what do you wear when reloading and gun (and/or) brass cleaning?
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TacticalCanuck
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I usually just wear nitrile gloves to keep my hands clean when reloading, and if I have to spray stuff with aerosols when i'm inside i'll put on a dust mask. I have a high quality air purifier in the load room as well.
The dust from your tumbler is toxic. So I usually wear a dust mask when I empty it, if I'm inside when I empty it. I do the tumbling and sifting on a work bench in my shed, so if it is not snow/raining I just to do it outside on a stump I use as a table when I sift.
The dust from your tumbler is toxic. So I usually wear a dust mask when I empty it, if I'm inside when I empty it. I do the tumbling and sifting on a work bench in my shed, so if it is not snow/raining I just to do it outside on a stump I use as a table when I sift.
TacticalCanuck
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What should one use instead? Don't mind being 'wrong' about something one tiny bit, tends to happen to us all. Offering a 'burn' instead of a better suggestion isn't indicative of me in any way. That is all about you.
Rayleigh_Scattering
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To each their own, but I follow the logic that nothing which requires a dust mask should ever be done inside unless the room is dedicated to that purpose, or will be thoroughly cleaned afterwards.
Solvents or non-chronic toxins like CO are different, because they self-clean by dilution eventually.
But for dusts you'll just be re-exposing yourself the next time you're there, or tracking it around.
Solvents or non-chronic toxins like CO are different, because they self-clean by dilution eventually.
But for dusts you'll just be re-exposing yourself the next time you're there, or tracking it around.
as yomomma already stated, a regular dust mask will only filter dust particles.
for lead only, you can use an N100 respirator.
for oils you will want a P100 respirator.
there are three letters available on the market (N, R and P). 'N' means not resistant to oil. 'R' means resistant to oil. 'P' means oil proof.
if you want one respirator to handle both lead dust and vapours then get a P100.
SupersonicSupply.ca
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When I reload using clean washed brass I wear:
Blue lab coat, nitrile gloves and safety glasses.
When I clean/ sort range brass or cast boolets I wear:
Mechanics Coveralls, nitrile gloves (and welders gloves if casting), safety glasses and lead respirator. https://www.homedepot.ca/en/home/p.asbestos-and-lead-respirator-with-cartridge.1000155555.html
Blue lab coat, nitrile gloves and safety glasses.
When I clean/ sort range brass or cast boolets I wear:
Mechanics Coveralls, nitrile gloves (and welders gloves if casting), safety glasses and lead respirator. https://www.homedepot.ca/en/home/p.asbestos-and-lead-respirator-with-cartridge.1000155555.html
Some people really should read up on their lead hazards. 90%(?) of lead enters through the mouth. After handling lead wash your hands. Shooters who get lead through inhalation are usually shooting in indoor ranges with bad or no ventilation.
Don't eat/smoke while handling lead and thoroughly was your hands after. It's that simple. How might I know? I installed machinery in a battery plate making company. Worked there for months, never wore a respirator once and the casting was a continuous process.
Don't eat/smoke while handling lead and thoroughly was your hands after. It's that simple. How might I know? I installed machinery in a battery plate making company. Worked there for months, never wore a respirator once and the casting was a continuous process.
What do you wear when working on your car/motorcycle or bicycle?
Not just checking the air or oil mind you, but actualy wrenching on it, be a tire change (summer/winter) or a full blown oil change.
PPE is priceless....
Rob
Rayleigh_Scattering
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Pops was company doctor at a lead mine for about a decade, and told us that as far as he could remember every worker he had treated for lead problems was a smoker.
You could make them wash their hands before eating, but back then they smoked as they worked so whatever they had on their hands rubbed off on the paper to be vaporized and inhaled.
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You gentlemen are all so positively gauche............loading/reloading is most assuredly a formal affair and a Tuxedo is bloody mandatory.........my God, such Cretans...
BCSteve is excepted of course because he has obviously had the appropriate social training as well, very good Steve........
BCSteve is excepted of course because he has obviously had the appropriate social training as well, very good Steve........
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That's just too much information.
I'll put on a bow tie next time...but nothing else.
Where will you put the bow tie?
