The Recreator 3D - MK5Kit : Ender3 - DIY Build Notes - PET Filament Maker - Plastic Pultrusion Unit
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The Recreator 3D - MK5Kit : Ender3 - DIY Build Notes - PET Filament Maker - Plastic Pultrusion Unit
Build Notes, Operations Manual, Parts to Print and Buy can be found here:
recreator3d.com/mk5kitender3
Parts also from Printables :
www.printables.com/model/1798...
The Recreator 3D's purpose is to Recreate PET #1 Recyclable Plastic Bottles into Useable 3D Filament.
The Smallest, Most Compact, and Portable Pultrusion Kit seen within the community. It's ability to Strip, Reform, Color, and Spool all in one Continuous Pull Cycle. Coming in Under $200, This Community Kit should inspire most Households and Community Team Leaders.
The Recreator 3D, inspired by the XViCO X3S 3D Printers.
It's base structure, a few accessories, and a handful of 3D Printed parts are all that was used.
The Recreator 3D Will be 100% Free As a Community Build.
With the "Pet-Pull" Group from Russia as visual inspiration of using a Pultrusion Method. I wanted to further adapt PET#1 Recycling to be more accessible to every person even easier.
With this Goal, We'll reshape our Future's recycling Methods; One bottle at a time!
JRT
Joshua R. Taylor
jrt3d.com
recreator3d.com
recycle3d.xyz - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
A great idea, I am happy to found that on the internet a few days ago. And now more happy with the assembly video. I have most of the parts, except the extrusions as I already upgraded my Ender 3 pro :)
This is what I'm talkin about !!!! Good freakin content right here !!!
I really appreciate the way the instructions are explained. I wish all other DIYs would take note of your method. 👀👍👌
Wow! Thanks...Super appreciated. I put a lot of effort it.
I'm printing the first piece to make one thank you so much..perfect project to do with our kids...
Finally a decent video with no bloat and doesn't skip details thanks
Thanks. Keep an eye out for our next release, The Fun Size. Hopefully I'll be able to produce just as good of a video! I think we'll be doing a live build first though as many are hungry for it!
Groovy, a version of the Recreator that can be made from Ender3 parts! :)
That's really cool, I love the idea. I think I'm gonna keep an eye out for a used ender 3 locally now. Or wait till there's a good sale or something.
Comgrow has them for 69.00
Man! I Just LOVE U!!! thanx for sharing such a great DIY project! We all need this, thank again! U R the best!
Excelente video!!, ya estoy reuniendo las piezas para comenzar a replicar este proyecto
Thank you from the planet Earth. You are the hero 🌍
This is great! I was about to throw away my shifty ender 3 but now it can be reborn!!!!
thats gold!!!! this is perfect for my project
Great - I hope you show off The Recreator 3D in a build video - it's a very hot topic and Recreator 3D branding is becoming very popular among the builds.
Simplemente Increíble 👏🏼
I dont even have a 3d printer and I want to build this. Great design!
well done!
YES!! THANK YOU!!!
Hey mate, your just get my subscribe, because this is ingenious, even I don't know how I'm gonna make this thing but I've added it to someone I'm going to make. But you earned my life and subscribe.. how sorry how rude of me , don't say Thank you... so here it is THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SUCH ANA AMAZING INVENSION....👍👍👍🙏
Stepless drill bits are hard to find. Would more traditional stepped drill bits work for cutting out the aluminum heatsink?
Thanks for your effort and dedication. How can I modify the G-Code so that the Motor / Wheel spins in the opposite direction?
Stumbled upon this today, this is pretty cool! I was curious though, how do you connect the filament from the end of one bottle to the start of another through the extruder?
At the moment you do a bottle at a time and join after
It's Great idea. thanks. just one thing, how to Load the 600mm suggested speed gcode onto the SD card ? please
thank you
Cool idea but you need a good printer to print all the bits and a redundant printer to make the machine, do you use what ever firmware is on the board or do you have to flash something different. 👍
bravo beau projet supère
I'm making three recreators, I just finished the first one. Thank a lot for this tutorial. I'm having issues I'm feeding the plastic strip to the hot end, any advice regarding that point?
Hello!, there is some special recommendation on how to wear the faces of the bearings for the bottle cutter, I can not get them sharp enough
¿cómo configuro la velocidad a 600mm? ¿debo descargar un archivo gcode? ¿dónde puedo encontrarlo?
I have seen that you have a software with the instructions to be able to make the filament. Can you tell me how I can get it. Thank you
merci beaucoup
I have a question from another comment I saw from a different similar video a while back, would it be possible to do 3 thinner strands at once with this method? One of the concerns that was brought up in that comment I saw (and makes sense) is that you don't really get much from ONE bottle at a time, however, if you were to make thinner strands from 3 different bottles you would be able to increase your length of filament by 3x (if you did 1/3 of the single bottle width, longer of course if you did even more thinner strands). My concern would be if you could feed multiple into the nozzle at once and if it would be able to heat it up enough to melt all of them at once?
Hi ! I'm french and I have a little question for you :
What is your gcode file ?
Thank you for your great video !
I have a question: how many meters or kilograms of filament do you get for each plastic bottle? And how long does it take to convert a plastic bottle into filament? And how long can the machine work continuously?
I somehow have a problem with running it doesn't want to work the way I want it to. Do I need an STL file for this or is that also possible? But cool Idee
I likt to see a remix of this one with a screw for pellets🤩
I just happen to have a 'parts' ender that I was going to combine with my good one to make a VoreXY from the two...but the rate that my wife goes through soda, I have basically a limitless supply of 2L bottles.
A question:
Would it be possible to make a spool adapter that could clamp onto existing plastic filament spools and wind the filament back onto it? Otherwise, I'm having a hard time picturing how one would pull the material off the winding spool, and get it onto another? Or do you just manually wind it onto another spool?
Hopefully that makes sense...
Also...would PLA work for the parts not real close to the heat?
Where did you find your screws?
Hey,
I just love that!!
I just have one question, can I use some parts from the Ender 3 pro?? would it still work correctly?
thank you soo much
It's made around an Ender 3 Pro parts
AWESOME TUTORIAL!! Please let me know if you can make this tutorial using a Wanhao Duplicator i3 (a Prusa i3 clone) I have one I’m not using… Please please pleaseeeee 🙏😀
Dear friend :) where I can by electric and electronics component like display, motor etc. ?? Is possible to buy all set in one place ?? Could you send a link ??
Might have all the bits from reprap builds too, if been tinkering with 3D printing for a bit
hi if i am going to use a motor wire from my printer what cable should i use?
Thank you for your information. I have completed the whole process of making the machine and it works perfectly.
Now I have the problem that I can't print with the filament made from bottles.
It gives me the following error: Nozzle is too lowperature.
The printer I have is Ender 3 V2, motherboard 4.2.2 V 1.0.4.
My question is: do I have to modify some instructions or update the software?
I would appreciate information. Cheers
Hello, I just put the retractor on and it does the same thing, low temperature, how did you fix it, thanks
Can it be used to Resize. My ex got a box of filament but almost none is 1.75. It’s a lot I’d love to use. If I could resize
What model of stepper motor is used?
How does the linear guide works?
Hola buenas tardes , yo cuento con una impresora DMS DP5 y quisiera saber si puedo hacer con esa impresora ?
merci Project dingue je cherché exactement sa a pouvoir réutilisé la carte mère de Ender et certaines pièces et la bingo
hey, thanks for sharing! I'm wondering if I can convert my ender 3 V2 for this as well?
Yeah, I also wonder if this works with ender 3 v2 parts
I would love to convert my tevo tarantula pro into one of these
where do i buy a allready built one?
what will the quality of the filament be like however, just wondering. Its a cool idea but before i did it id like to know if the quality ends up being decent enough for printing with
Check out CNC Kitchen's Review of the Filament: th-cam.com/video/N06FWr06iOI/w-d-xo.html
I really like this project and in the process of printing the parts. I really want to run this with an Arduino Uno R3. I can't bring myself to sacrifice my Ender 3 to build it and have searched everywhere and scratched my head how to build something like this powered by my Arduino. I know DIY FDM printers can be built with arduino brain so Id really like to figure this out. Something gets lost on the way for me and Im not sure how to go about doing it. Any help from the community would be great!
An Ender 3 may be popular but they not that cheap used in my area. I have seen them going for no less than $200. Decided on using an ET4.
At 1 up cost of parts, it's more or less the same. you can choose most standard 3D printers and get them to some state of PET Pultrusion.
Can you tell me where or how you created yourself as a small (superhero) character?
Does pulltrusion work with other filaments if they are in a different format; not the bottles/tabs?
Some Recreator3D users have pulled PP/HDPE - and had mixed results with printing. The more we play, the more we learn :)
@@JRT3D Cool dude! Do you know where I can see a website or repository of who has tried what. Considering doing something like PC or PC/ABS multi material cores at or near or below its transition temp; and wanted to see if anyone had tried that outside an academic context.
i don't understand the part with double gear and the v-slot wheel how it is supposed to be mounted with the plate ????
Ser howto full buy mk5kit?
Srry english
What are some good slicer settings to start with for this recycled filament?
th-cam.com/video/N06FWr06iOI/w-d-xo.html
do you sell this already built? don't have the necessary tools to make this
Hiya, saw on your website that you've got MK6. do you have video on this? thanks
Right now just a live build video. I have written notes wrapping up soon and then I'll be working on a short build video in the next few weeks: th-cam.com/users/liveU18uEw_1qAM
@@JRT3D will impatiently await. 🤭
@@unlock-er You can start working on it now, with what is out and the live build video - I've seen around 20 or so builds built : www.printables.com/model/352729-pet-filament-maker-with-the-recreator-3d-fun-size-
How often do you have to splice another bottle? Or another way to ask how many minutes does it take to pultrude each 2 litter bottle?
You should be able to get about 1 gram a minute at a slow speed 25-30 grams for a 2L bottle. medium speed is doable and will get you a round 20 minutes per 2L bottle.
Great project but i want mainboard and LCD where i can buy thank sir
Ender 3 Board and LCD are some of the most common available boards you can buy. Otherwise, consider what else is in your area - as our pultruder works with marlin based gcode
Now i can use my old 3d printer to be made into this and the V2 for just normal printing
I don't have PETG for the heater mount, will PLA hold up fine?
It will eventually melt along the process over time, you should get enough pulls of PET1 with a PLA mount, in order then print another out of PET1 so you can see just how robust the material is
If out of PLA - 5-8 walls and 50% infill
hello, good afternoon, I would like to know the cost of your machine and the shipment to Venezuela, thanks
friend, if you buy it, how much does it cost?
Hi, great video and project. Can i buy an assembled machine? What's the price
5:14 these screws were too long so i had to bend some of the fins so the screws would screw in all the way. 5:56 what screws are these for the blower fan? The original ones are too small. Where do i buy them and the cutter part is out of stock so where do i buy it? Is there a better updated instruction video that explains where all the extra parts are put?
In the discription is a link for written build notes with all the information you're looking for. What "cutter part" are you referencing as out of stock?
Cool, but would like to see more off the shelf parts, and a usual dc motor
this is intended to use an old/broken ender 3 thats why it does not have those
Hello JRT3D
With a group of Friends for a class project, we need to recycle plastic using the 3D recreator.
The problem is, that we can’t go up with temperature as the system can’t reach 200 degrees and stop at only 40.
The problem’s type is E1 and please we Need help on how to fix it.
Thanks a lot
HI THERE, BASICALLY IM WONDERING IF ALL THE PARTS ARE NEEDED FOR THE PROJECT, BOTTOM AND TOP ONES, CAN SOMEONE HELP ME?
Wow.
You show loading the strip into the hotend cold and "easily" going through and then setting the temperature. How are you doing this? Also, I have downloaded the suggested gcode file and see it goes no where near as fast as what is shown in the video
Watch this video here: th-cam.com/video/MvR3WfJN7RI/w-d-xo.html
@@JRT3D Thanks Josh....I got it to work by cutting the strip very thin. Got it all working accept I found getting it to grab the spool a little difficult, but fixing that now.
Edit: Tension on spool fixed. I printed in transparent and couldnt see the holes in the spool for holding the filament.
Do you have to use the 4.2.7 board? I have a few of the 4.2.2 boards laying around? Tha ks
The board doesn't matter, use the one you have, 4.2.2 is perfectly fine
Hey, I am building the MK6 Fun size, and the build notes didn't mention rounding the lip of the heatsink. Why?
Recreator3D started with an XViCO X3S - that heat sink 100% needs to be drilled out. This carried over into the MK5 simply out of practice. Later with experimenting with the MK6 we found it wasn't needed and keeping the build easier for for novice builders. It may likely help over all, but it's something we've personally stopped doing or sugguesting is 100% needed for proper results.
Yeah, when I tried to pull, the strip was kind of expanding around the lip, therefore not winding. Since I don't have a stemless drill bit like yours, I instead drilled out the lip from the side where the grub screw is nearest to. I will try now@@JRT3D
how many meter/min you can pull?
How did you describe that only one motor works and runs constantly? I have the makerbase mks robin nano v1.2 and can't get it to work
Our tutorial uses the extruder connection and our gcode is setup for marlin to run the length of a 2L bottle.
Which stepper motor are you using? the 42-34 or the 42-40?
42-40 from extrusion
I have a question, is it possible to buy this machine assembled somewhere
I can build one for you.
any estimation of power consumption per hour/or bottles/or grams of filament?
I think someone recently said it was about 1/3 of a cent per 25Grams
In the other video, you use a stepped drill bit. Is there any specific reason that can't be used here? This is an awesome project, by the way!
For the Ender 3 Stock Heatsink, we've moved forward with suggesting that it's no longer needed to drill!💪The MK3 was made from an XViCO X3S 3D Printer and 100% needed to be drilled.
@@JRT3D oh, that's great! So the only thing that needs to be drilled now is the nozzle?
@@zachboatwright Correct
spooler mount screw ender 3 screw... whatever screw size that is...
i am already upgrading my ender 3 pro, so why not take those parts and make a pet maker. Thank you so much for the info, i feel i can really make this.
It's a very fun build! Great recycling project over all for an older Ender 3! Happy Recreating!
i like all of this and i think its great but im am unsure how the firmware would be for this and how you actually start a print, using the original board, beacuse the motor isnt going to move unless your giving it a command or having it execute a print, or if your just llike having it like extrude 100mm per say, if you could help me understand this would be great, also i think using milk jugs would have the same effect.
or if the gcode files included in your websites for the 300 and 600 and 900 for the sd card would be it
@@dylanhuntington8187 Yessir - No firmware changes are needed. Load a strip of filament. Temp to 210C to load strip to spooler, run gCode command and happy Recreating!
@@JRT3D does it really matter if you use a stepless or a step drill bit. because i mistakenly picked up a step bit rather then a stepless, im sure it would be some catches in there and youd want to be smooth correct?
@@dylanhuntington8187 Moving forward with ender 3 heatsink, most should be able to take in the strip without needing to be drilled. A stepped bit, should be used slowly...and not to deep. I've tested without drilling and it works just as good.
Okay awsome thank you, wasn't quite sure was going to try it anyway
I know my next project!!!
Really want to do this but the problem is nobody i know drinks soda out of plastic bottles. Have to figure out where I can find some.
2L Soda bottles are an abundance around my neighborhood, but any PET1 bottle will be able to be pultruded. Smart water, 3-5L water jugs. Once you start looking and asking friends, family, and neighbors...you'll be surprised what you'll have access to!
@@joshuartaylor30 Yeah, I asked my dad and he said they have thousands of them in the recycling at the golf course he works at. I should have no problem finding bottles if I try.
A couple of days ago I asked if I can get the software to indicate the number of meters to extrude. I have the machine practically finished. I am missing the software. Can someone provide it to me? Thank you
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1eK2JmpiKnvQh0AujDXYmY9aMlluz6q0A in the SD Card Folder
Hello, I have a question: what is the specification or model of the nema motor used in this machine?
Nema 17 42-40
@@JRT3Dthe Ender3 I purchased came with all 42-34 motors, which led to some confusion since I have never owned an Ender3. 42-40 now ordered, thanks for th confirmation
@@jacobnowatzke4371 Was it a standard Ender 3 Pro? I've never seen or heard of any that didn't have a 42-40 for the extruder gear motor (all other motors are the 34's)
I could be wrong - which, would explain a couple people's complaints without further explanation.
@@JRT3D it wasn't a Pro, and the extruder motor *is labeled* as a 42-40, but is conspicuously missing the notch on the shaft. It's very odd, and has set back building by a couple days, but no complaints here.
@@jacobnowatzke4371 feel free to share in the discord or facebook groups link through recreator3d.com
Can you tell me what what material I should use to print the parts.
Thank you
Mostly everything can be printed in PLA - but I suggest PETG/ABS/ASA for the head plate mount - as that will get direct heat among the pull
@@JRT3D thank you. Can you also tell me the infill you use for the parts? Thank you and sorry for all the questions.
@@a.p.z. I use 15% gyroid for most 50% for the head mount
@@JRT3D Thank you very much.
What is the length of each aluminum profile?
400mm
can i build it if i have ender 3 with creality 1.1.3 motherboard
Yes, it will just be a little louder in operation. 4.2.2 and 4.2.7 are silent. Only difference.
thanks for the answer :)
How much usable filament does a 2l bottle yield?
about 25-30 Grams depending on your process.
which axis motor is used? I assume the E axis
Correct
I wants to buy a machine so please price of this machine
Awesome hack, throwing out plastic should be a sin. If someone can put something like this together, surely the plastics industry can get on the ball and make this commonplace. The consumer should have easy access to this, no excuses. Even if you aren't interested in making stuff from your recycled plastic, recycling it just seems like the responsible thing to do.
How much price of this machine
Does it really needed cool down the heat sink? It shouldn't any creep happened =)
No - Cooling on the heat sink isn't needed.
thnx ❤@@JRT3D
At what speed you pull the pet?
Depends on what spooler type is being used - you should be able to estep to where you are able to pull 2L bottle into 25grams with about 1 gram per minute. I'll be working this into a meter for people who understand this method.
Does it work with a 4.2.2 board?
4.2.2 and 4.2.7 are suggested as the are silent. You'll enjoy the Pultrusion process 100% more with a silent stepper :)
@@JRT3D the only thing I dont get at the video is, using the menu, so as far as I get we must heat the nozzle and then use load filament menu? Or is there a special g code for it
I love the idea, but our bottles are with returnmoney. They already get recycled. Depending on how much filament I get from a bottle, I lose money on a bottle.
Now think of all the people who don't have the same financial options. Many locations don't have redemption centers nor financial incentives to recycle.