Thats really neat but iIm sort of curious what kind of car parts that are important to using a car can actually be made out of plastic, let alone recycled plastic put through a 3d printer.
I suppose internal gauges?
Isn't most of the interior and even some of the exterior (e.g. bumpers) plastic on cheaper cars?
What this dude did was follow a tutorial on how to make a completely standard filament extruder.
It's cool that they found the business opportunity, but it's not technology that they developed as one of them claims in the article.
Also, you would absolutely not want to use this plastic (or 3d printing in general) for car anything, unless it's just replacing a broken part. 3d printing is an extremely slow manufacturing method that tends to be structurally weak in two axes, it's much more suited to prototyping.
I can almost guarantee you that nobody in Venezuela owns a 3d printer large enough to print a car bumper.
I mean it's easy enough to just melt it down and throw it into a mold. Easier than printing it even if you had a printer that large, for that matter.
Right, but at that point it's just standard non-exciting recycling.
A lot of parts on newer cars are made of plastic. New cars are now coming with plastic intakes and oil pans, but the plastic they use isnt just some bullshit you can find in the garbage. If you can melt it at home its not suitable for anything in the engine bay.
you should look at the shit they do to keep cars running in Cuba, it's impressive shit
depends, you have plastics that don't melt at the same temperature then you get thermosets from circuit boards thrown in that never melt, its not like metals where you can chuck it all in then precipitate out the impurities, that's kind of the whole deal behind properly sorting your plastics before you recycle them
You'd have to melt it down to make 3D printer filament out of it anyway though, is my point.
ya but there's stuff in plastic trash that can't be remelted and would not form into filiments
anything they do that helps get rid of the fucking plastic problem, i applaud them for it, because at least they're doing *something*
Here's an idea: automated barges that sweep the ocean surface clear of plastic debris, including microparticles; return them to the nearest port, and put a plastics recycling facility there that converts the plastic for this kind of use. We're sitting on a proverbial goldmine of free plastic, and it's just sitting out in international waters, ready to be taken and turned into MONEY.
If this really helps to save and does not affect the quality of the details, then why not. The main thing is that the quality of the assembly of the machine and the parts for it does not suffer from this. It is important for me that the spare parts are of good quality. I appreciate my car. I purchase spare parts at motor-doctor and have not seen one yet.
Maybe i'm dumb but hypothetically if there was an open source of lava that wasn't in a national park of iceland or africa, wouldn't tbe best place to throw rubbish and shit be molten rock?
It would just sink or disintegrate and wherever the rock cools, its stuck in the rock anyway.
If only it were that easy. Also Elon won't give a shit lol. He hates poor people and thinks they're lazy.
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