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Lasercutter room fumes air filtering

name: this is on the internet.

17 aug 2021

Date for Decision

Usually one week after posting - but having a month on this might be better

Cost

What is being asked for

effective air cleaning.


Why/how this will be good to have

So what are the fumes? from acrylic this clever article says MMA, which is non toxic (But an irritant), but you can smell it at 0.05ppm, where 0.17ppm is safe for life-long inhalation, as it breaks down and is not accumulated in the body. That research was commissioned by a acrylic lasercutting company, who installed a 20m chimney and "Induflex has 6 lasers, which are all modified with much stronger suction than delivered by the manufacturer."

some chemist on reddit did back-of-the-envelope maths which suggests an unventilated (normal) lasercutter can go way over 0.17ppm.



Who is for it

peter, and everybody else

Comments

might be cancerous, might not, either way it stinks real bad and is bad news.


Outcome

unrivalled success.