Easy there chief!

EPA EPCRA Delisting (1995). EPA removed acetone from the list of "toxic chemicals" maintained under Section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA). In making that decision, EPA conducted an extensive review of the available toxicity data on acetone and found that acetone "exhibits acute toxicity only at levels that greatly exceed releases and resultant exposures", and further that acetone "exhibits low toxicity in chronic studies".

As long as you're not huffing the stuff, its fine. They wouldn't put it in nail polish remover if it was as toxic as you claim.

http://www.dhmo.org/msds/MSDS-DHMO-Kemp.pdf

This is one subject I wish more users would take the time to become more educated.
I can grab several household (supposedly safe) cleaners from under my kitchen sink that contain several chemicals substantially more hazardous to your health than acetone.

As long as you're not huffing the stuff, its fine. They wouldn't put it in nail polish remover if it was as toxic as you claim.

http://www.dhmo.org/msds/MSDS-DHMO-Kemp.pdf

elmoret wrote:

Acetone isn't really toxic, your body produces it.

Who cares about shippability when you can pick it up at any hardware store?

Dissolve PLA, then you have something to write home about.

+1

I don't think anyone was suggesting a person bathe in the stuff

How can acetone affect my health?

Exposure to high levels of acetone can cause death, coma, unconsciousness, seizures, and respiratory distress. It can damage your kidneys and the skin in your mouth.

Breathing moderate-to-high levels of acetone for short periods of time can cause nose, throat, lung, and eye irritation. It can also cause intoxication, headaches, fatigue, stupor, light-headedness, dizziness, confusion, increased pulse rate, nausea, vomiting, and shortening of the menstrual cycle in women.

Breathing highly concentrated acetone vapors can irritate the respiratory tract and burn your eyes. Skin contact with acetone can irritate or damage your skin.

Exposure to acetone can also cause low blood pressure, bronchial irritation, difficulty breathing, shortness of breath, abdominal pain, and an increased need to urinate.

If you think your health has been affected by exposure to acetone, contact your health care professional.

http://web.epa.state.oh.us/opp/solvents/fact34.html

now lets thin you are working in a enclosed space with a flammable solvent that evaporates readily and easily into the air and you have a nozzle that heats to over 300 degrees

some precautions may be advisabel to limit the use of a flammable material

Acetone isn't really toxic, your body produces it.

Who cares about shippability when you can pick it up at any hardware store?

Dissolve PLA, then you have something to write home about.

+1

Who cares about shippability when you can pick it up at any hardware store?

Dissolve PLA, then you have something to write home about.