The gasmask thread

Looks like it. The MC-1 came with a surprisingly modern filter from the 90s. The M10 had some older ones and they are internal, so I have no idea how to empty them without making them fall apart.

 

Still need to take a pic of my modest gasmask collection. Anybody recommend a good and free picdump website where I can upload it?

 

try tinypic.com

Skaara, i think you might actually have done more harm than good D:

Since the charcoals are only dangerous when they are directly breathen, there are various layers of cloth into the filters to keep them in place.
If you dug into the filters,you may have breathen some, though they do NOT cause cancer or things like that,only some kind of lung disease that goes away on its own.

If you dug into the filters to remove asbestos,just know this:
1)As with the charcoals, screwing around with them is not a good idea,if you had had an expired filter you should have just bought a newer one.
2)Western filters after-WW2 and henceforth do NOT contain asbestos.
Neither do Warsaw Pact's ones, if older than 1970.
Since i think i remember that you own a S10 english gas mask( which is western and post 1980), you have never been in danger of being harmed.

 

I used Tinypic as well before, but you lose the pictures afterwards. They're still on the internet, but you don't have them saved anywhere for easy access. Photobucket is free, and you get your own album/library where you have all your uploaded pictures saved. You can make them viewable for everyone, only friends, or nobody at all.

I did dig out the charcoals and put them on a little glass plate. I messed around with the charcoal, and I even think I got some of it in my face. Later on, I put the glass plate with the charcoals on my PC desk, just half a meter away from me, which is where I spend most of my days. My cat have several times believed that it's cat-sand, and actually walked into it and begun digging in it, spreading the charcoal and its dust everywhere in my room. I managed to stop the cat in time before it used the glass plate as a potty, luckily enough. I think it went two weeks before I threw the charcoal in the trash. I'm very intelligent, yes?

 

Lol.....don't worry.Most likely, nothing will happen to you nor to your dear cat.

 

Not a very smart thing to do, but I have to say it's hilarious. :lol: Anyway, you're still fine and so is your cat (I assume) so probably nothing bad happened. I don't even want to open them up out of paranoia, tbh, after all the things I've read on the internet about gas mask filters.

 

I just had the greatest idea! You can finally make some good use of your gasmask! Buy some new filters, and use them when gutting the old filters!

 

I was thinking of this as well, but I'm not sure about it. After all, it's best to not rely on cheap filters and I'd rather not pay a fortune for reliable ones. I guess I'll look into it more, thanks for bringing it up.

 

Guess what we got at school today! Gas masks! We're, for three weeks, choosing one of the many subjects that we will choose one of when the second schoolyear begins in well over half a year. I chose the "Vehicle"-subject, but too many wanted it, and I wasn't amongst the best ones who got accepted into that subject, so I had to accept my second choice, whish is the "Damage&Paint"-subject. Pretty much fixing broken cars and painting them. It's pretty cool, so I'm satisfied with it. Especially since we all got each our gas mask Well, they're technically called respirators, and they don't look too cool, but they still have the same function as Gas Masks. Here's a pic of me wearing it:

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I asked my teacher if I could bring my own black British S.W.A.T S10 gas mask and use that instead, but he hesitated a little before he said that he wanted me to use the ones we got at the school. I can understand him, but it'd be freaking damn awesome to actually seriously wear my gasmask at school during class for a good purpose

 

The only problems I could see with that is the face that the paint would clog up your own filters, and your filters arnt made for paint

But I Wuve your hair! :3

 

I think S10 filters would work perfectly against gasses from paint, wouldn't they? And thanks for the hair-compliment btw It gets in the way of my eyes all the time, and I have to fix it every morning. It's more relaxed and easy to just have a buzz-cut, but I'll quote Derrick from American History X and say "The chicks digg it"

 

Got home from work to find my PMK Gas Mask had arrived

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I plan to get the civilian GP-7v and a PBF gas mask soon too...

 

Nice!

 

It's.. *sniffles, it's so beautiful....

 

Hehe I have one of those too. They're just classic

 

I Thought this whole time you had dreadlocks.......................:rant:

 

Well, you did post in the "You" thread, but didn't check the other pictures in it?

 

Yippee. My two new gas masks arrived today. GP-7v and PBF.

 

Nice! I want those..

 

Id buy one but id be flagged as a terrorist sooooooooooooooo