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Are you doing this off your own back or is this your business? It's epic either way.
I assume that it's still massively more expensive to print these as you're doing than it is to get them flown in from the usual suppliers in China(?). Would this ever become a method that someone like a hospital would use - having a room full of printers spitting out 'NICE approved' prints?
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Would this ever become a method that someone like a hospital would use - having a room full of printers spitting out 'NICE approved' prints?
Not as standard practice, no - definitely not worth it vs just having even a small manufacturing plant that actually specialises in this.
And instead of having a room full of printers ready to print stuff in the case of a pandemic emergency such as this one, it'd be cheaper to have such a manufacturing plant in the UK, and to have the room full of actual PPE.
But as we don't have this currently, crowdsourcing stuff from people's and institutions' private 3D printer is obviously a good way to go, better than just not having it.
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Are you doing this off your own back or is this your business? It's epic either way.
I assume that it's still massively more expensive to print these as you're doing than it is to get them flown in from the usual suppliers in China(?). Would this ever become a method that someone like a hospital would use - having a room full of printers spitting out 'NICE approved' prints?
Its a crowd sourced initiative so its off my own back. Edit: It was a company that sparked it off originaly, Prusa in the Czech Republic came up with the design for use in their health system.
Its a really slow, unhygienic and expensive way of doing things. Its a total guess but I assume that the usual suppliers in China are in very high demand at the moment. Perhaps @dubtap has some insight into how trusts normally order PPE, its not something I have been involved with before.
SwissChap
Stonehedge
This is a link to the 3d design that we are printing. It has photos of the finished product. I'm only printing the main headband part.
Once you have a batch ready to go, DPD will pick them up for free and take them to be assembled in Sheffield (i think).
I've only printed one so far, with four more on the way. Still dialling in the settings. Will post a timelapse video of them being printed later on.
https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/25857-prusa-face-shield
Edit: This is the UK group doing the coordination https://www.prusaprinters.org/group/3dcrowd-uk-mb5KPRn