re Prusa assembly difficulty… @gwenverbsnouns, I remember when @danderson was posting about setting up his Prusa.
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re Prusa assembly difficulty… @gwenverbsnouns, I remember when @danderson was posting about setting up his Prusa. It went on for days and days. Absolutely did not give me the impression that it was simple.
Also, reading about the work to properly ventilate the printer and evacuate problematic particulates/chemicals was a stark contrast to the rest of the internet, where everyone's like, "I left this printing on my bedstand overnight…"
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@zellyn @danderson yeah it's in the farthest corner of the apartment from my bed, and i still was getting headaches from it when i used it a lot. and that's just with PLA, which is supposed to be the nontoxic one! i do not think plastic is good for you even when it's made from corn lol
but since putting the enclosure together, even without the HEPA filter i haven't had any issues with headaches, despite running it quite lately. it's nice to not smell plastic when i walk downstairs
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@gwenverbsnouns @zellyn Yeah people have different sensitivity to 3DP emissions, and there's not as much research as there should be into what they are. PLA at least doesn't emit known very bad VOCs, but PM2.5 goes nuts. Even with an enclosure these days I can feel it unless I have an air purifier running, and even then I stick a box fan in the window and keep cycling the air while prints are running.
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@gwenverbsnouns @zellyn Also a massive fan of enclosed machines, and for VOCs, recirculating carbon scrubbers. The Nevermore design is pretty great for that, when I was printing ABS routinely it was absolutely non-negotiable: fully enclosed chamber, recirculating scrubber running for the entire print and for 30-60min after the print during cooldown, before the chamber gets unsealed. That's a little overkill for PLA given what science knows about it, but... I dunno, I only have one set of lungs