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3D printer supplier

  • 02-04-2020 5:21pm
    #1
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    Does anyone know a company still delivering 3D printers?

    Hospital my wife is working in keeps running down face shields and there are accepted home made options, being used.

    If I can get a printer I can start making some myself but getting 6 week lead times, from vendors


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  • #2
    Poly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,807 ✭✭✭Poly


    I'd suggest trying to source an Ender 3 from the UK.
    Some Ebay sellers claim to have stock in the UK

    You should have it in a couple of days.


  • #3
    Leftyflip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,463 ✭✭✭Leftyflip


    Amazon, with Prime, got one delivered in 3 days.


  • #4
    sheepsh4gger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 622 ✭✭✭sheepsh4gger


    Cork_exile wrote: »
    Does anyone know a company still delivering 3D printers?

    Hospital my wife is working in keeps running down face shields and there are accepted home made options, being used.

    If I can get a printer I can start making some myself but getting 6 week lead times, from vendors


    That's a very crude and bad use of 3D printing. It will take you 20 hours to assemble and calibrate a printer, then another 6 for each print.


    I would learn to use traditional techiques.


    1. Make a cardboard outline for the face shield - lay it flat.


    2. Use that cardboard stencil and a box cutter knife to cut face shields out of sheets of transparent plastic


    3. glue to each face shield a piece of foam.


    Nobody uses 3D printing for this, it's click-bait.


  • #5
    Leftyflip
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,463 ✭✭✭Leftyflip


    sheepsh4gger wrote: »
    That's a very crude and bad use of 3D printing. It will take you 20 hours to assemble and calibrate a printer, then another 6 for each print.


    I would learn to use traditional techiques.


    1. Make a cardboard outline for the face shield - lay it flat.


    2. Use that cardboard stencil and a box cutter knife to cut face shields out of sheets of transparent plastic


    3. glue to each face shield a piece of foam.


    Nobody uses 3D printing for this, it's click-bait.

    6 hours to assemble and calibrate mine.

    Printing visors for the Benchspace project the past couple of weeks, only takes about an hour per print.


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