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3D printing PPE at home

Amélie Beedham
I'm surpirsed to have seen more in reference to the 3D printing community coming out from the IET. We've become involved with https://www.3dcrowd.uk/. Using our own 3D printer to manufacture parts for face shields. I'm sure there are others in the IET with their own 3D printers who have their own 3D printers and can manufacture them.


Also there are nationwide initiatives for those of us with experience in sewing to manufaccture scrubs for hospitals and those in care settings, (search 'For the Love of Scrubs', and find your local group from there). These are absolutely practical ways in which this community can and should be helping, even if it's via financial donations or supplying spare bed sheets to those sewing scrubs!
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    Amazing, simple face shield design: low cost, few materials, quick to 3D print clips.
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    Please share and help get this out there.


    Support needed to:

    • 3D-print & supply

    • Transition to injection moulding (bulk manufacture, sterile)

    • Fast track NHS approval

    • Conduct official testing

    For info and offers of help, contact Iain Mitchell iain1mm@yahoo.co.uk


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    I applaud the efforts to help others during this crisis. There are many generous people out there willing to devote time, skills and energy to assist others. Well done. But sometimes I wonder if we are just reinventing the wheel, where perhaps existing simpler and easier methods are available to make useful items. The use what we already have and "make do and mend" type of philosophy.


    Z.
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    And there are several "wheels" out there that have already been invented, and people are already 3D printing them for their local hospitals.
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    Simon Barker:

    And there are several "wheels" out there that have already been invented, and people are already 3D printing them for their local hospitals.




    But why 3D print anything when in many cases suitable items already exist off the shelf that will fill the need?


    Z.

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