From Bottle to Benchy

bulb66 · 14 Jul 2022 at 15:47

Been building this for a couple of weeks now but I can now say I have made a 3D Benchy from a PET 1 drinks bottle. The machine is called the ReCreator and it basically pulls 8mm wide strips of plastic bottles through a modified hot end to form it into filament. I got around 6.5m of usable filament from one bottle for reference.

Info on the machine here or find it on Printables

A few picture of my machine, will upgrade/reprint parts as and when required.

RevBillyG · 15 Jul 2022 at 07:29

That's very clever.

BeeP · 15 Jul 2022 at 11:45

I saw a similar one though not as nice on Thingi, dont think I have the bottle to try it though.....

Scougar · 22 Aug 2022 at 14:39

That is very cool

I've only seen recycling of old print material, so this is neat.

Gregvivi0401 · 22 Aug 2022 at 14:52

Not bad at all.