Fume Extractor Setup

[darkace92]

I want to setup a fume extractor for my print station and was wondering what y'all have used that is affordable and compact. Pics of the setup would be awesome as well.
Thanks!

[Hugues]

My printers are in a corner of my basement and luckily there is a window.

So i hung a transparent plastic curtain from the ceiling around the area where the printers are, kind of 3m x 4m area,

then in the window i added an electric fan, the kind you find in bathrooms,

[KludgeGuru]

I'm building a closet in my basement that has a bathroom fan that exhausts to the back of the house. I hope that having the printer in the closet should contain the fumes and also insulate the sound.

[tpete61]

What fumes are you referring to?
PLA doesn't have any and ABS is very slight, enough so that in a large room it certainly isn't toxic!
If you stick your head in the printer it does smell but I run ABS at 225C and a bed at 95C I can hardly smell anything.

[KludgeGuru]

What fumes are you referring to?
PLA doesn't have any and ABS is very slight, enough so that in a large room it certainly isn't toxic!
If you stick your head in the printer it does smell but I run ABS at 225C and a bed at 95C I can hardly smell anything.

I can smell both PLA and ABS, ABS more so. My wife complains that our basement smells like a skunk from printing with ABS this past week. I'm not worried about Toxic fumes but I do want to get rid of the smell.

[Hugues]

What fumes are you referring to?
PLA doesn't have any and ABS is very slight, enough so that in a large room it certainly isn't toxic!.

could you share your sources ?
This article seems to say the contrary:
http://www.3dsafety.org/3dsafety/dow...mf2015_eng.pdf
this one too:
http://www.techworld.com/news/person...treet-3460992/

Better be on the safer side and ventilate. It's not because it does not smell that it's good for your health.

[tpete61]

I didn't advise not to install a fume extractor if you so desire.
You might want one for all of the other chemicals in your house than because paints and many other cleaners in a house are just as dangerous.
I believe it would be important to not be inhaling the fumes from a printer if you have your head in the printer. If you are printing and walk away from it and there is a slight odor I don't believe a fume extractor is warranted. I've been in large injection molding operations and have yet to see a fume extractor around a machine even with an operator close to the machine here in the US.

[KludgeGuru]

could you share your sources ?
This article seems to say the contrary:
http://www.3dsafety.org/3dsafety/dow...mf2015_eng.pdf
this one too:
http://www.techworld.com/news/person...treet-3460992/

Better be on the safer side and ventilate. It's not because it does not smell that it's good for your health.

Good articles. Now I'm worried about the toxic fumes. Guess I need to get my printing closet up and running faster.