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Comment by lopis

2 days ago

Like those "wood" tables that are 50% made of epoxy. It grinds my gears

I'm so glad that fad is over. My mother worked as a theatre artisan before retirement and it was, among other things, fumes from curing epoxy that caused numerous health issues down the line.

  • There's lots of YouTube carpeters that still do it in custom built tables. And these are very expensive custom builds too...

  • I am curious about the down-the-line effects of fumes from printing PLA and PETG. Reddit posts suggest no ill effects, but it hasn’t been long enough in the hobbyist world.

    • My printer is near a window so I just added an exhaust duct to the window, in the past when it wasn't close to a window I ran that duct through some filters (charcoal, furnace filter stuff) and left the end near an additional air purifier i had in the space.