[TheForge] The Beard vs. the Respirator

[David E. Smucker]

Can anyone say KY

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Freeman" <freemab222 at yahoo.com>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 12:22 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] The Beard vs. the Respirator


> 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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