How to Help

Destin, You mentioned the guy Chris from the injection molding shop. Could you please provide his contact info so we could send some business his way?

Dave

Destin, I just received an email from my former employer. (I retired 7 years ago.): "Boeing today will deliver the first set of reusable 3D-printed face shields to support healthcare professionals working to stop the spread of COVID-19. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) accepted the initial shipment of 2,300 face shields this morning. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will deliver the shields to the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, Texas, which has been established as an alternate care site to treat patients with COVID-19. Boeing is set to produce thousands more face shields per week, gradually increasing production output to meet the growing need for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in the United States. Distribution of additional face shields will be coordinated with HHS and FEMA based on immediate needs. Boeing is producing face shields with additive manufacturing machines at company sites in: St. Louis, Missouri China Lake, El Segundo, and Huntington Beach, California Puget Sound region of Washington state Mesa, Arizona Huntsville, Alabama Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Charleston, South Carolina San Antonio, Texas Salt Lake City, Utah Portland, Oregon Boeing subsidiaries Argon ST in Smithfield, Pennsylvania, and Aurora Flight Sciences in Bridgeport, West Virginia, are also participating in this project. Solvay, a long-time Boeing supplier, provided the clear film for the face shields. Another supplier, Trelleborg Sealing Solutions, donated the elastic used for the adjustable headband. Face shield production and donations are part of a larger Boeing effort to leverage company and employee resources to aid with COVID-19 recovery and relief efforts. To date, the company has donated tens of thousands of units of PPE – including face masks, goggles, gloves, safety glasses and protective bodysuits – to support healthcare professionals battling COVID-19 in some of the hardest-hit locations in the United States. Boeing has also offered use of its unique airlift capabilities, including the Boeing Dreamlifter, to help transport critical and urgently needed supplies to healthcare professionals. The company is coordinating closely with government officials on how best to provide airlift support."

Earl

This video is directly responsible for my subscribing as a patron. Thanks for the great work.

I know some folks in leadership positions within the LDS church in Huntsville, sending them this video right now. Getting a posting up on justserve.com as well might help round up volunteers.

MatterHackers has a campaign going as well! https://www.matterhackers.com/covid-19

Clark A.

Sent.

Kris Pockell

We are trying to improve them!

Smarter Every Day

Sure, email at printfaceshields@gmail.com

Smarter Every Day

Great graphics/animations, and I got goosebumps when you started talking about all the different folks that dropped off donations! I'll share this with the folks at my husband's job who are working on the same type of masks up here in the PacNW. Thank you!

I really hope that one of the silver linings of this chaos is that we learn/ remember how to make things at home again... I find it slightly offensive that compared to what we were during and after WW2, compared to what we are now. Assuming we had the technology, imagine what we could have done if we were anywhere near what our production capacity was during that era...

Clifton Ballad

Hi Destin! I cant thank you enough for bringing this effort to my attention. I feel like I need to bring a community to your attention if you are not already aware of them. A forum called Practicalmachinist.com has one of the largest gatherings of machinist types and shop owners, some of which might be more than willing to help out and or contribute to local efforts. It cant hurt to ask... I have a suggestion for your sterilization line, Strong UV light. The downsides are power requirements, eye/skin protection and ventilation (heat and potential ozone). Think like a dark room for developing film but in the production line near final bagging, if not the final bagging room. The upside is non contact, fast, and very low chance for cross contamination. If you can do your bagging operations in the UV light, the bags should be sealed sterile. operators would need goggles and full skin coverings, but as long as you have enough airflow it shouldn't be impossible... Making tools/points of contact out of copper or copper plating should help as well, copper kills microbes and viruses in fairly short order from what I've read about it. I haven't researched if either option works on corona but im going on that it works on an industrial scale for everything else. So unless corona can withstand environmental extremes that eradicate everything else, it might help...

Clifton Ballad

Great information, Destin! Thank you!

Pete Hall in Wi

Good info Destin! I have shared this on FB & Nextdoor.com.

KC

Thank you so much, Destin. My son Chase is on the front lines in Gainesville, FL and my son-in-law Jack is working in the ER at UF Health here in Jax. Neither has adequate PPE!

Kristy

I'm a web dev. I'd like to get this started for my city, but dont want to reinvent the wheel. Can you ask your dev to get the site on github?

Kris Pockell

Destin, it was really great to see what you are doing down there to protect your front line workers and putting it in a format that allows the idea to spread. I'm going to pass this on to as many people as I can.

Ryan Lett

Seeing the work that went into our masks helps emotionally as well as the epidemiological barrier that you are creating.

Thank you!

Doing great work 🇺🇸😷

Mrgunsngear

By the way (I am being a little of the more efficiency guy, but to be fair, I am the one that is leading the R&D section). I am working on trying to make N95 mask replacements (don't worry I am a filter engineer and my company is in on this as well - I am happy to consult if anyone needs advice on media by the way). Since our 3d printers are busy with masks we used a laser cutting method for the face shields

Dan & Jen Baizel

I am glad our funds could be used to help out.

Dan & Jen Baizel

Anything to help those on the front lines. Helping so many others!