{"id":3045,"date":"2020-04-05T14:06:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T21:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/?p=3045"},"modified":"2020-04-05T14:06:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T21:06:52","slug":"roll-your-own-mask-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/?p=3045","title":{"rendered":"Roll Your Own Mask, #2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Erik Dolson<\/em><\/p>\n

My local hardware store carries pleated furnace filters. The highest grade of these claims to have a pore size of .1 to .3 microns and be able to filter viruses. So I bought one and tore it apart, getting rid of the metal screen on both sides.<\/p>\n

Then I cut a piece a little larger than the width of two of my hands with about seven (7) full pleats.<\/p>\n

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I wrapped a rubber band tightly around one end, and then another rubber band tightly around the other end.<\/p>\n

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Then I cut two pieces of string about double the width of one of my hands.<\/p>\n

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I fed one end of one string under a loop of one of the rubber bands, and then tied the two ends of the string together with a square knot. I did the same to the other end of the mask.<\/p>\n

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Done.<\/p>\n

I opened the pleats, which turned the mask into a small \u201cbowl\u201d shape or half dome and put the mask on. I had to adjust one of the strings around my ear for a better fit, and I was finished.<\/p>\n

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I like this mask. It takes very little time to make, is disposable, should provide adquate coverage and protection. I read that some are recommending Tyvek, the white plastic they use now to sheathe houses before installing the final siding, as a filter. The furnace filter does feel like Tyvek, but I have no idea about relative effectiveness<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In fact, since I have no way of testing, I have no idea how effective my new mask is going to be. There are no guarantees.<\/p>\n

But it fits, is easy to wear, cheap and disposable, and I\u2019m going to leave the N-95 masks for health care workers, cops, grocery story clerks, post office employees and delivery people \u2014 those who make \u201cshelter in place\u201d possible for the rest of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/em><\/p>\n

By Erik Dolson<\/em><\/p>\n

My local hardware store carries pleated furnace filters. The highest grade of these claims to have a pore size of .1 to .3 microns and be able to filter viruses. So I bought one and tore it apart, getting rid of the metal screen on both sides.<\/p>\n

Then I cut \u2026 Read more\u2026 → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[639,638,640],"class_list":["post-3045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-covid-19-mask","tag-mask","tag-n95-masks-pandemic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mcOb-N7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3045"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3055,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3045\/revisions\/3055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erikdolson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}