{"id":12708,"date":"2020-04-03T13:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T20:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autobodysource.com\/?p=4151"},"modified":"2020-04-03T13:00:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T20:00:43","slug":"local-auto-body-shop-making-protective-face-shields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autobodysource.com\/local-auto-body-shop-making-protective-face-shields\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland Auto Body Shop Making Protective Face Shields"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Central Auto Body is working hard to make a difference<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) \u2014 Normally, the people donning protective gear would be fixing wrecked cars \u2014 but at Central Auto Body<\/a><\/strong>, these are not normal times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With fewer wrecked cars to fix, Central Auto\u2019s owner Bret Bothwel and some of his employees converted an auto body building into a protective face shield production line. Next week, they\u2019ll begin higher volume production making face shields for medical workers and first responders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo what i\u2019m trying to do is employ technicians that are pretty crafty by nature. They can assemble just about anything,\u201d said Bothwel. \u201cif they can fix a wrecked car they can certainly figure out how to build a mask or a shield for medical people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bothwel says he\u2019s fronting money for purchase of plastic foam and elastic that go into shields.  Suppliers have chipped seed amounts of materials for free while some suppliers have sold him material at their cost. But too ramp up production, Bothwel says he\u2019ll need help with money he\u2019s raising in a GoFundMe campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He says he\u2019ll be able to produce as many masks as he has money to make and that could be thousands and thousands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re just trying to do our part,\u201d said Bothwel. \u201cWe have a ton of people in our own company that have heard about it and said they want to volunteer their time even though they\u2019re still working for us, they\u2019re still wanting to get involved.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are shields that might normally cost about $20 delivered \u2014 but Bothwel says as long as donations are there, he will keep making shields and providing them to medical people and first responders for free. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is another testament to the good brought out in people and companies by the bad times that have suddenly engulfed our lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reported by KOIN6 Portland<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

by: Kohr Harlan<\/a> Posted: Apr 3, 2020 \/ 06:55 AM PDT <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Central Auto Body is working hard to make a difference PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) \u2014 Normally, the people donning protective gear would be fixing wrecked cars \u2014 but at Central Auto Body, these are not normal times. With fewer wrecked cars to fix, Central Auto\u2019s owner Bret Bothwel and some of his employees converted an auto […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[495,1756,2100,37,152,153,2101,2097,2102,1273,2103],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/autobodysource.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/autobodysource.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/autobodysource.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autobodysource.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autobodysource.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/autobodysource.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autobodysource.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/autobodysource.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autobodysource.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autobodysource.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}