Can you make your own fume hood? It really makes many things much more easy and safe. It can be built quite cheap from some plywood, polycarbonate or
plexi (sash). The most expensive part is the blower but it can be also bought cheap.
In a longer perspective such an investment will be much cheaper than gas mask and cartridges replacement - and this is the thing that you should do
very often when working with something dangerous. Generally you should always use new one when working with something nasty. Otherwise you will never
know how much it could withstand, and consequences can be really bad.
It's better to do dangerous things having PPE like a gas mask than without but it's much better to use it as a type of secondary equipment used in
emergency situations (quenching, evacuation etc).
Quality cartridge cost is about 15-20% of budget version of fume hood.
Good all-around cartdriges are ABEK with dust filter P.
The higher number with the letter, the better protection it gives.
[Edited on 20-11-2020 by outer_limits] |