The original post: /r/3dprinting by /u/iamgard on 2024-05-18 03:52:12.

Warning - Baby Crying noises.

Every time I look at the safety of 3d printing I get answers verging from “it’s not to bad” to “being near resin will give you super Ebola cancer”. I try to be careful but there’s always some new thing that I need or something I’m doing is wrong. For example I need to hold my uncured prints while wearing nitrile gloves. The skin then starts to get irritated after a bit. Afterwords I check Reddit and apparently I got the wrong kinda thickness for nitrile gloves. I get a carbon filter mask, but then see that they aren’t sure the filter is only good for one print. I see people build a whole sheds with all the bells n whistles, others just in the living room with a fan by the window. I might as well just pay someone else to deal with it but then I read that even cured prints can break which is apparently dangerous so what’s the point. Everyone else print these amazing things like it’s so easy. Do they have their own private laboratories, do they just ignore the precautions, is there an okay middle ground, am I just a drooling monkey who don’t think no good? They probably did go through all the safety protocols. I just wish there was better consensus on what is required, what is safe, what is overkill? What the deal with fumes? Will they just leave the space over time or is my apartment Chornobyl now? Is Anna Taylor joy the Splice monster? What can you use printed objects for that doesn’t spread toxic dust? Things of that nature. I’m sure I’ll figure it out when 7 years when I’m a fallout ghoul. I apologize for squealing like a fowlest swine.