Large Printer and Plastic Recycling

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Hi Joshua,

We are planning to run a campaign on HeroX next year. We switched from cordless drill to large, high T printer with 4x4x8' build area, vertically. This is to address real needs, namely related to housing. The large printer includes filament making infrastructure for producing filament. We are not doing a pellet printer, since we want to work with filament printing for leveragin the existing base of fused filament printers. Given the 20 lb/day limits of Supervolcano style printheads, we don't see an issue with throughput. There is the extra step of making filament, but at our