FREE Rainbow Filament from a Recycled PET1 Plastic Bottle! Using a .8mm Nozzle!

Made some Rainbow Filament from a Recycled 1-gallon PET1 Plastic Bottle. I used some permanent markers on the bottle before cutting it into a long ribbon and processing it through my Recreator3D MK5 Pultruder machine. I then printed this low-poly bear using my Creality CR10 v3 with a Sprite Pro direct drive extruder, a .8mm brass nozzle, and a .32mm layer height.

[@FrancisBentoMarques]

Congratulations
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[@phillipremondini5617]

What boss. I'm working on my own pulltruder and really enjoy what toy are doing here and the videos you share!

[@KevinGroninga3D]

Thanks! Which Pultruder design are you building?

[@phillipremondini5617]

@@KevinGroninga3D it's nothing crazy. It's something homemade just to test the concept. I'm looking online to see if I can find some good open source plans to build a nice one eventually.

[@KevinGroninga3D]

@@phillipremondini5617 have you looked at the Recreator3D MK5 on Printables.com? It uses a lot of parts from an old Ender 3 printer. These can be found pretty cheap.

[@phillipremondini5617]

@@KevinGroninga3D I did not 😅. But I will take look now that's for sure

[@KevinGroninga3D]

@@phillipremondini5617 I built two of those, but made a LOT of mods to their current design, even created my own Marlin firmware to run on it. $50 for an old Ender 3, and then maybe another $50 for other various hardware. But they work pretty well!

[@JRT3D]

Looks great Kevin. Quality came out good, those nasty boogers happen now and again :( I try to stick around .6mm no higher as it becomes a waste of the PET1 to make up for the speed. A .2 nozzle would take less material but go slower and risk possible debris clogs. .4m ends up in my logic being best bang among time vs filament use.

[@KevinGroninga3D]

I have a large vase mode vase in mind and want that single wall to be as thick as possible. So this was a test run to see if I had my print profile settings correct to use this .8mm nozzle. Later I’m going to do a vid on the little machine I made to slowly rotate my bottles while I use a marker to color the inside. Gonna do 5 bottles, about 75 meters..

[@JRT3D]

@@KevinGroninga3D Look forward to your antics regardless of my opinion :) Don't stop the train my friend! Keep up the great work experimenting! You're a good influence to the community!