PET Bottle to Filament Machine

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This is a machine that will let you recycle drinking water bottles (PETE) into 3D printer filament. This machine is based on REPRAP Arduino Mega with RAMPs 1.4 shield and 3D printer stepper motor, heater and thermocouple. The files here provide a chassis to assemble the boards and power supply under a wood board with the heater, bottle shredder and gear box on top of the board. We printed used PETG 3 layers for all walls and 25% infill. Supports on the plate. Here is the guide to how to build everything: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTJoJqPE1dKbNU9XARQXSMANma_RAjSS7 The spacer is for adding the LCD smart display board to this existing model: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1855797 The gear box is made from this exiting model: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5200645 The bottle shredder we used is this existing model: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4946971 We made our own bottle shredder if you can't grind the bearing that is less complicated but does need some work. Those files are included. We have a webpage with more details and what parts we purchased to build this. The webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/fll-robotics-teammc2/innovation-project Just the Supply list: https://www.amazon.com/shop/momsofpoway/list/1T428NYQPME3K