Hello, and once again congrats for this recycling idea !
I’m from an island (Tahiti-French Polynesia) where it’s very pleasant to do longboards, Down Hills thankfully to roads on our great volcano mountains. Unforntunately, we have a lot of plastic pollution (specially on our tourist beach).
My whish is simple : reduce pollution by recycling plastics and make longboard WHEELS !
I think this idea could be attractive for a lot of people in my country.
How it could be possible ? Do i have to go on the compression machine with special mold ? Or maybe the injection machine ?
What kind of plastic I have to search for ? PE , PP ? Usually, the longobard wheels are made in polyurethane …
Thank you for your answer, and good luck in your projects everyone !
Yoan
Also the precious plastics injection machine most likely won’t be able to inject a skateboard wheel mould as the shot volume would be less than the wheel mould volume. I talk about injection machine shot volumes in another thread on here
(and sorry about this late answer, I was expecting an email from the forum to inform me that I’ve received answers – is there anything I can set up with my accounts to receive ,otifications on my email ? )
Anyway, thank you for the injection machine advice. I just need to built it now haha.
But for Down Hills, we really need soft plastic… Polyurethan doesn’t work with your machine ? It’s not possible to recycle polyurethan ?
It would make great slide wheels for freestyle though. Maybe make some cores from a tougher plastic and then use an injection machine to add a softer plastic for the actual wheel
thankfully to roads on our great volcano mountains. Unforntunately, we have a lot of plastic pollution (specially on our tourist beach).