Is this why my prints, GF, apartment smell so bad? (Transfer Tape and venting)

[dwardio]

@remigi

The product cannot be processed with a laser. As it is a self-adhesive and self-packaging product, I cannot imagine how it would work.

They’re just saying that the tape alone wouldn’t make a good material for laser projects and I’d agree with that.

Smelling burnt wood when opening the GF after a job is totally normal, but I stick to my assertion that you shouldn’t smell anything when the laser is actually firing.

Looking at your exhaust setup, the run from the GF to the fan is under negative pressure, so shouldn’t leak any fumes — I’d take a close look at the 8” hose since it’s positive pressure from the fan to the window. As you said, be absolutely sure the window — and any nearby windows! — are fully sealed.

Here’s a post in which I detailed my struggle with odor and how I resolved it once and for all:

Re-vamped venting setup

For over a year, Trogdor and then Arges were ventilated with the tried-and-true dryer hose out the window method. My workshop is in the basement, so the only way to vent outside was out through a window well… [IMG_1363] For a variety of reasons, I wasn’t 100% satisfied with this setup. Do you know how hard it is to make an egress window air-tight?:tired_face: Over the past few months, I decided that exhausting out and up past our roofline was the way to go. Not only would it keep the exhaus…