[TheForge] The Beard vs. the Respirator

[Bruce Freeman]

Y'know, guys, there's an entrepreneurial opportunity
here.  Come up with some thick, water-soluble gunk
that can be smeared on the (wide) rim of a respirator,
and which WILL seal around beard hairs.  I'm thinking
something like a gel with microfibers in it for
stiffness and thickness.  Make it some color that
doesn't look like snot.  There's no reason in
principal this  wouldn't work.  It's just a matter of
working out the bugs.  Might even encourage some folks
to wash their faces more than once a year...

Bruce
NJ

--- Larry Brown <lp.brown at verizon.net> wrote:

> 
> Remember if you are not wearing a mask of any sort
> now, one that allows the 
> beard to filter the leaking air is still an
> improvement. I find that I use 
> the 3M masks pulled tight top and bottom and I get
> very little leakage. It 
> works MUCH better than none at all for welding fumes
> and grinding. I have a 
> rubber mask that I use for the little spray painting
> I do and I get very 
> little smell. I really like not shaving
> L Brown
> 
> 
> 
> >From: "Mark Novak" <mark at fireworkspdx.com>
> >
> >
> >>I need to ask this question before I shave. I wear
> a respirator when  I'm 
> >>grinding, so as to minimize the amount of metal
> dust I inhale,  but I 
> >>have a beard that interferes with the
> effectiveness of the  mask. The guy 
> >>at my local Safety Store told me in no uncertain
> terms,  "If you don't 
> >>shave the beard off, the mask will never work 
> properly," which is what I 
> >>was noticing while wearing it. He told me  that
> there is no respirator 
> >>that works on guys with beards... they  all need
> skin contact.
> >>
> >>Does anyone out there have a beard and wear a
> respirator 
> >>effectively?  And if so, how did you do it? Did
> you fill your beard with 
> >>vaseline?  Did you shave a silly looking thin line
> wear the mask can rest 
> >>on  your skin?
> >>
> >>Mark Novak
> 
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