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Re: Shop: wearing a respirator
By:Etienne Muller
Date: 12/31/2015, 5:54 pm
In Response To: Shop: wearing a respirator (Marc Donnelly)

I always wear mine. Twenty something years ago I built my first stripper using west and suffered horrible flu symptoms. At first I thought I was actually going down with a bout of flu, but the symptoms would go away after a few hours. I realised that these symptoms occurred every time I did large scale resin work.

I suffered through the first project, but did some research afterward and masked up with the appropriate 3M cartridges. I never had the problem again.

I can't say I enjoy the mask, but it hangs outside my epoxying tent and it is just automatic that I reach for it now.

I confess, that I don't use it for small jobs or for glueing jobs, especially if the doors are open.

I live in a cool climate, so all epoxying is undertaken in an enclosed plastic tent at high temperatures. If you live in a warm zone and have lots of ventilation maybe it wouldn't matter.

Et

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Shop: wearing a respirator
Marc Donnelly -- 12/31/2015, 12:41 pm
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Daniel Thaler -- 12/31/2015, 12:54 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 12/31/2015, 1:39 pm
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Robert W -- 12/31/2015, 2:51 pm
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Howie II -- 12/31/2015, 4:15 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 12/31/2015, 5:54 pm
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Marc Donnelly -- 12/31/2015, 6:57 pm
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