So I'm thinking that a dust mask is not enough. What should I be using when spraying cellulose?
I've done a bit more paining with my cellulose putty and it is going on nicely. When I'd finished I took my dust mask off and saw that it
was yellow where I'd been breathing through it but still white round the edges. That means it's not just clouds of paint in the air falling
on the mask but the mask actually filtering it out.
So I'm thinking that a dust mask is not enough. What should I be using when spraying cellulose?
Depends what pore size the mask is....
An air fed mask is the only safe way of painting anything, but celly is the most forgiving. If your mask is letting product in via the gaps around your nose, tape it to your face with masking tape - crude but effective.
agree, once you have used an airfed, you won't want to use anything else.
I used to paint celly at my mum and dad's house in a little single garage and used a charcoal filtered twin filter respirator thingy for that,
seemed to do the trick.
The minimum for sparying any paint is a cartridge mask.
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Originally posted by smart51
So I'm thinking that a dust mask is not enough. What should I be using when spraying cellulose?
I looked at the mask this morning and it is clean inside which shows that it is filtering paint out. I can still smell the solvent through the mask so I'm going to look for a cartridge filter.
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Originally posted by smart51
I looked at the mask this morning and it is clean inside which shows that it is filtering paint out. I can still smell the solvent through the mask so I'm going to look for a cartridge filter.
bit crude but can't think of another way of describing it, if your snot is the same colour as what your spraying your mask ain't working,
air fed deffo I use one of those cheapo compressors outside to feed my mask
tony
halfords do some masks that say they're good for paint. its the rubber ones, with 2 filters on the front
i got this kind
you can see how much oragne paint i didn't breathe in when i sprayed my axle with cans
couldn't smell the paint at all when wearing it
[Edited on 19/9/09 by blakep82]