Re:Low cost, all electric, benchtop injection molding machine
by onemoresoop on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @11:08AM
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What's wrong with just folding the end of the tube and rolling it in (like a squeezing spiral)? I grew up in Easter Europe, we were always squeezing the toothpaste to the last drop.
Re:Low cost, all electric, benchtop injection molding machine
by onemoresoop on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @12:36PM
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It seems like I was spite down-voted for mentioning a hack that removes need to create an ever more plasticky device that is useless IMO and pollutes the environment and kills animals. Until we find a way to recycle plastic properly we should think twice about the lifetime of every plastic item we create or bring into this environment. Thanks for reading this.
However, I guess this one has the unique feature of letting you reuse smaller tubes by cutting off the end and refilling from a larger tube.
I get the convenience of using a smaller tube, so refilling it would be nice, but doesn’t convenience go away when you have this big plastic squeezer thing at the end of it?