A twelve-year old Boy Scout has come up with a 3-D printed solution to a face-mask problem.
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A twelve-year old Boy Scout has come up with a 3-D printed solution to a face-mask problem.
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Good for the kid , though think we had a cheaper solution already and most likely more comfortable than wearing a hard plastic strap. Though guess that solution doesn’t use a 500$ plus machine.
These things can probably be printed in ten minutes or less with only a roll of plastic filament, and cost a few cents each.
You can probably print six at a time and just remove them from the bed and restart the print every hour or so.
Do you realize how hard it is to find anything actually useful to make on one of these things? Let the kid have his moment.
The kid’s plastic strap can be easily sanitized, sealed in a plastic bag for reuse and stored until needed. The cloth band will take far more work to be sterilized (if it is even practical!). So let’s give some kudos to his ingenuity.
Magpie
Yea can’t really sterilize the cloth but can disinfect them with regularly performed processes and readily available common house hold chemicals.
The type of mask these are good for if they need a full on sterilized process for the strap then the user already has bigger problems. Nearly all N95 masks in the states are two head straps, the Paper procedure/ cloth masks have the ear loops. Yes I found pictures of “N95” masks with ear loops but then the US 3M website does not list the product. Suspect the ear loops don’t provide the necessary fit and don’t meet regulated standards.