Tinkers Offering Ground Up Electronics and old PCs for 3D Printer Filament Creation

[Brian_Krassenstein]

The crew at the Tinkers Store is not only offering the world a service by recycling electronics and old computers as they’ve been doing for 17 years, but now they are offering you too a great way to buy inexpensive recycled plastic for your home extruder. At $4.99 per pound, you can buy their ground plastics and take off with 3D printing. Read more about the Tinkers Store's offerings in the full article: http://3dprint.com/62362/tinkers-sto...ycled-plastic/


Below is a look at ground plastics from Tinkers Store:

[jinx]

has a toxicity report been compiled on the fumes released.

(Mother Nature approves.) in what way last I read lego stays in the ground for some time ain't lego made of ABS.

[Wolfie]

Am I missing something here? $4.99? A pound? Virgin ABS pellets are going for < $3 a pound. Why would I buy questionable quality recycled stuff for MORE than virgin stuff?

Also....

The ABS Gray color also know as 495F High Impact Polystyrene is what we are selling at this time.
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We sell it at $4.99 for a 1 pound bag shipping not included. We will have other colors soon, just

Sooooo...is it HIPS or ABS?

I suck at spelling and even I noticed several errors on their page. I would feel rather uneasy about ordering from them even if their price was reasonable, which it doesn't appear to be.