Are you worried yet.

[Oneball]

Not having it - they've made them before, no problem, now unless someone is holding onto to 'secrets' there's no reason that if can can make one you can make 10,000 given the infra.

Cynical barsteward me!

Wild guess but they’re probably not made here or if they are, the parts come from the Far East. Making tooling up to form parts will probably take a while.

 

[lozcb]

Wild guess but they’re probably not made here or if they are, the parts come from the Far East. Making tooling up to form parts will probably take a while.

Thats where 3D printers come in , its very fast nowdays

 

[Phil H]

Just got tooled up for production , special forum discount group buy @£1.99 each

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Yep, it figures:

As well as being completely aligned with the rising Midsummer Sun – and sitting upon a Ley Line – Milton Keynes is dominated by pyramid structures, monoliths, obelisks, standing stones and stone circles, the latter proving a magnet to local pagans and witches. Together with its plethora of sinister street art (masked figures, owls etc…), conspiracy theorists the world over have concluded that MK is a so–called ‘super hub’ of the shadowy Illuminati.

PH

 

[Oneball]

Thats where 3D printers come in , its very fast nowdays

From CAD to printing is quick but the actual manufacture is very slow.

 

[Silvercat]

Not having it - they've made them before, no problem, now unless someone is holding onto to 'secrets' there's no reason that if can can make one you can make 10,000 given the infra.

Cynical barsteward me!

That's what they're doing!. They are manufacturing and assembling the same Ventilator which Smith's Medical normally make but applying rapid manufacturing techniques so that they can scale up the volumes and significantly compress the leadtimes. Which is why they should be delivering to the NHS this weekend many hundreds of units. Not bad from a standing start of just 3 weeks ago. The team (RR, GKN, McLaren F1, BAESystems, Smith's Medical, Meggit etc etc) have been working 24/7 to make this happen and will be continuing to accelerate the delivery of these units so that the NHS get what they need when they need it. The consortium have an order from UKG for 10 000 units to start off with. Hope this gives you confidence that things are really happening. NHS just need to sort out the PPE issues and quickly.

 

[Silvercat]

From CAD to printing is quick but the actual manufacture is very slow.

Yes it takes around 3 hrs to 3D print the components to make a visor, much needed by NHS.

 

[Phil the Brit]

Yep, it figures:

As well as being completely aligned with the rising Midsummer Sun – and sitting upon a Ley Line – Milton Keynes is dominated by pyramid structures, monoliths, obelisks, standing stones and stone circles, the latter proving a magnet to local pagans and witches. Together with its plethora of sinister street art (masked figures, owls etc…), conspiracy theorists the world over have concluded that MK is a so–called ‘super hub’ of the shadowy Illuminati.

PH

What are you talking about?

 

[lozcb]

Guys another heart wrenching idiocy story just now , Garden centres .................just seen a few local stories of garden centre owners , plant growers that have obviously ploughed in x amount of capital time and effort to produce this years crop of plants etc Now saying they are going to have to dump ££££££s worth of plants and shrubs because they cant sell them , couple of guys were in tears due to the pending bancruptcy , surely they could either (a) be allowed to do what the supemakets do 2 or 4 at a time , or have an online delivey service ,

With X amount of thousands of people furloghed thus far and more to come just itching to get into the garden at the first signe of good weather , and it would help stave off bancuptcy and or public funds bailing them out , thee must be IT guys that could knock up a website in aday or two and must be many delivery drivers out there who could do with delivery work ..................................room for some furloghed workers thee guys

 

[lozcb]

Yes it takes around 3 hrs to 3D print the components to make a visor, much needed by NHS.

Agreed and there are companies that have hundreds of 3D printes for repetative work , its an ideal situation fo them

 

[lozcb]

What are you talking about?

Its OK Phil , its old fart speak , nothing you youngens are aware of yet , but this should explain it

 

[Oneball]

Yep, it figures:

As well as being completely aligned with the rising Midsummer Sun – and sitting upon a Ley Line – Milton Keynes is dominated by pyramid structures, monoliths, obelisks, standing stones and stone circles, the latter proving a magnet to local pagans and witches. Together with its plethora of sinister street art (masked figures, owls etc…), conspiracy theorists the world over have concluded that MK is a so–called ‘super hub’ of the shadowy Illuminati.

PH

And the centre of it all is the new Stonehenge

 

[iainw]

Agreed and there are companies that have hundreds of 3D printes for repetative work , its an ideal situation fo them
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we got some visors from the royal mint in this week. NHS is chronically short of them. We are getting 200/ week printed and delivered.
estimates we will need 100,000 masks a month which is more tricky. No one can predict what will happen. This virus is literally phenomenal.

 

[lozcb]

And the centre of it all is the new Stonehenge

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Thats not a recent picture , one unfortunate heffer has had his ear lopped of by a vandal

 

[D Walker]

Guys another heart wrenching idiocy story just now , Garden centres .................just seen a few local stories of garden centre owners , plant growers that have obviously ploughed in x amount of capital time and effort to produce this years crop of plants etc Now saying they are going to have to dump ££££££s worth of plants and shrubs because they cant sell them , couple of guys were in tears due to the pending bancruptcy , surely they could either (a) be allowed to do what the supemakets do 2 or 4 at a time , or have an online delivey service ,

With X amount of thousands of people furloghed thus far and more to come just itching to get into the garden at the first signe of good weather , and it would help stave off bancuptcy and or public funds bailing them out , thee must be IT guys that could knock up a website in aday or two and must be many delivery drivers out there who could do with delivery work ..................................room for some furloghed workers thee guys

Loz......if you’re furloughed you aren’t allowed to work.....you’re not even supposed to log onto emails etc...however, a guy round here is setting up a plant group and they are doing plant boxes with 10 plants in....think my missus has ordered 5, so looks like I’ll be digging up more of our tiny lawn to fit 50 plants in....

 

[Oneball]

Thats not a recent picture , one unfortunate heffer has had his ear lopped of by a vandal

Oh no

The Halloween effort a few years ago was good

 

[alfatwo]

Heard on the news tonight there's an up surge in motor vehicle use, ie people moving around unnecessarily
You know what's coming next!

Dave

 

[Silvercat]

Guys another heart wrenching idiocy story just now , Garden centres .................just seen a few local stories of garden centre owners , plant growers that have obviously ploughed in x amount of capital time and effort to produce this years crop of plants etc Now saying they are going to have to dump ££££££s worth of plants and shrubs because they cant sell them , couple of guys were in tears due to the pending bancruptcy , surely they could either (a) be allowed to do what the supemakets do 2 or 4 at a time , or have an online delivey service ,

With X amount of thousands of people furloghed thus far and more to come just itching to get into the garden at the first signe of good weather , and it would help stave off bancuptcy and or public funds bailing them out , thee must be IT guys that could knock up a website in aday or two and must be many delivery drivers out there who could do with delivery work ..................................room for some furloghed workers thee guys

I was thinking exactly the same. Surely there are some Web designers out there who could quickly pull together an online shop / portal for the wholesalers and garden centres to sell through? Like you say there will be a huge market for these plants in Spring and Summer so just need to figure out how to buy them and how to distribute them .People like Suttons have done exactly this and have been inundated with orders. Maybe this is something which one of the Dragons from Dragons Den could lead?

 

[D Walker]

Heard on the news tonight there's an up surge in motor vehicle use, ie people moving around unnecessarily
You know what's coming next!

Dave

Not on my commute, 30 miles each way, it’s noticeably fewer each day...

 

[Silvercat]

I was thinking exactly the same. Surely there are some Web designers out there who could quickly pull together an online shop / portal for the wholesalers and garden centres to sell through? Like you say there will be a huge market for these plants in Spring and Summer so just need to figure out how to buy them and how to distribute them .People like Suttons have done exactly this and have been inundated with orders. Maybe this is something which one of the Dragons from Dragons Den could lead?

Being a proactive kind of chap I am, I have just sent Peter Jones ( from Dragons Den fame) an email via LinkedIn, to bring this opportunity to his attention and suggest how he might be able to help some of these small nurseries and garden centre businesses through the developement of a Web portal for them to use so people can buy their plants. Whether or not he would be interested I just don't know but if not him then he may know someone else who would be up for seeing what they could do. Worth a shot I think...

 

[Scaf]

NHS just need to sort out the PPE issues and quickly.

surprised there has been no talk of UK manufacturing stepping in to make the PPE that is required and normally comes from China