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 Lampie
Location: Belleville
Gender: Female
 |  |  | How Important Are Breathing Masks?
< on 4/26/2013 8:04 PM >
|  | | | I'm kinda new to this, but any time I've gone exploring, I've never even thought of getting a breathing mask (respirator, whatever you want to call it)
How important are they? Can I get away with just a face mask like they wear in hospitals, to prevent airborn particles, or should I get a filtered mask?
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tullo
   
Location: Belleville New Jersey
Gender: Female
| |  | | Re: How Important Are Breathing Masks?
<Reply # 1 on 4/26/2013 8:06 PM >
| | | | belleville...new jersey?
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Therrin
  
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Location: North of Chicago, IL
Gender: Male
*Therrin puts on the penguin-suit
| | | Re: How Important Are Breathing Masks?
<Reply # 2 on 4/26/2013 8:10 PM >
| | | | Posted by Lampie
I'm kinda new to this, but any time I've gone exploring, I've never even thought of getting a breathing mask (respirator, whatever you want to call it)
How important are they? Can I get away with just a face mask like they wear in hospitals, to prevent airborn particles, or should I get a filtered mask?
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Depends what you encounter in the environment you're in. There is no "one mask takes on all situations" solution.
In MOST of the mines I explore, I use an N95 mask.
In some of them I use a half-mask with appropriate cartridges, due to other elements which are present in those locations, like asbestos or large amounts of lead, or cinnabar.
Some buildings have lots of asbestos that you'd be walking through.
You may not even know what the true hazards are. If you're worried about it I'd suggest at *least* an N95 mask, unless you have reasons to believe more of a hazard may exist, then go for a half-mask which appropriate filters.
Give a person a match and they'll be warm for a minute, but light them on fire and they'll be warm for the rest of their life. =) |
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anatonic
Location: Windham, CT
Gender: Male
| | | Re: How Important Are Breathing Masks?
<Reply # 3 on 4/26/2013 8:45 PM >
| | | | and unless youre afraid of the flu or youre gardening, no the hospital/dust mask won't cut it.
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Regret
Location: Edison, New Jersey
Gender: Male
| | Re: How Important Are Breathing Masks?
<Reply # 4 on 4/26/2013 9:03 PM >
| | | | Posted by tullo
belleville...new jersey?
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Other NJ explorers?
I'm not alone!
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Sands
Location: Hartford, Connecticut
Gender: Male
| | Re: How Important Are Breathing Masks?
<Reply # 5 on 4/26/2013 10:11 PM >
| | | | If you're going to be in buildings with lots of mold and asbestos its best to wear a respirator. If you get a respirator make sure to get one for mold and asbestos (usually about $20-30) and get filters that say P100 (about $8-10).
Also, read this:
http://www.uer.ca/...=1&threadid=104366
Find yourself in the unknown. |
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Therrin
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Location: North of Chicago, IL
Gender: Male
*Therrin puts on the penguin-suit
| | | Re: How Important Are Breathing Masks?
<Reply # 6 on 4/26/2013 10:30 PM >
| | | | Posted by anatonic
and unless youre afraid of the flu or youre gardening, no the hospital/dust mask won't cut it.
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QFT. I can't stand when I see people wearing these, as though it's really doing anything for them. Those are splatter guards, they don't do jack for filtration.
Also, that link is an amazing story. I'm going to forward that to a few people.
[last edit 4/26/2013 10:47 PM by Therrin - edited 1 times]
Give a person a match and they'll be warm for a minute, but light them on fire and they'll be warm for the rest of their life. =) |
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Lampie
Location: Belleville
Gender: Female
| | | Re: How Important Are Breathing Masks?
<Reply # 8 on 4/27/2013 12:17 AM >
| | | | Posted by tullo
belleville...new jersey?
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Hahaha, no, Ontario
(if it was NJ, I'd probably be wearing one all the time XD)
Thanks for the advice everyone! I'll be picking up a mold/asbestos mask before doing too much more exploring 
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Shocked
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Location: The Phil!
Gender: Female
| | Re: How Important Are Breathing Masks?
<Reply # 9 on 4/27/2013 12:24 AM >
| | | | Posted by Regret
Other NJ explorers?
I'm not alone!
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OMG they DO exist!
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Therrin
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Location: North of Chicago, IL
Gender: Male
*Therrin puts on the penguin-suit
| | | Re: How Important Are Breathing Masks?
<Reply # 10 on 4/27/2013 2:51 AM >
| | | | Posted by Shocked
OMG they DO exist!
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Hahaha, no, Ontario
(if it was NJ, I'd probably be wearing one all the time XD) |
Apparently they don't!
Skibbitybeebop is in NJ.
(okay so apparently they do)
Give a person a match and they'll be warm for a minute, but light them on fire and they'll be warm for the rest of their life. =) |
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DrWindyNibbles
Location: North Orange County
Gender: Male
"For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you"
| | | Re: How Important Are Breathing Masks?
<Reply # 11 on 4/27/2013 5:17 PM >
| | | | Posted by Regret
Other NJ explorers?
I'm not alone!
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Have you ever noticed what is in NJ? There are explorers coming in from out of state for your Hospitals, Institutions, Psych Wards, Mental Centers, etc...
DO NOT READ THIS! |
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Send4Help
 
Location: A biology lab far, far away...
Gender: Male
No time for the old in-out, love.
| | Re: How Important Are Breathing Masks?
<Reply # 12 on 4/27/2013 6:33 PM >
| | | | I was feeling ambitious today... Here is just about all you could ever need to know about respirators and UE:
http://www.uer.ca/...=108617&currpage=1
[last edit 4/27/2013 6:33 PM by Send4Help - edited 1 times]
The Durango '95 purred away a real horrowshow - a nice, warm vibraty feeling all through your guttiwuts. And soon it was trees and dark, my brothers, with real country dark. |
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toefu
Location: North N.J.
Gender: Male
| | | Re: How Important Are Breathing Masks?
<Reply # 13 on 4/27/2013 7:48 PM >
| | | | Posted by Regret
Other NJ explorers?
I'm not alone!
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Hi. Now you are even less alone.
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PressingLeap
Location: Mid-Atlantic
Gender: Female
| | Re: How Important Are Breathing Masks?
<Reply # 14 on 5/21/2013 2:57 PM >
| | | | In my perspective, it is definitely something that you should carefully consider. From everything I've read, if your lungs are hurting afterwards (sore, coughing, etc) then you are doing damage to yourself that will likely outlast the short term. Plus, who really wants to be that person at work or school who can't stop coughing?!
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Icelandic9flame
Location: Winnipeg
Gender: Female
| | | Re: How Important Are Breathing Masks?
<Reply # 15 on 6/11/2013 8:02 AM >
| | | | haha and here I was thinking hospital masks were enough. The bargain hunter in me was wanting to be cheap and just pick up those. Thanks for the heads up.
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CooperArt
Location: Lansing
| | Re: How Important Are Breathing Masks?
<Reply # 16 on 6/24/2013 7:27 PM >
| | | | If, after an exploration, you're coughing, get a mask.
If you're wearing a mask and are coughing after an exploration, get a better one.
I know I'm going to have to invest in a good mask if I want to continue. I'm prone to Bronchitis, and this is my third exploration where I've come back coughing up a lung. Even though, after the first one, I invested in a mask. (A semi-cheap particle mask.)
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DevilC
Location: Washington, District of Corruption
Gender: Male
I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their views.
| | | Re: How Important Are Breathing Masks?
<Reply # 17 on 6/24/2013 7:43 PM >
| | | | No.
You are alone.
There is nothing left to explore in NJ.
Posted by Regret
Other NJ explorers?
I'm not alone!
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Science flies you to the Moon. Religion flies you into tall buildings. |
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Therrin
This member has been banned. See the banlist for more information.
Location: North of Chicago, IL
Gender: Male
*Therrin puts on the penguin-suit
| | | Re: How Important Are Breathing Masks?
<Reply # 18 on 6/25/2013 1:44 AM >
| | | | Posted by CooperArt
If, after an exploration, you're coughing, get a mask.
If you're wearing a mask and are coughing after an exploration, get a better one.
I know I'm going to have to invest in a good mask if I want to continue. I'm prone to Bronchitis, and this is my third exploration where I've come back coughing up a lung. Even though, after the first one, I invested in a mask. (A semi-cheap particle mask.)
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when you say you "invented one", do you mean wrapping some fabric over your face? 
Give a person a match and they'll be warm for a minute, but light them on fire and they'll be warm for the rest of their life. =) |
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CooperArt
Location: Lansing
| | Re: How Important Are Breathing Masks?
<Reply # 19 on 6/25/2013 1:50 AM >
| | | | | when you say you "invented one", do you mean wrapping some fabric over your face? |
Haha, yeah. Didn't work.
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