SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — Thank you to the Filastruder team

Re: Thank you to the Filastruder team

2017-09-05T22:04:51Z

You can read more about these guys work here::

http://www.3ders.org/articles/20170905- … plies.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/dr-tarek- … -1.3222052

Re: Thank you to the Filastruder team

2017-09-04T22:18:59Z

Excellent post! Thanks for recognizing our friend at Filastruder. I would be interested in hearing periodic updates regarding your work.

-Kevin

Re: Thank you to the Filastruder team

2017-09-04T19:15:12Z

Thank you so much, Mr. Falcon, for your warm greetings.

Our whole team was blown away by the gesture by the Filastruder team, and we thanked them personally and asked if we could recognize them publicly as well. I travel to Canada and elsewhere frequently, but it's hard to express how alone it feels in Gaza for the rest of the team who can't move. So having that interest and connection from a team we revere that made a device we use literally daily - that's amazing for us.

I know Palestine can be a politically charged topic, but we are not doing a politically charged thing - we just make medical devices and the occasional pokemon out here with the hope that it can help patients here and in other low- and middle-income countries.

Now back to lurking and reading all of your excellent posts! Lots of love,

tarek : )

Re: Thank you to the Filastruder team

2017-09-04T12:33:33Z

WOW i will say this is a highly unusual first post. Interesting that you used this public forum to thank Tim and his team.
First of all thank you for your research and for makings it open source.
Secondly welcome to this forum a lot of experience here that could help on occasion.

Thank you to the Filastruder team

2017-09-04T11:14:51Z

Hello friends,

I want to sincerely thank the Filastruder team for their help and kindness in getting our lonely filastruder up and working in Gaza.

In short, it is impossible to get pre-made filament here, though ground / recycled ABS is relatively plentiful and the occasional virgin bag of plastic can be had when the southern border with Egypt permits it. As such, all of our 3D printing depends on this one very hardworking filastruder that has been pulling plastic for the past few years.

Unfortunately, a combination of normal wear and tear and a few mistakes caused some of the gears to go bad. We tried to print replacements from ABS, but none worked:

I ordered a bunch of gears with the hopes of never having to worry about this again, and when the Filastruder team picked this up, they were genuinely curious about what we were doing. As we explained, we are a group who is working on Free/Open source medical devices, such as a research-validated stethoscope that we are producing in quantity for use by doctors here. Our current development work is on trauma tourniquets, pulse oximeters and electrocardiograms.

Having heard this, the Filastruder team (special shout out to Tim) donated the gears, which we've finally managed to replace! Exciting since we are now fully back in action!!

So thank you to all of you as a community for being so wonderful, and to the Filastruder team for their continued work on this.

With love from Gaza,

the Glia team (Tarek, Shaker, Mahmoud and Mohammed)