Cat-R-Puller

“We do this not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be.” We've all been there. We see something neat and that toxic, chaotic-neutral voice in the back of our head says “I can do that!” It's why you are a Maker, after all! For me, I set off on a journey of turning old soda and water bottles into useful filament nearly two years ago… just to see if I could. I tried multiple different ready-made designs for filament pultruders, and even got suckered into a couple of Kickstarters with their grandiose promises of all-in-one systems (you probably already know which ones I'm talking about). Each of them worked great in some facet or another, but lacked in others. The largest problem I came across was consistency. Some designs produced either too much or too little pull speed depending on the hotend temp, resulting in inconsistent and strands of filament that were hard to print with. The other issue was most ready built machines only did one strand at a time. I need