Reply To: Resin printing safety

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Sorry @sundancer, I’ve got to disagree – quite strongly – about “safety” with 3d printers.
You’re right that leaving 3d printers unattended can be risky – but some prints can take 12-19 hours or so (for terrain) so staying with the printer for that long is simply impractical. People leave 3d printers running unattended, that’s just a fact of life.

*Some* 3d printers are cheaply/badly made.
Thermal runaway is “a thing” with FDM printers. They *can* cause fires. It’s very, very unlikely. But it’s still a possibility.
There’s no way that a vat of resin and an ex-phone screen and a stepper motor can set your house on fire.

We need to define “safer” before deciding one is “safer” than the other.
I run both fdm and resin printers for long print jobs (overnight). It’s only ever when I’ve run the fdm printer do I check out of the window in the morning to see if my end-of-the-garden workshop has burned down!

FDM is dreadful for miniatures.
If you want to print miniatures, just get a resin printer. You can even print relatively small terrain pieces and scatter terrain too.