[tipler]

Is hobby air a good system to go with for supplied air. It has its own pump and 40 ft line with choice of half mask, full mask or hood?

I have read up on some older posts here but all have talked about other systems. Was looking to see if anyone has heard good or bad about this one.

Thanks

Tim

 

[cheveslakr]

I use that system with a full mask and full bodysuit. Great system, spring for the full mask as the isocynates are obsorbed through any body part especially the eyes if not protected. I think I paid around 400 online. Very happy with it just takes some getting used to dragging the hose.

 

[Chucks68SS]

I have one with 80' of hose, half mask and full hood. No trouble
at all with it VERY positive air flow. I wear glasses so the full
mask was a no go. I like what I have.

Chuck

 

[tipler]

How cumbersom is the hood as oposed to the full mask. I am a DCman in the navy and regularly wear either an SCBA or SAR/SCBA all the time for extended periods. I am pretty comfortable wearing the masks doing the usual things I do with them, but buying it with the hood is 110 bucks cheaper and I might be able to hook up one of the SAR masks to it after I take the twin pack off. If I'm going to maybe be sqeezing into tight spaces would the full mask be better? I seen RUB using the hood in his pictures but he also has a rotisserie where I might be on my back sand blasing the underside of my floor.

Thanks

Tim

 

[Chucks68SS]

Tim,

If you do not wear glasses the full mask would be better for laying on your
back. I am a scuba diver with corrective lenses and the 1/2 mask is of a
much lighter material. So I'm guessing the full mask is made of the same
stuff it should weigh nothing. The hood is fine for standing or kneeling
but that's about it for me.

Chuck

 

[rubadub]

I will put on a paper suit and paper type hood and crawl right inside the trunk and sandblast over my head or grind over head.

I guess I worked about 25 years with respirators, so I have had my share of time working with them.

This inclued scba, half face, fullface, positive and negative pressure. I also was qualified and trained a lot of others on the different respirators and supplied air systems.

Trust me on this one, if you can get a hood, go with that, I wouldn't consider any type of respirator over a hood.

When you wear a respirator you will have a fatigue factor, a leakage factor, and they are a lot more restrictive. If you have been trained by a professional on how to wear and work with a respirator on, you will be taught on what you can and can't do wearing one.

Theres a lot more to knowing how to use them then what the guy buying one over the counter understands.

Heres what will break the seal around your face and allow airborne particles and fumes to get to you.


Turning your head to far to side, bobbing your head up and down to much, squinting or some facial expressions, talking, bumping the respirator on anything much. Then you take the air supply connected to your respirator, this can be bumped on something.

I don't want to keep harping like a whining old dog, but don't get the respirator, use the hood.

Get a good supplied air unit and learn how to use it, once you practice dragging the hose around you will teach yourself how to work with it.

This is the best tool you will ever buy for doing a full restoration.:thumbsup: