Old Ender 3 Printer to Filament bottle recycle machine.
A few days ago I bought an old Ender 3, which is honestly newer than my five year old Ender 3. For quite some time I’ve seen a few different builds of machines modified to recycle pet G bottles on YouTube. Usable bottles include water, bottles, soda, bottles, etc, basic bottles you see In the public today. The picture on the left is the $50 used Ender 3 I bought off OfferUp a few days ago. The picture on the right is a completed version of the MK5 kit. This machine uses almost all the parts from an Ender three with some additional printed ones that have already been predesigned to fit. This should be a fun project to take on for the next few weeks so I can actually start saving money and recycling my bottles that build up instead of taking them to a recycling plant. Something tells me I’ll still spend money on commercial pet G if needed. But I’d love to cut my cost and start using old bottles to make usable filament. Stay tuned In the following weeks I’ll share progress, of how the machine is coming out.