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Thank you so much for helping me make this video.  I used Patreon funds to buy the Injection Mold.  It's scheduled to come online in a few days and the hospitals desperately want the shields in our area.  Yesterday a Doctor office drove 3 1/2  hours to pick up 20 of the shields.  Thank you very much for supporting me as I undertake efforts like this.  I'm grateful.

Regards,

Destin

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How to Help Your Hospital (Fight COVID-19 Locally) - Smarter Every Day 233

Check out what we've done and adapt/improve it for your city: http://www.huntsvillefightingcovid.com Take anything we have done and use for team! (Copy forms etc) (Donations Accepted) DISCLAIMER: All designs should be coordinated with your local hospital, and when possible only FDA approved medical products should be used. One danger of 3D printed materials is that if they do not provide protection, the users may put themselves in more dangerous situations with a false sense of security. Do not make the decision on what products to use, simply make what your medical professionals ask for, and let them make the risk assesment. Click here if you're interested in subscribing: http://bit.ly/Subscribe2SED ⇊ Click below for more links! ⇊ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GET SMARTER SECTION: Find someone that's gone before you that will help you figure it out! For me it was Pooch (Alan) at: Operation Shields Up! www.opshieldsup.org Hats off to Joe Prusa's team for figuring out the design! https://www.prusaprinters.org/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tweet Ideas to me at: http://twitter.com/smartereveryday Smarter Every Day on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SmarterEveryDay Smarter Every Day on Patreon http://www.patreon.com/smartereveryday Smarter Every Day On Instagram http://www.instagram.com/smartereveryday Smarter Every Day SubReddit http://www.reddit.com/r/smartereveryday Ambiance, audio and musicy things by: Gordon McGladdery https://www.ashellinthepit.com/ http://ashellinthepit.bandcamp.com/ If you feel like this video was worth your time and added value to your life, please SHARE THE VIDEO! If you REALLY liked it, feel free to pitch a few dollars Smarter Every Day by becoming a Patron. http://www.patreon.com/smartereveryday Warm Regards, Destin

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Larry Burroughs

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

Dan & Jen Baizel

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

Dan & Jen Baizel

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

DR. CHASSELS, LTD.®

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

Ryan Lett

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.

Kris Pockell

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?

Kristy

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!

KC

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

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

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...

Janet Traweek

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!

Ess

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.

Michael Devers

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

Dave

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?