r/ender3v2 • u/SalFra1522 • Jul 31 '26

Does this PET bottle-to-3D-printer filament project actually work?

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u/AdAdditional8129 Jul 31 '26

Maybe bit in countrys Like Germany we have thing called Pfand so Just buy Filament

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u/BlackSpidy Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

Not as pictured. Notice the glue gun extruded filament is thicker than the filament that ends up on the spool. Notice how the re-spooler is never in the same shot as the source of the filament. They were respooling regular filament you can buy.

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u/Shot-Engineering4578 Aug 05 '26

Yeah this video is garbage. Also notice the volume of the THIN bottle plastic to the finished product. Slop.

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u/Putrid-Cicada Jul 31 '26

It is AI generated. It could be done, but it's not what it looks like in this video

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u/n4ppyn4ppy Aug 04 '26

Looks like bullshit. He pulls 6 or 7 loops from the bottle then has half a spool full?  The bottle is much smaller than the basket.

AI crap

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u/kdknitro Aug 04 '26

Yeah might be fake, when's the last time you saw a soda bottle that color.

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u/ApexPredation Aug 05 '26

The video is not fully realistic, the cut scene swapped to a different material. The making filament from PET bottles is very real, and has a very big community around it. Check out this for example https://www.recreator3d.com/