[TheForge] Dust/fumes mask

[Peter Hirst]

Don't even SUGGEST  using an ordinary air compressor or any rig that 
incorporates one for breathable air supply, whether SCBA or otherwise.   The 
lube oil atomizes, coats the lungs and you suffocate in  minutes or seconds. 
I once knew  a sculptor in Southern California  who was all set to use such 
a rig to do a piece involving full body immersion, when he just chanced to 
run into a NASA engineer at a cocktail party, of all places.  The engineer 
saved his life with this little piece of information.  Could have gone the 
other way.

pgh
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Craig Schaefer" <craig.schaefer at verizon.net>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Dust/fumes mask


> 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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