BS: Face Mask (free download) on 3D printer

Subject: BS: Face Mask (free download) on 3D printer
From: keberoxu
Date: 06 Apr 20 - 07:30 PM

The inventors behind this website, and its 3D file,
seem to want this to go to as many people and as far as possible.
So a thread of its own seems appropriate.

A 3D printer is something to which I have no access where I am.

Should any Mudcatter follow these links,
download the file,
make the product, and try it out,
PLEASE
let us all know, one way or another, how it worked.

general website: A Mask For All

download link


Note that the place where you breathe, and place the filter material,
is NOT in the mask front, forward towards other persons;
the breathing place is vertically DOWN from the nose,
at the bottom of the mask, down towards your own body.

Subject: RE: BS: Face Mask (free download) on 3D printer
From: Mr Red
Date: 07 Apr 20 - 03:38 AM

Wonderful idea.
But it needs some open source modification to allow flexibility around the face, to make it comfortable and seal to anyone's face. It will happen I am sure.
Maybe some form of rubber piping that squashes.
And regular washing with soap/alcohol.
There are plenty of alternatives, not all with the filter downwards.

alternative design 1

another alternative, rubber edging here

a load more search results here

Subject: RE: BS: Face Mask (free download) on 3D printer
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 07 Apr 20 - 08:49 AM

How many people have access to a 3D printer in normal times? Not many, I would guess. How many of those still have access while in lockdown? Once you have printed off your mask, where do you get the filter material from?

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Face Mask (free download) on 3D printer
From: Mossback
Date: 07 Apr 20 - 09:46 AM

Of course you're right, Doug, tho to the techno-addicted this "solution" must sound wonderful.

A mask at least as effective (if not more so) and much more comfortable to wear can be made with cloth, needle & thread.