[MakeLV] Plastic recycling idea

[Rob Roschewsk]

I'm thinking if it's "chopped up" just put it in  vat and melt it ???
Then form it how you like??

According to Wikipedia ABS melts at 221 degrees F ..... I'm thinking
OLD CROCK POT and some sort of slow moving paddle.

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Mr Thomas Rumpf <tronwizard at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Could you take a piece of say ABS plastic and, with heat, efficiently
> reshape it into blocks or rods to be used as raw materials for projects?.
> I'm thinking maybe some sort of tumbling action could be involved in
> preventing the piece from sticking and to help reshape it. At some point it
> could be removed while still hot to press it into some defined shape like a
> block, sheet, or rod instead of a round blob. It would be nice to be able to
> do the shell of a monitor.
>
> Tom R.
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