Man uses 3D printer to make face masks – Observer-Reporter
A Belle Vernon man is using his 3D printers in the race against time to provide face masks for health-care workers on the front lines in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Pete Jaklitsch is producing reusable plastic face masks on four 3D printers that he is running 24 hours a day.
The masks can be used several times by changing a removable filter.
“It’s a terrible shame we’re having such a shortage of medical supplies,” said Jaklitsch, an IT coordinator for Douglas Education Center. “Anything I can do, I just want to help.”
The masks are called the “Montana mask,” and they were created by a neurosurgeon and a dentist in that state who were looking for a solution to the ongoing need for face masks.
Jaklitsch downloaded the file to produce the mask after reading about it on a news website, and is producing about a dozen a day.