<![CDATA[SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — 3D Printing Indoors Is as Bad for You as Smoking a Cigarette Inside...]]> https://www.soliforum.com/topic/3298/3d-printing-indoors-is-as-bad-for-you-as-smoking-a-cigarette-inside/ Wed, 14 Aug 2013 01:51:57 +0000 PunBB <![CDATA[Re: 3D Printing Indoors Is as Bad for You as Smoking a Cigarette Inside...]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/32849/#p32849 Heartlander, what kind of ABS are you using? The latest stuff I got from protoparadigm is not odorless, that's for sure. Thanks.

]]> Wed, 14 Aug 2013 01:51:57 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/32849/#p32849 <![CDATA[Re: 3D Printing Indoors Is as Bad for You as Smoking a Cigarette Inside...]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/32818/#p32818 ne14pez wrote:

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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elmoret wrote:

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.

]]> Tue, 13 Aug 2013 21:49:25 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/32818/#p32818 <![CDATA[Re: 3D Printing Indoors Is as Bad for You as Smoking a Cigarette Inside...]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/32815/#p32815 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.

]]> Tue, 13 Aug 2013 20:25:05 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/32815/#p32815 <![CDATA[Re: 3D Printing Indoors Is as Bad for You as Smoking a Cigarette Inside...]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/32804/#p32804 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.

]]> Tue, 13 Aug 2013 17:04:22 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/32804/#p32804 <![CDATA[Re: 3D Printing Indoors Is as Bad for You as Smoking a Cigarette Inside...]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/32548/#p32548 cod3r wrote:

Illinois institute of technology..

yuhuh.  Real reputable source there.

What are you implying?

]]> Sun, 11 Aug 2013 05:25:52 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/32548/#p32548 <![CDATA[Re: 3D Printing Indoors Is as Bad for You as Smoking a Cigarette Inside...]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/32439/#p32439 Illinois institute of technology..

yuhuh.  Real reputable source there.

]]> Fri, 09 Aug 2013 21:12:56 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/32439/#p32439 <![CDATA[Re: 3D Printing Indoors Is as Bad for You as Smoking a Cigarette Inside...]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/32041/#p32041 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.

]]> Tue, 06 Aug 2013 04:23:06 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/32041/#p32041 <![CDATA[Re: 3D Printing Indoors Is as Bad for You as Smoking a Cigarette Inside...]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/31957/#p31957 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.

]]> Mon, 05 Aug 2013 13:20:48 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/31957/#p31957 <![CDATA[Re: 3D Printing Indoors Is as Bad for You as Smoking a Cigarette Inside...]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/31930/#p31930 Or just wear an air filter mask?

]]> Mon, 05 Aug 2013 06:18:25 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/31930/#p31930 <![CDATA[Re: 3D Printing Indoors Is as Bad for You as Smoking a Cigarette Inside...]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/31825/#p31825 I had thought that I was the only one big_smile

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.

]]> Sun, 04 Aug 2013 02:38:28 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/31825/#p31825 <![CDATA[Re: 3D Printing Indoors Is as Bad for You as Smoking a Cigarette Inside...]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/31823/#p31823 I personally enjoy the smell of ABS, too.

]]> Sun, 04 Aug 2013 01:45:56 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/31823/#p31823 <![CDATA[Re: 3D Printing Indoors Is as Bad for You as Smoking a Cigarette Inside...]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/31770/#p31770 But... But.... the PLA smells so good D:

]]> Sat, 03 Aug 2013 07:47:01 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/31770/#p31770 <![CDATA[Re: 3D Printing Indoors Is as Bad for You as Smoking a Cigarette Inside...]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/31223/#p31223 They really only state they measured it emitted ufp but not exactly what the upf are comprised of. Heck your house has enough emitters of ufp already ( vacuums,ovens laser printers,fax machines, candles etc). There was already a test showing abs filament emitted no HCN while printing.

]]> Sun, 28 Jul 2013 20:27:27 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/31223/#p31223 <![CDATA[Re: 3D Printing Indoors Is as Bad for You as Smoking a Cigarette Inside...]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/31191/#p31191 Hunter Green wrote:

Are there people actually running it outside?

I run mine in my garage, with a side door open most often.  I sometimes even run a fan (it's hot here in Texas) trying to keep the garage temperature below 120 or so.  I wonder if the heat is helping my items stick better. smile

]]> Sun, 28 Jul 2013 03:48:19 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/31191/#p31191 <![CDATA[Re: 3D Printing Indoors Is as Bad for You as Smoking a Cigarette Inside...]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/31190/#p31190 Gotta say my response is a huge "meh".  Couple of reasons why:
   1.  Until I was three, I thought clouds were created by my chain smoking parents.  By the time I moved out, my lungs had ingested enough second hand smoke to make my choice not to smoke pointless. 
   2.  Somethings gonna kill ya at some point.  Let me enjoy making stuff for awhile first, okay?
   3.  The report in the article mentions factory grade printers, not household printers.  mine runs max four to six hours a day and in my garage when I'm mostly not around.
   4.  When I am in the garage, I tend to work on my other hobby, carpentry.  I think the table saw, band saw, and compound miter saw have a better chance of ending my life.

  In other words, printers gonna print!  Let me be!

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