I recently started turning plastics. Doing research before trying, I had read that acrylic acetate was one of the easiest plastics to work with, so I bought a bunch of AA blanks. To my dismay, AA has a TERRIBLE smell while turning. It smells like someone doused the whole place in superglue! Even more frustrating, the dust making the smell is so fine it passes right though my NRC-certified High Efficiency dust filtration (meaning the things are damned small!). Because it'll pass through the filters, that means that the whole shop stinks again a week later when you turn the dust collection back on and it disturbs the AA dust in the filter. I've had enough of the nausea, enough of the headaches, and I'm done with AA.
So, what kinds of plastics don't produce a terrible smell from the dust? Alumalite? Rhino plastic? Lucite? Ebonite? TruStone? Kirinite?
Oh, and I was planning on stabilizing wood using Cactus Juice. What does that smell like when turned into dust?
So, what kinds of plastics don't produce a terrible smell from the dust? Alumalite? Rhino plastic? Lucite? Ebonite? TruStone? Kirinite?
Oh, and I was planning on stabilizing wood using Cactus Juice. What does that smell like when turned into dust?