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Filament Extrusion at home

Over in the Primo Thread folks were discussing the filament extrusion, filament recycling and whether someone could do it at home. I fell down that particular rabbit hole a few weeks ago and after some gentle prodding am writing up a brief treatment of the subject. tl;dr: Unless you are made of money or have the patience of a saint and the precision of swiss watch you can’t expect to extrude filament at home that will in any way compete with what is available commercially. Desktop Extruders D…