Making a Gorgeous Shop Mallet Out of Plastic Trash
If you have the patience, and a lathe, you can make one of these handsome, durable mallets out of recycled plastic.
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Material Monday: HDPE
HDPE is a great material to use in your CNC, this Material Monday will help get you familiar with this plastic.
Turning an HDPE Milk Jug into a Motor Pulley
Making usable plastic stock from an HDPE milk jug is a lot easier than you might think
Plastic Bags into Plastic Blocks: Revisited
Join me in my continuing journey to make a solid building material from plastic bags. My latest experiment has potential. How can you add to it?
3D Printing a Functional Boat with Post-Consumer Milk Jugs
Last summer a student organization based out of the University of Washington, WOOF (Washington Open Object Fabricators), successfully created the world’s first 3D Printed Boat. The boat was printed on a large-format FDM printer, which was hacked together from a plasma cutter, and prints with post-consumer milk jugs.
