.GAS MASKS, Respirators or Rebreathers

[rubbermasklover]

Hi there

This may be an obvious suggestion, but have you considered looking up the manufacturer on the web? If I recall correctly from my TA days they are called "Avon"
I have added their website address below - hope you find what you are looking for from this.
www.avon-rubber.com

[Garlor]

Heres a link to a site in Europe for those who are into the collecting of masks, three pages of recovered WW2 gas masks. Also if you look for the designations there are some Tank and aircraft recoveries.
http://www.detektorweb.cz/index.4me?...1889&mm=1&vd=1

[Khanclansith]

I do not know wheither to put this here or in the R.I.P. colums, but in the ramp up for Thanksgiving, my room mates asked me to clean the bathroom since today was an off from work. Ok, let me just say that While I am not a chemsitry major, I can tell you that there are some cleaning products you should not mix. Bleach mixed into the reserve for the toliet mixing with the toliet bowl cleaner made what I gues was mustard gas. Well, no one around here would question why I have a gas mask, but it came in useful while i cleaned the gassed bathroom. Then one comes home find me with a surplus Soviet model on, well it was easier to claim that it was part of a surplus lot that I hade picked up while building my outdoor gear collection. Remember be fore you mix cleaners, put on your mask first.

[rubberpete44]

does anyone know what i need to do to convert russian gasmask with 2ft tube and 5ltr bag into rebreathing setup
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[rubberpete44]

yes u can get from rob of london wells street off oxford street ?8 per 2ft section which can be joined to each other
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[TrackRubbr]

On rubberzone, somebody posted a thread recently about asbestos and gas masks and linked to this article:
http://www.accc.gov.au/content/index...mItemId/621537

I've been thinking about buying a gas mask, but this has put me off. Safety first, remember.

Any thoughts?

[s10bob]

Hi Trackrubbr,
if you want to use a mask with a filter on it, check the manufacture date of the existing filter. If it is stamped with a date later than 1980 it is highly unlikely to have asbestos in it. If it is dated earlier then it is possible it may have asbestos in it. If it has, then it will be white asbestos which isn't the real dangerous form of the substance, and will only be present in a very small quantity in usually the first particulate layer of the filter, and would have to get past the other filter layers before you could inhale any fibres.
That said, you would be better not to take any risk and getting a newer filter from either a surplus shop or from somewhere like ebay, where there are often new and sealed british S10 mask filters available at a sensible price.

[dudeman]

Wow, I read that post after I had ordered one of those masks, and before I had received it! I was sweating for a bit, because I know that Customs don't take any prisoners, and it was part of a package with other masks. It all turned out OK, and I received the package intact.

The filter that came with the black mask is massive! From galleries online, it looks like the same size as a soup can, but is actually about 8 inches high by 6 inches diameter. I can't see any fibrous material exposed in the mask, so they must be concerned about the massive, heavy filter. As far as I know, the small canisters available virtually everywhere are all activated carbon, and contain no asbestos. I strongly suspect that due to the known health dangers and legal liability, the filters containing asbestos were swiftly withdrawn and destroyed, and replaced with the activated carbon type.

[dudeman]

Just wondering how many and what kinds of masks all of the fine people that visit these forums have? In the past six months or so, I have got quite a few, and it now includes:

• 2 S10s
• 2 Israeli civilian masks
• 2 Israeli Army M15 masks
• US Army M17
• Canadian C3 or C4 mask
• 2 Soviet grey PMG masks
• 2 black GP5s
• Black Soviet officers mask with front hose and large filter
• US MCU2P (?)
• 2 Belgian M51 masks
• Industrial gas mask with a shaped visor section, like a pair of safety glasses

I've got one of just about all of the common masks around. Want a Soviet PBF "gorillaface", an S6, a German M65, and heaps others.

I like my gas masks

[Catwoman69y2k]

Hello

Recently our supplier of gas masks has run dry and we are curious about purchasing 4-8 or more at a time from a company that can get a constant supply. Our current fetish projects depend on these supplies.

We seek:
Israel Style (youth is okay)
Belgium/French Style

If anyone knows of a good vendor out there (preferably US based) it would be a appreciated. Surplus vendors are okay.

-Kat