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Mar 10, 2013

Prototype plastic gun

While making the extrusion I had the idea of making a press more manual and small.

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Plastic gun
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While making the extrusion I had the idea of making a press more manual and small. So I started trying it out..first a quick crap model, then a improved one with temperature control and finally a container on it where I put the plastic in. Works like a big glue gun.. pretty cool!

sketch
The idea

01_test
Plastic gun extrusion experiment.

welded
Extrusion prototype.

welding
Dave welding.

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Dave :)

in_hand1
Glue gun extrusion experiment.

03_temperature_control
Testing the PID.

working_02
Extruding.

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