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Making a Gorgeous Shop Mallet Out of Plastic Trash

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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Turning an HDPE Milk Jug into a Motor Pulley

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

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Plastic Bags into Plastic Blocks: Revisited

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?

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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.

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