[TheForge] Dust/fumes mask

[Craig Schaefer]

Check out a couple of options for breathable air on 'autobodystore.com'. 
They aren't expensive when considering health and buying replaceable 
cartridges for a mask.   You could adapt the hose to a welding helmet.
The key word in Bruce's response is 'breathable' compressed air.   Without 
expensive filters, you don't be breathable air out of an ordinary 
compressor.


CraigS
Gresham, OR
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Freeman" <freemab222 at yahoo.com>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Dust/fumes mask


> Don,
>
> Have you considered rigging your own "supplied air"
> mask?  What it would entail is bringing some flexible
> hose from a remote (outside?) blower to your mask.
> Obviously, this is not real convenient if you have to
> move around a lot while welding, but if you are
> working in a fixed position, it should not be much
> bother.  (You can minimize the bother by fastening the
> hose to your belt, so that it doesn't pull at the
> mask.)
>
> If you are moving around, you could use breathable
> compressed air (from a cylinder, unless you have an
> appropriate pump), and bring it up to the mask in a
> small diameter, "high pressure" hose that wouldn't
> restrict movement so much.  Then at the mask (or belt)
> you run it through a restrictor (a crushed tube works
> well against a fixed high pressure head) to give low
> pressure, high volume.
>
> Bruce
> NJ
>
> --- PlumDon at aol.com wrote:
>
>> Looking for a bit of advice.
>>
>> Having some  increasing respiratory problems and
>> need a dust/fumes mask that
>> I can put an  electronic welding helmet over. Any
>> ideas much appreciated. What
>> I have wont  fit.
>>
>> I dont think I have been as much concerned about
>> dust and fumes as I  should
>> have been. Perhaps as we all should be.
>>
>> Thanks for any  suggestions.
>>
>> Don Plummer
>> Plummer Design Works
>> 392 Hallman Mill  Road
>> Phoenixville, PA 19460
>> 610-495-5058
>> Plumdon at aol.com
>>
>>
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