Quote Originally Posted by amirjabri View Post
Speaking of oil barons, there are cheap resins you can make starting with styrene or methyacrylates which are really really stinky! (not advised without proper ventilation!) Then any photoradical catalyst will do (probably even benzophenone which is dirt cheap). You could play around for very little money using alot of the additives you mentioned at the beginning of the thread.
I think I'll stick to green resins for my part, for many reasons including ventilation. But what is actually needed to make a reasonable quality resin? Usable for testing, perhaps. And how to do it? Can it be made food safe?