Corona virus mask fast print mask by Impresionante3D

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I have made this mask to protect myself from getting someone's saliva on my nose or mouth. This is effectively just a spit guard. Paper has NO antibacterial properties that I know of. Use at your own risk. You know how it goes. I place a sheet of printer paper on my printer bed, held on with just four little pieces of tape, and hit print. I do have to recalibrate the printer to the extra thickness of this sheet of paper but with this cheap prusa clone printer I have , I just have to turn the z axis screw 1/4 turn and I get a perfect print. I leave the setting on draft quality on the Cura slicer and print at 100 percent infill. It's a no brainer really! This will print perfect for you if you are using a feeler gauge like I do to calibrate nozzle height. It prints in under 26 minutes at 60mm print speed or faster if your printer can handle it. You must have a 21cm print bed though. If you scale it down too much, like for a child, it will probably make the arms too weak. let me know and ill fix it right away.
03/29/2020
Today I am adding a part that lets you use a rubber band to better fit the mask snuggly to your face. Prints in about six minutes. You can now use any hair band or rubber band set that you have handy. This mod gives a real snugg fit to your face. I have added also the file to print just the mask alone. There is also goggles available now. You can print these out and use transparent, food wrapping, plastic from your kitchen. Just tape down some plastic wrap to a flat surface and slide the goggle lens under it. You must keep the film tightly stretched out. Then just snap on the top plate and maybe glue it to the eight piercing posts if your printer is not printing these out well enough. if you can find thermal retractive film plastic than you are in luck. Give it a little bit of heat with a hair dryer and you will have a taught fit from the film to the frame of the goggles. More to come soon.
03/30/2020
more choices on the length of the face mask arms to be used with rubber bands. It is necessary to make the one that fits best with the pair of rubber bands you find. it is not always easy to find two that are exactly the same. as it was in my case. If possible make them with flexible PLA, for more comfort.
03/31/2020
added more face mask arm link lengths. The size goes up about a cm as you go up in version.