Probably to help assess the cause of the defects. Polycarbonate can't be melted down and reused.
While your first statement may be true, your second statement is most definitely not an accurate statement.
Being in the manufacturing of plastic injection molds as well as the molding of parts- a blanket statement about polycarbonate -that you made is incorrect. There are literally thousands of different types of polycarbonate resins. Polycarbonate resins can be reground and re-used. The amount of regrind allowed in a given molded part depends - in medical products regrind usually isn't allowed. In toys with polycarbonate in them, they may be all re-grind. The determining factors on what can be reground and re-used are based on what specifics properties you are choosing the polycarbonate resin for.
Having said that, the nose cones in question aren' t just made from polycarbonate resin. I won't divulge other ingredients as that would be unfair to Wildman and CTI - they've invested time and money to develop there product to give them certain properties that make the nosecones able to perform to there specifications.
While I could make an educated guess, that's all it would be, whether CTI can use regrind or not on there nosecones.
My reply to this thread isn't to pick on Binder Design, for his comments, as there is some truth to his statement, - with 3D printers becoming so common, there are so many incorrect statements made about plastic resins - I hate for people here to be given data that isn't accurate. I come here to learn as many do and in areas I am clueless such as epoxies, paints, glassing, etc I count on accurate information and hope that if data on those topics isn't accurate that someone would look to respond to the post.
