Re:The N95 mask shortage America can't seem to fix
by jk700 on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @12:35PM
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You won't be able to produce materials neither for M1 Garand nor for masks. But at least for N95 masks there are plenty of substitute materials available in abundance if any of the commonly used ones isn't available and complicated stuff is only testing filtration properties of the material with cheap test equipment (you can even make test equipment yourself, it's relatively simple for such purposes, "dust sensor" kind of stuff). Everything else is way more primitive than lathe and mill.
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Re:The N95 mask shortage America can't seem to fix
by vorpalhex on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @02:10PM
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> at least for N95 masks there are plenty of substitute materials available in abundance
Can you name any? That would literally be world changing right now.
As far as my research has revealed it is literally only melt-blown fabric that can meet N95 standards and the vast, vast majority of melt-blown fabric does not (we use tons of the stuff in sofas and mattresses but that stuff isn't anywhere near N95).
And no, your dust sensor will not meet lab requirements for N95 testing unless it had a very large price tag.