Anyone try making a face mask bracket/frame/spacer?

[sonny]

I was doing some exercise this am and was having a hell of a time breathing through the mask. I just discovered the 3d printing crowd has been making face mask “brackets”/“frames” and was curious if anyone has tried something like this on a glowforge yet or has an idea on how it could be done. I’m thinking something like this: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4623214

I’m super new to glowforge but was toying with acrylic pieces at top and bottom? Moulding some acrylic with a heat gun?

[dklgood]

Yes, there were quite a few posts about face masks along with files. Use the search function and “face masks”.

[tjones]

I have something like that that I use with my mask, and yes, it works fabulously. I don’t think it would work with GF materials, however, because my piece that I use is super lightweight and flexible, neither of which are properties of acrylic or wood. Also, since this question isn’t really a “problem” or an issue you are trying to have GF address and fix, I will move this to the Everything Else category where you might get some more helpful comments.

[ekla]

I don’t have a GF solution for you but they do sell lots of those braces very cheaply on Amazon.

There’s laser friendly, thin flexible plastics like polypropylene and some stencil plastics. I suspect they’d be better than trying to form acrylic.

[deirdrebeth]

I was considering trying to cut my mask pattern into a frame - I haven’t done it yet

I think bent acrylic might work quite well…hmmmmmm

[dklgood]

I made a number of these for a nursing home. There is no bracket, just a foam band and rubber bands, but they work pretty well. I used thin acrylic (.02) from Johnson Plastics Plus. For a quick fix, I would buy one since they are available for consumers. The ones by WeatherTech look pretty good. Covid face shield design

[sonny]

Thanks! The idea of stencil plastics is really great. I’ll look into that.

@dklgood I did look for other posts but I didn’t find a single one related to a mask bracket. Is there something you know of?

[dklgood]

Face shield files converted to our bed sizes and into SVG

This is from an open source that uses PETG. I simplified the files so that the bed size is set to our glowforge and made them into an SVG. [headbandglowforge] [faceshieldglowforge]

Sorry, the search should have been for shields - there were quite a few posts, but many of the brackets were 3D printed. This one was made on the Glowforge, and the ones I made had no bracket.