Funtodo Standard Blend Black Smell
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2017 11:36 am
Hi there everyone,
I started looking into building a Top down DLP printer quite a while ago, and have tested different parts of the system here and there with success. I got sidetracked by an FDM printer build but am back to working on my DLP.
I took out the bottle of funtodo standard black that I have had sitting around for a while, put it in a small vat, went ahead with a bit of testing. I can see I will have to do quite a bit of calibrating this machine in terms of exposure times, build platform surface finish, etc, but man oh man if it didn't stink up the whole room in a jiffy.
I packed up the vat and took it out of the room, along with the printer frame (wood), build platform, etc. I've circulated fresh air through the room several times a day for the past two days, but there is STILL a lingering smell. It seems like if even a trace of this resin (that I can't find) is somewhere in the room, within a half an hour of closing the doors, the smell is quite noticeable.
Even after washing parts in alcohol and drying them, it seems like any amount of cured/semi-cured resin that might be stuck on threads or whatnot still smells quite strongly.
Is this normal? I can't imagine so as there's no way this is a usable solution (my wife would kill me if whatever is in the resin doesn't get me first...)
Thoughts?
Thanks
I started looking into building a Top down DLP printer quite a while ago, and have tested different parts of the system here and there with success. I got sidetracked by an FDM printer build but am back to working on my DLP.
I took out the bottle of funtodo standard black that I have had sitting around for a while, put it in a small vat, went ahead with a bit of testing. I can see I will have to do quite a bit of calibrating this machine in terms of exposure times, build platform surface finish, etc, but man oh man if it didn't stink up the whole room in a jiffy.
I packed up the vat and took it out of the room, along with the printer frame (wood), build platform, etc. I've circulated fresh air through the room several times a day for the past two days, but there is STILL a lingering smell. It seems like if even a trace of this resin (that I can't find) is somewhere in the room, within a half an hour of closing the doors, the smell is quite noticeable.
Even after washing parts in alcohol and drying them, it seems like any amount of cured/semi-cured resin that might be stuck on threads or whatnot still smells quite strongly.
Is this normal? I can't imagine so as there's no way this is a usable solution (my wife would kill me if whatever is in the resin doesn't get me first...)
Thoughts?
Thanks