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    text: "This is great. I love this place. I am researching how to start a recycling business in my community. I live in Dekalb County Georiga USA. I attend CTU online. I am very interested in environmental science. With a large family to care for I am learning quickly the importance of recycling. Thank you Precious Plastic for all of the resources. I plan to mirror your system and recreate it here."
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description: "In this awsome \"How To\" you will make an aluminium mould for injecting a plate (3mm thickness) from recycled plastic.\n\nCan be used for serving dry food like nuts or for objects :)\nShould not be used for eating purposes - only if you apply a correct coating or lacquer!\n\nCheck out the real life plate execution here: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=YzjTm3FRLVY&t=5s \n\nThis product rocks!\n*special thanks to Paul Denney!"
time: "1-2 weeks"
title: "Inject a plate "
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    text: "Tools needed:\n- CNC, tools to cut (cutting plier), drill and welder - Mask with ABEC filter, gloves, glasses\n- scale, sanding paper, polishing paste (for metal) - 4 bolts of 8m width, min length 9 cm + nuts\n- 2 metal dowel pins (6m example)\n- 8m + 6m drill bit\n- wrenches\n- 2 aluminium blocks 26x26x4cm,\n- metal sheet min 15x15x0.5cm\n- plumbing connector 1 inch,\n- Precious Plastic stamp for your plastic type\nMachines needed: Injection machine and a shredder (or shredded plastic)"
    title: "Get ready "
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    text: "As we will make this plate with the injection machine, we need to make the mould for it. It will be made of 3 parts: Bottom and top part out of aluminium.  And next is the connector part made from steel.\nThe top and bottom part will be CNC-milled out of two blocks of aluminium while we’ll make the connector part manually. "
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    text: "Let’s start with the CNC part. \nDownload the attached STEP file and CNC-mill them into the 2 separate aluminium blocks both equal sized of minimum size 26cm x 26cm x 4cm. (Note: The standard Precious Plastic Injection machine limits the max width for moulds to 28cm).\n\nThe step file includes 6 reference points to be milled. These points make it easy to manually drill on the exact location of the aluminium blocks. If you are not lucky enough to have access to a CNC milling machine, you can send the files to a CNC cutting company (consider that this will be more expensive and will probably take longer).\n\nOnce the mould is cut, polish the mould to achieve a high quality surface for your product. You can do that yourself or ask the CNC cutting company to polish the mould for you.\n\n*special thanks to Friedrich\n"
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    text: "Now the mould parts need holes. We have to make 2 types of holes. Total will be 6. (the injection hole comes later)\n\nFirst we drill 2 halfway holes on both inner sides of the aluminium blocks to fit 2 metal dowel pins in there. These pins make sure your mould is always aligned straight when you are injecting. (see first image) Drill the hole size according to the dowel pin size you have. I used 6m width. Drill the holes on both sides half way. \nAfter opening and closing the mould more often the opening and closing will become more easy. \n\nThen 4 holes are needed to connect and close the mould with bolts and nuts. Drill 4 holes on the 4 corners of the aluminium blocks. Use the pre marked drill indicators ór close the mould straight\n"
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    text: "Using a 13mm bit, drill a hole in the center of the bottom mould part. This is where the plastic will flow into the mould, out of the injection machine. The center drill indicator is also included in the STEP file. "
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  - text: "To make the connection plate, we need a square steel sheet of 150cm x 150cm (minimum 0.5cm thick) and a nozzle which fits your injection machine (here: 1/2 inch - BSP - type). Check the connection types of the injector. https://youtu.be/qtZv96ciFIU?t=255  \nMark the center points for the holes according to the drawing and drill the holes. \nThen place the nozzle on top of the 13mm hole and weld it to the plate. Make sure to place it exactly in the center, this will help screwing the mould to the injector easily, and make the plastic flow through more fluently. \nThis part needs to align perfectly to the rest of the mould and the injection machine, so try to work as precisely as possible.\n"
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  - text: "The mould will be more user friendly if you sand the hard edges away, as CNC cut aluminum can be very sharp. Optionally, I would advise that you add an inclined edge to the bottom part of the mould, this will make it much easier to open and close the mould.\nIt is important that the inside of the mould is sanded and polished for a clean finish of the product. This will make the difference between a high quality product and a rough one. Use a wooden block with sanding paper to keep your sanding straight. Start with 120 grain size and double the amount with each step (120, 240, 440 etc. all the way up to 2000). \n\nUse a cloth to clean your mould from aluminium dust. Don’t blow it out of the mould this is very bad for your lungs! After, use metal grained steel wool and then fine steel wool. The last step is to polish your mould with an additional clean cloth and polishing paste.\n"
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    title: "Sand the mould edges "
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    text: "You are now done with the mould’s preps and can assemble all the parts together. First connect the top and bottom part, using the dowel pins to help you with alignment and bolts and nuts to tighten all together. Then you can connect the connector plate to the top and bottom part of the mould. You’re now good to go. "
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    text: "Use PP, HDPE, LDPE or PS (you probably will have most success with PP or LDPE).\nThe maximum amount that can be used for the standard injector is 150g.\n"
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