3DPrinting
3DPrinting is a place where makers of all skill levels and walks of life can learn about and discuss 3D printing and development of 3D printed parts and devices.
The r/functionalprint community is now located at: or !functionalprint@fedia.io
There are CAD communities available at: !cad@lemmy.world or !freecad@lemmy.ml
Rules
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No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct.
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Be respectful, especially when disagreeing. Everyone should feel welcome here.
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No porn (NSFW prints are acceptable but must be marked NSFW)
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Do not create links to reddit
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If you see an issue please flag it
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No guns
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No injury gore posts
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For the love of God, or whatever, people!
STOP recommending that people use food preparation things to heat up material you have no clue about how safe they are. It's likely you are recommending people to poison themselves!!
In the case of non-colored silica gel beads you are heating up sand/glass and water (to make it evaporate)
While pure silica gel should not be very toxic, colored silica gel has compounds that produce that color change.
You'll notice that silica gel is not sold as "pure".
The thing is that none are food grade, so it's perfectly legal to have impurities, and from what I have read, the coloring agents are toxic. Usually not worrying in the amounts used in the hobby, but still, what I warn people is about heating, breathing, etc products or materials which produce suspensions, aerosols, vapors for which we have little research or data.
Please, reread my comment