Easy Acetone Vapor Chamber

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Easy Acetone Vapor Chamber It's the measure of a society's health if Golden Syrup still comes in tins. If not, how are you going to make all those amazing things with the tins after gobbling up all that yummy, tooth-rotting goodness? String telephone, tiny stilts, thingamy-bob container - just a few possibilities. Seriously: If Golden Syrup is no longer available in a tin where you live, it's a sign that your society has already begun to collapse! Oh, 3D printing. Some things never go out of date, and the humble Golden Syrup tin is one such object. So here's how it can improve your ABS prints: Ingredients: -A full tummy of yummy, scrumptiousness -An empty Golden Syrup tin -Acetone -Some thread -A bodkin - or any sharp, pokey thing that will do A model printed in ABS that you want smoother and shinier. Plan A: -Dip your fresh print in the Golden Syrup -Marvel at its shiny luster -Lick the Golden Syrup from the model Plan B: (After licking your 3D print clean) -Poke a couple of holes in the tin lid -Loop a length of thread through the holes -Suspend the model from the thread so it's dangling just below the lid -Plop roughly a cap-full of Acetone into the tin -Replace the lid, with dangling model, on the tin -Wait a bit -Go take a look... Hurrah! Nice shiny, smooth model. Don't forget to leave it to air for a bit, untouched, so the ABS plastic has time to re-harden! You may need to experiment with adding extra holes to the lid or applying a little heat by plopping the whole thing on your printer's hot bed to get the results you want, but only put a small amount of acetone in the tin: -You can always repeat the process, but you can't un-blob a model that has gone too far -It helps if the acetone has fully evaporated when you're done as the tin will become a convenient drying place for the model -Acetone is volatile and inflammable stuff, so you don't want too much of it sitting around PS Assuming your printer has a hot bed, and you're impatient, you can plop your "Acetone Vapor Chamber" on said hot bed and use the printer's controls to warm it up a bit: -I wouldn't advise more than 30-35C! -Do take a regular look while cooking... the more warmth / acetone vapor, the faster your 3D print will turn into a blob of goo.