems. Along the way you’re taking land, water and other resources out of food production, and expending a great deal of potentially-polluting energy throughout growing, transportation and processing. Biofuels (mostly) died on their arse for good reasons.
I guess there is a case for biodegradable plastic substitutes, but then we had stuff like nitrocellulose and cellophane before we ever had the oil-based replacements…
…mutter, chumble…
Nurse! The screens!
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it isnt UV stable either - and doesnt last outdoors - it is also quite brittle.
And yet it’s still the most popular.
Agree 100%. As a niche hobby I don’t think 3d printing does much harm in the scheme of things, If it truly takes off hopefully the recycled materials get better and more available.
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some filaments are hygroscopic so shouldn’t be used in damp conditions
hygroscopic
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