Recycled Plastic Ornament
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Tim was gifted some turning blanks made from recycled plastic. Since the holidays are close he decided to make a holiday ornament using the blanks and some Purpleheart wood. The blanks are all unique and they turn like butter. Mmmmm....butter.....
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I have these blanks that I have melted down from detergent bottles. I finish with a skew for a great shine finish, no sandpaper, that just dulls it.
Love this idea. I’ve been saving bottle tops just for this type of thing. I assume you can save the shavings and recycle them again as well. Thanks for sharing.
Maybe dipping them in clear epoxy for some shine?
You could completely encase it in epoxy, but HDPE is super resistant to paints, inks, adhesives -- people use it for making forms for epoxy pours, since the cured resin pops right out. I think Tim has the right approach with tool finishing with a very sharp tool and a very delicate touch.
I’ve been turning plastics like this for about a year now that I make myself at home. To get it shiny I have found using micro mesh and then a plastic polish work for me.
Another good source is the Brothers Make channel. They do everything in recycled plastic medium.
Have you considered a CA finish (like what is used on pens) for this ornament?
CA won’t work as it will not bind to hdpe.
Flame polishing to make it shinier comes to mind. Maybe heat gun on high
You beat me to it.
Tim you did recycle all of those shavings from those recycled turning blanks didn’t you? 😁
Maybe you should use the shavings for tree decorations!😂
In Pakistan they would make a truck dashboard with the shavings..working in pajamas and safety sandals, in the dirt of course.
Been watching for years. Have enjoyed every minute!
Use some scotch brite. See if that shines it up :)
Those are re so pretty. 🔥🔥🔥
What a great idea! Great way to reuse. Thank you for sharing!
speaking of turning butter... what ever happened to out of round? :D
You could try to briefly melt the surface with a burner to achieve a shiny finish as well.
But I guess unless you coat it with something hard, like CA or epoxy, you won't achieve a lasting shinyness anyways.
Flame polishing might work but I agree it wouldn’t last.
Kinda like Silly String when we were kids. LOL Turned out real nice. Happy Thanksgiving. Thanks for sharing
Good idea, thanks for sharing. 👍
@03:48 man tinsel instead of glitter 😅😂
Nice. Thank you for sharing. Remember, when the wood (plastic) goes around, the face shield comes down.🙂🙂
Can use a heat gun to help create a shine
Would heat make it shiny?
Very cute. Happy Thanksgiving
Since it is plastic, you could try flame treatment.
Neat, Tim. Almost tempts me to start turning. Almost.
Bill
Beautiful piece of work 😃😃
How heavy are they??
HDPE has a specific gravity around 0.95, so it is denser than most wood species (assuming the wood is dry and not waterlogged).
Those ornaments are very nice looking. That was probably the best choice of tooling for that material. Is there some way to recycle the waste material? If not, I'll pass. I don't put any more material than necessary in our overloaded landfills. My chips go for animal bedding, soil amendment or compost.
Yes, you absolutely can re-recycle the waste! The blank we gave Tim is made of HDPE. I think it mostly came from broken snow sleds from the local Materials Recovery Center, based on the color mix. You can sweep up those shavings, melt them in an oven or toaster oven or sandwich press (we use some George Foreman grills found at an estate sale for $5) -- 350º F works well -- and smash them together into a new blank. Best to wear oven mitts or welding gloves while you knead it, and the more pressure the better to reduce or eliminate voids/bubbles. (We use a form and compress it in a 12-ton shop press. Even so, the shrinkage from cooling gives it that bumpy surface, but it turns away to such a nice matte luster...)
I don't worry about mixing up the wood shavings and whatnot with it. It just gets embedded in for character. In fact, we have a bunch of "mixed sweepings" blanks on our site for sale that are literally made of the contents of our shop vac -- mixed HDPE, LDPE and PP (all closely related plastics that play well together), random bits of wood and sawdust, and whatever else. We also make blanks out of plastic bottles that we shredded up with the labels on, which gives it funky character of little paper bits when you turn it. As long as about 90% of your mass is compatible plastics (like those three), it will hold the other embedded stuff pretty well. (People who do wood-plastic composites that have higher % of wood flour add "compatibilizer" chemicals to create bonds between the wood molecules and the polymers. Too advanced for me.)
Two great info channels for micro recycling of this kind of plastic are the Brothers Make and Precious Plastic. I've enjoyed learning about the plastic recycling, but it's been a delight to find how well it can work with my longer-term hobbies of turning and woodcarving and woodworking, and it's really fun to see masters far beyond my own skill throw it in a chuck and do their magic.
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@@JohnNephew Thank you for the thoughtful and informative reply. The proper reuse and/or disposal of the remaining material after turning has been the reason I've stayed away from turning any of that type material other than small amounts of resin as filler or for damage repair.
Do you clean the dust out, or make animals breathe it? Animal lungs matter!
@@cattleNhay As much as possible, we collect the plastic dust in our shop and re-recycle it along with the bigger shavings and pieces.
@@bassrun101 I'm with you! I like the visual effect of poured resin blanks, but thermoset plastics (epoxies etc.) are one and done--once the chemicals cure, the shavings can be burned or buried, but not melted. Thermoplastics like HDPE can be recycled many times over with no discernible loss in quality (especially if one is using microrecycling gear like #preciousplastic, which tends to have lower temps and less mechanical stress reducing the length of the polymer chains in processing). And we are focusing not just on recycled material, but trying to make these blanks specifically from things that currently go to our local landfill because of limitations in the recycling and processing system.
This was a great use of the plastic! I would like to try this, and turn some different shapes.
By the way, I hope the company have the colors Maize and Blue, since the University of Michigan just completed a perfect season, stealing signs and all. All allegations of sign stealing, no actual proof. Just sayin’. They still won six games even without Harbaugh there.