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 6 Atomic 6 Garden 6
   
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 |  | Help about respirators
< on 8/9/2004 12:05 AM >
|  | | | Hey everyone,
I went shopping today with my friend today and i found this respirator:
-Meets NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health) regulations
-For protection against chlorine, lead dust, asbestos
-For protection against muriatic acid, paint/pesticide sprays/vapours
-Soft, comfortable rubber facepiece provides superior comfort & durability
-Non-slip, adjustable cradle suspension
The only problem is that its 49.99 Is it really worth it, i mean i saw ones on the net that were 15 bucks. Should i buy it now or get a better deal? By the way i live in montreal and it would b cool for someone to give me a store name with the price.
thanks a bunch
-tap-
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Haggis
Gender: Male
| | Re: Help about respirators
<Reply # 1 on 8/9/2004 12:15 AM >
|  | | | I have that exact one. The price I paid here was 29.99 though. Yes, they work fine. Before exploring, you might want to practice and wear it around the house some. It takes a bit of getting used to pulling so hard to get air.
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Inherentwired1
Location: Oshawa
Gender: Male
| | Re: Help about respirators
<Reply # 2 on 8/9/2004 12:17 AM >
| | | | There are cheaper ones available, a mask that is used for automotive spray painting will also work fine. You can get these at any hardware store. Make sure you don't use those paper masks though, they're just garbage. Can I ask why you want to skimp on safety? Would you buy a discount parachute?
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Conundrum
   
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Location: GTA
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| | Re: Help about respirators
<Reply # 3 on 8/9/2004 5:06 AM >
| | | | This is how I looked at it, is your life only worth $15, myself, I picked up a similar one for about the same price, they work good, and just think, an extra $35 now for a mask, or $100's of dollars worth of medical bills, and a riuned life later down the road. If you have the money, buy it, if you don't, wait to explore where you need it till you have the money.
Conundrum
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Frozen
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 4 on 8/9/2004 8:04 AM >
| | | | I just bought that exact one a week ago from Fleet Farm for ~$30 US ($39 CAN)
Haven't done more than wear it around the house a bit so far. Fits comfortably and works great.
Edit: maybe it wasn't the same - the front looks slightly different. Mine is a AOSafety 95050 and the mask says R5700 on the front.
[last edit 8/9/2004 8:06 AM by Frozen - edited 1 times]
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Burzum
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<Reply # 5 on 8/9/2004 7:53 PM >
| | | | you can find it cheaper online... look at various safety equipment merchants, they all carry them.
whatever the case, get something with a P100 filter, regardless of the price. it is just not worth it to try and save a few bucks...
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SPEK Photo
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| | | Re: Help about respirators
<Reply # 6 on 8/10/2004 12:26 AM >
| | | | Posted by 6 Atomic 6 Garden 6
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I have the same, I bought it at Canadian Tire, about the same price.
The cartridge are good for organic vapor, asbestos and small particules like lead paint dust and molds in air.
It's a good mask, but you need to wear it properly and take care of it.
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6 Atomic 6 Garden 6
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| | Re: Help about respirators
<Reply # 7 on 8/10/2004 2:39 PM >
| | | | Posted by SPEK Photo
I have the same, I bought it at Canadian Tire, about the same price.
The cartridge are good for organic vapor, asbestos and small particules like lead paint dust and molds in air.
It's a good mask, but you need to wear it properly and take care of it.
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It's the most heavy duty looking one we have found so far , the other ones are also P-100 NIOSH rated but they are a bit smaller or look less rigid specially the cartridges are thinner and made out of plastic and they cost about 44$ - 46$
whereas this ones cartridges are made out of a metal material and are bigger , which i suppose take more "beating" and dust ... i guess its worth getting them , but I even saw models on ebay that are like 16$ CDN , i wonder if they're good .
-alvin-
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BigPoppaMikey
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<Reply # 8 on 8/10/2004 9:46 PM >
| | | | Make sure you get a fit test done. Same size is not for everyone. Wrong size means particulate matter still gets in to your lungs, same with vapors...
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6 Atomic 6 Garden 6
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| | Re: Help about respirators
<Reply # 9 on 8/10/2004 11:39 PM >
| | | | Posted by BigPoppaMikey
Make sure you get a fit test done. Same size is not for everyone. Wrong size means particulate matter still gets in to your lungs, same with vapors...
BPM
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how do you do a fit test ? (all the employees dont know anything about it here)
-alvin-
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Conundrum
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Location: GTA
Gender: Male
Now Entering The Bling Chamber
| | Re: Help about respirators
<Reply # 10 on 8/10/2004 11:43 PM >
| | | | Posted by 6 Atomic 6 Garden 6
how do you do a fit test ? (all the employees dont know anything about it here)
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Put the mask on, make sure it feals snug, put hands over intake vents, breathe in, if mask colapses and you can't breathe, then move on to test to, cover the outtake vent, breathe out, if the mask inflates, and eventualy starts pushing air out the sides of the mask, you have a good seal. (This is how I was shown how to test the seal)
Conundrum
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6 Atomic 6 Garden 6
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| | Re: Help about respirators
<Reply # 11 on 8/11/2004 2:58 PM >
| | | | Posted by Conundrum
Put the mask on, make sure it feals snug, put hands over intake vents, breathe in, if mask colapses and you can't breathe, then move on to test to, cover the outtake vent, breathe out, if the mask inflates, and eventualy starts pushing air out the sides of the mask, you have a good seal. (This is how I was shown how to test the seal)
Conundrum
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Cool , thanks alot , we''ll do the test before buying , being safe is better then being sorry after .
(edit: thanls --> thanks)
-alvin-
[last edit 8/11/2004 6:50 PM by 6 Atomic 6 Garden 6 - edited 1 times]
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Roadwolf
  
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Location: Buffalo, NY (formerly Toronto, Canada)
Gender: Male
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| |  | | Re: Help about respirators
<Reply # 12 on 8/12/2004 5:43 PM >
| | | | I prefir the full face M2 canadian army gas masks.. you cant even smell anything in hose, where i have smelt some mold still getting into some of those hardware masks in the same location... if that makes sence
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MacGyver
Location: St Paul, Minnesota
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| | Re: Help about respirators
<Reply # 14 on 8/22/2004 4:53 PM >
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Um, that's a gas mask, not a respirator. Respirators are designed to filter fine particulate (very small dust) out of the air. I recommend you get a real P100 respirator if you ever plan on wanting to reap the benefits of one. That thing looks both uncomfortable and ineffective (or possibly just overkill) not to mention how difficult it would be to explain it if you got into a situation where you were searched or something.
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mcnewbie
Location: Memphis area, TN
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<Reply # 15 on 8/22/2004 5:42 PM >
| | | | Posted by MacGyver
Um, that's a gas mask, not a respirator. Respirators are designed to filter fine particulate (very small dust) out of the air. I recommend you get a real P100 respirator if you ever plan on wanting to reap the benefits of one. That thing looks both uncomfortable and ineffective (or possibly just overkill) not to mention how difficult it would be to explain it if you got into a situation where you were searched or something.
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A good filter on a gas mask filters out both fine particulate matter (e.g. asbestos) and toxic chemicals via powdered or finely crushed activated charcoal. It is not very uncomfortable at all, except that the rubber can get a little hot if worn for a long period of time, and if you put it on wrong it pulls your hair. While you can hear what other people are saying just fine, it is hard to make yourself understood in a gas mask.
If I was just going to go UEing and not use it for anything else (chemistry experiments involving dangerous gases such as HCl, nitric oxide, etc.) I would probably have just bought a nice little respirator.
I can't argue that it would raise some questions if it was found on you in a search, though. 
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wooble
Location: Surrey, UK
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 16 on 8/22/2004 9:11 PM >
| | | | I recently saw a British S6 gasmask (standard issue from the 60s to the 80s) on a junk market stall for £1.50 ($2.73 US, $3.54 CDN), which I thought was too cheap to be any good, but after a quick look I couldn't see any problems with it, so I snapped it up. It seems to be in perfect condition as far as I can tell, I did the various fit tests and it didn't leak any air at all. Even better, it's got such a soft and comfy seal that you can hardly feel it while wearing it. Even the vision through it is nearly perfect, it doesn't affect my peripheral vision in the slightest. To be honest, I think it was probably the best buy I ever made.
I'm a bit hesitant to take it on any explorations in the city though, for the obvious terrorism reasons, I may invest in a standard half-face respirator for city trips.
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SteamPunk
Location: Sailing the seas of sleaze.
| | Re: Help about respirators
<Reply # 17 on 8/24/2004 12:41 AM >
|  | | | Posted by mcnewbie
it is hard to make yourself understood in a gas mask.
I can't argue that it would raise some questions if it was found on you in a search, though.
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Some full face resp's come with a membrane that allows speech. my 3m mask has one. you can get multy gas, multi vapor,p100 cart's that should cover anything you will encounter UEing. You can also get a halk mask to fit the same cart's
As for having it on you, your an air brush artist! can't go to your freinds house to trade tips without it, and you just happend to go UEing after. works for me! protecting ones self should not be against the law, but if anyone has been to a protest, they can and do. very sad. I say again, ARMY MASKS USUALLY DO NOT WORK FOR UE ,for the simple reason they do not filter particulate matter, most often asbestos. please, do yourself a favor, get a proper niosh approved multi gas, multi vapor, p100, at least a p100. it's worth the money. this shit causes death... cancer at least!
[last edit 8/24/2004 12:47 AM by SteamPunk - edited 1 times]
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