While my #Makibox is still acting up and generally being unreliable,
I may have found the perfect container for a PLA smoothing vapor bath.
Metal, thus not affected by the solvend. Heatable with a flat bottom.
Large enough for objects that are glued together from multiple parts, each filing the build volume.
It was in the gardening section of a local “1eur” trift shop.
I’ve seen people use galvanized buckets with some success, for much the same reason.
gallon or larger size mason jars are easy to find, inexpensive, and won’t degrade on you… Walmart generally has them over around the pots and pans, glass, silverware and etc.
What is a gallon?
This is continental Europe.
We have mason jars in 300-500ml. Enough for some marmelade but certainly nothing even close to a gallon.
Also they are not made to be heated and you can’t hang a large object horizontal to have the same vapor density at the top and the bottom of the large object.
I’m nervous about putting a bunch of acetone in a big piece of glass and then heating it.
Not acetone. This is for PLA.
Acetone does nothingto PLA.
@Marcus_Wolschon not sure using a pot with a paint coating on it is such a good idea. And you may find that the seams will split with the heat.
But for the cost nothing ventured.
@Marcus_Wolschon 1G is approx 3.8L and run about US$8 online; plenty large enough to hang most 3D printers’ largest. And mason jars are designed to handle heat, you have to heat them for canning 
Certainly you can find similar where you’re at, it’s not like the US is the only place that does a lot of canning (haha, most people here are too lazy to anymore in fact ;))
Sure but not in 3.8L jars.
My gandmother and myself did a lot of that but with lots of jars of 1/10th of that size.
Anyway, as you casee I HAVE a container right here.
