Using their home machines and aeromodelling hobby
skills, they’re producing face visors and have already
started to distribute them across Warrington.
Items have been sent to the Birchwood Medical Centre,
the Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust,
Wigand Leigh Hospice, Royal Bolton Paediatric Ward,
Unsworth Group Practice, Bedford Care home and local
district nurses.
Engineer Andy Ellison is part of a bigger community of
aeromodellers. He said:
We use these machines for our hobby. We are trying to
allow modellers near to the demand to produce visors
locally - what this means is that if a request comes
in via social media, we can direct it to someone near
to them.
It’s a small contribution in the grand scheme of
things but demand is very, very high and the machines
are running round the clock.
They’ve been helped by a donation from the Canon
printing office at Hinton House of hundreds of PVC
sheets originally destined to be used as document
covers. Canon have also ordered the filament used to
create the frame for the visors.
Head of Hinton House, Alex Walsh, added:
Andy Ellison, Andy Burrows and Mike Ward are doing a
sterling job 3D printing protective face shields. We
have a small team making these now but I’m sure there
will be other engineers with 3D printers at home who
might want to join the effort.
If you own a 3D printer and can help the team
increase the amount of equipment they can produce,
visit warrington.gov.uk
