Recycling milk cartons!!! superb!

[gentle assasin]

Milk cartons...cut up and melted... pressed in a mould and cut out....

This stuffs amazing! Practically unbreakable.... and free...

IT FLOATS!!

Ad a bit of colour in the form of bottle lids etc....

 

[k9trev]

Pics not working fella somebody will correct me if I'm wrong but I think you need ten posts to put up pics .

 

[Goatboy]

Pictures not working I'm afraid, have a read of the how too LINK

ATB,
GB.

 

[k9trev]

They working now fella and what an awesome idea .now ill go eat my words

 

[Goatboy]

Must've been a lag in the server. Sorry. Nice pics though.

GB.

 

[raskusdrotti]

Nice work fella, great idea!

 

[Chiseller]

Fierce......I love that you've taken summat horrible and made it into summat mint! If I didn't have a gadda (catty) I'd be nagging you to make one. Well done squire .....I don't award "Fierce" lightly. Gud 'elth

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[uncleboob]

Good idea...how did you melt them?

cheers

Joab

 

[Robbi]

smashing idea

 

[gentle assasin]

Thankyou guys....

Melt in the oven at 190 for around an hour....

Its great to take something so ugly and turn it into a piece of artwork to put food on the table

 

[swright81076]

Fantastic idea, really impressive. :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

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[Everything Mac]

I rather like that idea. How did you melt them?

Can you do a tutorial video?

Andy

 

[mountainm]

How many cartons did you use?

Fantastic idea, seen it used as poor mans kydex before but this is new.

 

[joejoe]

I rather like that idea. How did you melt them?

Can you do a tutorial video?

Andy

yes please just drawing some cattysat the minute

 

[spandit]

I'm guessing you don't want to use your best bowl for this but that's fantastic!

 

[mr dazzler]

Check out the youtube video by studio swine where they recycle plastic out of the sea, at sea on their trawler, using a simple furnace and metal molds to make 3 legged stools....
Maybe you could create a sort of drop forging type of mold and use say a car jack or a garage bending press to quickly force the material in to the shape you want, then do a light finish cut with a sharp router?
PS I once worked in a factory doing injection moulding (flymo lawn mowers) the hot plastic smell is pretty nauseating, does it get bad in the kitchen when you process these cartons? My wife just got a new oven she'd go spare

 

[copper_head]

Brilliant!

Oh the possibilities....

 

[Shewie]

Clever stuff, just shown it to the wife who does stuff like this with the kids at college.

She wants to know what you melted it in, in the oven.

 

[Two Socks]

Fantastic idea this, thanks! I too would be very interested in a tutorial of some sort.

 

[ex-member BareThrills]

useful info in this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_XUJwINdLw