Make a Cyclette Shredder
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| Published about 1 year ago

Make a Cyclette Shredder

In this step-by-step guide, we'll walk you through the process of building your very own plastic shredder powered by a bicycle. The cyclette shredder is perfect for shredding small objects, like caps or bottles, but it's not recommended to run your recycle operations with it. So the best way to use the cyclette shredder would be in educational workshops and events, as it is a fun, engaging and interactive machine. *For the first 6 months the build files will be available to Precious Plastic supporters ♥️ on Patreon
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Become a supporter to download ♥️

We're thrilled to announce the release of the Cyclette Shredder machine, a collaboration between Precious Plastic and Precious Plastic Torino 🤝 ♥️ This is a major milestone for the community! Open sourcing a whole new machine doesn't come free unfortunately, the total costs was around 600€ (materials, time and transportation). For 6 months (until February 2024), the full blueprint of the machine will be available to Precious Plastic supporters on Patreon. After, it will be free and open source on this how-to. Forever. For anyone. Precious Plastic Supporter? You can become a Precious Plastic supporter on Patreon for 7,5€ per month to support our work at https://www.patreon.com/one_army This will also give you: - ♥️ badge on the community - early access (Youtube, posts, downloads) - voting power - social media crediting (Youtube & IG), - A badge and sticker

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Tools needed

The tools needed to build your cyclette shredder are: - Old Cyclette (ATALA): you can find one in second hand stores - Steel Laser cutted parts for the frame - Plexiglass laser cutted for protection and the box above - Bicycle chain and gear - A shredder block - Other stuff to customize (bike pedal, bike knob, spray paint)

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Frame

You will need to remove: 1. All the plastic parts for cleaning + any other parts you would like to customize. 2. The metal part shown in the picture, and you will not use it again 3. The speed cable shown in the picture, and you will not use it again

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Building the Cyclette Shredder

We've made a video with Precious Plastic that talks about how Precious Plastic Torino makes the cyclette shredder! Give it a watch :)

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Outcome & customizing

Feel free to paint it as you like, you can get inspired by the pictures below! Happy shredding :)
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