Re: 3D Printing Indoors Is as Bad for You as Smoking a Cigarette Inside...
I personally enjoy the smell of ABS, too.
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I personally enjoy the smell of ABS, too.
I had thought that I was the only one
It takes me back to my youth, and the wonderful Creepy Crawlers and Thingmakers, which of course would burn you being hot, so can't be sold any more - even without product safety rules there'd still be liability... so sad that kids can't learn about heat by getting burned by a toy rather than with a stove top or oven.
Or just wear an air filter mask?
Unless it's one of those $500 full-face respirators, the effect will be farcical and purely psychological. N95 is really only good for thick heavy dust.
I can't smell anything from mine, printing ABS.
Maybe you can lay a tray of baking soda in the bottom of the printer. Or duct the fumes through some Downy dryer sheets before it goes outside. I heard some college kids do that to kill the smell when they smoke dope. If it will knock down (Downy?) pot smoke, it should handle a few toxic fumes.
Illinois institute of technology..
yuhuh. Real reputable source there.
Illinois institute of technology..
yuhuh. Real reputable source there.
What are you implying?
Oh cool! This will go with all the tolulene I breathed into my system airbrushing model railroad paints in my basement years ago. It hdnt afffecded me hat owl. Ise stil jus as gud as everr. LOL
seriously a venting system helps I view that if something stinks while heated it can't be healthy to breathe it.
Are any of you worried that venting will lower the air temperature in the enclosure thus making it difficult to print with ABS? What if the enclosure is made pretty air tight and then have a ducted fan that vents outside only when the print is done? It would need to be turned on just for a few seconds at the end of every print.
Are any of you worried that venting will lower the air temperature in the enclosure thus making it difficult to print with ABS?
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IMO, you don't want a lot of airflow, you want a big pressure drop. You want the enclosure almost perfectly sealed, with a half a psi or so of difference between atmospheric and inside the Solidoodle. Then your build chamber stays warm, but fumes can't get out.
Heartlander, what kind of ABS are you using? The latest stuff I got from protoparadigm is not odorless, that's for sure. Thanks.
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