Agenda: Introduction to PVC extrusion: overview of the basic principles of PVC pipe extrusion — including the process of melting and shaping PVC resin into pipe forms Equipment and machinery: detailed ...

Workers heap piles of gleaming scrap into updated melting, ramming and pressing (”extrusion”) machines to make parts their engineers design for manufacturers. The companies recalled dozens of workers ...

We’ve seen lots of homebrew plastic extruders before, most of which use repurposed auger-type drill bits as compression screws. Those lack the variable geometry of a proper compression screw ...

Plastics can only be recycled so many times, and there’s also the problem of grinding up your octopodes and companion cubes into something a filament extruder will accept. The solution ...