How to Make a Bottle Cutter for Plastic Bottles

Many simple things that are needed in the farm, we have to buy. But you can make them yourself. This will save money, besides, a thing made with your own hands is always better. To such things it is possible to carry and a bottle cutter for cutting strips of various widths from plastic bottles. Such a device is always useful in everyday life, because it gives an almost unlimited supply of plastic rope. In addition, using the bottle in this way, we though a little, but we make our ecology cleaner.

There are many different drawings and options that help to make a bottle-cutting machine with your own hands. How to make (photo below - one of the variants of a bottle-cutter) is such an adaptation, is told in this article. Let's consider two ways of manufacturing.

What is a bottle cutter?

So how to make a bottle-cutter yourself? At the heart of any design of such a device is a blade. Most often this blade is from a clerical knife. It is very sharp, it is inexpensive and it does not need to be sharpened. In the design, on one side of the blade, some space is left that determines the width of the cut ropes.

Bottle cutters can be made both manual and fixed. Such a device makes it possible to cut PET containers from food practically without problems. To cut the bottle, first cut off the bottom. Then an incision is made and a ribbon is already cut along it. As a result, depending on the width of the rope being cut, one to one hundred meters of material is obtained. And the bottle is consumed almost completely. It remains only the neck and the bottom.

A simple option

How to make a bottle cutter the easiest? The simplest way to make such a device is as follows. The blade from the clerical knife is pressed by a clamp to the table or any other surface.

In order to get the right width of the ribbon, under the knife, between it and the table, a piece of plywood, wood or some other flat material of a certain thickness is placed. Its thickness and will determine the width of the future tape.

Between the blade and the clamp it is also necessary to put a piece of such material, since when the clamp is squeezed, the blade can burst. And when cutting a tape, the blade can slide over the metal and create difficulties in the process of work.

So, it's clear how to make a bottle cutter for plastic bottles in a couple of minutes. But simplicity has its drawbacks. Firstly, when tapping, the tape stretches with one hand, and the second hand has to hold the bottle. Secondly, the taped tape may not be exactly flat, since there is no reliable fixation of the size. And cut a very thin line on such a device will not work.

Universal and convenient model

How to make a bottle cutter more reliable and versatile? To do this, you need the following materials:

• Aluminum corner or U-shaped profile.
• Blade from the clerical knife.
• A piece of hairpin with a diameter of 5 mm.
• Two nuts M5.

A hole with a diameter of 5 mm is drilled in the corner or profile. A hairpin is inserted into it. She is put on the blade through the hole. Then the blade is tightly fixed with a nut.

Further, cuts are made from the profile angle of different lengths. Their length will determine the width of the cut tape. The second end of the blade is fixed with a clamp. If a U-shaped profile is used, the second end of the blade can be fixed with a piece of a board of the appropriate width, inserting it into the vials.

If you make a bottle-cutting machine with your own hands in this way, then you do not have to keep a bottle. She simply puts on a hairpin, and you can pull the rope with two hands. In addition, the cut strips will be smooth and will have a strictly selected width, and the blade will not have to be rearranged at the same time.

Application of PET tape

How to make a bottle-cutter is now clear. But where to apply the cut ribbons? They can be used to fix almost any things. At the same time, if they are heated by a hair dryer, PET will shrink and the connection will become denser and more reliable. Also these strips can be used for weaving boxes, baskets, bags and furniture.