Strooder, New Filament Extruder Project

[MysteryAlabaster]

You might want to double check your information - on your KS home page you say "The parts only need to be as small as the feed tube, about an inch". That's a fair old difference to .5mm (by a factor of 50).

Wait... What?


I pitched the idea of backing this to my school and told them one inch...
That was the deciding factor. I can't get them to agree to back this for $333 unless we can recycle our plastic.

Nobody is going to sit down and grind huge chunks of plastic into pieces that small...

[bmdnut]

@MysteryAlabaster - I'm pretty sure the .5mm is an error - just waiting for Strooder to clarify/amend.

[Strooder]

Wait... What?


I pitched the idea of backing this to my school and told them one inch...
That was the deciding factor. I can't get them to agree to back this for $333 unless we can recycle our plastic.

Nobody is going to sit down and grind huge chunks of plastic into pieces that small...

Hi,

Sorry to hear your confusion. As mentioned above, it is guaranteed that 5mm can be fed into the tube and be successfully extruded. We are continuing our testing of up to an inch and it is looking hopeful that this will be a possibility.
This is also why a grinder is a future development for Strooder so that the process time can be reduced.