Multi-Fill is Supporting Emergency Workers During COVID-19

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Michael Naylor • Apr 09, 2020

See what Multi-Fill has been doing to help during the crisis.

First responders around the country are short on critical supplies to support them during the COVID-19 crisis. When our engineers heard this, one of them had a great idea.

Why can't we make some masks for them?

Multi-Fill uses a 3D printer to build prototypes of certain machine parts. The printer has been a critical part of our engineering and design process ever since we first got a hold of one just a few years ago. Even as a critical part, we realized that we were only using it for maybe a few hours a week. The rest of the time, there it sat, idle.

That gave our engineering team the idea to use some of that extra time to do something great for the community.

Andrew, one of our engineers, did some quick research to find an already designed 3D model for a face mask. He downloaded them and loaded them into our slicing program. The slicer creates thin layers so that the printer can build up the masks, layer-by-layer. The print is then sent to the 3D printer, and a part is built in about two and a half hours.

The 3D printing process isn’t perfect, however. The first mask came out looking great, but our 3D printer was designed for prototypes, not ongoing production. The second and third masks needed some adjustment. Andrew had to go back and figure out why the print failed, then make some adjustments so they could be printed.

After we saw a few successful prints, Andrew made adjustments for temperature, feed, and print speed to smooth out subsequent models and achieve a repeatable, reliable result.

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Multi-Fill is proud to be able to support our community. The masks were donated to our local emergency personnel, who were excited to receive them. As part of our community we try to help as much as we can to keep this virus under control.

Stay safe, stay healthy!

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