Anybody here storing Gas masks?

Watching the teotawki stuff on history channel they covered alot of natural cataclysms. The super volcanic eruptions/ asteroids throw their own fallout ( fine ash/pumice and glass ) create cement in the moist lining of the lungs, not a particularly nice way to go...So besides the obvious man made military NBC threats. full masks and filters may be a good idea. Hell look at mahnhattan after WTC...Anybody here "up" on masks?

 

Thanks that's a start,I've trained on the old usmilitary m17 and the newer single lense/ sidecannister one...guess it wouldn't hurt to store a fewand extra canisters.
Are yousaying the cannisters are only viable for 12hours after they are opened ??

 

How much are the Israeli ones going for?

 

http://www.sportsmansguide.com/search/search.asp?r=Page%3A+%2FDefault.asp+KW+Box&s=SEARCH&a=search&k=gas+masks

Link above for a place 12 miles from my house I purchased some Israel masks and a couple dozen filters from some time ago. They want $15.00 now for a mask and one filter (Swiss or Russian).

I did use one filter once when I put some shower board in the bathroom. The glue epoxy was some wicked stuff. The filter worked great and I never smelled a thing, no headache, so I don't think any of the fumes got to me at all.

 

I know a certain amount of time will pass and the majority of the fallout will be gone, though what about this Yellowstone Caldera thing? Does the ash quit falling at about 12 or could it keep going for longer? And would you need to, or choose to, replace the filter at 6hours instead as the ash has a lot of stuff in it?

 

I have several Israeli & one German as well as several spare cannisters...Will I ever need them?...Who knows,but better safe than sorry.

 

Sounds like a plan. Have spare filters and a gas mask and you can switch when it's hard to breathe. I think I'll get one of the US ones. Have used a GI issue one for CS training and that worked okay for me. Just got to remember when sealing it, to not breathe in too hard or it may dislodge the diaphragm and allow all the good stuff to get in the mask. Haha.

 

Gas masks are fine for a lot of things, but it is hard to beat a good N-95 rated face mask. Be sure that they are rated N-95 and are not dust masks. Will not filter out chemicals, but for bird flu, dust, etc they can not be beat and I bought another pack of 20 for about $20. Use them when you work with sheet rock, insulation, insecticide dust in your garden and such and you will do yourself a big favor. Unlike a gas mask, it is something I routinely use. You can wear it downtown if you want to. See people with health or immune problems and workers using them all the time . Thus they are fresh and have no "threat" effect on people. Still need gas masks for shtf, but how many are enough and how many filters. I keep 10 N-95 masks, packed individually, in my bob in the car. They take up about the space of one canister for a mask at most. They also make face masks for painting and welding that have excellent filters and are new for abou $25 - 30 and a pair of filters for extras are about $15 - 20. They don't protect the eyes like a gas mask, but they are new, fresh and available. Home Depots prices are lousy, find a supply store that sells to your local tradesman. The full protection suits and masks for painting, now that they are using the 2 part auto paints are very close to the chemical suits, come in all sizes, and run $15 - 20 for a suit, booties, and head covering that will stop dust and paint vapors. Can find them in any decent auto parts store, not in your auto toys store though.

 

Okay, in an ash environment, MOPP4, coveralls or something in between?

 

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Just checking the pool here, but how many of you guys storing gas masks are of the bug out type? The bug-in type? Or are you the "just prepared" type, trying to get out of the burning building, etc.?

I am a bug-out man myself, and I've been toying with the idea of packing NBC gear, but I face a big problem: food. Sure there are special connections for hydration, but eventually that mask is going to have to come off so you can eat, and that suit is going to have to come off so it doesn't become a diaper. Really, if you're that close within the range of any type of NBC and moving by foot, it seems you're pretty much dead meat.

The way I see it, with the wide range of NBC hazards, fallout, etc., the mask just prolongs life until the inevitable comes about: death by exhaustion just trying to escape the area. Even if you did get out of the area to a somewhat safe and remote area, all of your gear would be contaminated, so there's no sure ware of avoiding contamination all together.

For those bugging out, what are your plans for getting out of such an area? For those bugging in, how long do you intend to wear your mask inside your home/shelter?

 

Plan to bug in as much as possible and see the need for a biological mask and dust mask. I don't think that nuclear and radiation is as much of a threat as it used to be and if it does happen, it is more likely be a small or dirty bomb. I do see flu every year, and at 69 I don't have a lot of faith in flu shots. Anthrax or a slightly mutated biological agent are still around. I don"t think it is a question of if there will be a biological event, natural or manmade, but when. I will never forget watching the rabbit cycle when I was a kid. In fact I got caught in it and damn near joined most of the rabbits. I somehow caught tulremana or rabbit fever when I was about 7. Probably not carefull enough in skinning a rabbit I shot. Was sick for 3 months and in the hospital for 3 weeks. In a shtf situation, I would have been dead. The rabbit population, with amost unlimited food and cover in rural Minnesota used to grow and grow with their natural preditators population way behind. When the rabbit population got high enough, with all of resultant frequent contact between the rabbits, some disease or another spread through them like wildfire and 90 % or more died. Then the preditator population crashed and the few surviving rabbits started the whole cycle over again. Took about 9 - 10 years. It looks to me like the human cycle may be a lot longer, but when you say your old childrens verses you will really see how it stuck in our minds. Ring around the rosy, pocket full of posies, all fall down. That was being bitten by a flea carried on a rat, and developing a circlear rash and dieing and getting flowers on the coffin. That happened when the population density encreased until the rats not only lived in your house, but traveled throughout the town and trade carried goods in waggons and ships from one town to the next with rats in the goods. Some think that half of the people in Euorpe died in that little cycle. Now bugging in, wearing a mask if going out, being self sufficient for a few weeks, etc seems like better insurance than the price of a couple or three dvd's. My humble opinion, Was working on sheetrock today and used the N-95 masks and took a shower after taking off a tyvak pair of coveralls. I am oput about $20, recycled and tested one pair of coveralls and mask and I don't have a cough or itch from the insulation or the sheetrock dust. To me that is a good investment in long term survival.

 

I need to pick up a few of these, it would be especially good for installing insulation.

I don't have any gas masks. I need to get with it and start looking for some.