How-To Guides
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Guides
34 guide sMake a sorting system that can adapt! if you have more plastic from one type just move the tabs to suit your needs!
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Screw-on moulds, clamping beds and other methods such as car jacks take time and more effort with your hands to connect moulds to the injector. This m...
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This is Zero Plastics Australia's Large craft sheet design, In our opinion a must need for any workspace. MATERIALS NEEDED: Sheet press 800grams gran...
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Here we outline how we created an intervention into a booming tourist destination. As tourism related waste production diminished collection from the ...
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1+ months 299
When you want to make products using more advanced Materials (e.g. industrial waste), drying your granulate is a necessary step. We will show you how...
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Making a bowl just squeezing the melted plastic in kitchen molds to get objects like vase, fruit bowl or organizer.
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Increase the safety and appearance of your injection and extrusion machine
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People ask me occasionally how to get beautiful patterns in the beams and the funny thing is that zero technical tricks are used to make that happen! ...
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Machines
18 guide sThis injection machine runs with a motor to save some labor and output more pressure to make more detailed products.
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3-4 weeks 444 346
Tutorial how to build mini press for compression moulding. For making this simple machine you need welding machine, access to laser cutting machine, d...
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Since 2016, NoPlasticSunday has been researching and developing machinery and equipment for plastic recycling using Precious Plastic in Korea. In Apri...
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This how-to contains information on how we built a low-cost, automated injection molding machine. Unfortunately the folder is way to big for uploading...
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Desktop extruder for home use. It has a socket for fastening with clamps to the table. Transparent case walls allow you to see the components. Has a s...
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The Precious Plastic machines are open source, which means you can adapt it to your requirements. So if you don't have or don't want to use a motor, t...
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We have build the sheetpress system with some upgrades which we believe are worth sharing! In short: - Shared our labour hours for realistic price es...
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Need a little more power, or just feeling lazy? We've upgraded our PP injection mould machine using a 5T log splitter - this has made a world of diffe...
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Moulds
20 guide sHere you will find the 3D model and blueprints to create the wall peg mold!
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Here, we outline the process of making and using plaster moulds. It’s a great low tech way of making larger, more complex products.
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Plastic sheets made with sheet press don't need to be square. Here we are showing you how to create octagonal mould to create octagonal plastic sheet...
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Learn how to make a decorative plaster mould to use for soft plastics. There are two parts to this process. Stay tuned to learn how to work with plast...
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With this How-to you can make your mould to inject a "hands free" door handle - to help stop the spread of COVID-19!
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Preciós Plàstic València will show you a simple technique to make a mould for producing recycled surf fins. This include how to prepare the 2D/3D mod...
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Create a tool for interacting with high contact areas such as door handles, pin pads, and light switches so your hands don't have to... helping preven...
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A clamp to hang brooms and mops in the wall. Here are the steps to make its mold for the injection machine.
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Products
40 guide sDeck rails have been used by skateboarders since the 80’s to (1) help boards slide better on handrails, coping, curbs, etc., and (2) to protect board ...
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Creation and manufacture of boards or panels using as raw material recycled polypropylene plastic and fishing nets recovered by fishermen from the coa...
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Learn to build shelves or small furniture using the extruder and the injection machine.
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As a coastal Precious Plastic workshop it's not a surprise to us that some of our prototyping focuses on plastics collected on Norfolk beach cleans. O...
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It is an ideal key holder to use with carabiners. At its ends you can hang glasses, keys, chinstraps. It is attached to the wall with screws. We start...
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In this how to we want to share with you how to prepare a stool with a low cost mould. It is a simple cake tin instead of an engineered mould that wor...
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Create stylish injection molded medals with engraved acrylic inlays. In our case we used PP for the plastic and 3mm clear acrylic off-cuts.
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Turn your plastic waste into some cute Christmas Ornaments that you can use for decoration or to hang on your gifts. Let`s make Christmas less trashy!...
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22 guide sIn this how to, I will show you our process to cut HDPE Sheets using a X-Carve CNC. Here is the full video in spanish with subtitles https://www.yout...
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Want to collect more of a certain type of plastic for a specific project? Find out how we do it here 🙂
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In this How-To we'll teach you how to transform 3D print waste in design objects, using a shredder, a sheetpress and a CNC
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A dog feeder is like a box that allows your pet to eat at a comfortable height. In this case, I use a compression method to create plastic sheets
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Let's make plastic rope! With a bit of patience -- and some handmade passion -- you can create colorful rope from single-use plastic bags.
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Here we'll show you how to make our Zephyr Block, designed in Melbourne, Australia! Interlocking to create all sorts of structures while making use of...
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This How-to aims to be the ultimate guide to HDPE and then teach you how to make a recycled pen out of it. The recycled plastic pen is a nifty writin...
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In this step-by-step guide, we'll walk you through the process of building your very own plastic shredder powered by a bicycle. The cyclette shredder...
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