A recycler to break up and extrude new from old filament
Just got X1C, and the wife had some skull silicone molds. She’s going to put them in the oven and slowly melt the waste and make Skulls. Try that first and see how it goes, once she figures it all out. I’ll design and print Molds and make out own designed Silicone molds. We have school teachers friends and we’ve mentioned it to them what we could do, Make little figures, etc and they can give them to the kids are gifts or rewards for behavior etc.
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I’d rethink using your oven or anything food related to do this, the fumes and residual smell will kill it (plus the toxic factor). This is probably an outdoor/well-ventilated garage task.
Well I appreciate your concern, but I have a Powder coating setup and we’ll be using that oven. No one is dying today. Not on my watch. LoL 
That’s a stellar idea.
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Happy to hear you’ve got that under control. Better to be clear in case others don’t think ahead or have better equipment.
Is it your youtube channel ive read that comment on ?
i have seen a few with similar ideas over the last few months
In my opinion cnc kitchen has a promising lookin one that extrudes but i feel its a little expensive for a self assembly kit (£500.00) which is still a lot cheaper than the "we`re the only ones producing these " for silly money models out there ,
Well you know when you have a print farm down in a basement and 20 to 30 printers running 24/7. haven’t heard of a single health issue from those that run them. When you melt this filament you are doing it in very small increments. So really, concerns are null. But you know, always that one that plays in the street.
Just curious as to what you are making with all those printers running 24/7 ? BTW, I’m a 68 yr old retired guy who just does this for fun. Definitely don’t want a job. 