[Swansea Hackspace] Medical Mask Printing

[Alex Duffield]

they certainly do have the print farm capacitybut may not have the staff,
this particular project is someone specific needing 100 odd asap and
approached us with the printing methods


On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 11:02 AM Peter Barnes <pe5erb at gmail.com> wrote:

> All,
>
> I've been in talks with the university about doing this on a larger scale,
> including wholesale supply of the other materials required.
>
> Please be *very careful* in making sure that you have an NHS trust who is
> completely willing to accept what you're making (and the way you're making
> it). There's a lot to consider here: are the materials you're using
> appropriate for a medical environment? if you were to be infected would you
> be passing that along into your supply chain? The guidance from Prusa
> <https://blog.prusaprinters.org/from-design-to-mass-3d-printing-of-medical-shields-in-three-days/>
> isn't all encompassing, but a couple of things they have listed are:
>
>
>    - Using a fresh set of gloves for collecting each batch of prints
>    - Immediately placing parts into a seal-able bag
>
>
> There is potentially scope for having others help towards the university's
> work on this, but I cannot confirm that at this stage.
>
>
> Peter
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 9:57 AM Kieran David Evans <keyz182 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Mine isn't enclosed, and I've suffered the bad effects from it before. I
>> should have space out in the utility room or something. Going to do some
>> test prints now to make sure the ABS is OK. It's been sitting quite a while.
>>
>> Kieran
>> On 24/03/2020 09:54, Alex Duffield wrote:
>>
>> Yes just take care and wash thoroughly, abs and pla is fine tho I'd go
>> abs for flexibility, I'm planning to drive as many as possible down to
>> Brighton in person. Transparent parts and elastic is being sorted in
>> Brighton, as for abs I personally print in my bedroom and and don't mind
>> the spell tho it is enclosed but that's just personal preference
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020, 8:52 AM Gerrit Niezen <me at gerritniezen.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I don't have a face mask or gloves when handling the printed parts, can
>>> I still participate?
>>>
>>> On Tue, 24 Mar, 2020 at 2:41 AM, Alex Duffield <alexmduffield at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any spare 3d printer time before thursday? I have been
>>> recruited to produce face sheilds for a childrens hospital in brighton (the
>>> prusa RC2 design attached if itll let me) and we are looking to take as
>>> many as possible down on thursday, already got people to collect from in
>>> bristol, cardiff, southampton and dropping in brighton, im expecting to be
>>> able to make 24-28 before thursday but any extras (just need the printed
>>> parts, being assembled on site) would really be appreciated!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Hackspace mailing list
>>> Hackspace at swansea.hackspace.org.uk
>>> http://swansea.hackspace.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hackspace
>>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Hackspace mailing listHackspace at swansea.hackspace.org.ukhttp://swansea.hackspace.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hackspace
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Hackspace mailing list
>> Hackspace at swansea.hackspace.org.uk
>> http://swansea.hackspace.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hackspace
>>
> _______________________________________________
> Hackspace mailing list
> Hackspace at swansea.hackspace.org.uk
> http://swansea.hackspace.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hackspace
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://swansea.hackspace.org.uk/pipermail/hackspace/attachments/20200324/318953fa/attachment.html>