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How To Make A Face Visor against Corona Virus
- How To Make a Visor:
- Take an A4 translucent cover sheet off front of a
report.
- Punch a line of square hole perforations all down one
long side, using a Spiral Binder Punch. If you don't have
access to such a punch, you could use a 2 ring punch.
practice first on a bit of paper, to avoid messing up the
spacing.
- Take a wine cooler or largest round beer mat you can
find, use as a template to mark off the 2 un-perforated
corners.
- & cut off the 2 corners that have no perforation
holes (cut just inside the curved line so your visor has no
marks).
- Thread a long shoe/ boot lace or string through, needs to
be about 80 cm or longer.
- Tie shoe lace to size of head. Make it an easy knot to
undo so you lay the plastic flat for transport
- This simple doesn't work with glasses, & might steam
up at times, but it's truly trivial, free, quick & fun to
make, & folds flat with papers.
- Maybe a whole school class might like to make some &
take some home. They will first need time to scrounge (or
buy) the plastic. Look in piles of old reports, property
sales booklets & the like.
- One can buy better, & some 3D
printer projects make better, but a nuisance to store
those with fixed frames.
- Feel Free to forward to this link http://www.berklix.eu/corona/visors/
to anyone (& also any other Berklix links, if
not locked or explicitly marked as should be
locked).
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This is the lazy, zero cost option for beginners: no shopping
effort, & it stores flat, takes no space in a case, or
merged amid a few papers. Proper ones have frames, allowing for
reading glasses & cooling, but cost time & money to
find (if not sold out in a pandemic) & money to buy, or
time to find a frame built by 3D printer
projects.
Free Offer:
If you do not have the required hole punch, but you plan to
attend any event I may be
at, eg a Beer
Gardeners', If you know I will be attending, contact me in advance
& arrange to bring a couple of sheets of raw A4 plastic,
& I'll swap it for one that I've punched & cut. We'll
give another to a friend.
Make sure the sheets are truly translucent, not slightly
fuzzy / opaque. Make sure the sheets are not floppy ! Some of
the common double sheet, with either open on 2 sides, or 4
holes down one side - they are too floppy.
Pictures referring to how to repair the spiral binder:
The Binder stayed in its cardboard box after purchase for 5
or more years before coming
out of box for use in Corona Lock- Down 2020-07. The handle
is spring loaded to go up. The cardboard box forced the
handle in to down position, to take less space for shipping.
The bottom anchors of the 2 springs were mere plastic. The
plastic sheared off. The springs fell loose. I poked a needle
nose soldering iron in the back plastic vertical wall
creating 2 holes per spring base. A loop of stiff wire, pre
formed, was then inserted through the holes from inside to
outside, each spring was attached, curved end up to holes in
the mechanism, & flat end down, to wire loop, then the
loops were pulled out tight through the wall with heavy
pliers, twisted together tight outside (& yet to be
glued).
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