Filament Recycle Tray (only iron needed, no oven)

Recycle your purge lines and other waste into a new tray ! 

Use it to store your ducks (like me), screws, bag clips or other small items. 

You need: 

• Purge lines, thin failed prints, shredded filament waste etc. 
• baking paper 
• empty flowerpot or similar 
• iron
• the printed push-down frame 

How to: 

• Grab a flowerpot as outer shell for shaping
• Print the internal push-down-frame and assemble (the configuration in the pictures is the “basic” version (plate 1), you can extend the frame size as well as the leg-length with the extentions from plate 2 and 3, or print base and extensions at once with plate 4). Larger flowerpot = larger internal push-down-frame = more waste material needed
• Melt the material (in my case purge lines and a thin, failed print) togehter step by step with the iron, use baking paper to avoid it sticking to the iron / surface

• let cool down, cut roughly to size (for the round base frame I recommend a somewhat round shape)

  (alternatively you can cut after forming the bowl, but its more difficult then)

• heat it up high again, to make it very soft
• CAUTION: The filament is very hot now!
• still wraped in the baking paper from both sides, put in the flowerpot and push down with the printed frame. If you want to further adjust the shape, carefully do so now, please wear heat protective gloves!
• Let cool down in the pot, then carefully remove the bakingpaper and enjoy your new tray

Depending on the printer precision the joints might be a little loose, then I recommend to secure them with electrical tape or similar. 

Printet with ABS, 2 walls, 15% infill, supports necessary, PEI-Plate-glue highly recommended for ABS. 

PLA or PETG might work aswell.