Easy DIY Recycled Plastic Mallet
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- Опубликовано: 15 янв 2024
- One of the first things we ever made out of recycled plastic were mallets. To this day we still use our beaten up old HDPE mallet and it works like a dream as it's such a dense material.
We've tried a number of different ways to make these, but we wanted to work out the easiest method possible. To do this, all you really need is a tin can and a heat gun. You just need add your HDPE plastic in bit by bit, squishing it down and applying heat until your tin is nice and full. Once it's completely full you can push your handle in place, add some scrap wood with a hole in to help apply clamping pressure and clamp it all down.
Once cooled, you just need to take of the tin and you've got yourself an awesome little mallet! If you want it to look a bit prettier, you can pop it on the lathe like we've done here, but if not, it works perfectly as is.
Be sure to let us know if you give one a go! 
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The best part is that there is so much material to work with, that's is actually a problem in the entire world!
Thats totally tru, its just a matter of creativity
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И что с этим делать потом? На дело ходить ? Или долги выбивать.😅
Это ж готовый рычаг КПП)))
Пюрешку толочь🎉
В туалет после пюрешки с этим ходить, котячки подламывать😂😂😂
Нет это игрушка для взрослых. 😂
Получилась киянка, я для работы с пробойниками по коже.
I've been wanting to make one, and thought I had to use a stove,ty for the video
You can also just chop it up into smaller pieces and stick it in the oven in a metal dish, the white plastic from the milk jugs also works very well
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@@user-cd1zn4yu5c Предполжу это киянка
@user-cd1zn4yu5c you can use it to hit a chisel for use it wood or stone carving.
Has to be the right type of plastic. Not all plastics can be melted and remolded.
No shit
Bottle caps like he showed in the video are very reliably HDPE which is very recyclable and perfect for the task
@@cfv1984 you borned knowing?! No, you learned someday. Obviously the most people dont know that. 🤡
Thermoplastics
These are the materials that begin to melt when they are under high temperature. They have the ability to be molded and when cooled they take on a new shape.
Example of materials: polyethylene and polypropylene.
What are the plastics you can't recycle?
Please let people know that you've got to wear a respirator for all of this
A lot of plastics are safe to melt with mild ventilation
Hdpe does not require the use of a respirator at low temperatures.
И не забудь одеть трёхнедельнонестиронные носки😂
Finished product is amazing
This kind of HDPE is very soft tho, i'd advise trying with the blue colored HDPE used for making industrial barrels and piping. It's super hard, and requires more heat to melt, but it will make a very cool mallet.
The point of a mallet is more often for it to be soft. That way you don’t leave marks in the thing you’re working on, and your hand doesn’t feel as much from each impact. I saw a video about chisels earlier. Where the guy said “I would rather make a new mallet every few years then a new chisel handle every few months.
It’s one of the many things where what the “common-sense” reasoning is, is actually the opposite of what’s needed.
@@ChicoTunda except i'm a blacksmith and i need very hard mallets when i work on steel or pretty much any metal. A hard mallet on wood would indeed wear it with time, but i'm not really using my mallets on wood. I need something that doesn't leave marks like steel hammers, but will still beat the shit out of metals
Thanks for the idea. A suitable and less expensive alternative to treated wood
Im making one now for my leather work nice video
My partner made a mallet for leatherwork too! Used milk jugs and caps so he got a mix of the different coloured caps throughout
I would like someone to restandardise pallets, push them to be made this way from recycled materials, no more wood. Open Source design with a ratified standard for safety features (eg a lip on each edge so boxes can't slid off, grooves for friction on top and inside the fork beams etc and only 2 sizes, 1200x1000 and 1200x800.
I think, only the guys here can do it, and make a change that will use up some of the old plastic waste in a really meaningful way.
i have actually started on some designs for specific-use pallets made from commodity recycled plastic stock, reused off the shelf parts, and some molded or printed pieces, but the goal is to basically be doing what you talked about. do you have any interest in working on it, or just wanted to put it out there?
@@CorvidianSystems wow, this is good. I am only putting the idea out there. I was working for a client recently and in my boredom was thinking about approx numbers of pallets used, wasted and the life of a pallet and just how much waste there is as a direct result if this. I have used plastic pallets before and the only issue is that they were not recycled and they had a smooth surface instead of a gritted feel, something with moulded grooves would overcome this issue.
I am in no position to make these myself but getting the conversation started might get the tongues wagging in the places that could make it possible and then a legal requirement.
@@dennis8196then i wont have wood to build dog houses from! And some big chinese company will be making big money from your idea.
@@richardmccann4815 the environment doesn't care about politics. And no Chinese company is making any money right now - this is why the economy is so bad right now, everyone is undercutting everyone else and the Chinese are doing it to the 9th degree and the government is giving subsidiary cash to many businesses just to hurt the west with the undercutting. (Just like Temu is trying to break Amazon and eBay)
China won't last long right now and if they did make money from recycling plastic for commercial products then the world would be better off for it.
As for dog houses, this is a legit reason to use wood collected from any source - you'll never need so much that you'll be doing anything harmful to the planet, you will still have mountains of wooden pallets to use for years to come any way.
I love the marbled effect it makes
That looks nice.
В следующем видео как толкушку расплавить и сделать крышки🫣
I love your videos
Whaou ! C’est vraiment très beau comme résultat.
I LOVE this brothers 🎉😂❤
Those colors are really cool
Pretty and functional!
Wait, seriously?!? This actually works?!? Ahhhhh XD. I need to go do this, i need to gather a bunch of plastic now!! I don't need the lathe either, i don't mind hand-sanding if i have to.
That's pretty much what I was gonna say.
You may be able to stick the handle in a drill chuck and sand it that way. Hand sanding plastic probably won't take long though, so it may be a moot point
@@nowinnc this was more or less what I figured as I don't have a lathe
I would like a lathe xD
@@nowinncDry sanding low-melting-point plastic doesn't really work. You gunk up your sandpaper immediately. Wet sanding probably does work though.
Looks like malachite! Cool.
É show de bola ficou muito legal parabéns
This is great, I have a heat gun and some clamps
Great idea
I used these "hair"dryers for bending PVC water pipes. But never had the idea to use them for casting. Thanks for the hint!
It’s a heat gun or hot air gun it get get much hotter and burn you easily
А я феном розігрівав рубероїд імпортовий і покривав гараж. Даже в сонячну погоду розігрівав смолу увелічителем який в 70-ті роки ставили на екран телевізора для збільшення екрана. Дуже добре завальцовує смолою шви рубероїда. і не треба фена!
Love this tbh love this
These remind me of speed skate wheels ! ❤
تجارب ممتازة ممكن الواحد يحتاجها ممتاز ما تقدم من فوائد انت موفق للعمل الصحيح امضي ونحن ورائك والبحر خلفك .
I hope it’s as useful as it looks. Looks excellent
Schöne Keule macht Fluchling sicher richtig Kopfweh.
So one, love this... two, what have you tested it on? Seriously, great idea... cheers
Merci beaucoup pour votre
Is a hammer time broo!
Ottima idea😮
Stielhandgranate
Wow, it looks like malachitr
That’s awesome
Gostei vou fazer.
Ворошиловский килограмм 💣
в детстве этим занимались .
...I was just thinking what to do with the can, and i just cut it up and hammer it into a sheet of metal to use, but next one definitely that mallet.
That might be a good way to make rail cart wheels.
Nice
Хорошая граната получилась😂😂😂😂😅
It makes a person think very well
GRENADE!!! ‼️‼️‼️
Получилась граната😊
Granada alemã da 2ww
Are the fumes caronojenic 😢
Above a certain temperature, which the heat gun should achieve, the fumes aren't good for you.
But, if you control the heat, so it stays below the fume point, and do it outdoors, it'll be fine.
If you're really worried, just get a respirator, they're only like 30 bucks for something good.
@@autumn5592 This channel uses HDPE which has a melting temp of ~130C (270F) and a degradation temp of ~400C (750F). it's one of the safer plastics to work with.
@@BullseyeBailey Sorry, perhaps I'm missing the part where I said it was unsafe?
@@autumn5592 It's right there where you say "the fumes aren't good for you". That's the Part you're looking for. Snowflake!
@@GBOB68 Huh???
Make it spiky and you have a Morningstar
Хорошие идеи для некоторых работ
In Germany we say Stielhandgranate
Que chipote, no es mala idea. Tenga cuiado con jack el destripador
Sieht wie ne Stielhandgranate 24 aus.
I tried this but i had caps with different numbers and gave off too much toxic smell
yeah they made a video about which specific plastic to use and the symbols they would have on it
Now you hsvr made a german m34 stick grenade out of plastic
Thanks. An idea I can actually use.
JKL LV
can't say I'd recommend most people to melt plastic.. considering the risks,nastiness and tedious precautions... but it looks pretty.
That ser, is a grenade
No lathe? Use a grinder or belt sander or elbo greese with a chisel. Get creative.
A block of material produced from waste is fantastic and applications are endless. As mentioned by others, the real interesting thing here is the method to melt! Very nice
Дизайнерская противотанковая граната.
Sure, easy diy, I'll grab my lathe
A lathe isn't required, you can work around not owning one.
But what's easier is moaning about it in a comment section with no intention of making it with or without a lathe.
Drill powered lathe
Hello great works.
What is the name of the device used to press down the wooden thing.
That look like malachite
Vou Tentar fazer cabo faca e facão.
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Cool... what do we do with this?
Wow
so you're the one that's been making those micro plastics
Так вот как делается малахит!
Carving tool doesn't make it as do it yourself, but some heating may refine it too.
I bet someone will sue you for having a hand grenade and you say it's a key chain
DIY :
1st step, get your wood lathe
Eh that’s not really necessary you can probably get a drill and mount it onto ur vise
Step 1 : complain.
Seriously, grow up. Lathes cost nothing, you can get them for like 100 bucks used, with chuck and tooling.
And you hardly need a lathe to do this project, it's just to take down the rough edges.
@@autumn5592highly disagree. It also depends on where you’re from. I have wanted a lathe for a very long time. But they all are expensive
@@marianneelliot-hansen have two, twenty five and 50 bucks.
He made a piston 🗿
Sieht aus wie eine alte Deutsche "Pfeffermühle" aus den 40er Jahren.
Идея отличная, тем более у меня всё есть что бы повторить, .👍👍👍
🖐. И зачем это нужно?
@@tiptop800 что б ты спросил.
@@aleksinelektro-pro1896 ну , я и спросил. А нужно то для чего?
Not only will AI be able to sort & separate different plastics at the Recycling center, but it will be able to do so at home on a small scale. The main problem is that there’s only a 40% chance piece of plastic will end up being properly disposed of to a recycling center. Most people throw it in the ocean or throw it in nature unfortunately…
So even with technology advancing exponentially, it’s ultimately our lack of discipline that’s the problem. We could learn a lot from the Japanese.
das ist eine designer Stabgranate
Looks like malachite
Actually not a bad idea
Зачем нам муляж гранаты из пластика?
Not a mallet, that's a maul..........
Agora fale pra que serve!
If you're just hitting stuff with it, you don't even need to turn it at the end.
Also, it would be fun to leave the can ridges if you had a cranberry colored plastic.
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Now u have. A wtf is it .......good for you .....now it definitely wont biodegrade....awsum idea bro😢😅😮.wow what an idea
Et .... Serieux !!
Bacana
Más qual é a serventia 😅
Please try to explain to me why those raw material lids are nearly identical?
I mean to consider recycling plastic a forward approach to nearly 3d printing. By inquiring.
But don’t you buy raw materials from eBay or such? What would a market like that look like possibly for independent recyclers?
They look identical because semi skimmed milk lids are all the same in the UK and we clean them meticulously 🤙🏽
Para quê serve esse porrete parar de muito com aquele que é feito de madeira para fazer entalhes na Madeira seria isso ???
Панцер гренаде
Not possible in germany, the caps are fixed on the bottles...
Easy? How much equipment was used in this?
What is it that you made?
Малахитовая граната
Y que hacer con esa fundicion, para que te sirve eso con mango para golpear que cosa
Grenade!
Если крышки порезать ножницами по металлу и нагревать банку в печке, сразу сжимая содержимое струбциной, то масса не будет иметь черноты
Übungshand-Granate?
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