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My home smells wretched alone right now. It smells like burnt plastic.

The candles were almost perfect width to not need any type of holder. The problem is they are or were just thin enough that the side breaks and the wall falls out making the candle burn like an hour or two since it loses all of it's wax at most instead of 25-35 hours or so if not longer (3.5 inches high).

I 3D printed plastic molds to make candles (Blessed Exorcism Salts added).

I decided to just use the plastic mold that I used to create the candle. It worked fine as I watched it for 5-10 hours or so. The walls (my plastic 3D printed candle mold - I 3D print at home to create custom stuff) weren't hot and/or etc and it was going perfectly fine as I'd watch it burn on my desk.

I walked away for 5 minutes (was making dinner) and came back with the entire top of my candle on fire (surrounding plastic walls) - 5 inches high. I quickly just blew it out and such then walked away not really caring, but it did kind of startle me a bit.

I could smell something burning, but thought nothing of it at first as I was making food then I could really smell that something was actually burning (plastic burning).

I knew this could easily happen, but it was working just fine. It was a temp fix / temp solution for only a couple of days until I get glass candle jars.

Just wanted to tell someone that I made an idiot move knowing I had made an idiot move, but I really had no other options for the time being.

My home smells wretched alone right now. It smells like burnt plastic. ----- The candles were almost perfect width to not need any type of holder. The problem is they are or were just thin enough that the side breaks and the wall falls out making the candle burn like an hour or two since it loses all of it's wax at most instead of 25-35 hours or so if not longer (3.5 inches high). I 3D printed plastic molds to make candles (Blessed Exorcism Salts added). ----- I decided to just use the plastic mold that I used to create the candle. It worked fine as I watched it for 5-10 hours or so. The walls (my plastic 3D printed candle mold - I 3D print at home to create custom stuff) weren't hot and/or etc and it was going perfectly fine as I'd watch it burn on my desk. I walked away for 5 minutes (was making dinner) and came back with the entire top of my candle on fire (surrounding plastic walls) - 5 inches high. I quickly just blew it out and such then walked away not really caring, but it did kind of startle me a bit. I could smell something burning, but thought nothing of it at first as I was making food then I could really smell that something was actually burning (plastic burning). ----- I knew this could easily happen, but it was working just fine. It was a temp fix / temp solution for only a couple of days until I get glass candle jars. ----- Just wanted to tell someone that I made an idiot move knowing I had made an idiot move, but I really had no other options for the time being.

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I don't think it's DIY per say when it comes to something like this...

at least specify it to "stupid DIY" or something like that first.

I'm usually doing well enough myself when it comes to any situation that I can basically eat these losses or stupid failures for that matter...

Eating a stupid failure or eating a stupid loss in the realm of maybe human intelligence alone. I can't even defend myself. If time travel started tomorrow and I traveled back today to see it I wouldn't even be sticking up for myself on the internet right now.

I'd be posting how this guy is an idiot (myself from yesterday or this post today).

It's a stupid failure or stupid loss, but I can eat this one just fine or come out of this one just fine.

It happens though I just wanted a temp fix or a temp solution and it didn't pan out well... didn't pan out... I should of had it in a pan to (thinking about this)... fire wouldn't of really matter at that point for the most part when it came to putting it out really fast.

diy-guy2

time travel committee trolling myself for being such an idiot on this one alone. Time travel from 200 days and make it look like there's 200 of us at that point in this one thread. diy-guy2 you are an idiot and such or just making fun of me (myself).

200 time traveling alts or 200 - 4th dimensional alts...

sometimes I take it too fast or don't prepare enough in time. I'm not perfect myself.

this isn't DIY per say (it goes into the stupid realms to as well)... some of it could be obviously though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqLDU852PLU