{"id":932,"date":"2020-04-19T13:18:09","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T13:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=932"},"modified":"2020-04-19T13:46:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T13:46:26","slug":"face-shields-from-keykegs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/04\/19\/face-shields-from-keykegs\/","title":{"rendered":"Face shields from KeyKegs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A lot of people, very commendably, have been supporting the NHS and other carers with various projects over the last few weeks.&nbsp; One effort close to home was the making of protective face shields from KeyKegs.&nbsp; The idea came from Bill Bremner of CAMRA\u2019s East London &amp; City branch, who regularly volunteers at the branch\u2019s Pig\u2019s Ear Beer Festival.&nbsp; As Bill told the Independent newspaper, &#8220;<em>I had all these empty KeyKegs and I took them home to see if I could find another use for them, rather than seeing them be disposed of.&nbsp; When I saw there was a desperate need for personal protective equipment for key workers I decided to make them into face shields<\/em>.&#8221;&nbsp; Bill got the design by looking at examples on the Internet.&nbsp; He realised that while he could not replicate the type used in intensive care, his pattern would be suitable for those carrying out home care visits or working in nursing homes or pharmacies.&nbsp; Eight shields can be made from a 20 litre KeyKeg.&nbsp; He put the design on his Instagram page @billrecycles so that others could join in but, by the time that you read this, hopefully the need will have passed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also find Bill\u2019s instruction sheet  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/42-03_aa_NRg_Key-keg-face-shield-crib-sheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Tony Hedge<\/em><\/strong>r<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people, very commendably, have been supporting the NHS and other carers with various projects over the last few weeks.&nbsp; One effort close to home was the making&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-camra-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":939,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions\/939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/londondrinker.camra.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}