Soaked in hot soapy water for 30mins, clean water rinse, dried on a disinfected surface, individually bagged while wearing gloves and a mask. Best I can do for sanitation. Sent a bunch to work with my wife today.
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Well my wife got home and said the clips were a HUGE hit. 
The nurses loved them, said it made their ears feel better and also made the masks fit more snuggly and their glasses didnât fog up as much. Looks like Iâm going to have to make more 
Thanks for the design @HalfNormal
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Please tell your wife thanks for helping out. Oh yeah, thanks to you too!
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. Iâve run out of the small ziplocks now though.
Seems that Amazon considers ziplocks âessential goodsâ because I can get some in 2 days with prime shipping 
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I know all the craft stores carry them. Are they open by you?
Thatâs the problem for me. I normally just buy them locally, but my county closed all non essential businesses and craft stores arenât considered essential. Walmart is open, but they have block sales of all non essential merch.
I would argue that craft stores should be considered essential with everyone making their own masks.
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Ended up buying these and got them this past Friday. These 1.5x2" bags are the perfect size for the acrylic ear savers.
Having trouble trying to source some materials for this. Any leads, I have a large 3 x 4 foot bed and would love to donate to hospitals around Illinois.
Hi David and welcome to the forum!
If you are talking about the larger ones at the top of this topic then I havenât as of yet gotten anything.
- I found these flexible plastic cutting board mats on Amazon, which are stated to be 1.1mm thick. I ordered them on the 6th but Amazon considers them non essential so my projected delivery date is the 27th.
- I saw on a facebook laser group that someone was using plastic table placemats to make something similar.
Hereâs the link to the FB post, might have to join the group to see it.
- Someone else on my thingiverse design linked above said they were using corrugated plastic to make ones with no text. Comment quoted below:
"Iâm using corrugated plastic.
Just make sure the ribs are running vertically if youâre cutting them horizontally so they bend properly and ar stiff in the right direction"
Thingiverse design for that one linked below.
Thanks for the heads up, I ordered some 3mm Acrylic sheets that SHOULD be here by Friday!
In the meantime we actually have those same exact place mats and I think we can get more at Menards. As they are pretty thin, about 1.1mm as you stated I wasnât sure if they would work for the hooks you posted later on the build log.
Do you think they might be a better for for the longer ones you originally posted?
The bigger ones I originally posted are what I was referring to. They need something more flexible like the placemats.
For the smaller ones I have been using 2 mm acrylic I have been getting from Lowes. I have heard some feedback that there is some breakage so 3mm would probably be better.
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Thanks for the tips and getting me started, happy to help however I can!
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The software on my Rabbit Laser doesnât think SVG is a file it can import⌠
Can it handle DXF? Inkscape is free, open source software you can download for any platform and it can read SVG and export DXF. And lots of other formats, if DXF doesnât work either it has lots of export formats. Otherwise, what formats does it like?
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It can import a lot of files, DXF included. Just just not SVG for whatever reason.
I did use inkscape to convert to DXF but when I imported, it made the band 510mm for whatever reason, so now I have to figure out the correct measurement and scale it back down. But at least I got them imported!
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You may have exported the dxf in inches instead of mm.
Here is a dxf you can try that I exported from corel draw in mm
Ear Saver.dxf (166.6 KB)
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Keeping this for when I get my 3mm Acrylic in! Thanks!
Also per your suggestion I changed the save as size to mm and it exported to 180mm which looks accurate! Thanks for the help guys! (for the long version)
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@NedMan do you happen to have this file handy? The layout is perfect for those sheets!
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