[Swansea Hackspace] Medical Mask Printing

[Paul Harwood]

Hi Neil,

This is why we set up SWARM, to act as an information/reference point.

You can join the discussion group here and make your request known. We are setting up a Protective Masks support team today that you can ask the questions directly to:

https://chat.whatsapp.com/J8NTIubyOZmIaluhtSh6TW

https://wiki.swarm-covid19.co.uk/protective-masks <https://wiki.swarm-covid19.co.uk/protective-masks>

Thanks

— Paul

> On 24 Mar 2020, at 11:13, Neil Jones <neil at aurinia.co.uk> wrote:
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> On 24/03/2020 11:02, Peter Barnes wrote:
>> All,
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>> I've been in talks with the university about doing this on a larger scale, including wholesale supply of the other materials required.
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>> 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:
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>> Using a fresh set of gloves for collecting each batch of prints
>> Immediately placing parts into a seal-able bag
> A brilliant point!!
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> First of all there has to be a way of cleaning these before use. Sodium hypochlorite the main ingredient in bleach will kill this virus, but it can survive on plastic surfaces for a while. It is actually a virus with RNA at the core rather than DNA and this makes it poorer at surviving outside a host.
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> Without burdening you with links there is a good deal of research out there that shows that  between about 30-60% of people will get the virus and not have any symptoms at all. We don't have the clean environment that the factories making this stuff would normally have and the hospitals would have to assume that proper steps on cleanliness would not have been taken.
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> Secondly can someone with proper information please get hold of an assurance that people are not going to be wasting their time. We need proper evidence from an NHS trust somewhere. A proper written assurance is needed! Let's make sure that this isn't someone's idea that is just spreading virally and where actually the stuff has to be binned.
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> Neil
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